to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

lest some man should say that I immersed in my name.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, even this crucified man.

so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

For what man knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man in him? And so nobody knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

But truly the spiritual man evaluates all things, but he himself is evaluated by none.

for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another man is building on it. But let each man take heed how he is building on it.

For no man can lay another foundation besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

And if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

If any man's work that he built on will remain, he will receive benefit.

If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

Therefore let not one man boast in men. For all things are yours,

Thus let a man regard us as of helpers of Christ, and managers of mysteries of God.

And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful.

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

But as of me not coming to you, some men are puffed up.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

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

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

Except, as God has distributed to each man, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I command in all the congregations.

Was any man called circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Was any man called in uncircumcision? He should not be circumcised.

Each man, in the situation in which he was called, in this he should remain.

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

Ye were bought with a price, become not bondmen of men.

Brothers, each man, in what he was called, should remain in this before God.

I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:

But I want you to be without worry. The unmarried man cares for things of the Lord, how he will please the Lord.

But if any man thinks to behave improperly toward his virgin, if it is past the best time, and so ought to happen, she should do what she wants, she does not sin, they should marry.

If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.

Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things?

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

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

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted.

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say.

Let not one man seek that of himself, but each man that of the other.

But if any man say to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

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

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

But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in Lord.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

For each man proceeds to eat his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunken.

But let a man examine himself, and let him so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home so that ye may not come together for condemnation. And the rest I will set in order as soon as I come.

Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, except by Holy Spirit.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man toward that which is beneficial.

to a different man, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healings by the same Spirit,

and to another, workings of miracles, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to a different man, kinds of tongues, and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each man individually as it wills.

And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of heavenly agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I abolished the childish things.

For he who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God, for no man hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

But he who prophesies speaks to men edification and encouragement and comfort.

Otherwise if thou would bless with the spirit, how will the man who fills the place of the unlearned, say the Truly at thy thanksgiving, since he knows not what thou say?

For thou indeed express thanks well, but the other man is not edified.

If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad?

But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all.

If any man speaks in a tongue, be according to two, or at the most three, and in succession. And let one interpret.

And let two or three prophets speak, and let the other men pass judgment.

But if it should be revealed to another man who is seated, let the first be silent.

If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of Lord.

But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

Therefore whether I or those men, so we proclaim, and so ye believed.