Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

That in every thing you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:

That no flesh should glory in his presence.

That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak wisdom among them that are mature: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:

But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

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

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not thereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,

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

Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are outside? do not you judge them that are within?

But them that are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

Nay, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Know you 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 mankind,

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

What? know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh.

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?

Deprive not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your lack of self-control.

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And the woman who has a husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.

But I would have you without concern. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the prime of her age, and need so require, let him do what he desires, he sins not: let them marry.

Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep her his virgin, does well.

So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience about the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to them that are weak.

My answer to them that do examine me is this,

For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God care for oxen?

Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Even so has the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my boasting void.

What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my right in the gospel.

For though I am free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:

But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

Moreover, brethren, I want not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

What do I say then? that the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons.

Whatsoever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience's sake: