even to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours;

I always give thanks unto my God, on your account, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; that ye are enriched by Him with every gift,

so that ye are deficient in no gift, expecting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

who will also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye would all say alike, and that there may be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement.

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

I mean, that each of you saith, as if of different parties, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

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

so that no one can say I baptized in my own name.

For the doctrine of the cross is to them, that perish, foolishness: but to us, who are saved, it is the power of God.

For, since in the wisdom of God the world by it's wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by what they called the folly of preaching to save those that believe.

to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them that are called,

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

but God hath chosen things that are foolish in the eye of the world to put it's wise men to confusion; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;

and things in the opinion of the world ignoble, and despicable, and accounted as nothing, hath God chosen, to abolish things that are in esteem among men;

that no flesh may glory in his presence.

that, as it is written, He that glorieth may glory in the Lord.

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

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God ordained before the worlds for our glory:

But as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love Him."

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God; that we might know the things that are graciously bestowed upon us by God:

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

And he that planteth, and he that watereth, are as one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For no one can lay any other foundation, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ: and if any build upon this foundation gold,

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

Let no one deceive himself: if any among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be truly wise.

and again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."

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

(for I am conscious to myself of nothing; though I am not hereby justified;) but He that judgeth me is the Lord.

These things, my brethren, I have by a figure transferred to myself, and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us not to be wise above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up for one against another.

Ye are now full, ye are now rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For it seems to me that God hath as it were exhibited us the apostles last upon the stage as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord please, and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power:

What do ye chuse? that I should come to you with a rod? or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us.

But now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those that are within?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy of judging the smallest controversies?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? what! and not worthy of judging the affairs of this life?

I speak it to your shame. What! is there not one wise man among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren?

Now there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

But ye do wrong and defraud, and that even your brethren.

What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?

God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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

Flee from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another?

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

(but if she separate, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and that the husband put not away his wife.

Is any one called that is circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: is any one called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised: for circumcision is nothing,

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

But concerning single persons I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgement as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I think then, that it is---better on account of the present distress,---that it is better, I say,

But this I say, brethren, that the time is short: it remains therefore, that even those, who have wives, be as though they had none;

and they, that weep, as if they wept not; and they, that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they, that buy, as if they possessed not;

and they, that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

And I would have you without anxiety. Now he, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he,

that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how he may please his wife.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin: she, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she, that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.

But if any one think that he acts unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and that it ought to be so, let him do what he will; he doth not sin: let them marry.

But he, that is stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doth well.

So that he, who giveth her in marriage, doth well; but he, that giveth her not in marriage, doth better.

Now as to things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge about them. Knowledge however puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

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

For though there be some that are called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are among the heathen gods many,

But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be encouraged to eat of the things sacrificed to idols?

And this is my answer to them that call me to account: have we not power to eat and to drink?

Or is it I only and Barnabas, that have not power to forbear working?

or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,

or doth He say this indeed for our sakes? For it is certainly written for our sakes, that he, who ploweth, might plow in hope; and that he, who thresheth in hope, should partake of his hope.

Do ye not know, that they who are employed about the sacrifices have their food from the temple? and they, who attend at the altar, are partakers with the altar?

So also the Lord hath ordained, that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

What is my reward then but this? that when I preach I may make the gospel of Christ not expensive, that so I may not abuse my power in the gospel.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more.

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

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

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

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a fellow partaker of it.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:

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

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Wherefore let him, that thinks he standeth, take heed least he fall.

No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

For the bread is one, and we though many are one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

Consider Israel according to the flesh, Are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that what is sacrificed to an idol is in itself any thing to stumble at?

No: but this I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.