Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

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:

grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

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

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

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

I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same judgment.

What I mean is this, that each one of you says, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ."

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospelnot with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,

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

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

For I resolved to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ.

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

and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

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.

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we exist.

And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

If others share this right of support from you, do not we all the more? Nevertheless, we did not make use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

To those who are without law, I became as one without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without the law.

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?

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and so is your faith.

More than that, we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.

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

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, at his coming, those who belong to him.

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

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

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.