so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

so that no flesh should glory in His presence.

so that, according as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

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

So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

If anyone's work which he built remains, he shall receive a reward.

If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,

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

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

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

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

Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

For I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?

for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.

I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.

But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but who has authority over his own will (and has so judged in his heart that he will keep his virginity) he does well.

So then he who gives in marriage does well. But he who does not give in marriage does better.

But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment. And I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Do I say these things according to man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow in hope, and so that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Even so, the Lord ordained those announcing the gospel to live from the gospel.

But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it is good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, I became as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.

To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.

To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I might be partaker of it with you.

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.

And, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

And all were baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

So let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.

What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?

But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of a table of demons.

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

"for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it."

But if anyone says to you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of him who showed it, and for conscience' sake; "for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it";

conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?

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

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

Therefore when you come together into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise you!

For "as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show" the Lord's death until He shall come.

So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

So that, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus is a curse, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

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

And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.

I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather that you may prophesy; for greater is he prophesying than he speaking in tongues, unless he interpret so that the church may receive building up.

So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

So it may be many kinds of sounds are in the world, and not one is without a distinct sound.

Even so you, since you are zealots of spiritual things, seek to build up the church, in order that you may abound

So then he speaking in a language, let him pray that he may interpret.

Else, if you bless in the spirit, he occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?

yet in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

In the Law it is written, "By other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and even so they will not hear Me, says the Lord."

So that tongues are not a sign to those who believe, but to those who do not believe. But prophesying is not to those who do not believe, but to those who believe.

Therefore if the whole church has come together, and all speak in languages, and if uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you rave?

And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

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

So then, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in languages.

Therefore whether it was I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

But if Christ is proclaimed, that He was raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.

But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, and afterward they who are Christ's at His coming;

But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.

But someone will say, How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come?

Foolish one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

And what you sow, you do not sow the body that is going to be, but a bare grain (perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest).

So also the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;