to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

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

But we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and which God destined for our glory before the ages.

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit which is in him? Even so no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

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

If any man's work which he has built on it survives, he will receive a reward.

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Only, let each one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.

Each one should remain in the state in which he was called.

Brethren, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

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."

and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

Now I would remind you, brethren, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day.

And that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.