So that no flesh should boast before God.

according as it is written, "he that glorieth, should glory in the Lord."

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

For when a certain one should say, I truly am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

if that man's work should be burnt, he will suffer loss: but should he himself escape, it will be as out of the fire.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

So no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours—

including Paul, and Apollos, and Cephas [i.e., Peter], and the world, and life and death, and present and future things. All of these things are yours. [Note: Paul is showing that, as Christians, they really possessed and should value all preachers and circumstances of life alike].

A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.

Now in this matter of trustees the first and final requirement is that they should prove to be trustworthy.

With me, however, it counteth for the very smallest thing, that, by you, I should be examined, or by a human day. Nay! I am not even examining myself,

Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God.

Now I have applied these things, brothers, to myself and to Apollos as an illustration for your benefit, so that you might learn to "follow the written message." [Note: This is thought to have been a common way of referring, in that day, to the importance of adhering to Old Testament Scripture]. So, none of you should be more proud of one [leader] than of another.

For, though myriads of tutors ye should have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for, in Christ Jesus, through means of the joyful message, I, begat you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

What will ye? that, with a rod, I should come unto you? or, with love, and a spirit of meekness?

On all hands, there is reported to be among you - fornication, and such fornication as this - which, not among the nations, is found , - as that one should have, his father's wife: -

And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, since you should be without leaven. for Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed for us.

Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

I wrote unto you in an epistle that ye should not company with fornicators.

not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.

For what [is it] to me to judge those outside? Should you not judge those inside?

For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? [i.e., non-Christians]; God judges them. But should you not judge those people who are inside? [i.e., Christians]. [So], remove the evil person from your fellowship [See Deut. 17:7].

Indeed, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is [evidence of] a complete failure among you. Why should you not rather take the wrong? Why should you not rather accept being cheated?

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [then] you should be {together} again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

But I say, to the unmarried, and to the widows, good, were it for them, that they should abide, even as I;

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

But, if she should even depart, let her remain unmarried, or, to her husband, be reconciled; and let not, a husband, leave, his wife.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and this woman consents to dwell with him, he should not leave her.

And whichever woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, she should not leave him.

(Should the unbelieving partner be determined to separate, however, separation let it be; in such cases the Christian brother or sister is not tied to marriage.) It is to a life of peace that God has called us.

Each person should live according to what the Lord has given him and in the state he was when God called him. And this is what I require in all the churches.

Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

Each person should remain in the life situation in which he was called.

Were you called while a slave? It should not be a concern to you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.

Brothers, each person should remain with God in whatever situation he was called.

I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best-that a man should remain as he is.

The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

If, however, thou shouldst even marry, thou hast not sinned; and, if one who is virgin should marry, that one hath not sinned; - but, tribulation of the flesh, shall, such, have: - howbeit, I, spare you.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Those who cry [should live] as though they were not sad. Those who rejoice [should live] as though they were not happy. Those who buy things [should live] as though they did not own them.

And those who make use of the things of the world [should live] as though they were not [really] involved with them. For the world as we know it is passing away. [Note: The five "as though's" of verses 29-31 are intended to emphasize that Christians should live with eternity in mind and not to become preoccupied with even legitimate earthly circumstances].

Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.

If however anyone considereth it behaving unseemly towards his virginity, if he should be beyond the bloom of life, - and, thus, it ought to come about, what he chooseth, let him do, - he sinneth not: let them marry:

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours should become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.

For, if anyone should see theewho hast knowledge, in an idol-temple, reclining, will not, his conscience, being, weak, be built up for the eating of the idol-sacrifices?

Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.

For it is written in the law of Moses [Deut. 25:4], "You should not put a muzzle on an ox while it tramples over the grain." Is it the oxen that God is concerned about?

Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?

If, others, of this right, over you, are partaking, should not rather, we? nevertheless, we used not this right; but, all such things, do we conceal, - lest we should cause any hindrance unto the glad message of the Christ.

Thus, also, hath the Lord, appointed - that, they who the glad message tell, should, of the glad-message, live.

I, however, have not used any of these things; and have not written these things, in order that, so it should be done, in my case; for it were, good for me, rather to die than - - my boast, shall, no man, make void!

For, if I be telling the glad-message, it is, with me, no matter of boasting; for, necessity, upon me, lieth, - for it is, Woe to me, if I should not be telling the glad-message;

What, then, is my reward? that, in telling the glad-message, free of cost, I should put the glad-message, - to the end I should not use to the full my right in the glad-message.

Do you not know that [although] everyone runs in a race, only one person wins the prize? So, you should run in order to win.

But am beating my body under, and leading it captive, lest, by any means, - unto others, having proclaimed, the contest , I myself, should be rejected.

For I wish not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that, all our fathers, were, under the cloud, and, all, passed through the sea, -

But, in these things, they became, ensamples for us, to the end we should not be covetous of evil things, even as, they, also coveted;

Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and three thousand fell in one day.

Nor should we challenge the Christ as some of them also challenged, and were destroyed by the serpents.

Nor should we complain as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.

So, the person who thinks he is standing firm [in the faith] should pay attention [to his life], so that he does not fall [away from God].

No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

On the contrary - that, the things which the nations sacrifice, unto demons, and not unto God, they sacrifice; and I wish not that ye should become, sharers together with the demons!

you should not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you should not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

Do we [really] provoke the Lord to jealousy [when we eat food sacrificed to handmade “gods” at pagan feasts]? Are we [spiritually] stronger than He? [Certainly not! He knows that the idols are nothing. But we deeply offend Him.]

No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

But, if anyone should say unto you, - This, is, a holy sacrifice, do not eat, for that man's sake who disclosed it, and for conscience sake: -

when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

if I am thankful for what I have, why should I chuse to be evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

You people should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the Head of every man, that man is the Head of woman, and that God is the Head of the Christ.

So if a woman’s head is not covered, her hair should be cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should be covered.

A man, in fact, should not cover his head, because he is God’s image and glory, but woman is man’s glory.

This is why a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

But if a woman should have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her in place of a veil.

For it behooves that heresies should indeed be among you, in order that the approved may be made manifest among you.

Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!

Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord.

So a man should examine himself; in this way he should eat the bread and drink from the cup.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

But, being brought under judgment, by the Lord, are we being disciplined, lest, with the world, we should be condemned.

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. And I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.

It is important, brethren, that you should have clear knowledge on the subject of spiritual gifts.

For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot should say,

Though the foot should say - Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, Is it, therefore, not, of the body?

And, though the ear should say - Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, Is it, therefore, not, of the body?