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1 Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother, 2 To the church of God being in Corinth, having been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called holy, together with all those in every place calling on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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 concerning you for the grace of God having been given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in everything you have been enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge, 6 as the testimony about Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so as for you not to be lacking in any gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who also will sustain you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 10 Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but you may be having been knit together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it was shown to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are quarrels among you. 12 Now I mean this, that each of you says, "I indeed am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ." 13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one should say that you were baptized into my name. 16 Now also I baptized the household of Stephanas; as to the rest, I do not know whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of discourse, so that the cross of the Christ should not be emptied of its power. 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those indeed perishing, but to us being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it has been written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those believing. 22 Forasmuch as both Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 we, however, preach Christ having been crucified, a stumbling block indeed to the Jewish and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God stronger than men. 26 For consider your calling, brothers, that not many were wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many of noble birth. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might shame the strong; 28 and the low-born of the world, and the things being despised, God also chose--the things not being--that He might annul the things being, 29 so that all flesh may not boast before God. 30 But out of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who has been made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 in order that, as it has been written: "The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord." 2 And I having come to you, brothers, did not come according to excellency of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him having been crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 But we speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to naught. 7 But we speak in a mystery, the wisdom of God having been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age has understood. For if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it has been written: "What no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and has not entered into heart of man, what God has prepared for those loving Him." 10 For God has revealed it to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man within him? So also, no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, that we may know the things having been granted to us by God, 13 which also we speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but in those taught of the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means. 14 But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because spiritually they are discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, but he himself is judged by no one. 16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Who will instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ. 3 And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as fleshly--as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for not yet were you able. In fact, now you are still not able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For where jealousy and strife are among you, are you not fleshly, and are walking according to man? 4 For when one might say, "I indeed am of Paul," but another, "I of Apollos," are you not fleshly? 5 Who then is Apollos? And who is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord has given to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept it growing. 7 So neither the one planting nor the one watering is anything, but only God, the One giving growth. 8 Now the one planting and the one watering are one, and each will receive the own reward, according to the own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God having been given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, but another is building upon it. But let each one take heed how he builds upon it. 11 For no one is able to lay another foundation, besides the one being already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds upon the foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 the work of each will become manifest, for the day will disclose it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire itself will prove the work of each, what sort it is. 14 If the work of anyone that he built up will remain, he will receive a reward. 15 If the work of anyone will be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God's temple, and the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are. 18 Let no one deceive himself: If anyone among you thinks himself to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written: "He is the One catching the wise in their craftiness." 20 and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile." 21 Therefore let no one boast 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 you of Christ, and Christ of God. 4 So let a man regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. 2 In this case, moreover, it is required in the stewards, that one shall be found faithful. 3 But to me, it is the smallest matter that I be examined by you or by a human court. In fact, neither do I examine myself. 4 For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I have not been justified by this; but the One judging me is the Lord. 5 Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall have come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the motives of the hearts; and then the praise will come to each from God. 6 Now I have applied these things, brothers, to myself and Apollos, on account of you, so that in us you may learn, "not beyond what has been written," so that not one of you should be puffed up for one over the other. 7 For who makes you any different? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if also you did receive it, why do you boast as not having received it? 8 Already you are satiated; already you have been enriched; apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think God has exhibited us, the apostles, last, as appointed to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools on account of Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; You are honored, but we are without honor. 11 As far as the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clad, and are buffeted, and wander homeless, 12 and we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being slandered, we entreat. We have become as the residue of the world, the refuse of all, until now. 14 I do not write these things shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. 15 For if you should have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Therefore I exhort you, become imitators of me. 17 On account of this I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind of you my ways that are in Christ Jesus, as I teach everywhere in every church. 18 Now some have become puffed up, as if I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of those being puffed up, but their power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21 What do you desire? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness? 5 Sexual immorality is actually reported among you, and sexual immorality such as is not even among the pagans, so as for one to have the wife of the father. 2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that the one having done this deed might be taken out of your midst! 3 For I, though being absent in body, now being present in spirit, have already judged the one having thus produced this, as being present, 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, of you having been gathered together and of me in spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus, 5 to deliver such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are, unleavened. For also Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed, 8 so that we might celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, not with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth. 9 I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with the sexually immoral, 10 not altogether with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or idolaters--since then you would need to depart from the world. 11 But now, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone being designated a brother if he is sexually immoral or a coveter, or an idolater or verbal abuser, or a drunkard or swindler--with such a one not even to eat. 12 For what is it to me to judge those outside? Do you not judge those within? 13 But God will judge those outside. "Expel the evil out from among yourselves." 6 Anyone of you having a matter against the other, dare he go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Or do you not know that saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest of cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life? 4 So indeed, if you have judgment as to the things of this life, set you up those the ones being despised in the church! 5 I say this to you for shame. Thus is there not one wise man among you who will be able to decide in between his brother? 6 Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers! 7 Therefore indeed it is already altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits among one another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you do wrong and defraud, and these things to brothers! 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor coveters, not drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And some of you were such. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 12 "All things are lawful to me," but not all things do profit. "All things are lawful to me," but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 "Foods for the belly and the belly for foods," but God will destroy both this and these. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And by His power God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us out. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Having taken then the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of a prostitute? Never may it be! 16 Or do you not know that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, "The two will become into one flesh." 17 But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin, whatever if a man might do, is outside the body, but the one sinning sexually sins against the own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. 7 Now concerning the things about which you wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have the own husband. 3 Let the husband fulfill the duty to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over the own body, but the husband; and likewise also, the husband does not have authority over the own body, but the wife. 5 Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement, for a time, that you might be at leisure for prayer; and be together the same again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control. 6 Now I say this by way of concession, not by way of command. 7 And I wish all men to be even like myself. But each has his own gift from God; for one has this, but one that. 8 Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they should remain as even I. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 Now to those having married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): A wife is not to be separated from a husband. 11 But if indeed she is separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband; and a husband is not to send away a wife. 12 Now to the rest I say (I, not the Lord): If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, let him not divorce her. 13 And if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not divorce the husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise, your children are unclean; but now they are holy. 15 But if the unbeliever separates himself, let him separate himself. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called you into peace. 16 For how do you know, wife, if you will save the husband? Or how do you know, husband, if you will save the wife? 17 Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each, as God has called to each, so let him walk. And thus I prescribe in all the churches. 18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Let Him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God. 20 Each in the calling in which he has been called, in this let him abide. 21 Were you called while a slave, let it not be a care to you; but if also you are able to become free, rather take advantage. 22 For the one having been called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise the one having been called while free is a slave of Christ. 23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. 24 Each, wherein that he was called, brothers, in that let him abide with God. 25 Now concerning virgins, I do not have a commandment of the Lord, but I give judgment as having received mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. 26 Therefore I think this is good, because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain in the same manner. 27 Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Have you been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But if also you shall have married, you did not sin; and if the virgin shall have married, she did not sin. But such will have tribulation in the flesh, and I am sparing you. 29 Now I say this, brothers: The season is shortened; that from now on both those having wives, should be as having none; 30 and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing; 31 and those using the world, as not using it as their own. For the present form of this world is passing away. 32 And I desire you to be without concern. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he should please the Lord; 33 but the one having been married cares for the things of the world, how he should please the wife, 34 and is divided. And the unmarried woman and virgin cares for the things of the Lord, that she should be holy both in body and in spirit; but the one having been married cares for the things of the world, how she should please the husband. 35 Now I say this for your own benefit, not that I might place upon you a restraint, but for what is seemly and devoted to the Lord, without distraction. 36 But if anyone supposes to be behaving improperly to his virgin, if she is beyond youth, and it ought to be so, let him do what he wills; he does not sin; let them marry. 37 But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but having authority over the own will, and has judged this in the own heart, to keep his virgin, he will do well. 38 So then also, the one marrying the own virgin does well, and the one not marrying will do better. 39 A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband may live; but if the husband shall have died, she is free to be married to whom she wills, only in the Lord. 40 But she is more blessed if she should remain in the same manner, according to my judgment; and I think myself also to have the Spirit of God. 8 Now concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know indeed we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone thinks to have known anything, not yet does he know as it is necessary to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. 4 Therefore concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God except one. 5 Truly even if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many gods and many lords, 6 yet to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we through Him. 7 But this knowledge is not in all. And some, by habit of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak, it is defiled. 8 But food will not commend us to God; neither if we should eat do we come short, nor if we should not eat, do we have an advantage. 9 But be careful, lest somehow this right of yours becomes an occasion of stumbling to those being weak. 10 For if anyone sees you, having knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be built up so as to eat the things sacrificed to idols? 11 For the one being weak is destroyed through your knowledge--the brother for whom Christ died. 12 And thus sinning against the brothers and wounding their being weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food snares my brother, never shall not I eat meat to the age, so that I might not snare my brother. 9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3 This is my defense to those examining me: 4 Have we no authority to eat and to drink? 5 Have we no authority to take about a believer as a wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or only I and Barnabas, have we no authority not to work? 7 Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock? 8 Do I speak these things according to man? Or does the Law not also say these things? 9 For in the Law of Moses it has been written: "You shall not muzzle an ox treading out grain." Is there care for the oxen with God? 10 Or is He speaking because of us entirely? For it was written for us, because in hope the one plowing ought to plow, and the one threshing, in hope to partake. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it a great thing if we will reap material things from you? 12 If others partake of the authority over you, should we not more? But we did not use this right. Instead, we bear all things, so that we should not place any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 13 Do you not know that those working in the temple eat the things of the temple; those attending at the altar partake in the altar? 14 So also, the Lord has prescribed to those proclaiming the gospel to live from the gospel. 15 But I have not used any of these. And neither have I written these things that it should be thus with me; for it would be better to me to die, rather than that anyone will make void my boasting. 16 For if I preach the gospel, there is no boasting to me, for necessity is laid upon me. But woe be to me if I should not preach the gospel. 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship. 18 What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel, I should offer the gospel free of charge, so as not to use up my right in the gospel. 19 For being free from all, I myself became servant to all, so that I might win the more. 20 And to the Jews I became like a Jew, so that I might win the Jews. To those under the Law, as under the Law (myself not being under the Law) so that I might win those under the Law. 21 To those outside the Law, as outside the Law (not being outside the law of God, but under the law of Christ) so that I might win those outside the Law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all these things to all, so that by all means I might save some. 23 Now I do all things on account of the gospel, that I might become a fellow partaker with it. 24 Do you not know that those running in a race course, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run thus, that you might obtain it. 25 Now everyone striving controls himself in all things; then indeed they, that they might receive a perishable crown; but we, an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run thus, not as uncertainly; I fight thus, not as beating the air. 27 But I batter my body and bring it into servitude, lest having preached to others, I myself might be disqualified. 10 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. 2 And all were baptized into 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 were drinking from the spiritual rock accompanying them, and the rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not well pleased with most of them, for they were strewn in the wilderness. 6 Now these things have become types to us, for us not to be desirers of evil things, as they also desired. 7 Neither are you to be idolaters, as some of them, as it has been written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." 8 Neither should we commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. 9 Neither should we test the Christ, as some of them tested, and were destroyed by serpents. 10 Neither are you to grumble, as some of them grumbled, and perished by the Destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as types and were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages are arrived. 12 Therefore the one thinking to stand, let him take heed, lest he fall. 13 No temptation has seized you, except what is common to man. And God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also provide with the temptation the escape, to be able to endure it. 14 Therefore my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to sensible ones; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one loaf, we the many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf. 18 Consider Israel according to flesh: Are not those eating the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar? 19 Then what do I mean? That what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 Rather, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not want you to be fellow partakers with demons. 21 You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? 23 "All things are lawful," but not all things are profitable; "All things are lawful," but not all edify. 24 Let no one seek the good of himself, but that of the other. 25 Eat everything being sold in the meat market, inquiring nothing on account of conscience, 26 for, "The earth is the Lord's, and its fullness." 27 If anyone unbelieving invites you, and you wish to go, eat everything being set before you, inquiring nothing on account of conscience. 28 But if anyone should say to you, "This is offered to an idol," do not eat, on account of him having shown it, and conscience-- 29 and I am not saying your own conscience, but that of the other; for why is my freedom judged by another's conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that which I give thanks? 31 Therefore whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all things to the glory of God. 32 Be you without offense both to Jews and Greeks, and 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. 11 Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ. 2 Now I commend you that you have remembered me in all things, and you are keeping the teachings as I delivered to you. 3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying having anything on his head dishonors his head. 5 And every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered dishonors her head; for it is one and the same with having been shaven. 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, also let her be shorn. And if it is disgraceful to a woman to be shorn or to be shaven, let her cover her head. 7 For truly a man ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 8 For man is not of woman, but woman of man. 9 For truly man was not created on account of the woman, but woman on account of the man. 10 Because of this, the woman ought to have authority on the head, on account of the angels. 11 However, neither is woman separate from man, nor man separate from woman in the Lord. 12 For just as the woman is of the man, so also the man is by the woman. And all things are of God. 13 Judge for yourselves: Is it becoming for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, 15 but if a woman has long hair, it is to her glory? For the long hair instead of a covering is given to her. 16 Now if anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God. 17 Now in this instructing, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first indeed, of you coming together in an assembly, I hear there to be divisions among you, and in part I believe it. 19 For also it behooves there to be factions among you, so that also the approved should become evident among you. 20 Therefore, of you coming together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For in eating, one takes first the own supper. And indeed this one is hungry, but that one is drunken. 22 What! Have you no houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you despise the church of God and put to shame those having nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you! 23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed, took bread, 24 and having given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 25 Likewise also the cup after having supped, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you might drink it, in remembrance of Me." 26 For as often as you may eat this bread and may drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He should come. 27 Therefore whoever should eat the bread or should drink the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and in this manner let him eat of the bread, and let him drink of the cup. 29 For the one eating and drinking not discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 Because of this, many are weak and sick among you, and many are fallen asleep. 31 For if we were judging ourselves, we would not come under judgment. 32 But being judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we should not be condemned with the world. 33 So then, my brothers, coming together in order to eat, wait for one another. 34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you might not come together for judgment; and I will set in order the other things as soon as I might come. 12 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. 2 You know that when you were pagans, to mute idols you were led, as being carried away. 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one is able to say, "Jesus is Lord," if not in the Holy Spirit. 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of workings, but the same God is working all things in everyone. 7 Now to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for the common profiting. 8 For truly, to one is given a word of wisdom by the Spirit, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 and to a different one faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 and to another working of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another distinguishing of spirits, and to a different one various kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. 11 Now one and the same the Spirit works all these things, apportioning individually to each as He wills. 12 For just 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 also in one Spirit we all were baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink one Spirit. 14 For also the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," not on account of this is it not of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," not on account of this is it not of the body. 17 If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all were hearing, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But now God has arranged the members, each one of them in the body, as He desired. 19 And if all were one member, where would be the body? 20 But now indeed, there are many members, but one body. 21 Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, "I have no need of you." Or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 22 But much rather, those members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary, 23 and those of the body we think to be less honorable, these we bestow more abundant honor. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant decorum, 24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God has composed the body, having given more abundant honor to the parts being deficient, 25 that there should be no division in the body, but the members should have the same concern for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 28 And some indeed God has appointed in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show to you now a more surpassing way. 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I should have prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I may give away all my possessions, and I may deliver up my body that I may boast, but have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious, it is not boastful, it is not puffed up. 5 It does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek the things of its own, it is not easily provoked, it keeps no account of wrongs. 6 It does not delight at unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are prophesies, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will be ceased; if there is knowledge it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect should come, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I did away with the things of the child. 12 For presently we see through a glass in obscurity; but then, face to face. Presently, I know in part; but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 But now these three things abide: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love. 14 Earnestly pursue love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, and especially that you might prophesy. 2 For the one speaking in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God. For no one hears, but in the Spirit he utters mysteries. 3 But the one prophesying speaks to men for edification and encouragement and consolation. 4 The one speaking in a tongue edifies himself, but the one prophesying edifies the church. 5 Now I desire you all to speak in tongues, but rather that you should prophesy. Now the one prophesying is greater than the one speaking in tongues, unless he should interpret, so that the church might receive edification. 6 But now, brothers, if I should come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, unless I should speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching? 7 Even lifeless things giving a sound, whether the flute or harp, unless they give distinction to the sounds, how will it be known what is being piped or being harped? 8 And indeed if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle? 9 So also you, unless you give intelligible speech with the tongue, how will it be known what is being spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. 10 There are, if it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none without meaning. 11 Therefore unless I know the power of the sound, I will be a barbarian to the one speaking, and the one speaking, a barbarian to me. 12 So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, search for the edification of the church, that you should cause it to abound. 13 Therefore he who speaks in a tongue, let him pray that he might interpret. 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 15 What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, but also I will pray with the mind. I will sing praise with the spirit, but also I will sing praise with the mind. 16 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will the one filling the place of the uninstructed say the "Amen" at your thanksgiving, since he knows not what you say? 17 For truly you are giving thanks well, but the other is not edified. 18 I thank God, speaking in tongues more than all of you. 19 But in the church, I desire to speak five words with my mind, that also I might instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue. 20 Brothers, do not be children in the minds. Yet in the evil, be little children; but in the thinking, be full grown. 21 In the Law it has been written: "By other tongues, and by other lips, I will speak to this people, and not even thus will they hear Me, says the Lord." 22 So then, tongues are for a sign, not to those believing, but to the unbelieving; but prophecy is not to the unbelieving, but to the believing. 23 Therefore if the whole church gathers together in one place and all should speak in tongues, but uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will not they say that you are mad? 24 But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or uninstructed should come in, he is convicted by all, he is examined by all, 25 and the secrets of his heart become manifest. And thus having fallen upon his face, he will worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you. 26 What then is it, brothers? When you may come together, each has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in the church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern. 30 But if a revelation should be made to another sitting by, let the first be silent. 31 For you are all able to prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may be exhorted. 32 And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. 33 For He is not the God of disorder, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, 34 let the women be silent in the churches. For it is not allowed to them to speak, but to be in submission, as the Law also says. 35 But if they desire to learn anything, let them ask the own husbands at home; for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church. 36 Or has the word of God gone out from you? Or has it come to you only? 37 If anyone considers himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things I write to you are the commands of the Lord. 38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignored. 39 So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues. 40 But let all things be done properly and with order. 15 Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, 2 by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I proclaimed to you; otherwise you have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you in the foremost what also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. 6 Thereafter He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the greater part of whom remain until now, although some have fallen asleep. 7 Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 And last of all, He appeared also to me, as to one of untimely birth. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit 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 toward me has not been void. Rather, I toiled more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 Therefore whether it was I or they, thus we preach, and thus you believed. 12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised out from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then also our preaching is void, and your faith is void. 15 Then also we are found false witnesses of God, because we have witnessed concerning God that He raised up Christ, whom He has not raised if then the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Also then those having fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If only in this life we are having hope in Christ, we are more to be pitied than all men. 20 But now Christ has been raised out from the dead, the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep. 21 For since death came by a man, so also by a man has come the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as indeed in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in the own order: Christ the firstfruit, then those of Christ at His coming, 24 then the end, when He shall hand over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He shall have annulled all dominion, and all authority and power. 25 For it behooves Him to reign until He shall have put all the enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy to be abolished is death. 27 For "He has put in subjection all things under His feet." But when it may be said that all things have been put in subjection, it is evident that the One having put in subjection all things to Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things shall have been put in subjection to Him, then also the Son Himself will be put in subjection to the One having put in subjection all things to Him, so that God may be all in all. 29 Otherwise what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why also are they baptized for them? 30 And why are we in danger every hour? 31 I die every day, as surely as the boasting in you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If according to man I fought wild beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and let us drink, for tomorrow we die." 33 Do not be misled: "Bad companionships corrupt good morals." 34 Sober up righteously and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak to your shame. 35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come?" 36 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that will be, but you sow a bare grain, if it may be of wheat, or of some of the rest. 38 But God gives it a body as He has willed, and to each of the seeds, its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same, but indeed one flesh is of men, and another flesh is of beasts, and another flesh is of birds, and another is of fish. 40 And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But truly the glory of the heavenly is one kind, 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 decay; it is raised in immortality. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual. 45 So also it has been written: "The first man Adam became into a living soul;" the last Adam into a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47 The first man was made of dust from the earth, the second man from heaven. 48 As the one was made of dust, so also are those of the earth; and as is the heavenly one, so also are those of heaven. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50 Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor does decay inherit immortality. 51 Behold, I tell to you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For it behooves this, the perishable to put on the imperishable; and this, the mortal to put on immortality. 54 Now when this the perishable shall have put on the imperishable, and this, the mortal, shall have put on immortality, then the word having been written will come to pass: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." 55 "Where O death, is your victory? Where O death is your sting?" 56 Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. 57 But thanks be to God, the One giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil in the Lord is not in vain. 16 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have directed the churches of Galatia, so also you are to do. 2 Every first of the week, let each of you put something aside, treasuring up whatever he may be prospered in, so that when I might come, then there should be no collections. 3 And when I shall have arrived, whomever you might approve, with letters I will send these to carry your bounty to Jerusalem. 4 And if it is suitable for me also to go, they will go with me. 5 But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia. 6 And possibly I will stay with you, or even I will winter, so that you may equip me, wherever I may go. 7 For I do not want to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permits. 8 But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost. 9 For a great and productive door has opened to me, and many are opposing. 10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he might be with you without fear, for he is doing the Lord's work, as I also. 11 Therefore no one should despise him. But equip him in peace, so that he might come to me; for I am expecting him with the brothers. 12 Now concerning Apollos our brother, I exhorted him greatly that he should go to you with the brothers, and his will was not at all that he should come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity. 13 Watch you; stand firm in the faith; act like men; be strong. 14 Let all things of you be done in love. 15 Now I exhort you, brothers--you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to service to the saints-- 16 that you also be subject to such as these, and to everyone joining in the work and laboring. 17 Now I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these have filled up your deficiency. 18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore recognize such as these. 19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca, with the church at their house, greet you heartily in the Lord. 20 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 21 The greeting is in my own hand--Paul. 22 If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Maranatha! 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 24 My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.