Paul, by vocation an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Sosthenes.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent."

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

but I will come to you shortly, if God will, and will know not the words of them which swell, but the power.

What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or else in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

All things are lawful unto me: but all things are not profitable. I may do all things: but I will be brought under no man's power.

Nevertheless, he that purposeth surely in his heart, having none need: but hath power over his own will: and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doth well.

The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will only in the Lord.

Wherefore if meat hurt my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, because I will not hurt my brother.

If I do it with a good will, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, an office is committed unto me.

If any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.

and these all worketh even the self same spirit, dividing to every man several gifts even as he will.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and will pray with the mind also. I will sing with the spirit, and will sing with the mind also.

In the law it is written, "With other tongues, and with other lips will I speak unto this people, and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord."

If therefore when all the congregation is come together, and all speak with tongues, there come in they that are unlearned, or they which believe not: will they not say that ye are out of your wits?

If they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for women to speak in the congregation.

But some man will say, "How shall the dead arise? With what bodies come they in?

When I am come, whosoever ye shall allow by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

I will come unto you after I have gone over Macedonia. For I will go throughout Macedonia.

With you peradventure I will abide a while: or else winter, that ye may bring me on my way whithersoever I go.

I will not see you now in my passage: but I trust to abide a while with you, if God shall suffer me.

I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost:

To speak of brother Apollos: I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren, but his mind was not at all to come at this time. Howbeit, he will come when he shall have convenient time.