to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

Just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent.

But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful.

But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

But truly the spiritual man evaluates all things, but he himself is evaluated by none.

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man.

So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another man is building on it. But let each man take heed how he is building on it.

For no man can lay another foundation besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

and again, Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

Thus let a man regard us as of helpers of Christ, and managers of mysteries of God.

And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful.

But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself,

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.

As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.

being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.

Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every congregation.

But as of me not coming to you, some men are puffed up.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

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

Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power.

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

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

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace.

Except, as God has distributed to each man, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I command in all the congregations.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, instead, the keeping of God's commandments.

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy.

I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing,

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife.

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

But if any man thinks to behave improperly toward his virgin, if it is past the best time, and so ought to happen, she should do what she wants, she does not sin, they should marry.

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.

If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

For also since there are things called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords,

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.

But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

My defense to those who examine me is this.

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,

If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

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

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

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