For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:

And of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

But we speak wisdom among them that are mature: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.

For you are yet carnal: for while there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For we are laborers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

For what have I to do to judge them also that are outside? do not you judge them that are within?

But them that are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?

For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.

You are bought with a price; be not the servants of men.

Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

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

For if any man sees you who have knowledge eating in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?

If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

If others be partakers of this right over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this right; but endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

For there must be also heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.

And there are diversities of workings, but it is the same God who works all in all.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

But now are they many members, yet but one body.

Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.

Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them that believe.

If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be submissive, as also says the law.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.

After that, he was seen of over five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.

But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is clear that he is excepted, who did put all things under him.

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

But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

For a great and effective door is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge them that are such.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith you stand.