Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called out with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.

that in everything you are enriched by Him, in all speech and in all knowledge;

But I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones."

But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.

For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

Therefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours,

whether it is Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.

being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills. And I will not know the speech of those who are puffed up, but the power.

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

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

Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?

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

And God has both raised up the Lord, and also will raise us up by His own power.

For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but who has authority over his own will (and has so judged in his heart that he will keep his virginity) he does well.

So then he who gives in marriage does well. But he who does not give in marriage does better.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives, but if her husband sleeps in death, she is at liberty to be remarried to whom she will, only in the Lord.

But concerning the sacrifices to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

but there is to us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.

But this knowledge is not in all. But some being aware of the idol eat as an idolatrous sacrifice until now, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And on your knowledge the weak brother will fall, he for whom Christ died.

Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.

Do we not have authority to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord do, and Cephas?

If others have a share of this authority over you, rather should not we? But we have not used this authority, but we endured all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

And, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

And all were baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

and all ate the same spiritual food,

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.

And all these things happened to them as examples; and it is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.

No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

For we, the many, are one bread and one body; for we are all partakers of that one bread.

All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.

Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

But I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and you keep the doctrines as I delivered them to you.

For as the woman is of the man, even so the man is also through the woman; but all things of God.

For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

And there are differences of workings, but it is the same God working all things in all.

But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each one as He desires.

For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

For also by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, even all were made to drink into one Spirit.

If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling?

And if they were all one member, where would be the body?

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of power?

Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak languages? Do all interpret?

And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.

And though I give out all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, I am profited nothing.

quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Charity never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be abolished; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be abolished.

But when the perfect thing comes, then that which is in part will be caused to cease.

I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather that you may prophesy; for greater is he prophesying than he speaking in tongues, unless he interpret so that the church may receive building up.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

Yet lifeless things giving a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

Therefore if I do not know the power of the sound, I will be a foreigner to him speaking, and he speaking will be a foreigner to me.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind.

Else, if you bless in the spirit, he occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?

For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up.

I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you;

In the Law it is written, "By other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and even so they will not hear Me, says the Lord."

Therefore if the whole church has come together, and all speak in languages, and if uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you rave?

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.

And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

Then how is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up.

For you may all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be comforted.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,

Afterward He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

And last of all He was seen by me also, as one born out of time.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.

then is the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.

for it is right for Him to reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet.

For He put all things under His feet. But when He says that all things have been put under His feet, it is plain that it excepts Him who has put all things under Him.

But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.

Otherwise, what will they do, those being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not at all raised, why indeed are they baptized on behalf of the dead?

But someone will say, How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come?

All flesh is not the same flesh; but one kind of flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fish, and another of birds.

Behold, I speak a mystery to you; we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed;

in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and when this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory.