You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this,

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then things pertaining to this life?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded?

But you injure and defraud, and that your brothers.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.

Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.

But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with him].

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am;

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

For how do you know, wife, that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that you will not save your wife?

And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I think then that this is good on account of the present necessity, because it is good for man to be so.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well.

He that gives in marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does better.

Concerning eating things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for oxen?

or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes, doubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and that he who threshes in hope should partake of it.

And if others have this right, do we not have it more? But we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not impede the gospel of Christ.

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

What then is my reward? That preaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse my right in the gospel.

For being free from all men, I have made myself a servant of all, that I may gain more;

to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law;

to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;

to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in all conditions;

and I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it.

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable.

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

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock which followed them, and that rock was Christ;

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

What then do I say? that an idol sacrifice is any thing, or that an idol is any thing?

Do we provoke the Lord to anger? Are we stronger than he?

But if any one says to you, This has been offered to an idol, eat not for his sake that informed you, and for conscience' sake.

I mean not your conscience, but that of the other. For why is my freedom limited by the conscience of another?

If I partake with thanks, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit but that of many, that they may be saved.

I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you.

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

Judge of yourselves; is it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled?

Does not nature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and some part of it I believe.

For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.

For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that on the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread

So that whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

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

If any one is hungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment. The other things I will arrange when I come.

You know that when you were gentiles, you followed dumb idols as you were led.

I assure you, therefore, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

for our comely ones have no need. But God has commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was lacking,

that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

when the perfect has come, that which is in part shall pass away.

Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

For he that speaks with a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit he speaks mysteries;

but he that prophesies speaks to men to edification and exhortation and consolation.

He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly.

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

if therefore I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian to me.

Let him therefore that speaks with a tongue pray that he may interpret,

since if you bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to your thanksgiving, since he knows not what you say?

I thank God I speak with a tongue more than you all;

but in an assembly I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

and the secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, declaring that God is really among you.

For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be comforted.

If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let him acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the Lord's;

For I delivered to you at first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that he was buried, and that he rose on the third day according to the Scriptures,

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Afterwards he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the most continue even to the present time, but some have fallen asleep.

but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God with me.

But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in regard to God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if indeed the dead are not raised.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, a first fruit of those that have slept.

for he put all things under his feet. But when he says that all things are put under him, it is clear that he is excepted who puts all things under him;

and when all things have been put under him, then will the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor shall destruction inherit indestructibleness.