Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother,

to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:

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

I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus;

God is faithful, by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius,

For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.

but to those that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom.

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

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

so that no flesh should boast before God.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.

So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.

For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

Do ye not know that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If any one corrupt the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.

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

Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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

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

But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

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

But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments.

Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.

I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.

But she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that I also have God's Spirit.

But if any one love God, he is known of him):

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

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

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.

Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.

For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God.

Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.

On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

I give you therefore to know, that no one, speaking in the power of the Spirit of God, says, Curse on Jesus; and no one can say, Lord Jesus, unless in the power of the Holy Spirit.

and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God who operates all things in all.

But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased him.

but our comely parts have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to the part that lacked;

And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:

the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling upon his face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God is indeed amongst you.

but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you only?

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.

Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him who is God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.

But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

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

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.

but thanks to God, who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like men; be strong.