I always give thanks unto my God, on your account, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; that ye are enriched by Him with every gift,

for God is faithful by whom ye were called into the communion of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in fine speech, least the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For the doctrine of the cross is 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 will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

For, since in the wisdom of God the world by it's wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by what they called the folly of preaching to save those that believe.

And whereas the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks look for wisdom, we preach Christ crucified;

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

for I did not think it meet to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

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

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God ordained before the worlds for our glory:

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

But as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those 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 who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? so also the things of God no one knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

But the natural man receiveth not 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 hath known the mind of the Lord, to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God.

For no one can lay any other foundation, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ: and if any build upon this foundation gold,

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

but if any man's work be burnt, he will be damaged; though he himself shall be saved, but, as it were out of fire.

If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, and this temple are ye.

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

Therefore let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

(for I am conscious to myself of nothing; though I am not hereby justified;) but He that judgeth me is the Lord.

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

For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou, which thou didst not receive? And if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

For it seems to me that God hath as it were exhibited us the apostles last upon the stage as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, and 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 honoured, but we are despised.

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

For this end have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, how I teach every where in every church.

for the kingdom of God consisteth not in speech, but in power.

For I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him who hath wrought this wickedness: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us.

For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those 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 under the power of any:

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but 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! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Now as to the things concerning which ye wrote to me: it were good for a man not to touch a woman.

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another?

Now to the unmarried and widows I say, it is good for them to continue so, as I do.

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband: else were your children unclean; but they are holy.

But God hath called us to peace; for how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband; or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife?

Is any one called that is circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: is any one called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised: for circumcision is nothing,

Wast thou called being a slave, be not anxious about it; but if thou canst be made free, prefer it.

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

for a single man to be so. Art thou bound to a wife indeed? seek not to be loosed: but art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

and they, that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

And I would have you without anxiety. Now he, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he,

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

And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.

For though there be some that are called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are among the heathen gods many,

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

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

and so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, shall perish by thy knowledge?

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? and are not ye my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for ye are in the Lord the seal of my apostleship.

or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,

or doth He say this indeed for our sakes? For it is certainly written for our sakes, that he, who ploweth, might plow in hope; and that he, who thresheth in hope, should partake of his hope.

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

For if I preach the gospel, yet I have no ground for boasting; because I am under necessity to do it: and wo is me if I do not preach the Gospel.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more.

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a fellow partaker of it.

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

But with the greater part of them God was displeased: for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now all these things happened to them as examples: and are written for our admonition, on whom the last ages are come.

For the bread is one, and we though many are one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

Eat then whatever is sold in the shambles, 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 to an entertainment, and ye have a mind to go, whatever is set before you, eat, asking no questions for conscience-sake.

But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol,---eat it not; for his sake who informed thee, and for conscience-sake: for, as I said, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, so that thou mayst have food enough without it.

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?

And if I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for that, for which I give thanks?

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth man her head; for it is even all one as if she were shaved.

For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, he being the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man was not of the woman; but the woman was taken out of the man:

nor was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the man.

For this reason ought the woman to have power on her head, because of the angels.

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

Judge in yourselves, Is it decent for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her; because the hair was given her as for a veil.

But if any one is pleased to contend for the contrary, I answer, We have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.

But whilst I am declaring this, I do not commend you, that ye assemble together not for the better, but for the worse.

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

For there must be even heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

for in eating every one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry, and another is glutted.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:

and gave thanks, and brake it, and said, "Take and eat; this is my body, which is going to be broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."