I am always thanking God on your behalf, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

(for thus my witness for Christ was confirmed among you);

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

For it has been plainly told me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

Has Christ been divided? Paul, was he crucified for you? or was it into the name of Paul that you were baptized?

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.

For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound.

For when, in the wisdom of God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe.

Jews continue to ask for miracles and Greeks are ever wanting philosophy,

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

For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

In weakness and fear and great trembling came I among you.

None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God.

For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God.

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

For what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

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

The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

Indeed I do not even judge myself; for though I know nothing against myself, yet that does not vindicate me; for he who judges me is the Lord.

Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

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

For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God.

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

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

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

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

On the other hand, he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried, does well.

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

yet for 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.

For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this 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?

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

Is it the oxen that God is thinking about, or is it really said for our sakes? It was written for us; because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher in hope of getting a share of the crop.

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

Proclaiming the gospel gives me no ground of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; woe is me if I preach not the gospel.

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

And I am doing it all for the gospel's sake, that I may become a copartner in it.

For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,

For I would not have you ignorant, brothers, how our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert.

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.

Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

Because we who are many are one bread, one body, for we all do share in the one loaf.

Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake;

for the earth and its fulness are the Lord's.

If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake.

But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?"

Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

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

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.

for each one of you begins to eat his own supper; one goes hungry, while another gets drunk.

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,