I also baptized indeed the family of Stephanas: but I know not whether I baptized any other.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in fine speech, least the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of the age? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For, since in the wisdom of God the world by it's wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by what they called the folly of preaching to save those that believe.

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

And I, when I came among you, brethren, came not with excellency of language, or of human wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God:

for I did not think it meet to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

And my discourse, and my preaching was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

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

Yet we speak true wisdom among the perfect: though not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

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

But as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love Him."

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God; that we might know the things that are graciously bestowed upon us by God:

which we also speak of, not in words dictated by human wisdom, but in those which are dictated by the holy Spirit; explaining spiritual things by spiritual words.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not hitherto able to bear it, nor yet are ye even now able.

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

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

(for I am conscious to myself of nothing; though I am not hereby justified;) but He that judgeth me is the Lord.

These things, my brethren, I have by a figure transferred to myself, and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us not to be wise above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up for one against another.

For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou, which thou didst not receive? And if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

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

for if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord please, and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power:

for the kingdom of God consisteth not in speech, but in power.

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

Wherefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavening of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers:

but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world.

But now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those that are within?

Dare any of you, having a matter of complaint against another, try it before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy of judging the smallest controversies?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? what! and not worthy of judging the affairs of this life?

I speak it to your shame. What! is there not one wise man among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren?

Now there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

What! know ye 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 for me, but I will not be under the power of any:

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?

God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?

and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Now as to the things concerning which ye wrote to me: it were good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and in like manner also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

But I say this by way of permission, not of command:

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

(but if she separate, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and that the husband put not away his wife.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she like to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And if any wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he like to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

But if the unbeliever depart, let them depart; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases.

Is any one called that is circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: is any one called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised: for circumcision is nothing,

Wast thou called being a slave, be not anxious about it; but if thou canst be made free, prefer it.

Ye are bought with a price, do not become the slaves of men.

for a single man to be so. Art thou bound to a wife indeed? seek not to be loosed: but art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Though, if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: such however will probably have more trouble in life: but I spare you.

and they, that weep, as if they wept not; and they, that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they, that buy, as if they possessed not;

and they, that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.

But if any one think that he acts unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and that it ought to be so, let him do what he will; he doth not sin: let them marry.

So that he, who giveth her in marriage, doth well; but he, that giveth her not in marriage, doth better.

But there is not in all men this knowledge: and some with a consciousness of the idol unto this day, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and so their conscience being weak is defiled.

But meat does not recommend us to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor the worse, if we eat not.

But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be encouraged to eat of the things sacrificed to idols?

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

If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for ye are in the Lord the seal of my apostleship.

And this is my answer to them that call me to account: have we not power to eat and to drink?

we not power to lead about with us a sister a wife as well as other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or is it I only and Barnabas, that have not power to forbear working?

Who ever goes a warfare at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and doth not eat of the fruit of it? or who feedeth a flock, and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?

or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,

If others partake of this power over you, may not we rather? though we have not used this power; but we bear all things, least we should cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Do ye not know, that they who are employed about the sacrifices have their food from the temple? and they, who attend at the altar, are partakers with the altar?

For if I preach the gospel, yet I have no ground for boasting; because I am under necessity to do it: and wo is me if I do not preach the Gospel.

What is my reward then but this? that when I preach I may make the gospel of Christ not expensive, that so I may not abuse my power in the gospel.

and to those without the law as without the law, (not being without law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye 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?

Consider Israel according to the flesh, Are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

No: but this I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.

And I would not have you partakers with demons. Ye cannot drink of the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol,---eat it not; for his sake who informed thee, and for conscience-sake: for, as I said, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, so that thou mayst have food enough without it.

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?

Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.