to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.

For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in Lord?

Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.

To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the heavenly agents.

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,

whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other.

Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

If I speak with the tongues of men and of heavenly agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.

If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

For he subordinated all things under his feet. But when he says that all things have been subordinated, it is clear that he who subordinated all things under him, is excepted.

Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly.

But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.