so that ye fall short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

lest some one should say that ye were immersed into my name.

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";

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 I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal??s to babes in Christ.

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.

the work of each one shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove each one's work, of what sort it is.

If any one's work which he built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.

If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

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.

But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are highly esteemed; but we are without honor.

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!

For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;

I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

But this I say by way of permission, not of command.

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

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

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.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened; that henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

So that both he that gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well; and he that gives her not in marriage will do better.

For, if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat the idol-sacrifices?

Do I speak these things after the manner of man? Or does not the law also say the same?

Or doth He say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written; because he that plows ought to plow in hope; and he that threshes ought to thresh in hope of partaking.

Even so did the Lord ordain, that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

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.

And I am doing all things for the Gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others.

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.

I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

and were all immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

I am speaking as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

What, then, do I say? that an idol-sacrifice is anything? or that an idol is anything?

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.

for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

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

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.

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.

for, as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death, till He come.

But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup;

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.

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

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body.

And, if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body"; it is not, 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."

Now ye are Christ's body, and severally members thereof.

And, if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all knowledge; and, if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing,

for now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall fully know, even as I also was fully known.

So also ye, unless through the tongue ye give intelligible speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air!

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no one of them is without signification.

So also ye, since ye are eager for spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them with a view to the edification of the assembly.

Else, if you are blessing with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he knows not what you say?

If, therefore, the whole assembly comes together, and all are speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

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.

If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you, that they are the Lord's commandment;

So then, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

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.

Whether, therefore, it be I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

Now if Christ is preached, that He hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead.

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.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive;

but each in his own rank; Christ, the First-fruit; then those who are Christ's at His coming.

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

But some one will say, "How are the dead raised? and with what kind of body do they come?"

Foolish one! that which you sow is not made alive, except it die;

and that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other kind;

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

So also it has been written, "The first man Adam was a living soul"; the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

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

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so also do ye.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain sometime with you, if the Lord permit.

Now, if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do.