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

And I, [when I] came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

For to us God has revealed [them] through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all [things], even the depths of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

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 planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing [it] to grow.

So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who is causing [it] to grow.

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

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon [it]. But each one must direct his attention to how he is building upon [it].

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.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness,"

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

Thus let a person consider us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.

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.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

For the kingdom of God [is] not with talk, but with power.

Your boasting [is] not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?

But those outside God will judge. Remove the evil person {from among yourselves}.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners,

nor thieves, nor greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And some of you were these [things], but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up by his power.

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 you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

Now concerning [the things] about which you wrote: "[It is] good for a man not to touch a woman."

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: [It is] good for them if they remain as I [am].

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. The brother or the sister is not bound in such [cases]. But God has called us in peace.

But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live--and thus I order in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Each one in [the situation] in which he was called, brothers--in this he should remain with God.

Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that [it is] good for a man to be thus.

But she is happier if she remains thus, according to my opinion--and I think I have the Spirit of God.

But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.

Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol [is] nothing in the world" and that "[there is] no God except one."

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.

But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

For in the law of Moses it is written, "You must not muzzle an ox [while it] is threshing." It is not about oxen God is concerned, is it?

To those outside the law [I became] as outside the law ([although I] am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.

But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

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].

[No], but that [the things] which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

Let no one seek {his own good} but the [good] of the other.

Therefore, whether you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all [things] for the glory of God.

{Give no offense} both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God,

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

For indeed a man ought not to cover his head, [because he] is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

You judge {for yourselves}: is it fitting for a woman to pray to God [with her head] uncovered?

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have [anything]? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise [you]!

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus [is] accursed," and no one is able to say "Jesus [is] Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.

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

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted.

but our presentable [parts] do not have need [of this]. Yet God composed the body by giving more abundant honor to the part which lacked [it],

and whom God has appointed in the church: first, apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

I give thanks to God [that] I speak with tongues more than all of you,

the secret things of his heart become evident, and so, falling on [his] face, he will worship God, proclaiming, "God is truly among you!"

But if there is no interpreter, he must be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God.

For God is not [a God of] disorder but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Or has the word of God gone out from you, or has it come to you only?

For I am the least of the apostles, 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 grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

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.

then the end, when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

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.

Do not be deceived! "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Sober up correctly and {stop sinning}, for some have no knowledge of God--I say [this] to your shame.

But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and to each one of the seeds its own body.

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruptibility.

But thanks [be] to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

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.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

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 [we] ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

But God [is] faithful, so that our word to you is not "yes" and "no."

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become "yes" and "no," but has become "yes" in him.

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.

Now the one who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anoints us [is] God,

But I call upon God [as] witness against my life, that [in order to] spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and who reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

Now we possess such confidence through Christ toward God.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy [is] from God,

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," [is the one] who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthenware jars, in order that the extraordinary degree of the power may be from God and not from us.

For all [these things] {are for your sake}, in order that the grace that is increasing through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.