And I immersed also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Gospel; not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

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

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

For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen;

and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

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

for I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

which no one of the rulers of this age has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.

Which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit; combining spiritual things with spiritual.

But a natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal??s to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk, and not solid food; for not yet were ye able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able;

for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

For, when one says, "I am of Paul;" and another, "I am of Apollos;" are ye not carnal?

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?

But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself.

For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet have I not thereby been justified; but He Who judges me is the Lord.

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?

Not as shaming you, do I write these things, but as my beloved children, admonishing you.

For, though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the Gospel.

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

but I will come to you shortly if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power;

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

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

not at all meaning, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; since ye ought, in that event, to go out of the world;

but, as it is, I wrote not to keep company, if anyone, called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner??ith such a one, not even to eat.

For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Or know ye not that the saints will judge the world? And, if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest tribunals?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, then, things pertaining to this life?

I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

All things are lawful for me; but all are not profitable. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the control of any.

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, taking away the members of Christ, make them members of a harlot? It could not be!

Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

But this I say by way of permission, not of command.

But, if they have not continency let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

And to the married I give command??ot I, but the Lord??hat the wife depart not from her husband;

but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband; and that the husband leave not his wife.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

And, if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

But, if the unbelieving departs, let him depart. The brother or the sister has not come into bondage in such cases; but God hath called us in peace.

Was any one called, having been circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather.

Ye were bought with a price; become not slaves of men.

Have you become bound to a wife? Seek not a release. Have you been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But, even if you marry, you did not sin; and, if a virgin marry, she did not sin. Yet such will have tribulation in the flesh; and I am sparing you.

and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not;

and those who use the world, as not using it to the full; for the fashion of this world is passing away.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

But, if any one thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be beyond the prime of life, and thus it ought to be brought about, let him do what he wishes, he sins not; let them marry.

So that both he that gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well; and he that gives her not in marriage will do better.

If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;

But this knowledge is not in all; but some, by familiarity with the idol even until now, eat it as an idol-sacrifice; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But food will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we lacking; nor, if we eat, do we abound.

For, if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat the idol-sacrifices?

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.

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

If to others I am not an apostle, yet to you at least I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own charges; Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Do I speak these things after the manner of man? Or does not the law also say the same?

For in the law of Moses it has been written, "You shall not muzzle an ox while treading out the grain." Doth God care for the oxen?

If others partake of this authority over you, do not we still more? But we used not this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

Know ye not that those who are occupied upon sacred things eat of the things of the temple? and that those who wait at the altar partake with the altar?

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.

For, if I proclaim the Gospel, it is not to me a matter of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me, if I proclaim not the Gospel.

What, then, is my reward? That, when proclaiming the Gospel, I may make the Gospel without charge, to the end that I may not fully use my right in the Gospel.

And, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law (not being myself under law), that I might gain those under law;

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law.

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.

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

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Now these things became types for us, that we might not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

A temptation has not taken you, except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a partaking of the body of Christ?

Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

Nay, but I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to become partakers with the demons.

All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful, but not all things build up.

But, if anyone says to you, "This is the remains of an idol-sacrifice." eat it not, for his sake that showed it, and because of conscience:

conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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

For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;

for man is not from woman, but woman from man;