So that ye are not wanting in any grace; awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you? or in Paul's name were ye immersed

And I immersed also the house of Stephanas: besides, I know not if I immersed any other.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:

And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

And I having come to you, brethren, came not with eminence of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

For I judged not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power

That your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:

Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as has been written. Which the eye saw not, and the ear heard not, and upon the heart of man it came not up, what things God has prepared for them loving him.

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.

Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.

And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

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

I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able.

For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

For when a certain one should say, I truly am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you?

For I know nothing by myself; but in this I have not been justified: and he examining me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other.

For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?

Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you.

And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up.

And I will come to you swiftly, if the Lord will, and I shall know not the word of those puffed up, but the power.

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

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.

And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.

Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?

Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth.

I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators.

And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.

Dare any of you, having an affair with another, be judged by the unjust, and not by the holy ones?

Know ye not that the holy ones shall judge the world? and if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments?

Know ye not that we shall judge messengers? also not only things pertaining to the cares of life?

For confusion I speak to you. So is there not one wise with you, who will be able to judge between his brother?

Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded?

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be.

Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.

Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

And of what ye wrote to me: good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife.

Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.

And this I say according to indulgence, not according to order.

And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.

And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:

And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife.

And to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she assents to dwell with him, let him not send her away.

And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he assents to dwell with her, let her not send him away.

And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace.

Whoever was called circumcised? let him not be drawn to himself. Whoever was called in uncircumeision? let him not be circumcised.

A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it.

Ye were bought for a price; be ye not servants of men.

But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful.

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not a release. Hast thou been loosed from a wife seek thou not a wife.

And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.

And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;

And they weeping, as not weeping; and they rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and they buying, as not possessing.

And they using this world, as not using; for the form of this world passes away.

And this I say for the advantage of yourselves; not that I shall cast a net upon you, but for the becoming, and occupied assiduously for the Lord without being turned away.

And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry.

And he who has stood firmly fixed in heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his virgin, does well.

So that he marrying does well; and he not marrying does better.

But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated.

And food sets us not before God: for neither, if we eat, do we abound; neither if we eat not, do we want.

For if any one see thee having knowledge reclining in the idol's temple, shall not his consciousness, being weak, be built up to eat the sacrifices to idols;

Am I not sent? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord

If to others I am not sent, but surely I am to you: for the seal of my sending are ye in the Lord.

have we not power to eat and to drink?

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife; as also the rest of the sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power not to work?

Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Not according to man do I speak these things: or does not the law also say these things?

For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen?

If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ.

Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar?

But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:

And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert.

And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.

Therefore let him seeming to stand see that he fall not.

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

The cup of praise which we praise, is it not the mutual participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the mutual participation of the body of Christ?

See ye Israel according to the flesh: are not they eating the sacrifices mutual participators of the altar?

But, that what things they sacrifice the nations sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I will not ye be partakers of demons.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.