to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all speech and in all knowledge.

so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.

For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Now I say this. That each of you actually say, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

I thank God that I immersed none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

lest some man should say that I immersed in my name.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent.

But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful.

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

so that no flesh may boast before God.

so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.

so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another man is building on it. But let each man take heed how he is building on it.

For no man can lay another foundation besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If any man's work that he built on will remain, he will receive benefit.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

and again, Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful.

But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself,

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Know ye not that we will judge heavenly agents? Then why not mundane things?

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews, to those under law, as under law, so that I might gain those under law,

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them. And the rock was the Christ.

The cup of the blessing that we bless, is it not a participation of the blood of the Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation of the body of the Christ?

What therefore do I say, that an idol is anything, or that a sacrifice to an idol is anything?

Rather, that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partakers of demons.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Let not one man seek that of himself, but each man that of the other.

But if any man say to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

But when we are judged by Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.

And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home so that ye may not come together for condemnation. And the rest I will set in order as soon as I come.

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, except by Holy Spirit.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man toward that which is beneficial.

Instead, much more the parts of the body that seem to be more feeble are necessary.

whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other.

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

Pursue love, and be zealous for the spiritual things, but more that ye may prophesy.

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but more that ye may prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the congregation may receive edification.

Likewise lifeless things that give a sound, whether flute or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

So also ye, unless ye give understandable speech by the tongue, how will that which is spoken be known? For ye will be talking into the air.

So also ye, since ye are zealots of spirits, seek so that ye may excel for the edification of the church.

Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

Yet in an assembly I would rather speak five words with my intellect, so that I might also make others understand, than countless words in a tongue.

If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad?

And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

For ye can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may be encouraged.

If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of Lord.

And, brothers, I make known to you the good-news that I preached to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stand,

by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.