I return thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God given you in Christ Jesus;

For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you.

Lest any should say that in my name I have immersed.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power

According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise chief-architect, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon. And let each see how he builds upon.

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

And to me it is the least that I be judged by you, or by man's day: but neither do I judge myself.

For I know nothing by myself; but in this I have not been justified: and he examining me is the Lord.

Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

Therefore sent I Timothens to you, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of all my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in all the churches.

And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?

Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be.

And of what ye wrote to me: good for a man not to touch a woman.

And she is happier if she so remain, according to my opinion: and I also think to have the Spirit of God.

Wherefore, if food offend my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, lest I shall offend my brother.

Am I not sent? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord

If to others I am not sent, but surely I am to you: for the seal of my sending are ye in the Lord.

My justification to them examining me is this,

But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

Wherefore, my beloved, do ye flee from idolatry.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.

And consciousness, I say, not thine, but another's: for that why is my freedom judged by another's consciousness

As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.

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

And I approve you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and as I have delivered to you, do ye hold the traditions.

And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance.

Likewise the cup also, after supping, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink, for my remembrance.

Therefore, my brethren, coming together to eat, succeed one another.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

If therefore I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him speaking a foreigner, and he speaking a foreigner to me.

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, and my mind is unfruitful.

I thank my God, speaking in tongues more than you all:

But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound. in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

It has been written in the law, That in other tongues and in other lips will I speak to this people; and not so will they hear me, says the Lord.

And last of all exactly as an abortive, was he also seen by me.

And by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which in me was not vain; but I was more abundantly wearied than they all: and not I, but the grace of God which with me.

If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

And if it be suitable for me also to go, they shall go with me.

And perhaps with you I shall abide, or also pass the winter, that ye might send me forward wherever I go.

For a door has stood open to me, great and effective, and many opposed.

Therefore no one should despise him: and send ye him forward in peace, that he might come to me: for I expect him with the brethren.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore observe ye such.

The greeting of Paul by my hand.

My love with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.