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

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

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

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

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

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

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News -- not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

but to those who are 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 weakness of God is stronger than men.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

that no flesh should boast before God.

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

When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

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

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

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

Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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

Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

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

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

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

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

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

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

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly 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 have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

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

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.