that in every thing you are enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

so that you are behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

God is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,

But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men?

He that plants and he that waters are one; and each shall receive his reward according to his labor.

For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.

Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.

And again; The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

Let no one therefore glory in men; for all things are yours,

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours,

You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For we are foolish for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous.

Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled,

being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you;

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

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts?

And such were some of you; but you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children impure, but now are they holy.

You are bought with a price; be not servants of men.

Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

For even if there are those called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many gods and many lords,

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

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.

AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

All these things happened to them as examples, and are recorded for our admonition on whom the ends of the ages have come;

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

For we, being many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

Do we provoke the Lord to anger? Are we stronger than he?

All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but all things do not edify.

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and some part of it I believe.

For this reason many are weak and sick among you and some sleep.

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

And there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit;

and there are diversities of services and the same Lord;

and there are diversities of operations and the same God, who performs all things in all.

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 there are many members, but one body.

but much more those members of the body which seem to be weak are necessary,

And you are a body of Christ, and members in particular.

Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers?

Love never fails; but if there are prophecies, they shall pass away; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it shall pass away.

There are perhaps as many kinds of voices in the world, and no one is without significance;

So also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spirits [spiritual gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.

Tongues therefore are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers, but prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

and the secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, declaring that God is really among you.

And the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets;

If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let him acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the Lord's;

by which also you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless indeed you believed in vain.

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in regard to God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if indeed the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, Christ was not raised;

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins,

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

But each one in his own order; Christ a first fruit, then those who are Christ's at his coming;

for he put all things under his feet. But when he says that all things are put under him, it is clear that he is excepted who puts all things under him;

Else what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? and why are they baptized for them?

But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, and of the earthly another.

Like the earthly, such also are the earthly; and like the heavenly, such also are the heavenly;

for a great and effectual door is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.