Now when I came to you, brothers, I did not come and tell you God's uncovered secret in rhetorical language or human philosophy,

Yet, when among mature believers we do set forth a wisdom, but a wisdom that does not belong to this world or to the leaders of this world who are passing away;

for you are still unspiritual. For when there are still jealousy and wrangling among you, are you not still unspiritual and living by a human standard?

For when one says, "I belong to Paul's party," and another, "I belong to Apollos' party," are you not acting as mere human creatures?

We have worked hard with our own hands for a living. When abused by people, we bless them. When persecuted, we patiently bear it.

When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe!

for when you met I too met with you in spirit by the power of our Lord Jesus --

When one of you has a grievance against his neighbor, does he dare to go to law before a heathen court, instead of laying the case before God's people?

No temptation has taken hold of you but what is common to human nature. And God is to be trusted not to let you be tempted beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to make a way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

For, in the first place, when you meet as a congregation, I hear that there are cliques among you, and I partly believe it.

So when you hold your meetings, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,

So, my brothers, when you meet to eat, wait for one another.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring on you judgment. I will settle in detail the matters that remain, when I come.

You know that when you were heathen you were in the habit of going off, wherever you might be led, after idols that could not speak.

Is never glad when wrong is done, but always glad when truth prevails;

But when perfection comes, what is imperfect will be set aside.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

Then what is our conclusion, brothers? When you meet together, everybody has a song, something to teach, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one. It must all be for the upbuilding of all.

After that comes the end, when He will turn the kingdom over to God His Father, when He will put an end to all other government, authority, and power;

for He has put everything in subjection under His feet. But when He says that everything has been put in subjection to Him, He Himself is evidently excepted who put it all in subjection to Him.

And when everything has been put in subjection to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has put everything in subjection to Him, so that God may be everything to everybody.

And when this part once capable of dying puts on the body that can never die, then what the Scripture says will come true, "Death has been swallowed up in victory.

On the first day of every week each of you must put aside and store up something in proportion as he is prospered, so that no contributions need be made when I come back.

When I get there, I will send on, with credentials, the persons whom you approve, to carry your gift of charity to Jerusalem.

As for our brother Apollos, I have earnestly urged him to go to see you, but he is not at all inclined to come just now; yet he is coming when he has a good opportunity.