I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God given you in Jesus Christ,

so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones."

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

For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom;

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

For I determined not to know anything among you except 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, which God has hidden, predetermining it before the world for our glory;

which none of the rulers of this world knew (for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory).

But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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

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

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

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

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.

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

each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

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

Therefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours,

for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.

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

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

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

For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already as though I were present concerning him who worked out this thing;

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world.

For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

For I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?

All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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

Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.

for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.

For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

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

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or what do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

Were you called as a slave? It does not matter to you, but if you are able to become free, use it rather.

For he who is called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

And they who use this world are as not abusing it, for the fashion of this world is passing away.

But I desire you to be without anxiety. The one who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how to please the Lord.

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

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is right, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.

For though there are those who are called gods, whether in Heaven or in earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And on your knowledge the weak brother will fall, he for whom Christ died.

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

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

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain." Does God take care for oxen?

Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow in hope, and so that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it is good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.

For though I preach the gospel, no glory is to me. For necessity is laid on me; yea, woe is to me if I do not preach the gospel!

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

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

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I might be partaker of it with you.

And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.

And all these things happened to them as examples; and it is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.

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

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no question for conscience' sake;

"for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it."

If any of those who do not believe invite you to a feast, and if you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.

But if anyone says to you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of him who showed it, and for conscience' sake; "for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it";

conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?

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

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved.

For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

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

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

Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

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

For as the woman is of the man, even so the man is also through the woman; but all things of God.

But if a woman should have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her in place of a veil.

But in enjoining this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

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

For there must also be heresies among you, that the approved ones may be revealed among you.

For in eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry, and another drunken.

For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise you!