to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called saints, with all, in every place, who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ??heir Lord and ours:

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you;

God is faithful, through Whom ye were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now I mean this: that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul;" and "I of Apollos;" and "I of Cephas:" and "I of Christ!"

For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness; but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God.

For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I set aside."

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen;

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;

But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who was made to us wisdom from God, also righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

that, even as it has been written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

but to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things ??ven the deep things of God.

For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.

And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.

But he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal??s to babes in Christ.

for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

What, then, is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and as the Lord gave to each.

So that neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God Who causeth it to grow.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I laid a foundation; and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon;

for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

the work of each one shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove each one's work, of what sort it is.

If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?

If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He Who taketh the wise in their craftiness."

And again, "The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain."

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that one be found faithful.

But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself.

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

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.

For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are highly esteemed; but we are without honor.

being defamed, we entreat; we were made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.

Not as shaming you, do I write these things, but as my beloved children, admonishing you.

For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you;

for the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

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!

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

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, even, Christ;

therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

but, as it is, I wrote not to keep company, if anyone, called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner??ith such a one, not even to eat.

Or know ye not that the saints will judge the world? And, if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest tribunals?

I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

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?

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through His power.

Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";

but he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.

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?

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them, if they remain even as I am.

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

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

And, if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the brother; else your children are unclean; but as it is they are holy.

But, if the unbelieving departs, let him depart. The brother or the sister has not come into bondage in such cases; but God hath called us in peace.

Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each one, as God hath called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the assemblies.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

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.

I think, therefore, that this is good on account of the impending distress; namely, that it is good for a man to be thus.

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

and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not;

and those who use the world, as not using it to the full; for the fashion of this world is passing away.

But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but, if her husband fall asleep, she is at liberty to he married to whom she will: only in the Lord.

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.

If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;

concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

For, even if there are things called gods, whether in heaven, or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many);

yet to us there is One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we for Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him.

But this knowledge is not in all; but some, by familiarity with the idol even until now, eat it as an idol-sacrifice; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But food will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we lacking; nor, if we eat, do we abound.

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?

For he that is weak??he brother for whom Christ died??erishes by reason of your knowledge.

And thus, sinning against the brethren, and smiting their conscience which is weak, ye sin against Christ.

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.

My defense to those examining me is this.

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?

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own charges; Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

If we sowed for you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?

For, if I proclaim the Gospel, it is not to me a matter of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me, if I proclaim not the Gospel.

What, then, is my reward? That, when proclaiming the Gospel, I may make the Gospel without charge, to the end that I may not fully use my right in the Gospel.

And, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law (not being myself under law), that I might gain those under law;