God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:

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

Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.

According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this.

So, then, judge nothing be fore the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.

And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.

For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?

You, Corinthians, are already full; you are already rich; you have reigned as kings independently of us. And that you did indeed reign, that we also might reign with you!

For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

when defamed, we entreat; we have become like the outcasts of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

For. this reason have I sent to you Timothy, who is my son, beloved and faithful in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways that are in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.

Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you;

but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

For I, in deed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing;

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit have come together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;

For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within?

If, then, you have controversies pertaining to things of this life, set them to judge who are the least esteemed in the church.

Now, certainly, you are altogether in fault, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men.

But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;

But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.

But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

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

Have we not the right to eat and drink?

Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or, have I only, and Barnabas, no right to leave off working?

If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?

If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

Do you not know that those who are engaged about sacred rites have their living from the temple? and that those who attend upon the altar are partakers with the altar?

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, an apostolic stewardship has been intrusted to me.

For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more.

to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they are written for the instruction of us, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

For if a woman has no vail on, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have a vail.

For this reason ought the woman to have a token of subjection on her head, on account of the angels.

But if any one seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor have the churches of God.

What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

For by one Spirit we all were immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and we all have been made to drink of one Spirit.

The eye can not say to the hand: I have no need of you; or again, the head to the feet: I have no need of you.

And those members of the body, which, we think, are less honorable, around these we place the more abundant honor; and our uncomely members have the more abundant comeliness:

for our comely members have no need. But God has so arranged the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which is deficient,

that there may be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same anxious care, one for another;

Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of an gels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall have an end.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, the spirit which I have prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

after that, he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till this day; but some have fallen asleep.

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

We are, indeed, also found false witnesses of God; for we have testified against God, that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead are not raised.

Then, also, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.

Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down every principality and authority and power:

And when all things shall have been put under him, then, also, shall the Son himself be subjected to him that did put all things under him, that God may be the all in all.

I protest, by the joy which I have over you in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

And when this corruptible body shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal body shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

As it respects the collection which is for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so also do you.

Now I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia, for I intend to go through Macedonia;

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for they have supplied what was wanting on your part:

for they have refreshed my spirit, and yours. There fore, acknowledge such.