I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

lest some one should say that ye were immersed into my name.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Gospel; not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

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

And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I laid a foundation; and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon;

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise 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 man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself.

For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet have I not thereby been justified; but He Who judges me is the Lord.

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

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

I beseech you, therefore, become imitators of me.

For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

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

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, even, Christ;

I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

All things are lawful for me; but all are not profitable. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the control of any.

Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Now, concerning the virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as having received mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened; that henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

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

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

But she is happier, if she abides as she is, according to my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.

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

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

My defense to those examining me is this.

If others partake of this authority over you, do not we still more? But we used not this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.

For, if I proclaim the Gospel, it is not to me a matter of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me, if I proclaim not the Gospel.

What, then, is my reward? That, when proclaiming the Gospel, I may make the Gospel without charge, to the end that I may not fully use my right in the Gospel.

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

And I am doing all things for the Gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others.

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.

But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

A temptation has not taken you, except 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 make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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

Become imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

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

for there must also be factions among you, that the approved may be made manifest among you.

and, having 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, after supper, saying "This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me:"

but, being 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 one for another.

And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing.

Pursue love; and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Now I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; and greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edifying.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no one of them is without signification.

If, then, I know not the meaning of the voice, I will be to him who is speaking a barbarian; and he that is speaking, a barbarian to me.

So also ye, since ye are eager for spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them with a view to the edification of the assembly.

Wherefore, let him that speaks in a tongue, pray that he may interpret.

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

but in an assembly I prefer to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

In the law it has been written, "With other tongues, and with lips of others, I will speak to this people; and not even thus will they listen to Me," saith the Lord.

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

So then, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

and, last of all, as to one born out of time, He appeared to me also.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove 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 subjected to Him, then will the Son also Himself be subjected to Him Who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all.

If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."

and that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other kind;

Therefore, my beloved brethren, become steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

On the first day of the sabbaths, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring it up, as he may prosper, that no collections be made, when I come.

And, when I arrive, whomsoever ye may approve, the same will I send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem;

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

and it may be that I will remain, or even winter with you, that you may send me forward, wherever I may go.

for a door, great and effectual, has opened to 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 one, therefore, despise him; but send him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren.

For, they refreshed my spirit and yours; therefore, recognize those who are such.

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

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.