I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Christ Jesus:

waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who will also confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For it hath been declared to me of you, my brethren, by them of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you?

I know not that I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; but not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

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

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and abolish the understanding of the prudent.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For whereas the Jews demand signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom, We preach Christ crucified,

For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

which God ordained before the world for our glory;

Which none of the rulers of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor hath ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? So the things of God also knoweth no one, but the Spirit of God.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nor are ye now able.

For ye are still carnal: for while there is among you emulation, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

For while one saith, I am of Paul,

For we are fellow-labourers of God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

For other foundation can no man lay, than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ: And if any one build on this foundation, gold, silver, costly stones;

for the day shall declare it: for it is revealed by fire; yea the fire shall try every one's work, of what sort it is.

If any one's work shall be burnt, he shall suffer loss, but himself shall be saved, yet so as through the fire.

If any man destroy the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; as it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Therefore let none glory in men; for all things are yours:

For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

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

For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou hast received it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?

For I think God hath set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake; but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak; but ye are strong: ye are honourable; but we are despised.

For if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For this cause I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

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

For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already,

with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover is slain for us, even Christ:

But not altogether with the lewd persons of this world, or the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters, for then ye must go out of the world.

For what have I to do, to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?

All things are lawful for me; but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

God forbid. Know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? For they two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

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

Withdraw not from each other, unless it be by consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to prayer, and may come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

But I say this by way of advice, not by way of precept. For I would that all men were even as myself:

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

But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified by the wife; and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified by the husband. Else were your children unclean; but now they are holy.

For how knowest thou, O wife, but thou mayst save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou mayst save thy wife?

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

For he that is called by the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman; and in like manner, he that is called being free, is the servant of Christ.

I apprehend therefore, that this is good for the present distress, that it is good for a man to continue as he is.

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: Now I would have you without carefulness.

The unmarried man careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But the married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

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

And this I say for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but that ye may decently wait upon the Lord without distraction.

Now as to things sacrified to idols, we know: for all of us have knowledge.

For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods and many lords) Yet to us there is but one God,

the Father from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some do even until now, with consciousness of the idol, eat it as sacrificed to the idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But meat commendeth us not to God; for neither if we eat, are we the better, nor if we eat not, are we the worse.

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

And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?

Are not ye my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle to others, yet I am to you; for ye are the seal of my apostleship.

For it is written, in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn? Doth God take care for oxen?

Or speaketh he chiefly for our sakes? surely for our sakes it was written: for he who ploweth, ought to plow in hope; and he that thresheth in hope, ought to be a partaker of his hope.

But I have used none of these things; nor have I written thus, that it might be done so unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make this my glorying void.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for a necessity lieth upon me, and wo is me, if I preach not the gospel.

For though I am free from all men, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker thereof with you.

And all drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank out of the spiritual rock which followed them; and that rock was Christ) Yet, with the most of them, God was not well-pleased;

for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things were for our example, that we might not desire evil things, as they desired.

Now all these things happened to them for examples, and they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.

For we, being many, are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of the one bread.

All things are lawful for me; but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me; but all things edify not.

Whatever is sold in the shambles eat, asking no questions for conscience sake.

For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

And if any of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake.

But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol, eat not, for his sake that shewed thee, and for conscience sake.

Conscience I say, not thy own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head; for it is the same as if she were shaved.

Therefore if a woman is not covered, let her also be shaved: but if it be shameful, for a woman to have her hair shaved off, or cut short, let her be covered.

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

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

For this cause also the woman ought to have a veil upon her head, because of the angels.

Judge of yourselves: is it decent for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

Doth not nature itself teach you, that for a man to have long hair, is a disgrace to him?

Whereas for a woman to have long hair, is a glory to her; for her hair was given her instead of a veil.

But in this which I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

For first, when ye come together in the church, I hear there are schisms among you, (and I partly believe it.

For there must be heresies also among you, that the approved among you may be manifest).

For in eating every one taketh before another his own supper, and one is hungry, another drinks largely.

I praise you not. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the night in which he was betrayed,