which no one of the rulers of this age has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet have I not thereby been justified; but He Who judges me is the Lord.

Wherefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, Who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then will each one have his praise from God.

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Even until this present hour, we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

For, though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the Gospel.

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;

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

If, then, ye have tribunals pertaining to this life, do ye set those to judge who are set at nought in the assembly?

Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

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

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

Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

But, if they have not continency let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

Now, concerning the virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as having received mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Have you become bound to a wife? Seek not a release. Have you been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But, even if you marry, you did not sin; and, if a virgin marry, she did not sin. Yet such will have tribulation in the flesh; and I am sparing you.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened; that henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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

Now, concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know because we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For, if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat the idol-sacrifices?

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

Have we no right to eat, and to drink?

Have we no right to lead about a sister as our wife, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have only I and Barnabas no right to give up working?

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.

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

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

Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

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

Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But, if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

But, if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

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."

and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

but our comely parts have no need. But God attempered the body, giving the more abundant honor to that which lacked;

that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care, one for another.

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

If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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

And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing.

When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;

Now I make known to you, brethren, the Gospel which I proclaimed to you, which also ye received, in which also ye have been standing;

If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable!

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the First fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

for He put all things in subjection under His feet. But, when He saith, "All things have been put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted, Who subjected all things to Him.

Daily am I dying, I avow by the glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have not a knowledge of God: I say it to your shame!

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

And I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia; for I pass through Macedonia:

But concerning Apollos, the brother, I besought him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come now; but he will come, when he shall have opportunity.