Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

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

I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

God is faithful, by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

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

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

But unto them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

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 to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:

And of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

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

If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

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

And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

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

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

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

Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

But them that are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now 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 also raise up us by his own power.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?

For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

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

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.

But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Brethren, let every man, however he is called, therein abide with God.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

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

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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

But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God care for oxen?

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's good.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

Judge for yourselves: is it proper that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

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

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

For our more respectable parts have no need: but God has arranged the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, administrators, various kinds of tongues.

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit 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 which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good morals.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed its own body.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

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

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.