Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth,

even to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours;

in all utterance and knowledge;

who will also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye would all say alike, and that there may be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

Whereas the spiritual man discerneth all things, yet is himself discerned by no one.

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?

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

but if any man's work be burnt, he will be damaged; though he himself shall be saved, but, as it were out of fire.

If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, and this temple are ye.

Therefore let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or future, all are yours;

Wherefore judge nothing before the time; even until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every one have praise from God.

We are made as the filth of the world, and the refuse of all things to this day.

For this end have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, how I teach every where in every church.

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:

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

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.

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.

And as God hath raised up the Lord, so will He raise up us by his power.

for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another?

However, as God hath distributed to every man, and as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk: and thus I order in all the churches.

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.

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.

But he, that is stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doth well.

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

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord:

Now as to things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge about them. Knowledge however puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

and lords many,) yet to us there is but one God the Father, from whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.

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.

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?

wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will never eat flesh while I breathe, least I make my brother to offend.

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?

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.

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

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might by every means save some.

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.

And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

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

and were all baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea;

and did all eat the same spiritual food;

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

Now all these things happened to them as examples: and are written for our admonition, on whom the last ages are come.

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.

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

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.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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.

Now I commend you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth man her head; for it is even all one as if she were shaved.

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.

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together to your condemnation. And as to other things, I will set them in order when I come.

but it is the same God who worketh them all in every one.

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the advantage of all.

but all these worketh that one and the same Spirit distributing to every one in particular as He sees fit.

For as the body is one, and hath many members; but all the parts of this one body, though many, are but one body:

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? and if the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

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

that there might be no schism in the body; but that all the members might have the same care one for another.

And so if one member suffer all the members suffer with it; and if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers?

have all miraculous powers? have all the gifts of healing? do all speak many languages? do all interpret? but ye are all zealous for the best gifts.

Though I will shew you a way yet more excellent.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and am acquainted with all mysteries, and all knowledge: yea if I have faith, even. to remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And though I give all my substance to feed the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, I am nothing profited.

covereth all faults, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

I could wish that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?

So also unless ye utter by the tongue intelligible words, how shall what is spoken be understood? for thus ye will be only talking to the wind.

But if I know not the force of the words, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian to me.

What is then to be done? I will pray with the Spirit, but I will pray to be understood: I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing to be understood.

thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all.

It is written in the law, "By men of another language, and by other lips, will I speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, saith the Lord."

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?

But if all prophesy, and there come in an unbeliever, or one unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all.

And thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; so that falling down upon his face he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed among you.

What is then to be done, my brethren? when ye come together, if any of you hath a psalm, a doctrine, a tongue, a revelation, an interpretation,---let all be done for edification.

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

for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as we see in all the assemblies of the saints.

But if any will be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

but let all things be done decently and in order.

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

And last of all He appeared to me also, as one born out of due time: for I am the lest of the apostles,

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his favor to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God that was 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, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Then will be the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule, and all authority, and power.

For he must reign till He hath put all his enemies under his feet.

for He hath put all things under his feet. But when He saith that all things are put under Him, it is plain that we are to except Him who put all things under Him.

And when all things shall be subjected to Him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to Him, that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

Besides, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why then are they baptized for the dead?

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

All flesh is not the same kind of flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

So also will be the resurrection of the dead. Our body is sown in corruption, it is raised incorruptible: it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory: