They have thought it good, and they owed it to them. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things.

But I beseech you, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love produced by the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers to God for me;

so that, through the will of God, I may come to you in joy, and may with you be refreshed.

And may the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

For such men are not servants of our Lord Christ, but of their own appetites; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience hath become known to all. Over you, then, I rejoice; but I would have you wise as to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil.

And the God of peace will soon beat down Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

but is now made manifest, and through the writings of the prophets, by the command of the everlasting God, is made known to all the nations to bring them to obedience to the faith,

to God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever! Amen.

Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

to the church of God which is at Corinth, the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called, holy, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours;

grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I ever thank my God for you, on account of the grace of God bestowed upon you in Christ Jesus;

God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

For the preaching of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe;

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;

and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;

that no flesh might glory before God.

But from him it is that ye are in Christ Jesus, who from God was made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption;

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

that your faith might not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

but we speak Gods wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God determined on before the world was, for our glory;

but, as it is written: "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, the great things which God hath prepared for those that love him."

For God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the depths of God.

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of the man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no one but the Spirit of God.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; because they are spiritually discerned.

I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.

So then, neither he that planteth nor he that watereth is anything, but God that giveth the growth.

According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful masterbuilder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

Know ye not, that ye are Gods temple, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any one defaceth the temple of God, God will deface him; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: "He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;"

Let a man so account us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the purposes of mens hearts; and then shall every one have his praise from God.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

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

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

But those who are without, God will judge. Do ye put away that bad man from among yourselves.

Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

and God both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his power.

Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

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?

For ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

Now as to the matters about which ye wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

I would that all men were as I myself; but every one hath his own gift from God, one man this, and another that.

I say also to the unmarried and the widows, it is good for them to remain as I am;

But if the unbelieving separateth himself, let him separate himself; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God hath called you to be in peace.

But let every one continue to walk in the lot which the Lord appointed him, in the condition in which God called him. And this direction I give in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

In that state, brethren, in which he was called, let every one remain with God.

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

but if any one love God, the same is known by Him.

Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

yet to us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.

For it is written in the law of Moses: "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out grain." Is it for oxen that God careth?

to those without the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;

but with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

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.

Let no one seek his own pleasure, but the good of others.

Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Give no occasion of stumbling either to Jews or Greeks, or to the church of God;

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 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 as the woman is from the man, so also is the man by the woman; but all things from God.

Judge in your own selves; is it comely that a woman pray to God uncovered?

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.

wherefore I give you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God saith, Accursed be Jesus; and that no one can say, Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

and there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all things in all.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the good of others.

But as it is, God set the members every one of them in the body, as it pleased him.

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

God appointed some in the church to be, in the first place, apostles, in the second place, prophets, in the third place, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, those of helping and of governing, divers kinds of tongues. Are all apostles?

For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not to men, but to God; for no one heareth; but in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries;

I thank God, I speak in an [unknown] tongue more than ye all;

the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is indeed within you.

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

What! Did the word of God come forth from you? Or did it come to you alone?

For I am the least of the apostles, one not worthy 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.

And we are also found false witnesses concerning God; because we testified concerning God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if so be that the dead rise not.

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.

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.

Be not deceived; "evil communications corrupt good manners."

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

but God giveth it a body, as he willed, and to every seed its own body.

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor doth corruption inherit incorruption.

But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.