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

so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you eagerly wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

For I have been informed by Chloe's people, that there are quarrels among you, my brethren.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospelnot with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

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

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will frustrate."

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

Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,

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

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to fleshly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

For I resolved to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

But we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and which God destined for our glory before the ages.

None of the rulers of this age understood it; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But, as it is written, "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,"

God has revealed them to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

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

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand 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 gave you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, even now you are not ready,

for you are still carnal. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking like mere men?

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

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

For no other foundation can any one lay than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

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

If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

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

So then let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that in us you may learn not to go beyond what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in favor of one against the other.

For who regards you as different? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, like men condemned to death; because 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 distinguished, but we are without honor.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

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

For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

For though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and have already passed judgment on the one who has committed this, as if I were present.

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

not at all meaning the immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be mastered by anything.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food"but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

But if the unbelieving partner leaves, let him do so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.

and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it. For the form of this world is passing away.

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

This I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is good and to secure undivided devotion to the Lord.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we exist.

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

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

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

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

Or is he speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion. For woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if it is not of my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my right in the gospel.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

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

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

Now these things are examples for us, not to desire evil things as they did.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."

But if anyone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who informed you and for conscience' sake

the other man's conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another's conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

For if a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, let her cover her head.

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

For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;

neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

For as woman was made from man, so also man is born of woman. And all things are from God.

Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

But in the following instructions, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,

and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.