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

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

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power.

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

but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness:

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

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may bring to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may put to shame the strong;

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

For I determined not to know any thing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Yet we speak wisdom among the perfect; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are brought to nought:

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even that which had been hidden, which God predestined before the ages, for our glory,

But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of man, but the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, the things of God no one knows, but the Spirit of God.

And 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:

which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But the spiritual man discerns all things; yet he himself is discerned by no one.

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

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

I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow.

So, neither he that plants nor he that waters is any thing: but God that makes to grow.

But he that plants and he that waters are one; and each one shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this.

if any man's work be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so, as through fire.

But with me, it matters very little, that I should be judged by you, or by the judgment of men: indeed, I do not judge myself.

For, though I am conscious of no wrong, yet by this I am not justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

I do not write these things that I may make you ashamed; but as my beloved children I admonish you.

but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

For I, in deed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing;

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

but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

But brother goes to law with brother, and this before the unbelievers?

But you act unjustly, and you defraud, and that, too, your brethren.

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

All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

But he that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband; likewise, also, the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife.

But this I say by permission, not by commandment:

for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband:

but if she leave him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and, let not the husband put away his wife.

But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now they are holy.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.

For how do you know, wife, but that you may save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, but that you may save your wife?

But as God has assigned a place to every one, as the Lord has called every one, so let him continue to live: and so do I command in all the churches.

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

Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom.

You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men.

But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

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

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

I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry.

But he that stands firm in his purpose, having no necessity to give his daughter in marriage, but has liberty with respect to his own will, and has thus decided in his own heart, that he will keep his daughter a virgin, does well.

So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better.

The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.

but if any one loves God, he is taught by him).

With respect, then, to the eating of meats 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; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, an apostolic stewardship has been intrusted to me.

to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law:

Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.

but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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

No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.

Let no one seek his own, but each the welfare of the other.

But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake:

conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. Why, then, is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

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

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

But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonors her head: for it is one and the same as if she was shaved.

For if a woman has no vail on, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have a vail.

For a man ought not to vail his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man: