I ever thank my God for you, on account of the grace of God bestowed upon you in Christ Jesus;

who will also make you steadfast to the end, so that ye may be without blame in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are dissensions among you.

that no one may say that ye were baptized into my name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

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

For "who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful masterbuilder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself 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 by you, or by a human tribunal; nay, I do not even judge myself;

for though I am conscious to myself of nothing wrong, yet not by this am I cleared of blame; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I have transferred in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye may learn not to go beyond what is written, that no one of you may pride himself in one against another.

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

I exhort you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

For this end I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will put you in mind of my ways in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every church.

For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,

in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you and my spirit with you are assembled together, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

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

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

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

Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

But to those who are married it is my command, yet not mine, but the Lords: Let not the wife separate herself from her husband,

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 faithful.

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

and I would have you free from anxious cares. He that is unmarried careth about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

And this I say for your own profit; not to cast a noose over you, but with a view to what is becoming, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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

Wherefore, if food cause my brother to fall, I will eat no flesh for ever, lest I cause my brother to fall. Am I not free?

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

If I am not an apostle to others, yet surely I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

This is my answer to those who question my authority.

If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

For in preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in; for I am under a necessity to do so; yea, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!

What then is my reward? It is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel free of charge, that I use not to the full my right as a preacher of the gospel.

And I do all for the sake of the gospel, that I may with others partake of it.

Know ye not, that of those who run in the racecourse all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

conscience I mean, not thine own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty to be judged by another conscience [than my own]?

as I also strive to please all in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many; that they may be saved.

Follow my example, as I do that of Christ.

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

for there must be also parties among you, that they who are approved may also become manifest among you.

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

In like manner also the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant, in my blood; this do, as oft as ye drink, in remembrance of me.

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

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

If any one hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

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

I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and not one is without meaning.

If then I know not the meaning of the language, I shall be to him that speaketh a foreigner, and he that speaketh a foreigner to me.

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.

For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord." Wherefore the tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for believers.

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

And last of all, as to one born out of due time, he appeared also to me.

But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in 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 put under him, then will also the Son himself become subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

I protest, brethren, by my glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.

If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Every first day of the week let each of you lay by him something in store, according as he hath prospered; that the collections may not have to be made when I come.

And when I am with you, I will send with letters whomever you may approve to carry your bounty to Jerusalem;

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

and perhaps I may remain, or even spend the winter with you, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I may be going.

for a door hath been opened to me great and effective, and there are many adversaries.

let no one therefore despise him. But conduct him on in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brethren.

for they refreshed my spirit and yours. Pay regard then to those that are such.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand.

My love is with you all in Christ Jesus.