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?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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.

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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 he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh.

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?

Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife.

Deprive not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your lack of self-control.

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And the woman who has a husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

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 if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the prime of her age, and need so require, let him do what he desires, he sins not: let them marry.

So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.

But there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience about the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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.

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.

Have we not the right to eat and to drink?

Have we not the right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we the right to forbear working?

Who goes to warfare any time at his own expense? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?

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

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?

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my right in the gospel.

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.

Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:

Moreover, brethren, I want not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

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

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons.

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

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience's sake.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience's sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

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

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

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

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him?

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

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

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

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

For the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

For our more respectable parts have no need: but God has arranged the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

Does not behave itself rudely, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, keeps no record of evil;

Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a foreigner, and he that speaks shall be a foreigner unto me.

Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he understands not what you said?

For you verily give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, says the Lord.

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?

But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all:

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

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.

Therefore, brethren, be eager to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit 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 which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

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.