As the testimony of Jesus Christ was made firm in you:

For truly the word of the cross to them perishing is foolishness; but to us saved it is the power of God.

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the foolish thing of God is wiser than men; and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;

And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:

That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.

But as has been written. Which the eye saw not, and the ear heard not, and upon the heart of man it came not up, what things God has prepared for them loving him.

And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God.

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.

And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.

Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave?

So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing.

According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise chief-architect, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon. And let each see how he builds upon.

For none is able to lay another foundation above that laid, which is Jesus the Christ.

The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.

If the work of any one shall be burned, he shall be caused damage: and he shall be saved; and so as by fire.

If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.

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

So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

And besides it is sought in stewards, that any one be found faithful.

And to me it is the least that I be judged by you, or by man's day: but neither do I judge myself.

For I know nothing by myself; but in this I have not been justified: and he examining me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other.

For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?

Already were ye satisfied, already were ye rich, without us ye reigned; and I would ye also reigned, that we also might reign together with you.

For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men.

We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

Therefore sent I Timothens to you, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of all my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in all the churches.

And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up.

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.

For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this.

Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth.

And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.

Therefore truly, if ye have judgments pertaining to the cares of life, set them counted as nothing in the church.

For confusion I speak to you. So is there not one wise with you, who will be able to judge between his brother?

But brother with brother is judged, and this by the unbelieving.

Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded?

And God also raised up the Lord, and us will he also raise up by his power.

Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.

And he joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body.

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

For I will all men to be as also myself. But each has his own favor of God, the one truly thus, and the other thus.

And I say to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain also as I.

And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.

And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace.

Except as God divided to each, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commands of God.

A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it.

For the servant called in the Lord, is the freedman of the Lord: likewise also the freedman called, is the servant of Christ.

But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful.

I think therefore this to be good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man to be thus.

And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;

And they weeping, as not weeping; and they rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and they buying, as not possessing.

And they using this world, as not using; for the form of this world passes away.

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

And she is happier if she so remain, according to my opinion: and I also think to have the Spirit of God.

And if any one thinks to know anything, as yet he has known nothing as he ought to know.

And if any one love God, the same is known of him.)

But to us one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things, and we by him.

But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated.

And food sets us not before God: for neither, if we eat, do we abound; neither if we eat not, do we want.

My justification to them examining me is this,

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife; as also the rest of the sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen?

Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope.

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law;

To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,

I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some.

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:

And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.

Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

As to the wise speak I; judge ye what I say.

The cup of praise which we praise, is it not the mutual participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the mutual participation of the body of Christ?

What do I say therefore? that an idol is any thing? or that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

And if any one say to you, This is sacrificed to an idol, eat not, for him making it known, and consciousness: for of the Lord the earth, and its fulness:

And consciousness, I say, not thine, but another's: for that why is my freedom judged by another's consciousness

As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.

Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.

And I approve you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and as I have delivered to you, do ye hold the traditions.

And I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman the man; and the head of Christ God.

And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved.

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.