For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men.

But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;

But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.

But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord-? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Have we not the right to eat and drink?

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

Or, have I only, and Barnabas, no right to leave off working?

If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?

If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

Do you not know that those who are engaged about sacred rites have their living from the temple? and that those who attend upon the altar are partakers with the altar?

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, an apostolic stewardship has been intrusted to me.

For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more.

to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they are written for the instruction of us, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

For if a woman has no vail on, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have a vail.

For this reason ought the woman to have a token of subjection on her head, on account of the angels.

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

What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

For by one Spirit we all were immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and we all have been made to drink of one Spirit.

The eye can not say to the hand: I have no need of you; or again, the head to the feet: I have no need of you.

And those members of the body, which, we think, are less honorable, around these we place the more abundant honor; and our uncomely members have the more abundant comeliness:

for our comely members have no need. But God has so arranged the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which is deficient,

that there may be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same anxious 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 an gels, but have not love, I have 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 give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall have an end.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, the spirit which I have prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

after that, he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till this day; but some have fallen asleep.

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

We are, indeed, also found false witnesses of God; for we have testified against God, that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead are not raised.

Then, also, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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

Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down every principality and authority and power:

And when all things shall have been put under him, then, also, shall the Son himself be subjected to him that did put all things under him, that God may be the all in all.

I protest, by the joy which I have over you in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

And when this corruptible body shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal body shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

As it respects the collection which is for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so also do you.

Now I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia, for I intend to go through Macedonia;

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for they have supplied what was wanting on your part:

for they have refreshed my spirit, and yours. There fore, acknowledge such.

But we have in ourselves the sentence of death, that we may not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead;

who delivered us from so great a death, and does still deliver us: in whom we have confidence, that he will continue to deliver us,

For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.

And in this confidence I intended to go to you before, that you might have a second benefit;

And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

Whom you forgive any thing, I forgive it also: for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, I have forgiven for your sake, in the person of Christ,

Now, confidence such as this we have, through the Christ, toward God;

Since then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech,

Wherefore, having this ministry, inasmuch as we have received mercy, we faint not;

but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be God's and not our own.

But, having the same spirit of faith, according to that winch is written, I believed, and for this reason I have spoken; we also believe, and for this reason we speak,

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For the love of Christ constrains us, because we have this judgment that if one died for all, then have all died:

So, then, we henceforth know no man according to the flesh; if, indeed, we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer thus know him.

So, then, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

(for he says: I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation:)

Regard us cordially; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have made gain by no one.

I do not say this to condemn you; for I have said before, that you are in our hearts, so that we could die with you, and live with you.

For behold this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner; what earnestness it produced in you; what defense of yourselves; what indignation; what fear; what strong affection; what zeal; what assertion of right. In all respects you have shown yourselves to be blame less in this matter.

For this reason, we have been comforted by means of your comfort: and we rejoiced exceedingly more indeed, on account of the joy of Titus, for his spirit was refreshed by you all.

For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth:

I rejoice that I have confidence in you in all things.

Now, therefore, perfect also the doing of this; that as there was a readiness of mind to be willing, so also there may be an accomplishment of the doing, out of that which you have.

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

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved to be diligent in many things, but now much more diligent on account of the strong confidence which he has in you.

But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you in this respect may not be in vain; that you may be ready, as I said:

And God is able to confer every gift upon you abundantly, that you, always having all sufficiency in every thing, may have enough for every good work;

and in their prayer for you, since they have strong affection for you on account of the eminent grace of God that is in you.

and being ready to take vengeance on all disobedience, when your obedience shall have been fully established.

For we do not presume to rank or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with them selves, have no understanding.

For we do not stretch ourselves too far, as if we did not come to you: for even as far as to you, have we already come in the gospel of the Christ,

for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

For if he that comes should preach another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or, if you receive another Spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you would well bear with him.

But if I am unpolished in my style of speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But we have been fully manifested among you in all things.

Have I committed a sin, in making myself lowly, that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel to you without cost?

for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my wants; and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will continue to keep myself.

three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three- times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep.

besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches.