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 perfected in the same mind and the same will.

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.

For the word of the cross is to the lost foolishness, but to the saved the power of God.

but to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God;

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,

But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,

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;

but we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from eternity for our 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;

but God has revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

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.

But the spiritual man discerns all things, and is himself perceived by no one.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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;

Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused [the seed] to grow;

so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he that waters, but God that causes it to grow.

According to the grace of God given me as a wise architect I have laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one see how he builds on it.

if any one's work is consumed, he shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.

But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful.

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.

For we are foolish for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous.

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

For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this,

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.

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.

but those without, God judges. Remove therefore the evil man from among you.

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

But you injure and defraud, and that your brothers.

And such were some of you; but you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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;

But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with him].

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.

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.

But this I say by suggestion, not by command.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

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,

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;

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children impure, but now are they holy.

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.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.

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.

And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

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,

But I wish you to be without cares. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

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.

A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she continues thus, in my opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.

And concerning things offered to idols we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

but if any one loves God, this [man] is known by him.

Concerning eating things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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.

But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.

But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

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.

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 do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am intrusted with a stewardship.

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.

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

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.

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

All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but all things do not edify.

Let no one seek his own but the good of another.

But if an unbeliever invites you and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.

But if any one says to you, This has been offered to an idol, eat not for his sake that informed you, and for conscience' sake.

I mean not your conscience, but that of the other. For why is my freedom limited by the conscience of another?

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

But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ, God.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and the same as if she was shaved.

For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to be shaved, let her wear a veil.

For a man ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God; but the woman is a glory of man.

For man is not of woman, but woman of man;

for man also was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man.

But neither is woman without man, nor man without woman in the Lord;

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

but if a woman wears long hair it is her glory; for the hair is given her for a covering.

But if any one is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.

But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.