that in everything ye were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge;

so that ye fall short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Now I mean this: that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul;" and "I of Apollos;" and "I of Cephas:" and "I of Christ!"

I am thankful that I immersed no one of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

lest some one should say that ye were immersed into my name.

seeing that both Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen;

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;

and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

that no flesh should glory before God.

that, even as it has been written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

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

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.

And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.

But he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one.

For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

So that neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God Who causeth it to grow.

And he that plants and he that waters are one; but each shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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

Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that one be found faithful.

But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself.

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

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

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

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, even, Christ;

not at all meaning, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; since ye ought, in that event, to go out of the world;

Or know ye not that the saints will judge the world? And, if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest tribunals?

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

I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

But ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren!

Or 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 abusers of themselves with men,

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, taking away the members of Christ, make them members of a harlot? It could not be!

Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.

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

Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that.

but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband; and that the husband leave not his wife.

Let each one abide in that calling in which he was called.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

I think, therefore, that this is good on account of the impending distress; namely, that it is good for a man to be thus.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened; that henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

But, if any one thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be beyond the prime of life, and thus it ought to be brought about, let him do what he wishes, he sins not; let them marry.

But he who has been standing steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has authority respecting his own will, and has determined this in his own heart, that he will keep his own virgin daughter, will do well.

So that both he that gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well; and he that gives her not in marriage will do better.

But she is happier, if she abides as she is, according to my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;

concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

For he that is weak??he brother for whom Christ died??erishes by reason of your knowledge.

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.

Or doth He say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written; because he that plows ought to plow in hope; and he that threshes ought to thresh in hope of partaking.

If others partake of this authority over you, do not we still more? But we used not this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

Know ye not that those who are occupied upon sacred things eat of the things of the temple? and that those who wait at the altar partake with the altar?

Even so did the Lord ordain, that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.

What, then, is my reward? That, when proclaiming the Gospel, I may make the Gospel without charge, to the end that I may not fully use my right in the Gospel.

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

And, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law (not being myself under law), that I might gain those under law;

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

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

And I am doing all things for the Gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others.

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.

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

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was the Christ.

Now these things became types for us, that we might not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

A temptation has not taken you, except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

What, then, do I say? that an idol-sacrifice is anything? or that an idol is anything?

Nay, but I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to become partakers with the demons.

But, if anyone says to you, "This is the remains of an idol-sacrifice." eat it not, for his sake that showed it, and because of conscience:

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

even as I also, in all things, please all men: not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

Now I praise you, that you remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the wife is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Judge ye in yourselves; is it becoming that a woman, unveiled, should pray to God?

Does not even nature herself teach, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

For, first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it;

for there must also be factions among you, that the approved may be made manifest among you.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, in the same night in which He was being betrayed, took bread;

for he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body.

but, being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.

Ye know that ye were gentiles, carried away to the dumb idols, as ye were led.

Wherefore, I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God, says, "Jesus is accursed"; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

but our comely parts have no need. But God attempered the body, giving the more abundant honor to that which lacked;

that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care, one for another.