(according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you,)

Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;

that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through the fire.

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

For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now.

Not as chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways as they are in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

For I, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those to judge who are little esteemed in the assembly.

But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.

For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

I speak as to intelligent persons: do ye judge what I say.

Even as I also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

Be my imitators, even as I also am of Christ.

Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman.

For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God.

In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.

For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.

For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased him.

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

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.

But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in assembly.

by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to me also.

For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.

Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly one, such also the heavenly ones.

And as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly one.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do ye do also.

Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.