I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

so that ye fall short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Hath Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye immersed into the name of Paul?

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Gospel; not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness; but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God.

For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I set aside."

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe;

seeing that both Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen;

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 God's wisdom in a mystery??he hidden wisdom??hich God predestined before the ages for our glory;

which no one of the rulers of this age has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

but to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things ??ven the deep things of God.

For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.

But a natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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

for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

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

For we are God's fellow-workers; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

the work of each one shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove each one's work, of what sort it is.

If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

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

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He Who taketh the wise in their craftiness."

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

For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet have I not thereby been justified; but He Who judges me is the Lord.

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?

For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became 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 highly esteemed; but we are without honor.

For, though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the Gospel.

For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

for the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;

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

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, even, Christ;

For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

All things are lawful for me; but all are not profitable. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the control of any.

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";

For ye were bought with a price; glorify God, therefore, in your body.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them, if they remain even as I am.

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

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the brother; else your children are unclean; but as it is they are holy.

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

Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

I think, therefore, that this is good on account of the impending distress; namely, that it is good for a man to be thus.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the full; for the fashion of this world is passing away.

But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

For, even if there are things called gods, whether in heaven, or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many);

yet to us there is One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we for Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him.

For, if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat the idol-sacrifices?

For he that is weak??he brother for whom Christ died??erishes by reason of your knowledge.

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

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

For in the law of Moses it has been written, "You shall not muzzle an ox while treading out the grain." Doth God care for the oxen?

Or doth He say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written; because he that plows ought to plow in hope; and he that threshes ought to thresh in hope of partaking.

If we sowed for you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.

For, if I proclaim the Gospel, it is not to me a matter of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me, if I proclaim not the Gospel.

For, if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

For, being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.

And I am doing all things for the Gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

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

But in the most of them God took no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things became types for us, that we might not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

because we, the many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

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

But, if anyone says to you, "This is the remains of an idol-sacrifice." eat it not, for his sake that showed it, and because of conscience:

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

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

But every woman, praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonors her head; for it is one and the same, as if she were shaven.

For, if a woman is unveiled, let her also be shaven; 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 veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;

for man is not from woman, but woman from man;

for man was also not created on account of the woman, but woman on account of the man;

for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels.

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

But, if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

But, in giving this charge, I praise you not; because, not for the better, but for the worse, do ye come together.

For, first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it;

for there must also be factions among you, that the approved may be made manifest among you.

for, in your eating, each one takes his own supper before others; and one is hungry, and another is drunken!

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

and, having given thanks, He broke it, and said, "This is My body which is for you; this do in remembrance of Me."

for, as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death, till He come.

for he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body.

For this cause, many among you are weak and sick, and not a few sleep.