so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

and I say this, that each one of you saith, 'I, indeed, am of Paul' -- 'and I of Apollos,' -- 'and I of Cephas,' -- 'and I of Christ.'

that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

but, according as it hath been written, 'What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him -- '

for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

for when one may say, 'I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, 'I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

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

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;

if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

for he who is in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.

If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?

so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for it is good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

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

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

so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:

See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

for the Lord's is the earth, and its fulness;

and if any one may say to you, 'This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed it, and of the conscience, for the Lord's is the earth and its fulness:

and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, and the all things are of God.

ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;

so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;

wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus is anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.

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

if the foot may say, 'Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;

and if the ear may say, 'Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

and an eye is not able to say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

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

so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

in the law it hath been written, that, 'With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.

But some one will say, 'How do the dead rise?

unwise! thou -- what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;

and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

so also it hath been written, 'The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

And concerning the collection that is for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye -- do ye;

for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;

And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,