so that you lack no divine gift, while you are waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it has been plainly told me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

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

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

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

And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim God's great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy;

No, it is God's wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory.

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God.

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.

For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building.

On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest.

The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

If any man's work??he building he has made??tands the test, he will be rewarded.

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

Do you not know what you are God's sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

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

So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.

For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

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?

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

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

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

So, was any man called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was any man called when he was uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commands in everything.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

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.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.

For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

In so sinning against your brothers, and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?

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

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

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.

And I am doing it all for the gospel's sake, that I may become a copartner in it.

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

For I would not have you ignorant, brothers, how our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

So then, my beloved, continually flee from idolatry.

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?

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

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

Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good.

for the earth and its fulness are the Lord's.

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

Again, when you meet together, there is no true eating of the Lord's Supper;

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.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming your Lord's death until he come.

So he that eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthy must answer for a sin against the body and blood of the Lord.

but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned;

So, my brothers, whenever you come together for this meal, wait for one another.

If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings do not bring condemnation upon you. The other matters I will adjust when I come.

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.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one 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."

Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

Now I should like you all to speak with "tongues"; but I should rather that you prophesied, For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be built up.

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.

So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.

So let him who speaks with tongues pray that he may interpret.

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?

but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, so as to instruct others, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.

So then the gift of tongues is for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

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?