Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

to the church of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature, but a wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who will pass away.

But to us God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

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

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor men who have sexual relations with men,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the churches.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage does better.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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

Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

and all ate the same spiritual food;

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

"All things are lawful," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Now I praise you, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a manner unworthy will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.

But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink of one Spirit.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

If they were all one member, where would the body be?

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

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

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy, and he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the church may be built up.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not know what you say?

For you truly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

I thank God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

If therefore the whole church is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?

But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Let all things be done decently and in order.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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