I give thanks to my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which hath been given you in Christ Jesus;

so that ye have not been deficient in any gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptised into the name of Paul?

For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of discourse, lest the cross of Christ should be slighted.

For the discourse, [the subject of which is] the cross, is indeed to those who perish, folly; 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 the understanding of the intelligent will I make useless."

for since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For the Jews demand a miracle, and the Greeks seek wisdom:

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

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many fleshly wise, not many men in power, not many men of high birth, are called:

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

And in weakness, and in fear, and in much timidity, was I among you.

but we speak the wisdom of God, which had been hid in mystery, which God predestined before the worlds were, for our glory:

which none of the rulers of this world have known: for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But, as it is written, "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and that have not entered into the heart of man, these hath God prepared for those who love him."

But to us hath God revealed them by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth out all things, even the depths of God.

For who among men knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? so also the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? who will instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

And I have given you milk to drink, and not meat: for hitherto ye have not been capable of it, yea, even to the present moment ye are not capable of it.

For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?

For when one saith, I am indeed of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

For we are God's fellowlabourers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

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

every man's work shall be made manifest: for that day shall declare it, for it shall be laid open by fire; and the fire shall prove every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work be burnt up, he shall suffer loss: but himself shall be saved; yet so as through the fire.

If any man prophane the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

For the wisdom of this world is folly in the sight of God. For it is written, "He entangleth the wise in their own craftiness."

Wherefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;

For though I am not conscious to myself of any unfaithfulness, yet am I not thereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

But these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself, and Apollos for your sake; that in us ye might learn not to be attached, beyond what is written, lest one being for one [minister], ye be puffed up [with prejudice] against another.

For who distinguisheth thee? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou also hast received it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

We are counted fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are mighty; ye are honourable persons, but we despised.

For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode;

For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten you.

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my son beloved and faithful in Christ, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach every where in every church.

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

For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing;

to 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 therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye indeed go out of the world.

For what call have I to judge those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within [the church]?

DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not put myself under the power of any.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be "one flesh."

For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

NOW with regard to those things concerning which ye have written unto me, it were good for a man not to touch a woman.

Defraud not one another, except it may be by consent occasionally, that ye may have more leisure for fasting and prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that.

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the husband that believeth not is sanctified by the wife, and the wife who believeth not is sanctified by the husband: else indeed your children were unclean, but now are they holy.

For how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband? and how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife?

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.

I think then that this is becoming, considering our present straits, that it is proper for a man to be thus.

and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

But I would have you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:

Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.

But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age [in celibacy], and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is free to be married to whomsoever she will, but only in the Lord.

For though there are gods so called, whether celestial or terrestrial, (as [of this sort] there are gods many, and lords many;)

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

Howbeit there is not in all men this knowledge; but some having conscientious respect for the idol to this moment, eat the meat as sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat are we the better, or if we eat not are we the worse.

For if any man see thee that hast knowledge, sitting in an idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?

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

Wherefore if meat give occasion of offence to my brother, I will in no wise eat meat for ever, that I give no cause of offence to my brother.

AM I not an apostle? am I not a free man? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle unto others, doubtless I am to you: for ye are the seal of my apostolic mission in the Lord.

for in the law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox which treadeth out the corn." Doth God take care for oxen?

or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes doubtless it was written; because he who ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he who soweth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

But I have used nothing of these things, nor have I written indeed these things, that it should be so done respecting me; for it would become me to die rather than that any man should make my glorying void.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me, yea verily woe is to me if I preach not the gospel.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with the dispensation [of it].

For though I be free from all men, I have made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ.

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

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted.

Now all these things happened unto them as examples, but they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.

For we, though many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

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

Every thing which is sold in the shambles eat, asking no question for conscience sake;

"for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof."

And if any one of those, who do not believe, invite you, and ye incline to go, eat every thing set before you, asking no question for conscience sake.

But if any person say unto you, This is an idol's sacrifice, eat not of it, for his sake who pointed it out, and for conscience sake. For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

For why is my liberty abridged by another's conscience? If I truly with thanksgiving am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

but every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonoureth her head; for it is one and the same thing, as if she were shaven.

For if the woman be not veiled, let her hair be clipped: but if it would be scandalous for a woman to appear clipped or shaved, let her be veiled.

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

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

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

For as the woman was taken out of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are of God.

Judge among yourselves, is it decent for a woman to be praying to God without a covering?

But if a woman let her hair flow, it is an ornament to her; for the hair was given her for a covering,

But in the matter I am going to denounce, I do not commend you, that ye meet together not for the better, but for the worse.

For in the first place, when ye assemble in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

For there must be heresies among you, that they who are the tried ones, may be made manifest among you.