For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves; that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations has comes in.

even so these also have not believed now, so that through your mercy they may also obtain mercy.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function,

As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and do not curse.

minding the same thing toward one another, not minding high things, but yielding to the lowly. Do not be wise within yourselves.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.

For it is a servant of God to you for good. For if you practice evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, a revenger for wrath on him who does evil.

Therefore you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

For: "Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not lust;" and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

And receive him who is weak in the faith, but not to judgments of your thoughts.

Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.

He who regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

Then let us not judge one another any more, but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling-block or an offense toward his brother.

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

Then do not let your good be spoken evil of,

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed are clean, but it is bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

But, the one doubting, if he eats, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

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

For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me."

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for the obedience of the nations in word and deed,

Yea, so I have been eager to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

but as it is written, "To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand."

that you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you may assist her in whatever business she has need of you. For she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.

who have laid down their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also the churches of the nations.

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

And I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides these, I do not know if I baptized any other.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

But, we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, that come to nothing.

which none of the rulers of this world knew (for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory).

But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.

I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

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

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,

for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

As to my not coming to you now, some are puffed up.

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

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Therefore let us keep the feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators;

yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world.

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

Do any of you dare, when you have a matter against another, to go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

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?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not to mention the things of this life?

For I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?

Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

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

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? Let it not be!

Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.

But I speak this according to permission, not according to commandment.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

And to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is pleased to dwell with him, do not let him put her away.

And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is pleased to dwell with her, do not let her leave him.

But if the unbelieving one separates, let him be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Was any called having been circumcised? Do not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Do not be circumcised.

Were you called as a slave? It does not matter to you, but if you are able to become free, use it rather.

You are bought with a price, do not be the slaves of men.

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

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.