to the church of God sanctified in Christ Jesus that is in Corinth, called [to be] saints, together with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God [is] faithful, by whom you were called to fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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

but to those [who are] called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ [is] the power of God and the wisdom of God.

But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

so that, just as it is written, "The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

"For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Therefore, what is Apollos and what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.

So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who is causing [it] to grow.

Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness,"

For I am conscious of nothing against myself, but not by this am I vindicated. But the one who judges me is the Lord.

Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God.

For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?

Because of this, I have sent to you Timothy, who is my dear and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

But I am coming to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk of the ones who have become arrogant, but the power.

And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

For [although I] am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already passed judgment on the one who has done this in this way, as [if I] were present.

I say [this] to your shame. So is there not anyone wise among you who will be able to render a decision between his brothers?

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body [with her]? For it says, "The two will become one flesh."

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit [with him].

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

and those who weep as [if they] do not weep, and those who rejoice as [if they] do not rejoice, and those who buy as [if they] do not possess,

and those who make use of the world as [if they] do not make full use of [it]. For the present form of this world is passing away.

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

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, and the one who does not marry [her] will do better.

yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, from whom [are] all [things], and we [are] for him, and [there is] one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] all [things], and we [are] through him.

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, [because it] is weak, be strengthened so that [he] eats the food sacrificed to idols?

For the one who is weak--the brother for whom Christ died--is destroyed by your knowledge.

My defense to those who examine me is this:

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

Or doubtless does he speak {for our sake}? For it is written {for our sake}, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope and the one who threshes [ought to do so] in hope of a share.

In the [same] way also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel.

Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

Now these [things] happened to those [people] as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Therefore, the one who thinks that he stands must watch out lest he fall.

Temptation has not come upon you except [what is] common to humanity. But God [is] faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, [so that you] may be able to endure [it].

Because [there is] one bread, [we] who [are] many are one body, for [we] all share from the one bread.

Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

But if someone says to you, "This is offered to idols," do not eat [it], for the sake of that one who informed [you] and the conscience.

Every man who prays or prophesies [while] having [something] on [his] head dishonors his head,

but every woman who prays or prophesies with uncovered head dishonors her head, for she is one and the same with the one whose [head] is shaved.

For indeed it is necessary that there be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may become evident among you.

For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have [anything]? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise [you]!

For the one who eats and drinks, [if he] does not recognize the body, eats and drinks judgment against himself.

and there are varieties of activities, but the same God, who works all [things] in all [people].

and whom God has appointed in the church: first, apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

But the one who prophesies speaks to people edification and encouragement and consolation.

The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.

Now I want you all to speak with tongues, but even more that you may prophesy. The one who prophesies [is] greater than the one who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, in order that the church may receive edification.

For indeed, if the trumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?

Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a barbarian to the one who is speaking, and the one who is speaking [will be] a barbarian in my [judgment].

Therefore the one who speaks in a tongue must pray that he may interpret.

For otherwise, if you praise in [your] spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying?

In the law it is written: "By those who speak a foreign language and by the lips of others I will speak to this people, and not even in this way will they obey me," says the Lord.

So then, tongues are for a sign not to those who believe, but to unbelievers, but prophecy [is] not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

And if [something] is revealed to another who is seated, the first must be silent.

then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the majority of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

And also we are found [to be] false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised.

And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those [who are] Christ's at his coming,

For "he subjected all [things] under his feet." But when it says "all [things]" are subjected, [it is] clear that the one who subjected all [things] to him [is] not included.

But whenever all [things] are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all [things] to him, in order that God may be all in all.

Otherwise, why do they do [it], those who are being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why indeed are they being baptized on behalf of them?

As the one [who is] made of earth, so also [are] those [who are] made of earth, and as the heavenly, so also [are] those [who are] heavenly.

And just as we have borne the image of the [one who is] made of earth, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

But thanks [be] to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

that you also be subject to such people, and to all those who work together and labor.