to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called saints, with all, in every place, who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ??heir Lord and ours:

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

which no one of the rulers of this age has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

Which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit; combining spiritual things with spiritual.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I laid a foundation; and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon;

for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If any one's work which he built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

What do ye wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that.

Let each one abide in that calling in which he was called.

Brethren, let each one abide with God in the same condition in which he was called.

But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

And thus, sinning against the brethren, and smiting their conscience which is weak, ye sin against Christ.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a partaking of the body of Christ?

Nay, but I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to become partakers with the demons.

If one of the unbelieving invites you to a feast, and ye wish to go, whatsoever is set before you eat, asking no question because of conscience.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the wife is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, in the same night in which He was being betrayed, took bread;

and, having given thanks, He broke it, and said, "This is My body which is for you; this do in remembrance of Me."

Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

But much more the members of the body which seem to be more feeble, are necessary;

and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

but our comely parts have no need. But God attempered the body, giving the more abundant honor to that which lacked;

Now I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; and greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edifying.

And, if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a wife to speak in an assembly.

Now I make known to you, brethren, the Gospel which I proclaimed to you, which also ye received, in which also ye have been standing;

through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you, unless ye believed in vain.

For I delivered to you, among the first things, that which also I received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Daily am I dying, I avow by the glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Foolish one! that which you sow is not made alive, except it die;

and that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other kind;

For I do not wish to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain sometime with you, if the Lord permit.

Watch, stand fast in the faith; be men; be strong.

Now I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and that they appointed themselves for ministry to the saints),