So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Now this I say, 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, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

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

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

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

So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.

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.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

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

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

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the prime of her age, and need so require, let him do what he desires, he sins not: let them marry.

Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep her his virgin, does well.

So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

For if any man sees you who have knowledge eating in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat those things which are offered to idols;

But when you sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?

Even so has the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my boasting void.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:

Moreover, brethren, I want not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

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

What do I say then? that the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not 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 the table of demons.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's good.

Whatsoever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience's sake:

For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience's sake.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience's sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

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

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

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

What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he comes.

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

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

Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the 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 unto 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 the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

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

So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you shall speak into the air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.

Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he understands not what you said?

If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

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

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

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

But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

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

You fool, that which you sow is not made alive, except it die:

And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may by chance be wheat, or of some other grain:

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

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

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

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do you.

For I will not see you now in passing; but I trust to tarry awhile with you, if the Lord permits.

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.