When I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men?

and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;

when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,

When any one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints?

Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it trouble youbut if you can gain your freedom, do so.

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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

Therefore when you meet together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat,

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

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

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to mute idols, however you may have been moved.

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

What is the outcome then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, or a teaching, or a revelation, or a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all rule and all authority and power.

"For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him.

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.

And when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

As for our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the other brethren, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.