Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

but if a man loves God, he is known by him.

For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.

Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents;

nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers in the Lord's table and in the table of demons.

Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good.

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

Do not be a cause of stumbling either to Jews of to Gentiles, or to the church of God.

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

If, however, any one is inclined to be disputatious regarding such a custom, let him know that neither I nor the churches of God hold to such a custom.

For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.

If however, we were judging ourselves aright, we should not now be condemned;

but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned;

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

You know that when you were heathen you went astray after dumb idols, wherever he be led.

For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;

to one man by the same Spirit is given faith, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit;

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

If the foot should say, "Because I am a hand, I am not part a part the body," would it not indeed be a part of the body?

Or if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," would it be any less a part of the body?

If all were one member, where would the body be?

On the contrary, we need those members of the body which seem to be weaker;

that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another.

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.

Now I should like you all to speak with "tongues"; but I should rather that you prophesied, For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be built up.

For if lifeless instruments such as the flute or the harp give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is fluted or harped?

Or, for example, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what soldier will be prepared for battle?

In the same way with you, if you utter unintelligible words with your tongue, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

In the Law it is written. With men of other tongues, and by the lips of strangers, will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.

But if all are prophesying when an unlearned or unbelieving man enters, he is convicted in conscience by your speaker, he feels himself judged by all,

What follows, then, brothers? Whenever you meet together, each contributes something; a psalm, a sermon, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all be done for edification.

If any one speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn, and let some one interpret.

Let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others exercise their judgment.

But if to one as he sits there some revelation is made, let the first be silent.

For you can all prophesy one by one; so that all may be learning, and all may be encouraged.

"In your congregation" you write, "as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law.

But if any one disregard it he will be disregarded.

So, my brothers, be ambitious for the gift of prophecy, and speak not against the gifts of tongues.

Let everything be done decently and in order.

by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

and was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.

Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep.

Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

and last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen by me also.

For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain, you are still in your sins.

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

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

The last enemy that will be destroyed is Death.

For when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself shall subject himself to Him who made them subject, that God may be all in all.

Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

Lo, I tell you a secret truth. we shall not all be sleeping, but we shall be changed,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality.

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

On the first day of each week let each of you put aside something, keeping it in store as he may prosper, so that when I come there may be no collections going on.

On my arrival I will send those whom you may accredit by letter to carry your bounty to Jerusalem.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be manly, be strong.

Let all that you do be done in love.

If any one does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord is coming.

The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.

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.

Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort?? comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring.

while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

as some indeed did recognize in part at last, that I am your cause of boasting, just as you will be mine on the Day of Jesus our Lord.

I intended to go by you into Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and by you to be sent forward on my way to Judea.

For Jesus Christ, Son of God, who was proclaimed among you by us, that is, by Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not wavering between "Yes" and "No," but in him is the everlasting "Yes."

For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

Sufficient for the offender is the punishment imposed by the majority;

so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief.