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1:1 Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the
 will of God, and Sosthenes [our] brother,
1:2 To 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.
1:3 Grace [be] to you, and peace from God our Father, and [from]
 the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God
 which is given you by Jesus Christ;
1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all
 utterance, and [in] all knowledge;
1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of
 our Lord Jesus Christ:
1:8 Who will also confirm you to the end, [that ye may be]
 blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called to the fellowship
 of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10 Now 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 perfectly joined
 together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
1:11 For it hath been declared to me concerning you, my
 brethren, by them [who are of the house] of Chloe, that there
 are contentions among you.
1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul;
 and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye
 baptized in the name of Paul?
1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and
 Gaius;
1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.
1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas; besides, I
 know not whether I baptized any other.
1:17 For Christ hath not sent me to baptize, but to preach the
 gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ
 should be made of no effect.
1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish,
 foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.
1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
 and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1:20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the
 disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of
 this world?
1:21 For when 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.
1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom:
1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a
 stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness;
1:24 But to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
 the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
 weakness of God is stronger than men.
1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men
 after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called]:
1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
 confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the
 world to confound the things which are mighty;
1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are
 despised, hath God chosen, and things which are not, to bring
 to naught things that are:
1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to
 us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
 redemption:
1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him
 glory in the Lord.
2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with
 excellence of speech, or of wisdom, declaring to you the
 testimony of God.
2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus
 Christ, and him crucified.
2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much
 trembling.
2:4 And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words
 of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of
 power:
2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but
 in the power of God.
2:6 However, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet
 not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world,
 that come to naught:
2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the
 hidden [wisdom] which God ordained before the world to our
 glory:
2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they
 known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
 neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which
 God hath prepared for them that love him.
2:10 But God hath revealed [them] to us by his Spirit; for the
 Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.
2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit
 of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no
 man, but the Spirit of God.
2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
 spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are
 freely given to us by God.
2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's
 wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing
 spiritual things with spiritual.
2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
 of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know
 [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself
 is judged by no man.
2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may
 instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but
 as to carnal, [even] as to babes in Christ.
3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye
 were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.
3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you
 envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk
 as men?
3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of
 Apollos; are ye not carnal?
3:5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by
 whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered: but God hath given the
 increase.
3:7 So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he
 that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.
3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every
 man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.
3:9 For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's
 husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
3:10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a
 wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another
 buildeth upon it. But let every man take heed how he buildeth
 upon it.
3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that which is
 laid, which is Jesus Christ.
3:12 Now if any man buildeth upon this foundation, gold, silver,
 precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
3:13 Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will
 declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire
 will try every man's work, of what sort it is.
3:14 If any man's work abideth which he hath built upon it, he
 shall receive a reward.
3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but
 he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the
 Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
3:17 If any man defileth the temple of God, him will God
 destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.
3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to
 be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be
 wise.
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For
 it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that
 they are vain.
3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men: for all things are
 yours:
3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life,
 or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
3:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.
4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ,
 and stewards of the mysteries of God.
4:2 Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found
 faithful.
4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged
 by you, or by man's judgment: yes, I judge not my own self.
4:4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby
 justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord
 shall come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of
 darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts:
 and then shall every man have praise from God.
4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred
 to myself, and [to] Apollos, for your sakes; that ye may learn
 in us not to think [of men] above that which is written, that
 no one of you on account of one, may be puffed up against
 another.
4:7 For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast
 thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive
 [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?
4:8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings
 without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign
 with you.
4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as
 it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle to the
 world, and to angels, and to men.
4:10 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.
4:11 Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and
 are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain
 dwelling-place;
4:12 And labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we
 bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;
4:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the
 world, the offscouring of all things to this day.
4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved
 sons I warn [you].
4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet
 [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten
 you through the gospel.
4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
4:17 For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my
 beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who will bring you into
 remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach every
 where in every church.
4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will
 know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.
4:20 For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.
4:21 What will ye? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love,
 and [in] the spirit of meekness?
5:1 It is reported commonly [that there is] lewdness among you,
 and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the
 Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he
 who hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have
 judged already as though I were present, [concerning] him that
 hath so done this deed,
5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are assembled,
 and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:5 To deliver such one to Satan for the destruction of the
 flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
 Jesus.
5:6 Your boasting [is] not good. Know ye not, that a little
 leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
5:7 Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new
 lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is
 sacrificed for us:
5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
 neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
 unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
5:9 I have written to you in this epistle, not to associate with
 persons guilty of lewdness:
5:10 Yet not altogether with lewd persons of this world, or with
 the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters: for then ye
 must needs go out of the world.
5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any
 man that is called a brother is a lewd person, or covetous, or
 an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner:
 with such person no not to eat.
5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
 do ye not judge them that are within?
5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away
 from among yourselves that wicked person.
6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law
 before the unjust, and not before the saints?
6:2 Do ye not know that the saints will judge the world? and if
 the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the
 smallest matters?
6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more,
 things that pertain to this life?
6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life,
 set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise
 man among you? no, not one that will be able to judge between
 his brethren?
6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before
 unbelievers.
6:7 Now therefore there is utterly 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?
6:8 But ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
6:9 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 mankind,
6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
 extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are
 sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,
 and by the Spirit of our God.
6:12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not
 expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be
 brought under the power of any.
6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God will
 destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for lewdness,
 but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise
 up us by his own power.
6:15 Know ye 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? By no means.
6:16 What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one
 body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
6:17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
6:18 Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the
 body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own
 body.
6:19 What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
 Spirit [which is] in you, which ye have from God, and ye are
 not your own?
6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
 your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
7:1 Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: [It is]
 good for a man not to touch a woman.
7:2 Nevertheless, [to avoid] lewdness, let every man have his
 own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
7:3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and
 likewise also the wife to the husband.
7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband:
 and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body,
 but the wife.
7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a
 time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and
 come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your
 incontinence.
7:6 But I speak this by permission, [and] not as a commandment.
7:7 For I would that all men were as I myself. But every man
 hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and
 another after that.
7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for
 them if they remain even as I.
7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better
 to marry than to burn.
7:10 And to the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord,
 Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:
7:11 But if she shall depart, let her remain unmarried, or be
 reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away
 [his] wife.
7:12 But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, if any brother hath
 a wife that believeth not, and she is pleased to dwell with
 him, let him not put her away.
7:13 And the woman who hath a husband that believeth not, and if
 he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and
 the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were
 your children unclean; but now are they holy.
7:15 But if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart. A brother
 or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases]; but God hath
 called us to peace.
7:16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy]
 husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save
 [thy] wife?
7:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath
 called every one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all
 churches.
7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
 uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not
 become circumcised.
7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but
 the keeping of the commandments of God.
7:20 Let every man continue in the same calling in which he was
 called.
7:21 Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it; but if
 thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.
7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is
 the Lord's free-man: likewise also he that is called, [being]
 free, is Christ's servant.
7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
7:24 Brethren, let every man in the state in which he is called,
 continue in it with God.
7:25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord:
 yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy from the
 Lord to be faithful.
7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present
 distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.
7:27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou
 loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
7:28 But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin
 marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have
 trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.
7:29 But this I say, brethren, The time [is] short. It
 remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they
 had none;
7:30 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;
7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing [it]. For the
 fashion of this world passeth away.
7:32 But I would have you without anxious care. He that is
 unmarried, is anxious for the things that belong to the Lord,
 how he may please the Lord:
7:33 But he that is married, is anxious for the things that are
 of the world, how he may please [his] wife.
7:34 There is a difference [also] between a wife and a virgin.
 The unmarried woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that
 she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is
 married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may
 please [her] husband.
7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a
 snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may
 attend upon the Lord without distraction.
7:36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself uncomely
 towards his virgin, if she hath passed the flower of [her] age,
 and need so requireth, let him do what he will, he sinneth not:
 let them marry.
7:37 Nevertheless, he that standeth steadfast in his heart,
 having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath
 so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth
 well.
7:38 So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he
 that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.
7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth;
 but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to
 whom she will; only in the Lord.
7:40 But she is happier if she so remain, after my judgment; and
 I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
8:1 Now as concerning things offered to idols, we know that we
 all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
8:2 And if any man thinketh that he knoweth any thing, he
 knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
8:3 But if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
8:4 Therefore as concerning the eating of those things that are
 offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol [is]
 nothing in the world, and that [there is] no other God but one.
8:5 For though there are that are called gods, whether in heaven
 or upon earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many)
8:6 Yet to us [there is but] one God, the Father, from whom
 [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by
 whom [are] all things, and we by him.
8:7 But [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for some
 with conscience of the idol to this hour eat [it] as a thing
 offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is
 defiled.
8:8 But food commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat,
 are we the better; neither if we eat not, are we the worse.
8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours should
 become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.
8:10 For if any man shall see thee, who hast knowledge, sit
 eating in the idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who
 is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to
 idols;
8:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish,
 for whom Christ died?
8:12 But when ye thus sin against the brethren, and wound their
 weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
8:13 Wherefore, if food maketh my brother to fall into sin, I
 will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my
 brother to fall into sin.
9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus
 Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord?
9:2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you:
 for ye are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
9:3 My answer to them that examine me is this,
9:4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as
 other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear
 working?
9:7 Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? who
 planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of its fruit? or who
 feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
9:8 Do I say these things as a man? or saith not the law the
 same also?
9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle
 the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take
 care for oxen?
9:10 Or saith he [this] altogether for our sakes? for our sakes,
 no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow
 in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker
 of his hope.
9:11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it] a great
 thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
9:12 If others are partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not
 we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer
 all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
9:13 Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things
 live [from the things] of the temple, and they who wait at the
 altar are partakers with the altar?
9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the
 gospel should live by the gospel.
9:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I
 written these things, that it should be so done to me: for [it
 were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my
 glorying void.
9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of:
 for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I preach
 not the gospel!
9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if
 against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed to
 me.
9:18 What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the
 gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I
 may not abuse my power in the gospel.
9:19 For though I am free from all [men], yet I have made myself
 servant to all, that I might gain the more.
9:20 And to 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;
9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not
 without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might
 gain them that are without law.
9:22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I
 have become all things to all [men], that I might by all means
 save some.
9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker
 of it with [you].
9:24 Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one
 receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in
 all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but
 we an incorruptible.
9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as
 one that beateth the air:
9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection:
 lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself
 should be a cast-away.
10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant,
 that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
 through the sea;
10:2 And were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
10:3 And all ate the same spiritual food;
10:4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of
 that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
 Christ.)
10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they
 were overthrown in the wilderness.
10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should
 not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
10:7 Neither 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.
10:8 Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed,
 and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted,
 and were destroyed by serpents.
10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were
 destroyed by the destroyer.
10:11 Now all these things happened to them for examples: and
 they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
 world are come.
10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed
 lest he fall.
10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but 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
 also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the
 communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is
 it not the communion of the body of Christ?
10:17 For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we
 are all partakers of that one bread.
10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they who eat of the
 sacrifices, partakers of the altar?
10:19 What then do I say? that the idol is any thing, or that
 which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
10:20 But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice,
 they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that
 ye should have fellowship with demons.
10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of
 demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the
 table of demons.
10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than
 he?
10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not
 expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify
 not.
10:24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].
10:25 Whatever is sold in the provision market, [that] eat,
 asking no question for conscience' sake:
10:26 For the earth [is] the Lord's, and its fullness.
10:27 If any of them that believe not invites you [to a feast],
 and ye are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat,
 asking no question on account of conscience.
10:28 But if any man shall say to you, This is offered in
 sacrifice to idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and
 for conscience' sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and its
 fullness:
10:29 Conscience, I say, not thy own, but of the other: for why
 is my liberty judged by another [man's] conscience?
10:30 For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of
 for that for which I give thanks?
10:31 Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do
 all to the glory of God.
10:32 Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles,
 nor to the church of God:
10:33 Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking my
 own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.
11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.
11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all
 things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you.
11:3 But 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.
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head
 covered, dishonoreth his head.
11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head
 uncovered, dishonoreth her head: for that is even all one as if
 she were shaved.
11:6 For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but
 if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be
 covered.
11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch
 as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory
 of the man.
11:8 For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the
 man.
11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman
 for the man.
11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her]
 head, because of the angels.
11:11 Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman,
 neither the woman without the man in the Lord.
11:12 For as the woman [is] from the man, even so [is] the man
 also by the woman; but all things from God.
11:13 Judge in yourselves: Is it comely that a woman should pray
 to God uncovered?
11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man hath
 long hair, it is a shame to him?
11:15 But if a woman hath long hair, it is a glory to her: for
 [her] hair is given her for a covering.
11:16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such
 custom, neither the churches of God.
11:17 Now in this that I declare [to you], I praise [you] not,
 that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I
 hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe
 it.
11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they who
 are approved may be made manifest among you.
11:20 When therefore ye come together in one place, [this] is
 not to eat the Lord's supper.
11:21 For in eating every one taketh before [another] his own
 supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or
 despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not?
 What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise
 [you] not.
11:23 For I have received from the Lord, that which also I
 delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, the [same] night in
 which he was betrayed, took bread:
11:24 And when he had given thanks, he broke [it], and said,
 Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
 remembrance of me.
11:25 After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had
 supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this
 do ye, as often as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me.
11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye
 do show the Lord's death till he shall come.
11:27 Wherefore, whoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this]
 cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and
 blood of the Lord.
11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of
 [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup.
11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
 drinketh condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's
 body.
11:30 For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and
 many sleep.
11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that
 we should not be condemned with the world.
11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat,
 tarry one for another.
11:34 And if any man hungereth, let him eat at home; that ye
 come not together to condemnation. And the rest will I set in
 order when I come.
12:1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not
 have you ignorant.
12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb
 idols, even as ye were led.
12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by
 the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man
 can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.
12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same
 Lord.
12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same
 God who worketh all in all.
12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man
 for profit.
12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to
 another, the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
12:9 To another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts
 of healing by the same Spirit;
12:10 To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy;
 to another, discerning of spirits; to another, [divers] kinds
 of languages; to another, the interpretation of languages:
12:11 But all these worketh that one and the same Spirit,
 dividing to every man severally as he will.
12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
 members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also
 [is] Christ.
12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
 whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free; and have been
 all made to drink into one Spirit.
12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not
 of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am
 not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
12:17 If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing?
 If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling?
12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the
 body, as it hath pleased him.
12:19 And if they were all one member, where [were] the body?
12:20 But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.
12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of
 thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be
 more feeble, are necessary:
12:23 And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less
 honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our
 uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.
12:24 For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered
 the body together, having given more abundant honor to that
 [part] which lacked:
12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the
 members should have the same care one for another.
12:26 And thus if one member suffers all the members suffer with
 it; or, if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with
 it.
12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles,
 secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts
 of healings, helps, governments, diversities of languages.
12:29 [Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all
 teachers? [are] all workers of miracles?
12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak in languages?
 do all interpret?
12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts. And yet I show to you
 a more excellent way.
13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
 have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a
 tinkling cymbal.
13:2 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand
 all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith,
 so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
 nothing.
13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and
 though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it
 profiteth me nothing.
13:4 Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not;
 charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is
 not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
 things, endureth all things.
13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether [there are] prophecies,
 they shall fail; whether [there are] languages, they shall
 cease; whether [there is] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is
 in part shall be done away.
13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a
 child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put
 away childish things.
13:12 For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to
 face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
 am known.
13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
 greatest of these [is] charity.
14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but
 rather that ye may prophesy.
14:2 For he that speaketh in an [unknown] language, speaketh not
 to men, but to God: for no man understandeth [him]; yet in the
 spirit he speaketh mysteries.
14:3 But he that prophesieth, speaketh to men [to] edification,
 and exhortation, and comfort.
14:4 He that speaketh in an [unknown] language edifieth himself;
 but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
14:5 I would that ye all spoke in languages, but rather that ye
 prophesied: for greater [is] he that prophesieth than he that
 speaketh in languages, except he interpret, that the church may
 receive edifying.
14:6 Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in languages, what
 shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by
 revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or
 harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall
 it be known what is piped or harped?
14:8 For if the trumpet shall give an uncertain sound, who will
 prepare himself for battle?
14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to
 be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye
 will speak into the air.
14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the
 world, and none of them [is] without signification.
14:11 Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall
 be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh [will
 be] a barbarian to me.
14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual
 [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
14:13 Wherefore, let him that speaketh in an [unknown] language,
 pray that he may interpret.
14:14 For if I pray in an [unknown] language, my spirit prayeth,
 but my understanding is unfruitful.
14:15 What is it 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.
14:16 Else, when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he
 that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving
 of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not
 edified.
14:18 I thank my God, I speak in languages more than ye all:
14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my
 understanding, that [by my voice] I may teach others also, than
 ten thousand words in an [unknown] language.
14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice
 be ye children, but in understanding be men.
14:21 In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and
 other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that
 will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
14:22 Wherefore languages are for a sign, not to them that
 believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying
 [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them who
 believe.
14:23 If therefore the whole church is assembled in one place,
 and all speak in languages, and there come in [those that are]
 unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are
 insane?
14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth
 not, or [one] unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is judged
 by all:
14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and
 so falling down on [his] face, he will worship God, and report
 that God is in you in truth.
14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye are assembled, every one
 of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a language, hath a
 revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done to
 edification.
14:27 If any man speaketh in an [unknown] language, [let it be]
 by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and
 let one interpret.
14:28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in
 the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others
 judge.
14:30 If [any thing] is revealed to another that sitteth by, let
 the first hold his peace.
14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn,
 and all may be comforted.
14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the
 prophets.
14:33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as
 in all churches of the saints.
14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not
 permitted to them to speak: but [they are commanded] to be
 under obedience, as also saith the law.
14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their
 husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the
 church.
14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it to you
 only?
14:37 If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual,
 let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the
 commandments of the Lord.
14:38 But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to
 speak in languages.
14:40 Let all things be done decently, and in order.
15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I
 preached to you, which also ye have received, and in which ye
 stand;
15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I
 preached to you, unless ye have believed in vain.
15:3 For I delivered to you first of all, that which I also
 received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the
 scriptures;
15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third
 day according to the scriptures:
15:5 And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:
15:6 After that he was seen by above five hundred brethren at
 once; of whom the greater part remain to this present, but some
 have fallen asleep.
15:7 After that he was seen by James; then by all the apostles.
15:8 And last of all he was seen by me also, as by one born out
 of due time.
15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be
 called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
15:10 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.
15:11 Therefore whether [it was] I or they, so we preach, and so
 ye believed.
15:12 Now if Christ is preached that he rose from the dead, how
 say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then is
 Christ not raised.
15:14 And if Christ is not raised, then [is] our preaching vain,
 and your faith [is] also vain.
15:15 And indeed we are found false witnesses of God; because we
 have testified concerning God that he raised up Christ: whom he
 raised not, if in truth the dead rise not.
15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
15:17 And if Christ is not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are
 yet in your sins.
15:18 Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have
 perished.
15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
 men most miserable.
15:20 But now is Christ raised from the dead, [and] become the
 first-fruits of them that slept.
15:21 For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the
 resurrection of the dead.
15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
 made alive.
15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits;
 afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
15:24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the
 kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down
 all rule, and all authority, and power.
15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his
 feet.
15:26 The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is] death.
15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he
 saith, all things are put under [him], [it is] manifest that he
 is excepted who did put all things under him.
15:28 And when all things shall be subdued to him, then shall
 the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things
 under him, that God may be all in all.
15:29 Else what will they do, who are baptized for the dead, if
 the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the
 dead?
15:30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus
 our Lord, I die daily.
15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at
 Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? let
 us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
15:33 Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.
15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the
 knowledge of God. I speak [this] to your shame.
15:35 But some [man] will say, How are the dead raised? and with
 what body do they come?
15:36 [Thou] fool, that which thou sowest is not vivified except
 it die:
15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that
 shall be, but bare grain; it may be of wheat, or of some other
 [grain]:
15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to
 every seed its own body.
15:39 All flesh [is] not the same flesh; but [there is] one
 [kind of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of
 fishes, [and] another of fowls.
15:40 [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial:
 but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the
 terrestrial [is] another.
15:41 [There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the
 moon, and another glory of the stars; for [one] star differeth
 from [another] star in glory.
15:42 So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
 corruption, it is raised in incorruption:
15:43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory: it is sown
 in weakness, it is raised in power:
15:44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
 There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
 soul, the last Adam [was made] a vivifying spirit.
15:46 However, that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that
 which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
15:47 The first man [is] from the earth, earthy: the second man
 [is] the Lord from heaven.
15:48 As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy:
 and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are
 heavenly.
15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall
 also bear the image of the heavenly.
15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot
 inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
 incorruption.
15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but
 we shall all be changed,
15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
 trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
 raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this
 mortal [must] put on immortality.
15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
 and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
 brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed
 up in victory.
15:55 O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy
 victory?
15:56 The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is]
 the law.
15:57 But thanks [be] to God, who giveth us the victory, through
 our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast,
 immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch
 as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have
 given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
16:2 Upon the first [day] of the week, let every one of you lay
 by him in store, as [God] hath prospered him, that there be no
 collections when I come.
16:3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by [your]
 letters, them will I send to bring your liberality to
 Jerusalem.
16:4 And if it be proper that I should go also, they shall go
 with me.
16:5 Now I will come to you, when I shall pass through
 Macedonia: for I am to pass through Macedonia.
16:6 And it may be that I shall abide, and even winter with you,
 that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
16:7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry
 a while with you, if the Lord permit.
16:8 But I shall tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened to me, and [there
 are] many adversaries.
16:10 Now if Timothy come, see that he may be with you without
 fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also [do].
16:11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in
 peace, that he may come to me: for I look for him with the
 brethren.
16:12 As concerning [our] brother Apollos, I greatly desired him
 to come to you with the brethren: but his will was not at all
 to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have
 convenient time.
16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, acquit yourselves like
 men, be strong.
16:14 Let all your things be done with charity.
16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas,
 that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and [that] they have
 addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
16:16 That ye submit yourselves to such, and to every one that
 helpeth with [us], and laboreth.
16:17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and
 Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part, they have
 supplied.
16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore
 acknowledge ye them that are such.
16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla
 salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their
 house.
16:20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with a
 holy kiss.
16:21 The salutation of [me] Paul with my own hand.
16:22 If any man loveth not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
 Anathema, Maran-atha.
16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.
16:24 My love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.