And I also baptized the family of Stephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other.

For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

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

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

And when I came to you, brothers, I came not with excellency of speech, or wisdom, declaring to you the mystery of God.

and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the spirit and power,

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

But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;

which none of the rulers of this life knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;

And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God,

which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

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

I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men?

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

But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;

for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am not on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord.

I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another.

For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not?

I write these things not to shame you, but as my beloved children, I admonish you.

For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you;

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

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

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

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

Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators;

not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.

But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.

For what business have I to judge those without? Do you not judge those within?

Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the wicked, and not by the saints?

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then things pertaining to this life?

I speak to your shame. Is there not now a wise man among you? not one who can judge between his brothers?

Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded?

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.

Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife.

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

But this I say by suggestion, not by command.

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,

and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife.

But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not leave her;

and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is pleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband.

But if the unbelieving companion departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to peace.

For how do you know, wife, that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that you will not save your wife?

Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised.

were you called being a servant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather.

You are bought with a price; be not servants of men.

Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife.

But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

and those who weep as those not weeping, and those who rejoice as those not rejoicing, and those who buy as not possessing,

and those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away.

But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.

But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well.

He that gives in marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does better.

But all have not this knowledge; and some with the conscience [unenlightened] even till now eat an idol's [sacrifice] as an idol's sacrifice, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.

For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

And will not the weak brother for whom Christ died perish by your knowledge?

Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a 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, a wife, as also the other apostles; and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor?

Who ever goes on a military expedition at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and eats not the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Do I say these things in the manner of men? or does not the law also say the same?

For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for oxen?

And if others have this right, do we not have it more? But we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not impede the gospel of Christ.

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.

What then is my reward? That preaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse my right in the gospel.

to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law;

to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;

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

but with many of them God was not pleased; for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

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

Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

But what the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.