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

To 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 to 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 ye were called to 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 to 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? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For when 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 to 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 hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath 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, hath God chosen, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellence of speech, or of wisdom, declaring to 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 to our glory:

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

But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

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

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

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

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

So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth upon it. But let every man take heed how he buildeth upon it.

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

If any man defileth the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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

And ye 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 shall come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise from God.

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

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

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

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Know ye 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 ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are 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 destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

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

For ye 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 ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

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

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

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

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

Brethren, let every man in the state in which he is called, continue in it 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 remain, after my judgment; and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

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

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

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.

But food commendeth 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, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to 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 hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye 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 ye should have fellowship with demons.

Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Give no 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, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

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

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

What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye 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.

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

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

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

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of languages.

For he that speaketh in an unknown language, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no man understandeth him; yet in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

I thank my God, I speak in languages more than ye 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 in truth.

But if there is 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 to you only?

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 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.

And indeed we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified concerning God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not, if in truth the dead rise not.

Then cometh 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 to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

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

But God giveth it a body as it hath 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 doth corruption inherit incorruption.

But thanks be to God, who giveth 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 hath prospered him, that there be no collections when I come.