I give thanks to my God always in your behalf, for the grace of God given unto you in Christ Jesus;

But I exhort you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you may all speak the same things, and that there may be no schisms among you; but you may be perfected in the same mind and in the same disposition.

For it has been revealed to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

in order that no one may say that you are baptized in my name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with the wisdom of speech, in order that the cross of Christ may not be made of none effect.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may confound the strong;

and God has chosen the base-born of the world, and those of no reputation, the things which are not, that He may set at nought the things which are,

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

in order that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God; in order that we may know the things which have been graciously given unto us from God.

For when one may say, I am indeed of Paul; another, I am of Apollos; are you not men?

According to the grace of God which was given unto me, I as a wise architect, laid the foundation; and another builds on it. Let each one take heed how he builds.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

But to me it is the smallest matter, that I may be judged by you, or by human day: but I do not judge myself.

For I know nothing against myself; but in this I am not justified; and the Lord is the one judging me.

So judge nothing before the time, until the Lord may come, who will also bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then praise shall be to each one from God.

But, brethren, I have transferred these things to myself and Apollos on your account: that you may learn among us not to be wise above what is written; in order that you may not be puffed up one in behalf of one against another.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men.

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

Therefore I exhort you, be ye imitators of me.

For this same thing I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach everywhere in every church.

But I will come to you quickly, if the Lord may will; and I will know not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power.

And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst?

in the name of the Lord Jesus, you and my spirit being assembled, with the power of the Lord Jesus,

to turn over such a one to Satan for the destruction of carnality, in order that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Cleanse away the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, as you are free from leaven; for Christ has truly become our Passover.

For now I have written unto you not to keep company with him, if any one denominated a brother may be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a scold, or drunken, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

For why is it for me to judge the outsiders? Do you not judge those within? But God will judge those without.

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

Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.

But concerning those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:

Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may remain even as I:

(but if indeed she may depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled unto her husband); and that the husband shall not send away the wife.

But if, indeed you may marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned; but such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

But I say this, brethren; that the time is at hand, that moreover indeed those having wives may be as those not having;

I wish you to be free from solicitude. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, in order that he may please the Lord:

but the one having married cares for the things of the world, in order that he may please his wife.

A wife and a virgin truly also differ: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but she having married cares for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

I speak this for the profit of you yourselves; not that I may cast a burden upon you, but for that which is pleasing and acceptable to the Lord without perturbation.

But if any one considers that he is acting indiscreetly towards his virgin, if she may be marriageable, and thus it ought so to be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

A wife has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she may so remain, according to my opinion: but I realize that I truly have the Spirit of God.

See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak.

For if any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols?

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

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

If I am not an apostle to others, but I am to you at least: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

My defence to those calling me in question is this.

If others partake of your bounty, shall not we the more? But we have not used this privilege, but we bear all things, in order that we may not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used none of these things. But I have not written these things that it may be so in me: for it is good for me rather to die than that any one shall make void my boasting.

For if I preach the gospel, there is no boasting to me; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I may not preach the gospel.

Then what is my reward? that preaching the gospel, I may render the gospel free from charge, in order that I may not use my right in the gospel.

For being free from all, I rendered myself servant to all, that I may gain the more.

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

to those without law, I became as without law, not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ, that I may gain those without law.

To the weak I became as weak, that I may gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I may indeed save some.

But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

And these became our examples, in order that we may not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

So let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he may fall.

No temptation has overtaken you, except that which is human: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make a way of escape, in order that you may be able to bear it.

Therefore, my beloved, fly from idolatry.

But if any one may say to you; This is offered to an idol, eat not, on account of him who gave the information, and his conscience.

But I say the conscience not of himself, but of the other one. For why is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

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

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

But I praise you because you remember me in all things, and hold fast the commandments, as I delivered them unto you.

Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man may indeed have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

For it behooves that heresies should indeed be among you, in order that the approved may be made manifest among you.

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

Likewise also the cup, after supper, saying; This cup is the new covenant in my blood: do this, as often as you may drink it, in remembrance of me.

For as often as you may eat this bread, and drink the cup, you do proclaim the death of the Lord, until he may come.

So whosoever may eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But being judged, by the Lord we are chastised, in order that we may not be condemned along with the world.

So, my brethren, coming together to eat, wait for one another.

If one is hungry let him eat at home; in order that you may not come together unto condemnation. But I will set in order the remaining things when I may come.

If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.

but when the perfect may come, that which is in part shall be done away.

Follow after divine love; and seek the spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

But I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you may prophesy: but greater is the one prophesying, than the one speaking with tongues, unless he may interpret, in order that the church may receive edification.

But now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or knowledge, or prophecy, or in instruction?

Nevertheless things without life, giving forth a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it may not give a distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped, or what is harped?

For if indeed the trumpet may give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the war?

Thus also if you through the tongue may give an indistinct word, how will that which is spoken be known? for you will be speaking into the air.

if then I do not understand the power of the voice, I will be a barbarian to the one speaking, and the one speaking will be a barbarian to me.

So also you, since you are zealots of spirits, seek that you may abound unto the edification of the church.

Therefore let the one speaking with a tongue, pray that one may interpret.

For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit is praying, but my mind is not fruitful.

Then what is it? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray with my mind also: I will sing with my spirit, and I will sing with my mind also.

Since if you may bless with the spirit, how will one occupying the place of the unlearned say Amen to your blessing? since he does not know what you are saying.

but I would rather speak five words in the church with my understanding, so that I may indeed teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

It has been written in the law; I will speak to this people with other tongues and with the lips of others; and thus they will not hearken unto me, says the Lord.

Then if the whole church may come together, and all may speak with tongues, and the unlearned or unbelievers may come in, will they not say that you are gone mad?

But if all may prophesy, and some unbeliever or unlearned person may come in, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all;

Then what is it, brethren? When you may come together, each one has a psalm, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.

but if there may be no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church; but let him speak to himself, and to God.