to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who being sanctified by Christ Jesus, are saints by that vocation, to all that any where invoke the name of Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours.

grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I continually give thanks to God on your behalf, for the favour he has bestowed on you thro' Jesus Christ;

and God will confirm you to the end, that ye may be unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for he, who has called you to the communication of his son Jesus Christ our Lord, will make good his promise.

I thank God, I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius:

where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of this age? has not God prov'd the wisdom of this world to be downright folly.

for whereas the world, with all their learning, did not distinguish the characters of his divine wisdom, in his works, it pleased God to save those who believe, by preaching, which they counted folly.

both Jews and Gentiles, he is the Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

but God hath chosen those who are foolish in the opinion of the world, to confound the wise; and the weak men of the world to confound the mighty:

those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.

that no man might glory before God;

for from him it is that ye believe in Christ Jesus, whom God has made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that,

but we explain that mysterious plan of divine wisdom, which God had contriv'd before the ages, for our glory:

but, as it is written, "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

this is what God has revealed to us by his spirit: for the spirit penetrates into all things, even the profound counsels of God.

for who knows the thoughts of a man, but the spirit of man which is in him? even so the thoughts of God no one can know, but the spirit of God.

now the spirit which we have received, is not the spirit of this world, but that which comes from God; that we might know what he has graciously bestowed upon us.

but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase.

For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.

according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

if any man divide the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for you, who are the temple of God, are consecrated to him.

for the wisdom of this world is folly, in the eye of God: as it is written, "he surprizes the wise in all their artifices."

all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

therefore suspend your judgment till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secrets of darkness, and expose the counsels of mens hearts: and then shall every man have his due reward from God.

You have already a sufficiency, you already abound, you live like princes in our absence: and would to God you did reign, that we too might have the advantage of your administration.

for it seems as if God had exposed us apostles the last upon the stage, as persons appointed to death. for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:

for as God hath raised up the Lord, so will he likewise raise us up to partake of his own power.

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another.

but if the infidel will separate, let him go: a brother or a sister is not inslaved in such cases. but God has called us to peace; for how do you know,

Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches.

but if a man love God, the same is taught by him.

As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God.

yet to us there is but one God, the father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.

you have met with no trials yet, but such as are common to men: and God who is faithful, will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, by enabling you to bear it.

no, but that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not have you partake of the sacrifices of demons.

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

give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.

but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God.

A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman.

for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil?

but if any man has a mind to be contentious, I answer, we have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.

what, have you no houses to eat and drink in? or have ye a contempt for the church of God, or is it to insult those who are in want? what shall I say to you? shall I commend such behaviour? I do not approve of it.

wherefore I give you to understand, that no man who has the spirit of God, can pronounce Jesus anathema: and that no man can acknowledge Jesus to be the Lord, but by the holy spirit.

and there are different operations, but it is the same God who performs them all in every one.

now God disposed every one of the members in the body as he thought fit.

of which the graceful have no need: but God has contrived the symmetry of the body, by bestowing an additional advantage where it seem'd to want it.

which God has placed in the church, first apostles, next prophets, then teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, assistants, governours, interpreters of languages.

for he that speaks in an unknown tongue, speaks not to men, but to God: for no man can understand the mysteries he delivers by the spirit.

for instance, brethren, if I deliver myself to you in an unknown tongue, what good shall I do you, except I deliver to you the meaning of what is said, whether it relate to revelation, to mystical knowledge, to prophecy, or to doctrine.

I thank God, I speak more languages than you all:

the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is certainly amongst you.

but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and tacitly address himself to God.

for God is not the God of confusion, but of peace, in all christian assemblies.

for I am the meanest of the apostles, not worthy the name of an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

yea, and we are no better than enthusiastic impostors by affirming that God raised up Christ, when he never did raise him up.

and then will be the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God even the father; after having abolished all rule, and all authority, and power.

for he must reign, "till God has cast all his enemies under his feet."

and when all things shall be reduced under subjection to him, then shall the son also himself be subject to him that put all things under his subjection, that God may be all in all.

be not deceived : "vicious conversation corrupts good morals."

rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame.

but God gives it such a body, as he thinks fit, to every seed its peculiar body.

this I say, my brethren, because the body, as it is at present, cannot possess the kingdom of God; and what is corruptible, can't enjoy incorruptibility.

but thanks be to God, who has given us the victory, thro' our Lord Jesus Christ.