Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I immersed none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful.

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

so that no flesh may boast before God.

But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not in eminence of speech or of wisdom proclaiming the testimony of God to you.

so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak a wisdom of God in a hidden mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man in him? And so nobody knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.

So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.

For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another man is building on it. But let each man take heed how he is building on it.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

Thus let a man regard us as of helpers of Christ, and managers of mysteries of God.

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I.

But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace.

Except, as God has distributed to each man, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I command in all the congregations.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, instead, the keeping of God's commandments.

Brothers, each man, in what he was called, should remain in this before God.

I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:

But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.

But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

However with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

Rather, that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partakers of demons.

Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or anything ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Become ye inoffensive both to Jews and to Greeks, and to the church of God,

But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

Judge ye among yourselves, is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, except by Holy Spirit.

And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.

But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended.

whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

For he who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God, for no man hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in an assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace.

Or did the word of God come forth from you? Or did it come to you only?

And, brothers, I make known to you the good-news that I preached to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stand,

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

And also we are found FALSE witnesses of God, because we witnessed according to God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if therefore the dead are really not raised.

Afterwards the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when he will abolishes all rule, and all authority and power.

And when all things are made subordinate to him, then the Son himself will also be made subordinate to him who subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all.

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

But God gives it a body as he wills, and to each of the seeds its own body.

Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability.

But thanks is to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.