If then ye have any causes relating to this life, set them to judge who are of no repute in the church.

Now therefore it is altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

and if she have separated herself let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the husband put away his wife.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

But this I say, brethren, the time that remaineth is short; that both they that have wives may be as though they had none;

and I would have you free from anxious cares. He that is unmarried careth about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

But she is happier if she remain as she is, in my opinion; and I too think that I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning the things offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth;

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

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

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

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap from you things for the body?

If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

For in preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in; for I am under a necessity to do so; yea, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, still I have been intrusted with a stewardship.

to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all, that I might by all means save some.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Now these things happened to them as warnings, and were recorded for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages have come.

Look at Israel by natural descent. Have not those who eat of the sacrifices, communion with the altar?

Nay, but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For this cause the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him,

but that if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her? for her hair is given for a covering.

But if any one seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

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

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

and what we think to be less honorable parts of the body, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our unseemly parts have more abundant seemliness;

while our seemly parts have no need. But God so put the body together, as to give special honor to that part which lacked,

that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

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

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

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

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the feelings of a child, I thought as a child; since I have become a man, I have put away the things of the child.

After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

then also they that have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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

But now hath Christ risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that have fallen asleep.

Then will be the end, when he delivereth up the kingdom to God, the Father, when he shall have destroyed all dominion, and all authority, and power.

for "he put all things under his feet." But when it is said that all things have been put under him, it is manifest that he who put all things under him is excepted.

And when all things have been put under him, then will also the Son himself become subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

I protest, brethren, by my glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.

Awake, as is your duty, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God; I say it to your shame.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass that which is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

Every first day of the week let each of you lay by him something in store, according as he hath prospered; that the collections may not have to be made when I come.

Now I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia; for I am about to pass through Macedonia;

And I exhort you, brethren,ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the holy,

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

as also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your glorying, as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. For in respect to faith ye stand firm.

And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.

But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ,

And such confidence as this have we through Christ toward God;

but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not of us;

For we know that, if our earthly tenthabitation be destroyed, we have a building provided by God, a house not made with hands, everlasting, in the heavens.

since, indeed, when we have put off our present garment, we shall not be found naked.

We have courage, therefore, always, and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

for we walk by faith, not by sight; but we have courage,

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope have been made manifest in your consciences also.

For we are not again commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion to glory on our behalf; that ye may have somewhat to answer those who glory in outward appearance, and not in heart.

So that we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; and if we have even known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know him.

Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Ye have not a narrow place in my heart, but ye have a narrow place for me in yours.

Receive us into your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

I am not saying this to condemn you; for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die with you and to live with you.

Therefore we have been comforted; but in our comfort we rejoiced still more on account of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all;

for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth;

I rejoice that in every thing I have confidence in you.

Now therefore perform the doing of it, that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise in the gospel is throughout all the churches;

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often in many things proved to be zealous, but now much more zealous through the great confidence which he hath in you.

Display to them, therefore, before the churches, the proof of your love, and of what we have boasted on your behalf.

thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.

Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you?

Have ye been thinking this long time that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God in Christ that we are speaking; but all things, beloved, for your edification.

and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many of those who have sinned already, and did not repent of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they committed.

I said before, and now say beforehand, as when present the second time, so also absent now, to those who have sinned before, and to all the others, that if I come again, I will not spare;

For we have no power against the truth, but for the truth.

As we have said before, so I now say again, If any one preach a gospel to you contrary to that which ye received, let him be accursed!

For ye have heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it,

and that because of the false brethren stealthily brought in, who crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring into bondage;

but knowing that a man is not accepted as righteous by the works of the Law, but by faith in Christ Jesus, we also have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted as righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be accepted as righteous.

I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Have ye suffered so much in vain? if indeed it be really in vain.

Know then that they who have faith, these are the sons of Abraham.

So then they who have faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

Is then the Law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which was able to give life, righteousness would indeed have been by the Law;

I fear for you, lest I may have bestowed upon you labor in vain.