The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ throughthe will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 unto thechurch of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that aresanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all thatcall upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place,their [Lord] and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God ourFather and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God alwaysconcerning you, for the grace of God which was given you inChrist Jesus;
5 that in everything ye were enriched in him,in all utterance and all knowledge;
6 even as the testimonyof Christ was confirmed in you:
7 so that ye come behind inno gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be]unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God isfaithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of hisSon Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Now I beseech you, brethren,through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak thesame thing and [that] there be no divisions among you; but[that] ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the samejudgment.
11 For it hath been signified unto me concerningyou, my brethren, by them [that are of the household] of Chloe,that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I mean,that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: andI of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paulcrucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus andGaius;
15 lest any man should say that ye were baptized intomy name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas:besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
17 ForChrist sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not inwisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.
18 For the word of the cross is to them that perishfoolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written,I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is thedisputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom ofthe world?
21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the worldthrough its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasurethrough the foolishness of the preaching to save them thatbelieve.
22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seekafter wisdom:
23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews astumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;
24 but untothem that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power ofGod, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness ofGod is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger thanmen.
26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not manywise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [arecalled]:
27 but God chose the foolish things of the world,that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose theweak things of the world, that he might put to shame the thingsthat are strong;
28 and the base things of the world, andthe things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and thethings that are not, that he might bring to nought the thingsthat are:
29 that no flesh should glory before God.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdomfrom God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, lethim glory in the Lord.
1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not withexcellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you thetestimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anythingamong you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I waswith you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words ofwisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but inthe power of God.
6 We speak wisdom, however, among themthat are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of therulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
7 but wespeak God's wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hathbeen hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto ourglory:
8 which none of the rulers of this world hath known:for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord ofglory:
9 but as it is written,Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not,And [which] entered not into the heart of man,Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.
10 But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit:for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things ofGod.
11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, savethe spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things ofGod none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
12 But wereceived, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which isfrom God; that we might know the things that were freely givento us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in wordswhich man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth;combining spiritual things with spiritual [words].
14 Nowthe natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them,because they are spiritually judged.
15 But he that isspiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of noman.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that heshould instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as untospiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
2 Ifed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [tobear it]: nay, not even now are ye able;
3 for ye are yetcarnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, areye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos;are ye not men?
5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul?Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave tohim.
6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave theincrease.
7 So then neither is he that planteth anything,neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: buteach shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry,God's building.
10 According to the grace of God which wasgiven unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; andanother buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how hebuildeth thereon.
11 For other foundation can no man laythan that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 But ifany man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones,wood, hay, stubble;
13 each man's work shall be mademanifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealedin fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of whatsort it is.
14 If any man's work shall abide which he builtthereon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's workshall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall besaved; yet so as through fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are atemple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall Goddestroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wiseamong you in this world, let him become a fool, that he maybecome wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishnesswith God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in theircraftiness:
20 and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings ofthe wise that they are vain.
21 Wherefore let no one gloryin men. For all things are yours;
22 whether Paul, orApollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or thingspresent, or things to come; all are yours;
23 and ye areChrist's; and Christ is God's.
1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ,and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Here, moreover, itis required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 Butwith me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you,or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 ForI know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified:but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
5 Wherefore judgenothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will bothbring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifestthe counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have hispraise from God.
6 Now these things, brethren, I have in afigure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that inus ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which arewritten; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against theother.
7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thouthat thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, whydost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?
8 Alreadyare ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reignwithout us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we alsomight reign with you.
9 For, I think, God hath set forth usthe apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we aremade a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; weare weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we havedishonor.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, andthirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certaindwelling-place;
12 and we toil, working with our own hands:being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of theworld, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
14 Iwrite not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as mybeloved children.
15 For though ye have ten thousand tutorsin Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus Ibegat you through the gospel.
16 I beseech you therefore, beye imitators of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto youTimothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, whoshall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ,even as I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Now some arepuffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19 But I willcome to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not theword of them that are puffed up, but the power.
20 For thekingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What willye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit ofgentleness?
1 It is actually reported that there is fornication amongyou, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles,that one [of you] hath his father's wife.
2 And ye arepuffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done thisdeed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily,being absent in body but present in spirit, have already asthough I were present judged him that hath so wrought thisthing,
4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gatheredtogether, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of theflesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the LordJesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that alittle leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out the oldleaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened.For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ:
8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neitherwith the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with theunleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto youin my epistle to have no company with fornicators;
10 not atall [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with thecovetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must yeneeds go out of the world:
11 but as it is, I wrote unto younot to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be afornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or adrunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
12 For what have I to do with judging them that are without?Do not ye judge them that are within?
13 But them that arewithout God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from amongyourselves.
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor,go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? andif the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge thesmallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels?how much more, things that pertain to this life?
4 If thenye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set themto judge who are of no account in the church?
5 I say [this]to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among youone wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,
6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that beforeunbelievers?
7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect inyou, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather takewrong? why not rather be defrauded?
8 Nay, but ye yourselvesdo wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
9 Or knowye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom ofGod? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, noradulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 Andsuch were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye weresanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord JesusChrist, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 All things arelawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things arelawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but Godshall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not forfornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
14 and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through hispower.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are members ofChrist? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and makethem members of a harlot? God forbid.
16 Or know ye not thathe that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saithhe, shall become one flesh.
17 But he that is joined untothe Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin thata man doeth is without the body; but he that committethfornication sinneth against his own body.
19 Or know ye notthat your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you,which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
20 for yewere bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is goodfor a man not to touch a woman.
2 But, because offornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each womanhave her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wifeher due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 Thewife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: andlikewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, butthe wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be byconsent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer,and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because ofyour incontinency.
6 But this I say by way of concession,not of commandment.
7 Yet I would that all men were even asI myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one afterthis manner, and another after that.
8 But I say to theunmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide evenas I.
9 But if they have not continency, let them marry: forit is better to marry than to burn.
10 But unto the marriedI give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife departnot from her husband
11 (but should she depart, let herremain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); andthat the husband leave not his wife.
12 But to the rest sayI, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, andshe is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
13 And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he iscontent to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and theunbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were yourchildren unclean; but now are they holy.
15 Yet if theunbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sisteris not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us inpeace.
16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shaltsave thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thoushalt save thy wife?
17 Only, as the Lord hath distributedto each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And soordain I in all the churches.
18 Was any man called beingcircumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any beencalled in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but thekeeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let each man abide inthat calling wherein he was called.
21 Wast thou calledbeing a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canstbecome free, use [it] rather.
22 For he that was called inthe Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewisehe that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.
23 Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
24 Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, thereinabide with God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have nocommandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one thathath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
26 Ithink therefore that this is good by reason of the distress thatis upon us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to be as he is.
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Artthou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
28 But shouldestthou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, shehath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh:and I would spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the timeis shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may beas though they had none;
30 and those that weep, as thoughthey wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoicednot; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: forthe fashion of this world passeth away.
32 But I would haveyou to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful forthe things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 buthe that is married is careful for the things of the world, howhe may please his wife,
34 and is divided. [So] also thewoman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the thingsof the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit:but she that is married is careful for the things of the world,how she may please her husband.
35 And this I say for yourown profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for thatwhich is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord withoutdistraction.
36 But if any man thinketh that he behavethhimself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be pastthe flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do whathe will; he sinneth not; let them marry.
37 But he thatstandeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hathpower as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin[daughter], shall do well.
38 So then both he that givethhis own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he thatgiveth her not in marriage shall do better.
39 A wife isbound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husbandbe dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in theLord.
40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after myjudgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know thatwe all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
2 If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knowethnot yet as he ought to know;
3 but if any man loveth God,the same is known by him.
4 Concerning therefore the eatingof things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is[anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven oron earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;
6 yet tous there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and weunto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are allthings, and we through him.
7 Howbeit there is not in allmen that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol,eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their consciencebeing weak is defiled.
8 But food will not commend us toGod: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat,are we the better.
9 But take heed lest by any means thisliberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
10 Forif a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in anidol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, beemboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
11 For throughthy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whosesake Christ died.
12 And thus, sinning against the brethren,and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin againstChrist.
13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble,I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother tostumble.
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seenJesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
2 If toothers I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for theseal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 My defence tothem that examine me is this.
4 Have we no right to eat andto drink?
5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is abeliever, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren ofthe Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we nota right to forbear working?
7 What soldier ever serveth athis own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not thefruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of themilk of the flock?
8 Do I speak these things after themanner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
9 For itis written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the oxwhen he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that Godcareth,
10 or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, forour sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plowin hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope ofpartaking.
11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it agreat matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 Ifothers partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more?Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things,that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
13 Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of]the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altarhave their portion with the altar?
14 Even so did the Lordordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of thegospel.
15 But I have used none of these things: and I writenot these things that it may be so done in my case; for [itwere] good for me rather to die, than that any man should makemy glorifying void.
16 For if I preach the gospel, I havenothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe isunto me, if I preach not the gospel.
17 For if I do this ofmine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, Ihave a stewardship intrusted to me.
18 What then is myreward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospelwithout charge, so as not to use to the full my right in thegospel.
19 For though I was free from all [men,] I broughtmyself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; tothem that are under the law, as under the law, not being myselfunder the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 to them that are without law, as without law, not beingwithout law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gainthem that are without law.
22 To the weak I became weak,that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men,that I may by all means save some.
23 And I do all thingsfor the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
24 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but onereceiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
25 Andevery man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control inall things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; butwe an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, as notuncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
27 but Ibuffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means,after that I have preached to others, I myself should berejected.
1 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that ourfathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through thesea;
2 and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and inthe sea;
3 and did all eat the same spiritual food;
4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of aspiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.
5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: forthey were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these thingswere our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evilthings, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, aswere some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eatand drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commitfornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one daythree and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us make trial ofthe Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by theserpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured,and perished by the destroyer.
11 Now these things happenedunto them by way of example; and they were written for ouradmonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest hefall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as mancan bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to betempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptationmake also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 Ispeak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16 The cup ofblessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood ofChrist? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of thebody of Christ?
17 seeing that we, who are many, are onebread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eatthe sacrifices communion with the altar?
19 What say Ithen? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that anidol is anything?
20 But [I say], that the things which theGentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God:and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup ofdemons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of thetable of demons.
22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful; but notall things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not allthings edify.
24 Let no man seek his own, but [each] hisneighbor's [good].
25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles,eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,
26 for theearth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
27 If one ofthem that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye aredisposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking noquestion for conscience' sake.
28 But if any man say untoyou, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sakethat showed it, and for conscience sake:
29 conscience, Isay, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my libertyjudged by another conscience?
30 If I partake withthankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I givethanks?
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, orwhatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Give nooccasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to thechurch of God:
33 even as I also please all men in allthings, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of themany, that they may be saved.
1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, andhold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man isChrist; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head ofChrist is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, havinghis head covered, dishonoreth his head.
5 But every womanpraying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth herhead; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.
6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: butif it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her beveiled.
7 For a man indeed ought not to have his headveiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but thewoman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of thewoman; but the woman of the man:
9 for neither was the mancreated for the woman; but the woman for the man:
10 forthis cause ought the woman to have [a sign of] authority on herhead, because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, neither isthe woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in theLord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, so is the man alsoby the woman; but all things are of God.
13 Judge ye inyourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a manhave long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
15 But if a womanhave long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given herfor a covering.
16 But if any man seemeth to becontentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches ofGod.
17 But in giving you this charge, I praise you not,that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, Ihear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also factions among you, that theythat are approved may be made manifest among you.
20 Whentherefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible toeat the Lord's supper:
21 for in your eating each onetaketh before [other] his own supper; and one is hungry, andanother is drunken.
22 What, have ye not houses to eat andto drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them toshame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praiseyou? In this I praise you not.
23 For I received of theLord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesusin the night in which he was betrayed took bread;
24 andwhen he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is mybody, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 Inlike manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is thenew covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink [it], inremembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread,and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cupof the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the bodyand the blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man prove himself,and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgmentunto himself, if he discern not the body.
30 For this causemany among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that wemay not be condemned with the world.
33 Wherefore, mybrethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another.
34 If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that yourcoming together be not unto judgment. And the rest will I set inorder whensoever I come.
1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I wouldnot have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that when ye were Gentiles[ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye mightled.
3 Wherefore I make known unto you, that no manspeaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and noman can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.
4 Nowthere are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 Andthere are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of workings, but the same God,who worketh all things in all.
7 But to each one is giventhe manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.
8 For toone is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and toanother the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
9 to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to anothergifts of healings, in the one Spirit;
10 and to anotherworkings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to anotherdiscernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues;and to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 but allthese worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each oneseverally even as he will.
12 For as the body is one, andhath many members, and all the members of the body, being many,are one body; so also is Christ.
13 For in one Spirit werewe all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whetherbond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the footshall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; itis not therefore not of the body.
16 And if the ear shallsay, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is nottherefore not of the body.
17 If the whole body were aneye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, wherewere the smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members eachone of them in the body, even as it pleased him.
19 And ifthey were all one member, where were the body?
20 But nowthey are many members, but one body.
21 And the eye cannotsay to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head tothe feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much rather, thosemembers of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:
23 and those [parts] of the body, which we think to be lesshonorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and ouruncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;
24 whereasour comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the bodytogether, giving more abundant honor to that [part] whichlacked;
25 that there should be no schism in the body; but[that] the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffereth, all the members sufferwith it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoicewith it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and severallymembers thereof.
28 And God hath set some in the church,first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, thenmiracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [divers]kinds of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? are all prophets?are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles?
30 haveall gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do allinterpret?
31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. Andmoreover a most excellent way show I unto you.
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, buthave not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know allmysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as toremove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And ifI bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my bodyto be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; lovevaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 doth not behaveitself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, takethnot account of evil;
6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness,but rejoiceth with the truth;
7 beareth all things,believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies,they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shallcease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 butwhen that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shallbe done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, Ifelt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become aman, I have put away childish things.
12 For now we see ina mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; butthen shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatestof these is love.
1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual[gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
2 For he thatspeaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for noman understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification,and exhortation, and consolation.
4 He that speaketh in atongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth thechurch.
5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues, butrather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he thatprophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except heinterpret, that the church may receive edifying.
6 But now,brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall Iprofit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation,or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
7 Eventhings without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, ifthey give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be knownwhat is piped or harped?
8 For if the trumpet give anuncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
9 Soalso ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy tounderstood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will bespeaking into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so manykinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is withoutsignification.
11 If then I know not the meaning of thevoice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he thatspeaketh will be a barbarian unto me.
12 So also ye, sinceye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may aboundunto the edifying of the church.
13 Wherefore let him thatspeaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For ifI pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding isunfruitful.
15 What is it then? I will pray with thespirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will singwith the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16 Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he thatfilleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving ofthanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?
17 For thouverily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with myunderstanding, that I might instruct others also, than tenthousand words in a tongue.
20 Brethren, be not children inmind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
21 Inthe law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lipsof strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thuswill they hear me, saith the Lord.
22 Wherefore tongues arefor a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving:but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but tothem that believe.
23 If therefore the whole church beassembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come inmen unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelievingor unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;
25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so hewill fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that Godis among you indeed.
26 What is it then, brethren? When yecome together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath arevelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let allthings be done unto edifying.
27 If any man speaketh in atongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most three, and [that] inturn; and let one interpret:
28 but if there be nointerpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let himspeak to himself, and to God.
29 And let the prophets speak[by] two or three, and let the others discern.
30 But if arevelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keepsilence.
31 For ye all can prophesy one by one, that allmay learn, and all may be exhorted;
32 and the spirits ofthe prophets are subject to the prophets;
33 for God is not[a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches ofthe saints,
34 let the women keep silence in the churches:for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be insubjection, as also saith the law.
35 And if they wouldlearn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for itis shameful for a woman to speak in the church.
36 What?was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it untoyou alone?
37 If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet,or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I writeunto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
38 Butif any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Wherefore,my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not tospeak with tongues.
40 But let all things be done decentlyand in order.
1 Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which Ipreached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also yestand,
2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast theword which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which also Ireceived: that Christ died for our sins according to thescriptures;
4 and that he was buried; and that he hath beenraised on the third day according to the scriptures;
5 andthat he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;
6 then heappeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom thegreater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep;
7 then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;
8 and last of all, as to the [child] untimely born, heappeared to me also.
9 For I am the least of the apostles,that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecutedthe church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what Iam: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain;but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but thegrace of God which was with me.
11 Whether then [it be] Ior they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12 Now if Christis preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say someamong you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 Butif there is no resurrection of the dead, neither hath Christbeen raised:
14 and if Christ hath not been raised, then isour preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
15 Yea, we arefound false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God thathe raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that thedead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised,neither hath Christ been raised:
17 and if Christ hath notbeen raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ haveperished.
19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life,we are of all men most pitiable.
20 But now hath Christbeen raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that areasleep.
21 For since by man [came] death, by man [came]also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam alldie, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But eachin his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that areChrist's, at his coming.
24 Then [cometh] the end, when heshall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when heshall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemiesunder his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be abolishedis death.
27 For, He put all things in subjection under hisfeet. But when he saith, All things are put in subjection, it isevident that he is excepted who did subject all things unto him.
28 And when all things have been subjected unto him, thenshall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subjectall things unto him, that God may be all in all.
29 Elsewhat shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the deadare not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
31 Iprotest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have inChrist Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 If after the mannerof men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me?If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrowwe die.
33 Be not deceived: Evil companionships corruptgood morals.
34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sinnot; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to moveyou to shame.
35 But some one will say, How are the deadraised? and with what manner of body do they come?
36 Thoufoolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickenedexcept it die:
37 and that which thou sowest, thou sowestnot the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance ofwheat, or of some other kind;
38 but God giveth it a bodyeven as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one[flesh] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another fleshof birds, and another of fishes.
40 There are alsocelestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of thecelestial is one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of themoon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differethfrom another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrectionof the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised inincorruption:
43 it is sown in dishonor; it is raised inglory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 itis sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If thereis a natural body, there is also a spiritual [body].
45 Soalso it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. Thelast Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.
46 Howbeit that isnot first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; thenthat which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth,earthy: the second man is of heaven.
48 As is the earthy,such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, suchare they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have bornethe image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of theheavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and bloodcannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruptioninherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: Weall shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in amoment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for thetrumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must puton incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But when this corruptible shall have put onincorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death isswallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy victory?O death, where is thy sting?
56 The sting of death is sin;and the power of sin is the law:
57 but thanks be to God,who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye knowthat your labor is not vain in the Lord.
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as Igave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.
2 Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him instore, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when Icome.
3 And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve,them will I send with letters to carry your bounty untoJerusalem:
4 and if it be meet for me to go also, theyshall go with me.
5 But I will come unto you, when I shallhave passed through Macedonia; for I pass through Macedonia;
6 but with you it may be that I shall abide, or evenwinter, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever Igo.
7 For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for Ihope to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
8 But Iwill tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost;
9 for a great doorand effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you withoutfear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do:
11 let no man therefore despise him. But set him forward on hisjourney in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect himwith the brethren.
12 But as touching Apollos the brother,I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and itwas not all [his] will to come now; but he will come when heshall have opportunity.
13 Watch ye, stand fast in thefaith, quit you like men, be strong.
14 Let all that ye dobe done in love.
15 Now I beseech you, brethren (ye knowthe house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia,and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),
16 that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to everyone that helpeth in the work and laboreth.
17 And I rejoiceat the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for thatwhich was lacking on your part they supplied.
18 For theyrefreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore themthat are such.
19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquilaand Prisca salute you much in the Lord, with the church that isin their house.
20 All the brethren salute you. Salute oneanother with a holy kiss.
21 The salutation of me Paul withmine own hand.
22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let himbe anathema. Maranatha.
23 The grace of the Lord JesusChrist be with you.
24 My love be with you all in ChristJesus. Amen.
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