From Paul, who has been called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, And from Sosthenes, our Brother.

My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the Good News; not, however, in the language of philosophy, lest the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.

And as for us, it is not the Spirit of the World that we have received, but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may realize the blessings given to us by him.

Therefore do not pass judgment before the time, but wait till the Lord comes. He will throw light upon what is now dark and obscure, and will reveal the motives in men's minds; and then every one will receive due praise from God.

All this, Brothers, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept-'Keep to what is written,' that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another.

Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-Christ himself;

While God judges those who are outside? 'Put away the wicked man from among you.'

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

I should wish every one to be just what I am myself. But every one has his own gift from God-one in one way, and one in another.

With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and it is that of a man whom the Master in his mercy has made worthy to be trusted.

Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.

I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master's Cause, desiring to please him;

I say this for your own benefit, not with any intention of putting a halter round your necks, but in order to secure for the Master seemly and constant devotion, free from all distraction.

Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).

Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the Law also say the same?

Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?

Do not you know that those who do the work of the Temple live on what comes from the Temple, and that those who serve at the altar share the offerings with the altar?

So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the Good News should get their living from the Good News.

To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law- -not that I am free from God's Law; no, for I am under Christ's Law-to win those who have no law.

and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.

A man ought not to have his head covered, for he has been from the beginning 'the likeness of God' and the reflection of his glory, but woman is the reflection of man's glory.

For it was not man who was taken from woman, but woman who was taken from man.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes by means of woman; and all things come from God.

For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you-how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread,

Let each man look into his own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup.

All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.

If any one thinks that he has the gift of preaching or any other spiritual gift, let him recognize that what I am now saying to you is a command from the Lord.

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But, in truth, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are at rest.

There is a beauty of the sun, and a beauty of the moon, and a beauty of the stars; for even star differs from star in beauty.

The first man was from the dust of the earth; the second man from Heaven.

Those who are of the dust are like him who came from the dust; and those who are of Heaven are like him who came from Heaven.

And as we have borne the likeness of him who came from the dust, so let us bear the likeness of him who came from Heaven.

I have another request to make of you, Brothers. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ's People.