I am always thanking God about you, for the blessing God has given you through Christ Jesus.

So your experience has confirmed the testimony that I bore to Christ,

Christ has been divided up! But was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom?

but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

For who has ever known the Lord's thoughts, so that he can instruct him? But we share the thoughts of Christ.

If what a man has built on the foundation stands the test, he will have his pay.

If a man's work is burned up, he must stand the loss, though he himself will be saved, but as one who has passed through the fire.

For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?

For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.

Immorality is actually notorious among you, and immorality of a kind unknown even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife.

And can you put on airs, instead of being overwhelmed with grief at having to expel from your number the man who has done this?

For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and as thus present I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this,

When one of you has a disagreement with his neighbor, does he dare to bring the matter before a heathen court, instead of laying it before his Christian brothers?

I ask it to shame you. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a disagreement between one brother and another,

but one Christian has to go to law with another, and before unbelievers too?

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one."

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

To other people I would say, though not as Christ's command, if a Christian has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her,

and a woman who has a husband who is not a believer, but is willing to live with her, must not divorce her husband.

But if the one who is not a believer wishes to separate, let the separation take place. In such cases the brother or sister is not a slave; God has called you to live in peace.

Only, everyone must continue in the station which the Lord has appointed for him, and in which he was when God's call came to him. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

About food that has been offered to idols, it is true, as you say, that we all have some knowledge on that matter. Knowledge gives people airs; love is what builds up character.

If a man thinks he has acquired some knowledge, he does not yet know it as well as he ought to know it.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered in sacrifice," let it alone, on account of the man who told you and his conscientious scruples;

A man should examine himself, and only when he has done so should he eat any of the bread or drink from the cup.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

As it is, God has arranged the parts, every one of them in the body as he wished them to be.

which our presentable parts do not need. God has so adjusted the body and given such especial distinction to its inferior parts

If one part suffers, all the parts share its sufferings. If a part has honor done it, all the parts enjoy it too.

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as inspired preachers, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then come ability to cure the sick, helpfulness, administration, ecstatic speaking.

Then what is the right course, brothers? When you meet together, suppose every one of you has a song, a teaching, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one; it must all be for the good of all.

Did God's message start from you Corinthians? Or are you the only people it has reached?

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else;

and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty.

This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true??Death has been triumphantly destroyed.

As for our brother Apollos, I have often urged him to visit you with the other brothers, and he is quite unwilling to come now, but he will come when he has a good opportunity.

A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!