I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

Who will also confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it hath been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by them who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.

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

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

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 which is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth upon it. But let every man take heed how he buildeth upon it.

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

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

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

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself, and to Apollos, for your sakes; that ye may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you on account of one, may be puffed up against another.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who will bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are assembled, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

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

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your incontinence.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

But I would have you without anxious care. He that is unmarried, is anxious for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

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

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

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

But she is happier if she so remain, after my judgment; and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Wherefore, if food maketh my brother to fall into sin, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to fall into sin.

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

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

My answer to them that examine me is this,

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me.

What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my power in the gospel.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.

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

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Conscience, I say, not thy own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

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

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

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

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

And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

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

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

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

I would that ye all spoke in languages, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh in languages, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

Therefore, if 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 to me.

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Wherefore, let him that speaketh in an unknown language, pray that he may interpret.

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

I thank my God, I speak in languages more than ye all:

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown language.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

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

And last of all he was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

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 shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain; it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:

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

And if it be proper that I should go also, they shall go with me.

And it may be that I shall abide, and even winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.

For a great door and effectual is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Now if Timothy come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come to me: for I look for him with the brethren.

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

The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.

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