For by one Spirit all of us Jews and Greeks, slaves and free were baptized into one body and were all privileged to drink from one Spirit.

And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.

[Love] conceals all [people's] faults; it believes [the best about] all people; it hopes [for the best in] all people; it endures [ill treatment from] all people.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in languages [supernaturally], how will I benefit you unless my speaking consists of a revelation [from God], or a [message of] knowledge [See 12:8], or a prophecy, or a teaching? [i.e., the message must be intelligible to be beneficial].

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.

But if all prophesy, and any infidel or illiterate person come in, he receives conviction from all, he is judged of all:

Or, from you, did the word of God come forth? Or, unto you alone, did it extend?

If anyone claims to be inspired to preach, or to have any other spiritual endowment, let him understand that what I am now writing you is a command from the Lord.

So, my brothers, cultivate the gift of prophetic speaking, but stop preventing others from speaking in ecstasy.

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

that He was buried, that on the third day He was raised from the dead, in accordance with the Scriptures,

Now, if, Christ is proclaimed, that, from among the dead, he hath been raised, how say some, among you - resurrection of the dead, there is none?

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

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

More than that, we are detected in bearing false witness against God; because we testified of God that he raised Christ from the dead, whom he did not raise, if indeed the dead rise not.

But, now, hath Christ been raised from among the dead, - a firstfruit of them who have fallen asleep;

For since by man came to death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead.

For just as all men die by virtue of their descent from Adam, so all such as are in union with Christ will be made to live again.

interpretations given to this very difficult verse. Other possibilities are: a) "immersed in view of (being raised from) the dead," b) "immersed in view of being dead (to sin)," c) "immersed in view of (having to suffer) death," d) "immersed in view of (someday joining) the dead"].

If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."

rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones.

One, is the glory of a sun, and, another, the glory of a moon, and, another, the glory of stars, - nay! star from star, differeth in glory.

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

The first man was from the earth
and made of dust;
the second man is from heaven.

Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,

and as we have reflected the likeness of him who was made of dust, let us also reflect the likeness of the Man from heaven.

In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

And when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the Scripture will be fulfilled that says, “Death is swallowed up in victory (vanquished forever).

The [harmful] sting that causes [physical] death is sin [See Rom. 5:12]; and the power of sin [to do this] comes from the law. [See Rom. 8:2].

Therefore, my dearly loved brothers, stand firm [in the faith]; do not be moved [from your commitment]. Always do your best to work for the Lord, since you know that your labor in the Lord's [service] is not for nothing.

After the Sabbath ends, each of you should set aside and save something from your surplus in proportion to what you have, so that no collections will have to be made when I arrive.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

let all your transactions flow from social affections.

I have another request to make of you, Brothers. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ's People.

I rejoice in the arrival of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus; because what was lacking from you, they have supplied.

They have refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So fully acknowledge such men and deeply appreciate them.

If anyone [there] does not love the Lord, he deserves to be cut off from God. O Lord, come [back soon].

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus, Amen. {The end of the First Epistle unto the Corinthians, Sent from Philippi, by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timothy.}

To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy.

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

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage

Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

And, by your means, to pass into Macedonia, and, again, from Macedonia, to come unto you, and, by you, be set forward unto Judea: -

Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no?

But upon my soul I call God to witness that it is simply to spare you that I have stayed away from Corinth.

And I wrote this very thing - lest, if I came, I should have, grief, from those over whom I had need to rejoice, - having confidence in you all, that, my joy, is the joy, of you all.

For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.

The affliction I have had, comes only from a particular quarter, so that my resentment does not affect the whole church.

The punishment inflicted [on him] by the majority of you was sufficient. [Note: If this is a reference to the incestuous man of I Cor. 5:4ff, then the punishment was removing him from their fellowship].

so you must do the opposite, freely forgive and comfort him, to keep him from being overwhelmed by his excessive sadness.

For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

to keep us from being worsted by Satan, for we know what his intentions are.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Are we to begin again, ourselves, to commend? or have we need, like some, of commendatory letters unto you, or from you?

You people show [i.e., by your conversions] that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us [i.e., the result of our ministry], not written with ink but with the Holy Spirit of the living God; not on stone tablets [i.e., as in the case with Moses' ministry], but on tablets of the human heart. [See Jer. 31:33; Heb. 8:10].

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.

Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to look directly at Moses’ face because of the glory from his face—a fading glory—

Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open ??13 not like Moses, who used to hang a veil over his face to keep the children of Israel from gazing at the last rays of a fading glory.

and do not act as Moses did, who threw a veil over his face so as to hinder the children of Israel from perceiving the end of that which was to cease:

Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ!

Now the Lord [i.e., Christ] is the Holy Spirit, and there is freedom [from the bondage of sin and fear] wherever the Spirit of the Lord is.

And, we all, with unveiled face, receiving and reflecting, the glory of the Lord, into the same image, are being transformed, from glory into glory, - even as from a Spirit that is Lord.

but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither corrupt we the word of God: but walk in open truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

Howbeit we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that, the surpassing greatness of the power, may be of God, and not from ourselves: -

never free from the danger of being put to death like Jesus, so that in my body the life of Jesus also may be seen.

But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;

because I know that He who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise me too in fellowship with you.

For all this is for your sakes, that the loving-kindness of God, spreading from heart to heart, may cause yet more hearts to overflow with thanksgiving, to his glory.

So I never give up; instead, although my outer nature is wasting away, my inner nature is constantly renewed from day to day.

For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

Having good courage, therefore, at all times, and knowing that - remaining at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, -

We have good courage, however, and are well pleased - rather to be away from home, out of the body, and to come home, unto the Lord.

Wherefore also we are ambitious - whether at home, or away from home, to be, well-pleasing unto him.

And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

For He says,“At the acceptable time (the time of grace) I listened to you,
And I helped you on the day of salvation.” Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—

To keep my ministry from being found fault with, I am trying not to put a single hindrance in anybody's way.

but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,

from imprisonments, from tumults, from labours, from watchings, from penury.

I have kept nothing back from you, men of Corinth; I have opened my heart to you.