I mean by this that one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul"; another, "I of Apollos"; another, "I of Cephas"; another, "I of Christ."

so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.

so that as Scripture says, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

Am I saying this on human authority only, or does not the Law also say the same?

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

I am speaking to men of sense; do you yourselves judge what I say.

What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything?

"All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

If the foot should say, "Because I am a hand, I am not part a part the body," would it not indeed be a part of the body?

Or if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," would it be any less a part of the body?

And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you". nor again of head to the feet, "I have no need for you."

In the same way with you, if you utter unintelligible words with your tongue, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!

There are, let us say, so many languages in the world, and none without its meaning.

For if you in your spirit bless God, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned say the Amen to your thanksgiving, when he does not know what you are talking about?

In the Law it is written. With men of other tongues, and by the lips of strangers, will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.

Accordingly, when the whole church assemblies, and everybody is speaking "with tongues," if there enter men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

"In your congregation" you write, "as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law.

Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.