But I baptized also the family of Stephanas: besides, I know not if I baptized any other.

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.

Where is the wise man? where is the scribe? where is the investigator of this age? has not God rendered the wisdom of the world foolishness?

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many influential, not many high-born:

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 I, brethren, having come unto you, came not in the excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming unto you the testimony of God.

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 speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought:

which no one of the princes of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But, as has been written, the things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

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.

Which things indeed we speak, not in the teachable words of human wisdom, but in the teachable words of the Spirit, expounding spiritual things to spiritual people.

But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even babes in Christ.

I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able. But ye are not now yet able:

for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

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

Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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.

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 who judges you? and what have you which you did not receive. But if indeed you received it, why do you boast, as not having received it?

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

For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

But some were inflated, as if I was not coming unto you.

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.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father.

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

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

So let us feast, not on the old leaven, nor on the leaven of sin and iniquity, but on the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and the extortioners, or with the idolators; since you ought therefore to come out of the world.

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.

Which one of you having a matter dares to go to law with another before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest judgments?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not indeed matters of this life?

I speak this to your shame. Is there not one wise man among you who shall be able to judge between his brother?

Indeed it is already altogether a small matter to you, that you have law-suits one with another. Why do you not rather stiffer injustice? why are you not rather defrauded?

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,

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.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? then taking the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot? it could not be so.

Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own;

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

The wife has not the authority over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not the authority over his own body, but the 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 this according to knowledge, not according to commandment.

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband

(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 I say to the rest, not the Lord, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is willing to live with him, let him not send her away.

And if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, let her not send away her husband.

But if the unbeliever departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you in peace.

If not as the Lord has imparted to each one, and as God has called each one, so let him or her walk. And thus I command in all the churches.

Is one called having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has one been called in uncircumcision? let him not get circumcised.

Have you been called being a slave? let it not be a care to you: but if indeed you are able to become free, use it in preference.

You have been bought with a price; be not the slaves of men.

Have you been given to a wife? do not seek separation; have you been separated from a wife? do not seek a 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;

and those weeping, as those not weeping; and those rejoicing, as those not rejoicing; and those buying, as those not possessing;

and those using the world, as those not using it thoroughly: for the fashion of this world is passing away.

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.

So indeed he that marries his own virgin does well; and he that marries her not will do better.

If any one seems to know anything, yet he knows not as it behooves him to know;

But there is not knowledge in all people: but some, with the conscience of the idol even until now, eat as if it was sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience being weak is polluted.

But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.

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.

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

Have we not a right to lead about a sister as a wife, as the other apostles also, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Have I and Barnabas alone not the right to forbear working?

Whoever goes to war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat the fruit of it? or who shepherdizes a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

Whether do I speak these things according to a man? or does not the law indeed say these things?

For in the law of Moses it has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that plows. Is there a care to God for oxen,

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.

Do you not know that those working in the sacrifices eat those things of the temple; and those serving the altar partake of the altar?

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.

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.

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.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

But with many of them God is not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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

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.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

See Israel after the flesh: are not all eating the sacrifices communicants of the altar?

But those things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. But I do not wish you to be the communicants of demons.

You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you are not able to partake of the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.

All things are lawful; but all things are not profitable. All things are lawful; but all things do not edify.