1 PAUL, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
2 to the church of God which is at Corinth, those 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:
3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
5 that in everything ye were made rich in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;
6 according as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you;
7 so that ye are behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
8 who will also confirm you unto the end, unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 But I beseech you, brethren, by 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 made complete in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
11 For it was made known to me concerning you, my brethren; by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 And I mean this, that each of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye immersed in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I immersed none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
15 that no one may say that I immersed in my own name.
16 And I immersed also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.
17 For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to preach the glad tidings; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.
19 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And will bring to nothing the prudence of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 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;
22 since Jews require signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to Gentiles foolishness,
24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things which are strong;
28 and the base things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, and the things which are not, that he might bring to naught things that are;
29 that no flesh should glory before God.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God was made wisdom to us, both righteousness and sanctification, and redemption;
31 that, according as it is written: He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
1 I ALSO, when I came to you, brethren, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
5 that your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 But we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; but a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to naught.
7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the worlds unto our glory;
8 which no one of the rulers of this world has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
9 but (as it is written) things which eye saw not, nor ear heard, and which entered not into the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love him;
10 but to us God revealed them by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who among men knows the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? So also the things of God no one knows, but the Spirit of God.
12 And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he can not know them, because they are spiritually judged.
15 But he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one.
16 For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 I ALSO, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.
2 I fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?
4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?
6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God that gives the increase.
8 And he that plants and he that waters are one; and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, God's building.
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder I laid a foundation, and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon.
11 For other foundation can no one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 And if any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 the work of each one will be made manifest; for the day will show it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire itself will prove of what sort is each one's work.
14 If any one's work which he built thereon remains, he will receive reward.
15 If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any one defiles the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, the which are ye.
18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: He that takes the wise in their craftiness.
20 And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, That they are vain.
21 So then, let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours;
23 and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
1 So let a man account us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; nay, neither do I judge myself.
4 For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet am I not hereby justified, but he that judges me is the Lord.
5 So then judge not anything before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have his praise of God.
6 And 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 that which is written, that ye be not puffed up each for one against another.
7 For who makes thee to differ? And what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
8 Already ye are filled full, already ye became rich, without us ye reigned as kings; and I would ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God set forth us the apostles last, as condemned to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;
13 being defamed, we entreat; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I admonish you.
15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.
16 I beseech you therefore, be followers of me.
17 For this cause I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Now some were puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19 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.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will ye? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of meekness?
1 IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, concerning him who has so done this;
4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For our passover, Christ, was sacrificed for us;
8 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.
9 I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;
10 yet not, altogether, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters; for then ye must needs go out of the world.
11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep company, if any one called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?
13 But those who are without God judges. Therefore put away that wicked man from among yourselves.
1 DARE any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more the things of this life?
4 If then ye have judgments about things of this life, set those to judge who are of no esteem in the church.
5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one that shall be able to judge between his brethren;
6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 Now therefore, it is altogether a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God both raised the Lord, and will also raise up us by his power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? Far be it!
16 Know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man commits is without the body; but he that commits fornication, sins against his own body.
19 Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom ye have from God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
1 NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
2 but because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render to the wife her due; and in like manner the wife also to the husband.
4 The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband also has not power over his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and come again together, that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.
6 But this I say by way of permission, not of command.
7 But I would that all men were as myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 And I say to the unmarried and the widows, it is good for them if they remain as I also am.
9 But if they have not self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 And the married not I command, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from the husband.
11 But if she have departed, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband; and let the husband not put away his wife.
12 But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And a woman who has a husband that believes not, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband; else your children are unclean; but now they are holy.
15 But if the unbelieving departs, let him depart. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases; but God has called us to peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
17 Only, as the Lord apportioned to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.
18 Was any one called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let each one abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Wast thou called being a servant? Care not for it; but if thou canst become free, use it rather.
22 For he that was called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman, being called, is Christ's servant.
23 Ye were bought with a price; become not servants of men.
24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26 I consider therefore that this is good on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.
27 Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
28 But if also thou marry, thou sinnedst not; and if a virgin marry, she sinned not. But such shall have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time that remains is short; that both they who have wives may be as though they had none;
30 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;
31 and they that use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world is passing away.
32 But I would have you without cares. He that is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;
33 but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.
34 There is a difference also between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
35 And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
36 But if any one thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin, if she be past the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry.
37 But he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has determined this in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.
38 So that both he that gives her in marriage does well, and he that gives her not in marriage does better.
39 A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment; and I too think that I have the Spirit of God.
1 NOW concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 If any one thinks that he knows anything, he has known nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if any one loves God, the same is known by him.
4 As concerning then the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5 For though there are gods so-called, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many),
6 yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a consciousness till now of the idol, eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
8 But food commends us not to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor, if we eat not, are we the worse.
9 But take heed, lest haply this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.
10 For if any one sees thee, who hast knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat the things offered to idols?
11 And through thy knowledge he that is weak perishes, the brother for whom Christ died!
12 But when ye so sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
13 Wherefore, if food cause my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh for ever more, that I may not cause my brother to offend.
1 AM I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 This is my answer to those who examine me.
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister as a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or have only I and Barnabas not power to forbear working?
7 Who ever goes to war at his own charges? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
8 Say I these things as a man? Or does not the law also say these things?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out the grain. Is it for the oxen that God cares?
10 Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For, for our sakes it was written; that he who plows ought to plow in hope; and he who threshes, in hope of partaking.
11 If we sowed for you, the things that are spiritual, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 If others partake of this power over you, do not we still more? But we used not this power; but we bear all things, that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
13 Do ye not know that they who minister about the holy things eat of the temple, and they who wait at the altar partake with the altar?
14 So also did the Lord appoint to those who preach the gospel, to live by the gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it should be so done to me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.
16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.
18 What then is my reward? That, in preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, that I use not to the full my power in the gospel.
19 For being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.
20 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;
21 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.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all, that I may by all means save some.
23 And all things I do for the gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others.
24 Know ye not that they who run in a race, all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every one who contends for the prize is temperate in all things; they indeed to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; I so fight, as not beating the air.
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest haply, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
1 FOR I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 and were all immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 and all ate the same spiritual food,
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
5 But in the most of them God had no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were examples to us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Nor be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.
10 Nor murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation taken you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? The loaf which we break, is it not a partaking of the body of Christ?
17 Because we, the many, are one loaf, one body; for we all share in that one loaf.
18 Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What then do I say? That an idol is anything, or that what is offered to idols is anything?
20 Nay; but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should be partakers of the demons.
21 Ye can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons; ye can not share in the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful, but not all things edify.
24 Let no one seek his own, but his neighbor's good.
25 Whatever is sold in the market eat, asking no question for conscience sake';
26 for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.
27 If any of the unbelieving bids you to a feast, and ye choose to go, whatever is set before you eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.
28 But if any one say to you: This is a thing sacrificed to a god, eat it not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience' sake.
29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but that of the other; for why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?
30 If I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the church of God;
33 as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.
1 BE ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and, hold fast the traditions, as I delivered them to you.
3 And I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
5 But every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, dishonors her head; for it is one and the same as if she were shaven.
6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9 And the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have [the token of] authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman; but all things of God.
13 Judge in your own selves; is it seemly that a woman pray to God uncovered?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering.
16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.
17 And while I enjoin this, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also sects among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.
20 When therefore ye come together into one place, there is no eating of a supper of the Lord.
21 For in eating, each takes without waiting his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23 For I received from the Lord, what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was betrayed, took a loaf;
24 and having given thanks, he broke it, and said: This is my body, which is for you; this do in remembrance of me.
25 In like manner also the cup, after they had supped, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye show the Lord's death till he come.
27 So that whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
29 For he that eats and drinks, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, if he discern not the body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we judged ourselves; we should not be judged.
32 But being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
33 Wherefore, my brethren, when coming together to eat, wait for one another.
34 If any one is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.
1 NOW concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away to the dumb idols, as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed; and no one can say, Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but the same God who works all in all.
7 But to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for profiting.
8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healings by the one Spirit;
10 to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another diversities of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 But all these works the one and self-same Spirit, dividing to each one severally as he will.
12 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.
13 For by one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot say: Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
16 And if the ear say: Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now, God set the members each one of them in the body, as it pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now there are many members, but one body.
21 And the eye can not say to the hand, I have no need of thee; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary;
23 and those which we think to be less honorable parts of the body, on these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 And our comely parts have no need; but God attempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that which lacked;
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members each one.
28 And God set some in the church, apostles first, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governings, diversities of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and moreover, I show to you a more excellent way.
1 THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods in food, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
5 does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, imputes no evil;
6 rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but whether there are prophesyings, they will be done away; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but now that I am become a man, I have done away the things of the child.
12 For we see now in a mirror, obscurely; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know fully, even as I also am fully known.
13 And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 PURSUE after love; and desire earnestly the spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
2 For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but with the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he that prophesies, to men he speaks edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
4 He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the church.
5 I would that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edification.
6 And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?
7 And things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, yet if they give no distinction in the sounds, how shall that be known which is piped or harped?
8 For if a trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?
9 So also ye, if ye utter not by the tongue words easily understood, how shall that be known which is spoken? For ye will be speaking into the air.
10 So many, it may be, are the kinds of speaking sounds in the world, and none is without significance.
11 If then I know not the meaning of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a barbarian to me.
12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them to the edification of the church.
13 Wherefore let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16 Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since he knows not what thou sayest?
17 For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than ye all.
19 Yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may also instruct others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
20 Brethren, be not children in your understandings; but in malice be as children, but in your understandings be men.
21 In the law it is written: For with men of other tongues, and with strange lips, I will speak to this people; And not even so will they hearken to me, saith the Lord.
22 So that the tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is not for the unbelieving, but for those who believe.
23 If therefore the whole church is come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that is an unbeliever, or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.
25 The secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so falling on his face he will worship God, reporting that God is in truth among you.
26 How is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has an instruction, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.
27 If any one speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
29 And of prophets, let two or three speak, and the others judge.
30 But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first be silent.
31 For ye can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
34 Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law also says.
35 And if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.
36 Did the word of God come forth from you? Or came it unto you alone?
37 If any one thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the Lord's commandments.
38 But if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Wherefore, brethren, desire earnestly the gift of prophecy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
40 But let all things be done decently and in order.
1 AND I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand;
2 through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word with which I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;
4 and that he was buried, and that he has risen on the third day according to the Scriptures;
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve;
6 after that, he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he appeared to James; then to all the apostles.
8 And last of all he appeared to me also, as the one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached that he has risen from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ risen;
14 and if Christ has not risen, then is our preaching vain, and vain also your faith.
15 And we are also found false witnesses of God; because we testified of God, that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not, if it be so that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, neither has Christ risen;
17 and if Christ has not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then also they who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now Christ has risen from the dead, the first-fruits of those who sleep.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ will all be made alive.
23 But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits; afterward they who are Christ's at his coming.
24 Then comes the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to God, the Father; when he shall have done away all rule, and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 As the last enemy, Death shall be done away. For he subjected all things under his feet.
27 But when he says, All things are subjected, it is manifest that he is excepted, who subjected all things to him.
28 And when all things shall be subjected to him, then will also the Son himself be subject to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then immersed for them?
30 Why also are we in peril every hour?
31 I protest by my glorying in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; For to-morrow we die.
33 Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.
34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I say it to your shame.
35 But some one will say: How do the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come?
36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die;
37 and what thou sowest, not the body that shall be sowest thou, but bare grain, perchance of wheat, or of some other grain.
38 But God gives it a body as it pleased him, and to each of the seeds its own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, another of birds.
40 There are also heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, and that of the earthly is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it rises in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonor, it rises in glory. It is sown in weakness, it rises in power.
44 It is sown a natural body, it rises a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual.
45 So also it is written: The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
46 But the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and afterward the spiritual.
47 The first man was of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
48 As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we bore the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 And when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass the saying, that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 Where, O death, is thy sting? Where, O death, is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 NOW concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.
2 On each first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store, according as he is prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.
3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve, them I will send with letters to carry your benefaction to Jerusalem.
4 And if it be worthy of my going also, they shall go with me.
5 And I will come to you, when I shall pass through Macedonia. For I pass through Macedonia;
6 and it may be that I will remain, or even pass the winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
7 For I wish not to see you now, in passing; for I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord permit.
8 But I shall remain at Ephesus until the Pentecost.
9 For a great and effectual door is open to me, and there are many adversaries.
10 Now if Timothy come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do.
11 Let no one therefore despise him; but send him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I look for him with the brethren.
12 And concerning Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come at this time, but he will come when he shall have a convenient time.
13 Watch, stand fast in the faith, acquit you like men, be strong.
14 Let all your acts be done in love.
15 And I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints,)
16 that ye also submit yourselves to such, and to every one that works with us, and labors.
17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for what was lacking on your part they supplied.
18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours; therefore acknowledge those who are such.
19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.
21 The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand.
22 If any one loves not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Maran atha!
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.