that in every thing ye have been enriched by him, in all utterance, and all knowledge;

so that ye have not been deficient in any gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Now I conjure you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that ye be perfectly united together in the same mind and the same sentiment.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Now this I observe, that one and another of you saith, I am indeed of Paul; but I of Apollos; but I of Cephas; but I am of Christ.

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

that no man might say, I baptised into my own name.

for since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many fleshly wise, not many men in power, not many men of high birth, are called:

but the foolish things of this world hath God elected, that he might confound the wise; and the feeble things of the world hath God elected, that he might confound the mighty;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despicable, hath God elected, and the things that are not, to bring to nought the things which are,

that no flesh should glory in his presence.

that, as it is written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

that your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

But, as it is written, "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and that have not entered into the heart of man, these hath God prepared for those who love him."

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, nor he that watereth; but God who giveth the increase.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but every one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus the Messiah.

every man's work shall be made manifest: for that day shall declare it, for it shall be laid open by fire; and the fire shall prove every man's work of what sort it is.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinketh himself a wise man in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

And again, "The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile."

Moreover it is expected of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But it is my least consideration that I should be judged by you, or by human opinion: yea I decide not respecting myself.

For though I am not conscious to myself of any unfaithfulness, yet am I not thereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

But these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself, and Apollos for your sake; that in us ye might learn not to be attached, beyond what is written, lest one being for one [minister], ye be puffed up [with prejudice] against another.

Now ye are full, now ye have grown rich, ye have reigned without us: and I wish indeed that you may reign, that we also might reign together with you.

For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

But I will come shortly unto you, if the Lord please, and will know, not the prating of them that are puffed up, but the power.

What is your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you.

to deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators.

But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.

Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to be judges in the smallest matters?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels, much more things pertaining to this life?

I speak to you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not so much as one who is able to judge between one brother and another?

But ye do wrong and defraud, and that the brethren.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid.

Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be "one flesh."

But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

Defraud not one another, except it may be by consent occasionally, that ye may have more leisure for fasting and prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that.

I say then to the unmarried and the widows, that it is becoming them if they abide as I am.

But to the married not I command, but the Lord, That the wife be not separated from the husband:

For the husband that believeth not is sanctified by the wife, and the wife who believeth not is sanctified by the husband: else indeed your children were unclean, but now are they holy.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.

I think then that this is becoming, considering our present straits, that it is proper for a man to be thus.

Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not;

and they who weep as though they wept not; and they who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and they that purchase as though they possessed not;

A wife and a virgin hath different pursuits: the unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.

But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age [in celibacy], and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry.

But he that is stedfast in his heart, not having any necessity, but retaineth power over his own inclination, and hath determined this in his heart that he will preserve his own virgin state, doeth well.

NOW concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

But if any man conceit that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

Now concerning eating things sacrificed unto idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But take heed that this power of yours become not an occasion of stumbling to the weak.

For if any man see thee that hast knowledge, sitting in an idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?

Wherefore if meat give occasion of offence to my brother, I will in no wise eat meat for ever, that I give no cause of offence to my brother.

if others partake of this power over you, ought not we much more? But we have not used this power, and we suffer all things, that we might not put any obstruction in the way of the gospel of Christ.

Know ye not that they who are employed about the holy things, are fed from the temple? and they who serve at the altar, partake with the altar?

So also the Lord hath commanded to those who preach the gospel, that they should live by the gospel.

But I have used nothing of these things, nor have I written indeed these things, that it should be so done respecting me; for it would become me to die rather than that any man should make my glorying void.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may put the gospel of Christ to no expence, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

For though I be free from all men, I have made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

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

to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law.

I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak; I became all things to all men, that by every means I might save some.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.

And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.

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

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ.

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.

No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.

For we, though many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

What do I say then? that an idol is any thing, or that which is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to daemons, and not to God: and I would not have you in communion with daemons.

Conscience indeed I say, not merely thine own, but that of the other person.

For why is my liberty abridged by another's conscience? If I truly with thanksgiving am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

even as I please all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the injunctions as I delivered them unto you.

But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man wear long flowing hair it is a dishonour to him?

But in the matter I am going to denounce, I do not commend you, that ye meet together not for the better, but for the worse.

For in the first place, when ye assemble in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

For there must be heresies among you, that they who are the tried ones, may be made manifest among you.

For I received of the Lord what also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was betrayed, took a loaf:

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh condemnation to himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.

But being judged, we are corrected by the Lord, that we might not be condemned with the world.

And if any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that ye meet not together for condemnation. And the other matters I will regulate when I come.