that in everything you have been enriched in him, in all speech, and in all knowledge

so that you lack no divine gift, while you are waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it has been plainly told me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

I mean by this that one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul"; another, "I of Apollos"; another, "I of Cephas"; another, "I of Christ."

Has Christ been divided? Paul, was he crucified for you? or was it into the name of Paul that you were baptized?

I am thankful to God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

so that as Scripture says, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

No, it is God's wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

For what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest.

Do you not know what you are God's sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

Now it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But to me it matters very little that I am judged by you, or by any earthly court.

Indeed I do not even judge myself; for though I know nothing against myself, yet that does not vindicate me; for he who judges me is the Lord.

Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.

But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord, and then I shall learn not the talk of these boasters, but their power.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

Expel that wicked man from among you.

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try such trifling cases?

Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life.

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

On the contrary, you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud, and that upon your brothers.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

But if the unbelieving partner be determined to leave, separation let it be. In such cases the believing husband or wife is not under bondage. But it is into peace that God has called us.

Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one??nd whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him??n that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches.

Whatever be the condition of life in which he was called, in that let him continue.

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.

If a man thinks that he already has knowledge, he does not yet truly know as he ought to know;

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

Is it the oxen that God is thinking about, or is it really said for our sakes? It was written for us; because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher in hope of getting a share of the crop.

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.

You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

To the Jews I am become like a Jew, that I may win Jews; to those under the Law, like one under the Law, though I am not under the Law, myself;

I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

And I am doing it all for the gospel's sake, that I may become a copartner in it.

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything?

Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake;

If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake.

If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?"

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

If, however, any one is inclined to be disputatious regarding such a custom, let him know that neither I nor the churches of God hold to such a custom.

For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.

So he that eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthy must answer for a sin against the body and blood of the Lord.

but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned;

If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings do not bring condemnation upon you. The other matters I will adjust when I come.

You know that when you were heathen you went astray after dumb idols, wherever he be led.

Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked;

that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another.