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

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News -- not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

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

Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.

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

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

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

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

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

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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

But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

But to the rest I -- not the Lord -- say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

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

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

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

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

But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

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

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

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

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by 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 Christ.

If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.

If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.

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

So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

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

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say?

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

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

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe 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 is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.