so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

so that no one should say that you had been baptized into my own name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News?not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory,

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

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

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I do not judge my own self.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

I say this to move you to shame. Is not there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

But to the rest I?not the Lord?say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the churches.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He does not sin. Let them marry.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage does better.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not drink from the flock's milk?

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having a share.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

But I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the Good News, I may present the Good News without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I do not desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

Let no one seek his own, but his neighbor's good.

for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's churches.

When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

What, do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's church, and put them to shame who do not have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a manner unworthy will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.

If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the church.

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not know what you say?

If therefore the whole church is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

That which you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.