Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.

Now I say this. That each of you actually say, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

And I also immersed the household of Stephanas. Besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

so that no flesh may boast before God.

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

which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by 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.

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

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

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

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.

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Know ye not that we will judge heavenly agents? Then why not mundane things?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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,

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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

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

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

For how do thou know, O wife, whether thou will save thy husband? Or how will thou know, O husband, whether thou will save thy wife?

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy.

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

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.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

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.

Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

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.

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

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

Likewise also the cup after the supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do, as often as ye drink it, for my memorial.

Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

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.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended.

But now of course there are many body-parts, but one body.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and body-parts individually.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

But we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.

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

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but more that ye may prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the congregation may receive edification.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I benefit you, unless I would speak to you either in a revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in doctrine?

Likewise lifeless things that give a sound, whether flute or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

If therefore I know not the force of the voice, I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in an assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some also slept.

Now if Christ is proclaimed that he has risen from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ risen.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.

Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability.

Now concerning the collection for the sanctified, as I arranged for the congregations of Galatia, so also do ye.

Upon the first day of the week let each of you set something aside near himself, storing up whatever he may prosper, so that when I come no collections may be made then.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, but I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord allows.

And about Apollos the brother, I urged him much that he would come to you with the brothers, and it was not at all his will that he should come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.

Now I beseech you, brothers (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruit of Achaia, and that they committed themselves to service for the sanctified),