(according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you,)

For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?

For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

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

Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.

I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.

The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.

Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.

Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of it.

So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.

No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased him.

but our comely parts have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to the part that lacked;

And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

What is it then, brethren? whenever ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.

For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, it is evident that it is except him who put all things in subjection to him.

and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word written: Death has been swallowed up in victory.