I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them that are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.

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

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

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 any.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

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 trustworthy.

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

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

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

and is divided.'so also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

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

My defence to them that examine me is this.

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 gospel of Christ.

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

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

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

And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

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

For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.

In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it , in remembrance of me.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another.

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

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts , but rather that ye may prophesy.

Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.

If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts , seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;

Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

and last of all, as to the child untimely born, he appeared to me also.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.

If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.

but with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I go.

for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

let no man therefore despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the brethren.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.