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

I thank my God always on your account, for the grace of God which is given to you in Christ Jesus;

even as the testimony concerning the Christ was con firmed among you,

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

Is the Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were you immersed into the name of Paul?

For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will set aside the understanding of the prudent.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of- this world?

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you;

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

But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us, from God, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

that, as it is written: He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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

And 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 spiritual man discerns all things; yet he himself is discerned by no one.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ.

for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?

Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.

So, neither he that plants nor he that waters is any thing: but God that makes to grow.

According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this.

For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which, is Jesus Christ.

each man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall make it manifest, for it is revealed with fire: and the fire shall try each man's work, what sort it is.

if any man's work be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so, as through fire.

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

Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

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

And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

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

Let each one so think of us as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now it is required in stewards, that each one be found faithful.

For, though I am conscious of no wrong, yet by this I am not justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.

For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?

You, Corinthians, are already full; you are already rich; you have reigned as kings independently of us. And that you did indeed reign, that we also might reign with you!

For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

I do not write these things that I may make you ashamed; but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For. this reason have I sent to you Timothy, who is my son, beloved and faithful in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways that are in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.

Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you;

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

It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife.

For I, in deed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing;

Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are without leaven; for Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed for us.

Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

Know you not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy to decide concerning the smallest matters?

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man, not even one, who shall be able to arbitrate between his brethren?

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

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

Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.

But he that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

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

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

Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband.

for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now they are holy.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.

But as God has assigned a place to every one, as the Lord has called every one, so let him continue to live: and so do I command in all the churches.

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

For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant.

Brethren, let every one, in whatever condition he is called, abide in this with God.

But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;

and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not:

and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.

But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry.

The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:

but if any one loves God, he is taught by him).

With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

For though there are those which are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods, and many lords,)

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

But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

My answer to those who examine me is this:

Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

What man ever serves as a soldier, at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law, also, say the same?

For it is written in the law of Moses: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain? Has God a care for oxen?

If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?

For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.

What, then, is my reward? That, while I preach, I may make the gospel of Christ to be without charge, in order that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those who are under law, as under law, (not being myself under law,) that I might gain those who are under law;

to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law: