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

Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it has been declared unto me of 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 sent me not 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 were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

For who has 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 unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems 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 of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.

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

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

Therefore I beseech you, be followers of me.

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

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

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

All things are lawful unto 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 you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Deprive not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your lack of self-control.

Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.

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

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

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

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares 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 proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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

Therefore, if food makes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat while the world stands, lest I make my brother to stumble.

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

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

My answer to them that do examine me is this,

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

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

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

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

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

But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

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

Therefore, 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 your 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 followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Now I praise you, brethren, because you 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, after he had eaten, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait 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 love, it profits me nothing.

Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

I would that you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks 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 none of them is without meaning.

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a foreigner, and he that speaks shall be a foreigner unto me.

Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.

Therefore let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

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

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

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

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

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

And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one untimely born.

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 unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto 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 is the gain to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may by chance be wheat, or of some other grain:

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

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

And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that you may bring me on my journey wherever I go.

For a great and effective door is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

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

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

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

The salutation is of me Paul with my own hand.

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