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

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.

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

I give thanks to my God always concerning you, because of the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus,

just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed in you,

so that you do not lack in any spiritual gift [as you] eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same [thing] and there not be divisions among you, and that you be made complete in the same mind and with the same purpose.

But I say this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," and "I [am] with Apollos," and "I [am] with Cephas," and "I [am] with Christ."

Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, not with {clever speech}, lest the cross of Christ be emptied.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness,

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,

For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

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

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual [people], but as to fleshly [people], as to infants in Christ.

For no one is able to lay another foundation than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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

Thus let a person consider us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.

We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!

For if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet [you do] not [have] many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.

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.

Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, shall I take away the members of Christ [and] make [them] members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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.

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

Now [if you] sin in this way against the brothers and wound their conscience, which is weak, you sin against Christ.

If others share this right over you, do we not [do so] even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all [things], in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

To those outside the law [I became] as outside the law ([although I] am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed [them], and the rock was Christ.

nor put Christ to the test, as some of them tested [him], and were destroyed by snakes,

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?

Become imitators of me, just as I also [am] of Christ.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man [is the] head of the woman, and [the] head of Christ [is] God.

For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, [although they] are many, are one body, thus also Christ.

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

For I passed on 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 as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that [there] is no resurrection of the dead?

But if [there] is no resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised [either].

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

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.

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised [either].

But if Christ has not been raised, your faith [is] empty; you are still in your sins.

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

If {we have put our hope} in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.

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

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

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

I die every day--yes indeed, by my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!

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

My love [be] with all of you in Christ Jesus.