But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has power based upon his own will, and has decided this in his heart, to keep his own celibacy, does well.

And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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

Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all in Moses were immersed in the cloud and in the sea.

And they all ate the same spiritual food,

and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them. And the rock was the Christ.

However with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness.

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

Because we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we are all partakers of the one bread.

All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.

Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or anything ye do, do all to the glory of God.

just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

Therefore whoever may eat this bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily of the Lord, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home so that ye may not come together for condemnation. And the rest I will set in order as soon as I come.

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.

But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each man individually as it wills.

For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

And if they were all one part, where would be the body?

And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together, or one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles?

Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished.

but when the perfect comes, then what is in part will be abolished.

For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but more that ye may prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the congregation may receive edification.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I benefit you, unless I would speak to you either in a revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in doctrine?

Likewise lifeless things that give a sound, whether flute or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

So also ye, unless ye give understandable speech by the tongue, how will that which is spoken be known? For ye will be talking into the air.

If therefore I know not the force of the voice, I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

What is it therefore? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the intellect also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the intellect also.

Otherwise if thou would bless with the spirit, how will the man who fills the place of the unlearned, say the Truly at thy thanksgiving, since he knows not what thou say?

For thou indeed express thanks well, but the other man is not edified.

I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

In the law it is written, In other tongues and in other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear me, says Lord.

If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad?

But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all.

And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

What is it therefore, brothers? When ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

For ye can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may be encouraged.

As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

and last of all, as to the untimely birth, he also appeared to me.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

For as by Adam all die, so also by Christ all will be made alive.

Afterwards the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when he will abolishes all rule, and all authority and power.

For he must reign until he will put all his enemies under his feet.

For he subordinated all things under his feet. But when he says that all things have been subordinated, it is clear that he who subordinated all things under him, is excepted.

And when all things are made subordinate to him, then the Son himself will also be made subordinate to him who subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all.

Otherwise what will they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why then are they immersed for the dead?

But some man will say, How are the dead raised, and with what kind of body do they come?

And what thou sow, thou do not sow the body that it will become, but a bare grain, if it may happen of wheat, or of some other kind.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but one of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds,

And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will actually not all sleep, but we will all be transformed,

in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed.

But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.

And when I arrive, whomever ye may approve by letters, I will send these men to bring your gift to Jerusalem.

And if it is fitting for me to go also, they will go with me.

But I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia, for I do pass through Macedonia.

And it may be that I will remain with you, or I will even spend winter, so that ye may set me on my way wherever I go.

But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.

And about Apollos the brother, I urged him much that he would come to you with the brothers, and it was not at all his will that he should come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.

Let all things of you be done in love.

All the brothers salute you. Salute each other by a holy kiss.

My love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Truly.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,

who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

For we write no other thing to you, but rather what ye read or also acknowledge. And I hope ye will also acknowledge until the end,

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

But if any man has caused sadness, he has not caused me sadness, but in part (that I may not bear down) you all.

For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

how will the administration of the spirit not be more in glory?