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 at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.

Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

Who will also confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful, by whom ye were called to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

For it hath been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by them who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For Christ hath not sent me to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For when in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

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

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every man's work, of what sort it is.

If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment: yes, I judge not my own self.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself, and to Apollos, for your sakes; that ye may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you on account of one, may be puffed up against another.

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

To deliver such one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Do ye not know that the saints will judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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

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

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

Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? By no means.

What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

But I speak this by permission, and not as a commandment.

But if she shall depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But this I say, brethren, The time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none;

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

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

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

But if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

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 take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours should become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.

For if any man shall see thee, who hast knowledge, sit eating in the idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Or saith he this altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

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

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them: as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

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

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

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

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

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

But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

For there must be also heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

Wherefore, whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

To another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

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

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in languages, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will speak into the air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian to me.

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown language.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all:

How is it then, brethren? when ye are assembled, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a language, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.

If any man speaketh in an unknown language, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

If any thing is revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

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

Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak: but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

Let all things be done decently, and in order.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached to you, unless ye have believed in vain.

And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve: