But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:

And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert.

And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.

Therefore let him seeming to stand see that he fall not.

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

The cup of praise which we praise, is it not the mutual participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the mutual participation of the body of Christ?

See ye Israel according to the flesh: are not they eating the sacrifices mutual participators of the altar?

But, that what things they sacrifice the nations sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I will not ye be partakers of demons.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.

And if any one say to you, This is sacrificed to an idol, eat not, for him making it known, and consciousness: for of the Lord the earth, and its fulness:

And consciousness, I say, not thine, but another's: for that why is my freedom judged by another's consciousness

And be ye not molesters to the Jews, and the Greeks, and to the church of God:

As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man.

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

For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man.

Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man truly have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

And this announcing I approve not, that not for the better come ye together, but for the worse.

Therefore ye coming together upon the same, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

For, have ye not houses for eating and drinking? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them not having? What should I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise not.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread:

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

For if we examined ourselves, we should not be judged.

And concerning spiritual things, brethren, I wish you not to be ignorant.

For also the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body

And if the ear say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

And our becoming parts have no need: but God blended the body together, to the wanting having given more abundant honour:

Not all sent: not all prophets: not all teachers: not all powers:

All have not the favors of healing: not all speaking with tongues: not all interpret accurately.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have been the brass of echoes, and the shouting cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil;

Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth;

For he speaking in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God: (for none hears; and in the spirit he speaks mysteries.)

As inanimate things giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it give not a distinction to sounds, how shall the piping or harping be known?

If therefore I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him speaking a foreigner, and he speaking a foreigner to me.

When if thou praise in the spirit, how shall he filling the place of the private individual say Amen at thy thanksgiving) since he knows not what thou sayest

For thou truly givest thanks well, but the other is not built up.

Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.

It has been written in the law, That in other tongues and in other lips will I speak to this people; and not so will they hear me, says the Lord.

So that tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving: and the gift of prophecy, not to the unbelieving, but to the believing.

If therefore the whole church come together upon the same, and all speak with tongues, and the private individual, or unbelieving, come in, will they not say that ye are enraged?

For God is not of unsteadiness, but of peace, as in all the churches of the holy ones.

Let your women be silent in the churches: for it has not been committed to them to speak; but to be subjected, as also says the law.

Therefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy, and hinder not to speak in tongues.

For I am the least of the sent, who am not fit to be called sent, for I drove out the church of God.

And by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which in me was not vain; but I was more abundantly wearied than they all: and not I, but the grace of God which with me.

And if Christ has not risen, then our proclaiming vain, and also your faith vain.

And we are also found false witnesses of God; for we testified for God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not, if therefore the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, neither was Christ raised up:

And if Christ was not raised up, your faith is vain; yet are ye in your sins.

For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead?

If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits.

Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.

Froth, what thou sowest is not made alive, except it die:

And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body going to be, but the naked kernel, if perhaps of wheat, or some of the rest:

Not all flesh the same flesh: but one truly flesh of men, and another of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of flying things.

But the first not spiritual, but animated; then the spiritual.

Behold, I speak to you a mystery; We truly shall not all be laid asleep, but we shall all be changed,

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

For I will not see you now in coming forward; but I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord permit.

And concerning Apollos, the brother, I besought him much that he would come to you with the brethren: and the will was not altogether that he should come now; and he will come when he should have leisure.

If any love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:

And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him.

Not that we are masters of your faith, but we are aiders of your joy: for ye have stood in the faith.

And I determined this to myself, not to come to you again in sadness.

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all.

That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

I have had no relaxation to my spirit, in my not finding Titus my brother: but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?

Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

And if the service of death, in letters imprinted in stones, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently to the face of Moses for the glory of his face; being left unemployed

How shall not rather the service of the Spirit be in glory?

For also that having been glorified has not been glorified in this part, for sake of the glory excelling.

And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel should not look intently to the end of that left unemployed:

But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant. remains not uncovered;for in Christ it is left unemployed.

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.