Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called saints, with all, in every place, who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ??heir Lord and ours:

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

I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

God is faithful, through Whom ye were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe;

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

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;

and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

that no flesh should glory before God.

But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who was made to us wisdom from God, also righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God;

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

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery??he hidden wisdom??hich God predestined before the ages for our glory;

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

but to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things ??ven the deep things of God.

For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.

And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.

But a natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

I planted, Apollos watered; but God causeth it to grow.

So that neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God Who causeth it to grow.

For we are God's fellow-workers; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I laid a foundation; and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon;

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?

If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He Who taketh the wise in their craftiness."

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Wherefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, Who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then will each one have his praise from God.

For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

for the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

But those who are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

Or 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 men,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God.

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

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through His power.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

For ye were bought with a price; glorify God, therefore, in your body.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them, if they remain even as I am.

But, if the unbelieving departs, let him depart. The brother or the sister has not come into bondage in such cases; but God hath called us in peace.

Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each one, as God hath called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the assemblies.

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

Brethren, let each one abide with God in the same condition in which he was called.

I think, therefore, that this is good on account of the impending distress; namely, that it is good for a man to be thus.

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

but, if anyone loves God, the same has been known by Him:

concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

yet to us there is One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we for Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him.

But food will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we lacking; nor, if we eat, do we abound.

For in the law of Moses it has been written, "You shall not muzzle an ox while treading out the grain." Doth God care for the oxen?

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law.

But in the most of them God took no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

A temptation has not taken you, except 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 make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Nay, but I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to become partakers with the demons.

Let no one seek his own, but each another's good.

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

Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the assembly of God:

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

For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;

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

Judge ye in yourselves; is it becoming that a woman, unveiled, should pray to God?

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

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

Wherefore, I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God, says, "Jesus is accursed"; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, Who worketh all things in all.

But, as it is, God did set the members, each one of them in the body, even as He willed.

but our comely parts have no need. But God attempered the body, giving the more abundant honor to that which lacked;

And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues.

For he that speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

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

the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, reporting that, in reality, God is among you.

but, if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

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

Or from you did the word of God go forth? Or did it come to you alone?

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in respect to God that He raised up the Christ, Whom He raised not, if so be that the dead are not raised.

Then comes the end, when He delivereth up the Kingdom to God, even His Father; when He shall abolish all rule and all authority and power;

And, when all things shall be subjected to Him, then will the Son also Himself be subjected to Him Who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all.

Be not deceived; evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have not a knowledge of God: I say it to your shame!

but God giveth it a body, even as He willed, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

but thanks be to God, Who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!