that in everything you have been enriched in him, in all speech, and in all knowledge

Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?

Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

You have been brought with a price; do not become slaves to men.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

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

Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.

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

Have I no right to claim food and drink?

Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?

Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

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

On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?"

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

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

upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked;

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

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

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

And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

Now I am calling to your remembrance, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, and on which you have taken your stand,

by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

More than that, those who are sleeping in Christ have perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all mankind most pitiable.

But now, now, Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.

As we have borne the likeness of him who was of earth, so also let us bear the likeness of Him who is of heaven.

Now I shall come to you after I have gone through Macedonia.

As for our Apollos, I have many times urged him to go to you with the others, but he was always unwilling to go to you at this time. He will come, however, whenever he has a good opportunity.

I am glad that Stephanus and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.