But 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 united in the same mind and in the same judgment.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

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

For the preaching of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumblingblock, and to gentiles foolishness,

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;

But from him it is that ye are in Christ Jesus, who from God was made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption;

and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power;

that your faith might not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

But we do speak wisdom among the perfect; not, however, the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

but we speak Gods wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God determined on before the world was, for our glory;

but, as it is written: "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, the great things which God hath prepared for those that love him."

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of the man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no one but the Spirit of God.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

which things we also speak, not in words taught by mans wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, connecting what is spiritual l with what is spiritual.

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

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

For "who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?

I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.

So then, neither he that planteth nor he that watereth is anything, but God that giveth the growth.

According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful masterbuilder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

But if any one build upon this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

if any ones work shall be burned up, he will lose the reward; but he will be saved himself, yet as one escaping through fire.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human tribunal; nay, I do not even judge myself;

for though I am conscious to myself of nothing wrong, yet not by this am I cleared of blame; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?

We are fools for Christs sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are in honor, but we are despised.

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

For this end I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will put you in mind of my ways in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every church.

But I shall come to you shortly, if it be the Lords 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.

So then let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But this is what I wrote you, not to keep company with any one called a brother, if he be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.

But those who are without, God will judge. Do ye put away that bad man from among yourselves.

But ye yourselves wrong, and defraud, and that too your brethren.

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

but he that is connected with the Lord is one spirit with him.

Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

For ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

The wife hath not the disposal of her own body, but her husband; and so also the husband hath not the disposal of his own body, but his wife.

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

I would that all men were as I myself; but every one hath his own gift from God, one man this, and another that.

but if they cannot control themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But to those who are married it is my command, yet not mine, but the Lords: Let not the wife separate herself from her husband,

and if she have separated herself let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the husband put away his wife.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she be satisfied to dwell with him, let him not put her away;

and if a wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he be satisfied to dwell with her, let her not put her husband away.

For the unbelieving husband hath been made holy by his wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been made holy by the brother; otherwise were your children unclean, but, as it is, they are holy.

But if the unbelieving separateth himself, let him separate himself; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God hath called you to be in peace.

For how dost thou know, O wife, but that thou mayst save thy husband? or how dost thou know, O husband, but that thou mayst save thy wife?

But let every one continue to walk in the lot which the Lord appointed him, in the condition in which God called him. And this direction I give in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

Ye were bought with a price; become not the slaves of men.

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

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

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

but he that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin; the unmarried woman careth about the things of the Lord, to be holy, both in body and in spirit; but she that is married careth about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not to cast a noose over you, but with a view to what is becoming, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

But if any one thinketh that he behaveth improperly in respect to his virgin [daughter], if she pass the flower of her age [without being married], and if it must be so, let him do what he will, he committeth no sin; let them marry.

But if any one is settled in his purpose, and is under no necessity, but is free to act as he will, and hath determined in his heart to keep his own virgin daughter [unmarried], he doeth well.

The wife is bound to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband die, she is free to marry whom she will, only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she remain as she is, in my opinion; and I too think that I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning the things offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth;

but if any one love God, the same is known by Him.

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

yet to us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a conscience directed toward the idol even now, eat of it as a thing offered in sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.

But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

But when ye so sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

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

to those without the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;

Know ye not, that of those who run in the racecourse all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

but with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Nay, but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

All things are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all things are not edifying.

Let no one seek his own pleasure, but the good of others.

But if any one say to you, This hath been offered in sacrifice to an idol, do not eat of it, on account of him that showed you this, and from a regard to conscience;

conscience I mean, not thine own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty to be judged by another conscience [than my own]?

as I also strive to please all in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many; that they may be saved.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if her head were shaved.

For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn; but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man;

for the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man;

and the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

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