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

so that you are deficient in no gift, while waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it has been made known to me concerning you, my brethren, by the family of Cloe, that there are contentions among you.

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

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power.

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.

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 Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek for wisdom;

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;

For I determined not to know any thing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even that which had been hidden, which God predestined before the ages, for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

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.

But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able;

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?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not carnal?

For we are fellow-laborers for God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

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.

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

Therefore, let no one glory in men; for all things are yours,

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

So, then, judge nothing be fore the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.

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?

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.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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.

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

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;

that we deliver such a one over to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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.

yet without the lest allusion to the lewd, or the covetous, or the extortioners, or the idolaters of this world; for then you must go out of the world;

For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within?

All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.

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:

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

For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

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

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

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.

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.

For how do you know, wife, but that you may save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, but that you may save your wife?

Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom.

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.

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

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

I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

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.

Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.

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?

and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?

For which reason, if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.

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

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

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?

or does he say it wholly for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, it was written: that he that plows should plow in hope, and that he that thrashes should thrash in hope of partaking.

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

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

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.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, an apostolic stewardship has been intrusted to me.

For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may share its benefits with you.

and. did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was the Christ.

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

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they, also, desired.

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they are written for the instruction of us, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

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

All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.

for the earth and its fullness are the Lord s.

If any one of the unbelievers invites you to a feast, and you are disposed to go, eat any thing that is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake.

But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake:

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of on account of that for which I give thanks?

Give no occasion for stumbling, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks, or to the church of God;

But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonors her head: for it is one and the same as if she was shaved.

For if a woman has no vail on, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have a vail.

For a man ought not to vail his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man:

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

For this reason ought the woman to have a token of subjection on her head, on account of the angels.

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

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a vail.

But I praise you not in this, which I now mention, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

For, in the first place, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are schisms among you, and I partly believe it: