If others partake of this power over you, may not we rather? though we have not used this power; but we bear all things, least we should cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Do ye not know, that they who are employed about the sacrifices have their food from the temple? and they, who attend at the altar, are partakers with the altar?

For if I preach the gospel, yet I have no ground for boasting; because I am under necessity to do it: and wo is me if I do not preach the Gospel.

What is my reward then but this? that when I preach I may make the gospel of Christ not expensive, that so I may not abuse my power in the gospel.

and to those without the law as without the law, (not being without law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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

Consider Israel according to the flesh, Are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

No: but this I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.

And I would not have you partakers with demons. Ye cannot drink of the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol,---eat it not; for his sake who informed thee, and for conscience-sake: for, as I said, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, so that thou mayst have food enough without it.

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?

Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, he being the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man was not of the woman; but the woman was taken out of the man:

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to him?

But whilst I am declaring this, I do not commend you, that ye assemble together not for the better, but for the worse.

When therefore ye thus assemble together, this is not eating the Lord's supper:

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

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

for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement against himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.

If then we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged:

but when judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together to your condemnation. And as to other things, I will set them in order when I come.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, my brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

for the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

and those which we judge the less honorable parts we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our less comely parts have more comeliness added to them, of which our comely ones have no need.

For if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am but as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and am acquainted with all mysteries, and all knowledge: yea if I have faith, even. to remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And though I give all my substance to feed the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, I am nothing profited.

Charity beareth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity is not insolent, is not puffed up,

doth not behave indecently, is not selfish, is not easily provoked,

suspecteth no evil, rejoiceth not at injustice, but rejoiceth in the truth:

For he, that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no one understandeth, though in spirit he speaketh mysteries.

But if I know not the force of the words, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian to me.

For if thou bless in the spirit, how shall the unlearned say Amen to thy thanksgiving, when he knoweth not what thou sayst?

thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

It is written in the law, "By men of another language, and by other lips, will I speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, saith the Lord."

So that tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to unbelievers: but prophecy not to unbelievers but to those that believe.

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?

for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as we see in all the assemblies of the saints.

Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law saith.

And if they would learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it does not become women to speak in a public assembly.

Wherefore, my brethren, be most desirous to prophesy, and yet forbid not to speak with tongues:

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 his favor to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses concerning God, for we have testified of God, that He raised up Christ; whom He did not raise up, if indeed the dead do not rise.

For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised:

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Besides, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why then are they baptized for the dead?

If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---

Be not deceived, bad conversations corrupt good morals.

Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some of you have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak it.

Silly creature! that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die first.

And as to what thou sowest, thou sowest not the very body that shall be produced, but a bare grain, it may be, of wheat, or any other corn:

All flesh is not the same kind of flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed in a moment,

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you set apart something, putting it into the treasury, according as he is prospered: that there may be no need of collections, when I come.

For I do not intend to see you now in my way, as I hope to stay some time with you, if the Lord permit.

I much importuned him to come to you with the brethren: but he was not at all willing to come now; though he will come when he has a favorable opportunity.

If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be made a curse.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befel us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed above our strength, so that we despaired even of life:

but we had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially towards you.

But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no.

For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay,

But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth:

not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief:

And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

And if any one hath caused grief, it hath grieved me only as to part of you, (that I may not overcharge you

And to whom ye forgive any thing, I also forgive it: for if I have forgiven any thing, I forgave it him, to whom I did forgive it, for your sakes, in the person of Christ; that we might not be foiled by Satan:

for we are not ignorant of his devices.

yet I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother there; but taking my leave of them, I went away into Macedonia.

For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, and in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, recommendatory epistles to you, or letters of recommendation from you?

being manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, through our ministration, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of the heart of flesh.

not that we can of ourselves reckon upon any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.

Who hath also fitted us to be ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

Now if the ministration of death which was in writing, and engraven on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the lustre of his countenance, which was to be taken away:

shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?

since what was then made glorious was not in comparison glorious, because of the glory that surpasseth it.

and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:

Therefore having received this ministry, as we have obtained mercy, we are not disheartened: