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?

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

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.

If any man's work??he building he has made??tands the test, he will be rewarded.

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.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

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.

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.

Dare any one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

To the rest it is I who am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let him not send her away.

But if the unbelieving partner be determined to leave, separation let it be. In such cases the believing husband or wife is not under bondage. But it is into peace that God has called us.

Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one??nd whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him??n that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches.

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.

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

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.

Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.

If a man thinks that he already has knowledge, he does not yet truly know as he ought to know;

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

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,

but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

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

For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked;

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and vain also is your faith.

For if the dead rise not, neither has Christ arisen;

And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

For he must rule until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

For He hast put all things under his feet, but in that quotation All things are put under him, it is evident that God is excepted, who put all things under Him.

And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

for a door has opened to me, great and effectual, and the opponents are many.

As for our Apollos, I have many times urged him to go to you with the others, but he was always unwilling to go to you at this time. He will come, however, whenever he has a good opportunity.