I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge --

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For members of Chloe's household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

Is Christ divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

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

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent."

For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

But just as it is written, "Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him."

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the man's spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

For whenever someone says, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," are you not merely human?

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each builder's work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

If someone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

If someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, which is what you are.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness."

So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

For the kingdom of God is demonstrated not in idle talk but with power.

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough -- you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

For what do I have to do with judging those outside? Are you not to judge those inside?

"All things are lawful for me" -- but not everything is beneficial. "All things are lawful for me" -- but I will not be controlled by anything.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ's slave.

Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are.

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).

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

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols?

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

For it is written in the law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than -- no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God's law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

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

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord's.

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.

For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for man.

For this reason a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But all things come from God.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."