Do not destroy the work of God on account of food. All [things] [are] clean, but [it is] wrong for the person {who eats and stumbles in the process}.

But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that [you] yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.

For they were pleased [to do so], and they are obligated to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual [things], they ought also to serve them in material [things].

that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and my ministry in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners, who are well known to the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

Greet Herodion my compatriot. Greet those of the [household] of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints [who are] with them.

For it has been made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by {Chloe's people}, that there are quarrels among you.

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

but to those [who are] called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ [is] the power of God and the wisdom of God.

and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are,

But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able [to eat it]. But now you are still not able,

for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?

For whenever anyone says, "I am with Paul," and another, "I [am] with Apollos," are you not [merely] human?

Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy this one. For God's temple is holy, which you are.

and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."

So then, let no one boast in people. 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 [things] [are] yours,

and you [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.

Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!

We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!

Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,

and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

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?

In the name of our Lord Jesus, [when] you are assembled, and my spirit, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts?

All [things] are permitted for me, but not all [things] are profitable. All [things] are permitted for me, but I will not be controlled by anything.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, shall I take away the members of Christ [and] make [them] members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

For even if after all [there] are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as [there] are many gods and many lords,

yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, from whom [are] all [things], and we [are] for him, and [there is] one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] all [things], and we [are] through him.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

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

Now these [things] happened to those [people] as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Temptation has not come upon you except [what is] common to humanity. But God [is] faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, [so that you] may be able to endure [it].

Because [there is] one bread, [we] who [are] many are one body, for [we] all share from the one bread.

Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

All [things] are permitted, but not all [things] are profitable. All [things] are permitted, but not all [things] build up.

For just as the woman [is] from the man, thus also the man [is] through the woman. But all [things] [are] from God.

For in the first place, [when you] come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For indeed it is necessary that there be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may become evident among you.

Because of this, many [are] weak and sick among you, and quite a few {have died}.

But [if we] are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit,

and there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord,

and there are varieties of activities, but the same God, who works all [things] in all [people].

For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, [although they] are many, are one body, thus also Christ.

But now [there are] many members, but one body.

But by much more the members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary,

Now you are the body of Christ, and members {of it individually},

Not all [are] apostles, [are they]? Not all [are] prophets, [are they]? Not all [are] teachers, [are they]? Not all [are workers of] miracles, [are they]?

Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

There are probably so many kinds of languages in the world, and none without meaning.

In this way also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek for the edification of the church, in order that you may abound.

For otherwise, if you praise in [your] spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying?

For indeed you are giving thanks well, but the other person is not edified.

So then, tongues are for a sign not to those who believe, but to unbelievers, but prophecy [is] not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

Therefore, if the whole church comes together at the same [time] and all speak with tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

For you are all able to prophesy {in turn}, in order that all may learn and all may be encouraged,

and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that [the things] which I am writing to you are of the Lord.

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

And also we are found [to be] false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised [either].

But if Christ has not been raised, your faith [is] empty; you are still in your sins.

If {we have put our hope} in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.

But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those [who are] Christ's at his coming,

For "he subjected all [things] under his feet." But when it says "all [things]" are subjected, [it is] clear that the one who subjected all [things] to him [is] not included.

But whenever all [things] are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all [things] to him, in order that God may be all in all.

Otherwise, why do they do [it], those who are being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why indeed are they being baptized on behalf of them?

And why are we in danger every hour?

If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"

As the one [who is] made of earth, so also [are] those [who are] made of earth, and as the heavenly, so also [are] those [who are] heavenly.

for a great and effective door has opened for me, and [there are] many opponents.

Now I urge you, brothers--you know about the household of Stephanas, that they are the first fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the ministry for the saints--

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those [who are] in all affliction with the comfort with which [we] ourselves are comforted by God.

But if we are afflicted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

And our hope for you [is] firm, [because we] know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also [you will be sharers] in the comfort.

For we are not writing [anything] else to you except what you can read or also understand. But I hope that you will understand {completely},

just as you have also understood us in part, that we are your reason for boasting, just as you [are] also ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.

For as many as [are the] promises of God, in him [they are] "yes"; therefore also through him [is] the "amen" to the glory of God through us.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

Because for this [reason] also I wrote, in order that I could know your proven character, whether you are obedient in everything.

in order that we may not be exploited by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes).