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

Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

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.

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

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 he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one.

the work of each one shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove each one's work, of what sort it is.

If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that one be found faithful.

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.

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.

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

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, even, Christ;

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.

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?

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.

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";

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.

And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that.

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.

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

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

I think, therefore, that this is good on account of the impending distress; namely, that it is good for a man to be thus.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened; that henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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;

But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

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.

but, if anyone loves God, the same has been known by Him:

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.

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?

For he that is weak??he brother for whom Christ died??erishes by reason of your knowledge.

Even so did the Lord ordain, that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

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.

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

But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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

Nor let us tempt the Lord, as some of them tempted Him, and perished by the serpents.

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

Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

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.

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, if a woman is unveiled, let her also be shaven; but, if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

But, if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

for there must also be factions among you, that the approved may be made manifest among you.

Therefore, whosoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body, and blood of the Lord.

But, if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged;

but, being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

But much more the members of the body which seem to be more feeble, are necessary;

and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care, one for another.

Love never fails; but whether there be prophecies, they will be done away; whether there be tongues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will be done away.

but, when the complete comes, the partial will be done away.

Even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

So also ye, unless through the tongue ye give intelligible speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air!

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no one of them is without signification.

If, then, I know not the meaning of the voice, I will be to him who is speaking a barbarian; and he that is speaking, a barbarian to me.

Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.

But, if all prophesy, and there come in one who is unbelieving or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all:

What is it, then, brethren? When ye come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edification.

If any one speaks in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in turn; and let one interpret;

But, if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence;

for ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be exhorted.

Let the wives keep silence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted them to speak, but let them be in subjection, as also says the law.

If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you, that they are the Lord's commandment;

but, if any is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

But let all things be done decently and in order.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Whether, therefore, it be I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in respect to God that He raised up the Christ, Whom He raised not, if so be that the dead are not raised.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive;

And, when all things shall be subjected to Him, then will the Son also Himself be subjected to Him Who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all.

Daily am I dying, I avow by the glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Be not deceived; evil companionships corrupt good morals.

and that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other kind;

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

but thanks be to God, Who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

On the first day of the sabbaths, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring it up, as he may prosper, that no collections be made, when I come.

and, if it be meet for me also to go, they shall go with me.

and it may be that I will remain, or even winter with you, that you may send me forward, wherever I may go.

Now, if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Watch, stand fast in the faith; be men; be strong.

Let all your affairs be carried on in love.

If anyone loves not the Lord, let him be accursed, when the Lord cometh!

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.