For I have been informed by Chloe's people, that there are quarrels among you, my brethren.

None of the rulers of this age understood it; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand the things 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.

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that in us you may learn not to go beyond what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in favor of one against the other.

For who regards you as different? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

You are already filled! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! And indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, like men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

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

Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to have mourned? Let the one who has done this be removed from your midst.

For though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and have already passed judgment on the one who has committed this, as if I were present.

not at all meaning the immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

So if you have disputes about such matters, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have troubles in this flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; so that from now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

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

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

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

Do we not have the right to food and drink?

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion. For woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if it is not of my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

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

But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

For if a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, let her cover her head.

Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

If anyone wants to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? No, I will not.

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to mute idols, however you may have been moved.

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

while our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

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

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I have to the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fullyeven as I have been fully known.

After that he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

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

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day.

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

You know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. Now I urge you, brethren,

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.