I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were ye immersed in the name of Paul?

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent.

But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, even this crucified man.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

But we speak a wisdom of God in a hidden mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man in him? And so nobody knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able,

for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

For while one may say, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.

For no man can lay another foundation besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

Therefore let not one man boast in men. For all things are yours,

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.

As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.

For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.

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

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

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

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

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

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

For how do thou know, O wife, whether thou will save thy husband? Or how will thou know, O husband, whether thou will save thy wife?

Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead.

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:

Are thou bound to a wife? Do not seek separation. Are thou free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

But I want you to be without worry. The unmarried man cares for things of the Lord, how he will please the Lord.

But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife.

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

For also since there are things called gods, whether in heaven or on the 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, through whom are all things, and we through him.

But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you, for ye are the seal of my apostleship in Lord.

For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,

or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.

For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them. And the rock was the Christ.

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

But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted.

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

Because we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we are all partakers of the one bread.

All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.

for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

But if any man say to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

And I say conscience, not the one of himself, but the one of the other man. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

Judge ye among yourselves, is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

But if a woman wears long hair, it is a glory to her, because her hair has been given for a cloak.

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.