For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are dissensions among you.

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

which none of the rulers of this world comprehended; for had they comprehended it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but, as it is written: "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, the great things which God hath prepared for those that love him."

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

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

According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful masterbuilder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the purposes of mens hearts; and then shall every one have his praise from God.

And these things, brethren, I have transferred in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye may learn not to go beyond what is written, that no one of you may pride himself in one against another.

Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,

being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

For though ye have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife.

For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,

For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

If then ye have any causes relating to this life, set them to judge who are of no repute in the church.

Now therefore it is altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

and if she have separated herself let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the husband put away his wife.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

But this I say, brethren, the time that remaineth is short; that both they that have wives may be as though they had none;

and I would have you free from anxious cares. He that is unmarried careth about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

But she is happier if she remain as she is, in my opinion; and I too think that I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning the things offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth;

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

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

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

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap from you things for the body?

If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

For in preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in; for I am under a necessity to do so; yea, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, still I have been intrusted with a stewardship.

to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all, that I might by all means save some.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Now these things happened to them as warnings, and were recorded for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages have come.

Look at Israel by natural descent. Have not those who eat of the sacrifices, communion with the altar?

Nay, but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For this cause the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him,

but that if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her? for her hair is given for a covering.

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

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

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 what we think to be less honorable parts of the body, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our unseemly parts have more abundant seemliness;

while our seemly parts have no need. But God so put the body together, as to give special honor to that part which lacked,

that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same 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 angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the feelings of a child, I thought as a child; since I have become a man, I have put away the things of the child.

After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

then also they that have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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

But now hath Christ risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that have fallen asleep.

Then will be the end, when he delivereth up the kingdom to God, the Father, when he shall have destroyed all dominion, and all authority, and power.

for "he put all things under his feet." But when it is said that all things have been put under him, it is manifest that he who put all things under him is excepted.

And when all things have been put under him, then will also the Son himself become subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

I protest, brethren, by my glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.

Awake, as is your duty, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God; I say it to your shame.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass that which is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

Every first day of the week let each of you lay by him something in store, according as he hath prospered; that the collections may not have to be made when I come.

Now I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia; for I am about to pass through Macedonia;

And I exhort you, brethren,ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the holy,