which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now they are holy.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;

and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not:

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.

and. did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was the Christ.

But with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they, also, desired.

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they are written for the instruction of us, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

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

And if they were all one member, where were the body?

Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

And even lifeless instruments, which produce sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the notes, how shall that which is piped or harped be known?

In the law it is written: Through men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.

If, then, the whole church come together into the same place, and all speak in tongues, and there come in unlearned men, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

Let your women keep silence in the assemblies; for they ire not permitted to speak; but they must be in subjection, as also says the law.

But if they wish to learn any thing,, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in an assembly.

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

Whether, therefore, I or they, so we preached, and so you believed.

For else, what shall those do, who are immersed for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why, then, are they immersed for the dead?

But some one will say: How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

And if it be proper that I also should go, they shall go with me.

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for they have supplied what was wanting on your part:

for they have refreshed my spirit, and yours. There fore, acknowledge such.