even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."

But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined the things which God has prepared for those who love him.

And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not walk in the ways of men?

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a person.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the churches.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the Good News, I may present the Good News without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

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

I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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

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

Neither let us test the Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

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

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

Now I praise you, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me."

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

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

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

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

let the women keep silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the Law also says.

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the church.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

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

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let us also bear the image of the heavenly.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the churches of Galatia, you do likewise.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.