
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

   {1:1} Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the
will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, {1:2} unto the church of God
which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus,
called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours: {1:3} Grace to you
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:4} I thank
my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you
in Christ Jesus; {1:5} that in everything ye were enriched in him, in
all utterance and all knowledge; {1:6} even as the testimony of Christ
was confirmed in you: {1:7} so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting
for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; {1:8} who shall also
confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ. {1:9} God is faithful, through whom ye were called
into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. {1:10} Now I
beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
ye all speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you;
but [that] ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same
judgment. {1:11} For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my
brethren, by them [that are of the household] of Chloe, that there are
contentions among you. {1:12} Now this I mean, that each one of you
saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of
Christ. {1:13} Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were
ye baptized into the name of Paul? {1:14} I thank God that I baptized
none of you, save Crispus and Gaius; {1:15} lest any man should say
that ye were baptized into my name. {1:16} And I baptized also the
household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any
other. {1:17} For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the
gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made
void. {1:18} For the word of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God. {1:19}
For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.

   {1:20} Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer
of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
{1:21} For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its
wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness
of the preaching to save them that believe. {1:22} Seeing that Jews ask
for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom: {1:23} but we preach Christ
crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;
{1:24} but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God. {1:25} Because the foolishness of
God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
{1:26} For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: {1:27} but God
chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them
that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he
might put to shame the things that are strong; {1:28} and the base
things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose,
[yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the
things that are: {1:29} that no flesh should glory before God. {1:30}
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from
God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: {1:31} that,
according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.



   {2:1} And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with
excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of
God. {2:2} For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus
Christ, and him crucified. {2:3} And I was with you in weakness, and in
fear, and in much trembling. {2:4} And my speech and my preaching were
not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power: {2:5} that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God. {2:6} We speak wisdom, however, among
them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the
rulers of this world, who are coming to nought: {2:7} but we speak
God's wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hath been hidden,
which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory: {2:8} which
none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory: {2:9} 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.

   {2:10} But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. {2:11} For
who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man,
which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the
Spirit of God. {2:12} But we received, not the spirit of the world, but
the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were
freely given to us of God. {2:13} Which things also we speak, not in
words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth;
combining spiritual things with spiritual [words]. {2:14} Now the
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. {2:15} But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,
and he himself is judged of no man. {2:16} For who hath known the mind
of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of
Christ.



   {3:1} And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. {3:2} I fed you with milk,
not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it]: nay, not even now
are ye able; {3:3} for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among
you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after
the manner of men? {3:4} For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another,
I am of Apollos; are ye not men? {3:5} What then is Apollos? and what
is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave
to him. {3:6} I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
{3:7} So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that
watereth; but God that giveth the increase. {3:8} Now he that planteth
and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward
according to his own labor. {3:9} For we are God's fellow-workers: ye
are God's husbandry, God's building. {3:10} According to the grace of
God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a
foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed
how he buildeth thereon. {3:11} For other foundation can no man lay
than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. {3:12} But if any man
buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay,
stubble; {3:13} each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day
shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself
shall prove each man's work of what sort it is. {3:14} If any man's
work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
{3:15} If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire. {3:16} Know ye not that
ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
{3:17} If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye. {3:18} Let no man
deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this
world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. {3:19} For the
wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He
that taketh the wise in their craftiness: {3:20} and again, The Lord
knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain. {3:21} Wherefore
let no one glory in men. For all things are yours; {3:22} whether Paul,
or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things to come; all are yours; {3:23} and ye are Christ's;
and Christ is God's.





   {4:1} Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and
stewards of the mysteries of God. {4:2} Here, moreover, it is required
in stewards, that a man be found faithful. {4:3} But with me it is a
very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment:
yea, I judge not mine own self. {4:4} For I know nothing against
myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the
Lord. {4:5} Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord
come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and
make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have
his praise from God. {4:6} Now these things, brethren, I have in a
figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye
might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no
one of you be puffed up for the one against the other. {4:7} For who
maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not
received it? {4:8} Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich,
ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign,
that we also might reign with you. {4:9} For, I think, God hath set
forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are
made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. {4:10} We are
fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye
are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. {4:11} Even unto this
present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are
buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; {4:12} and we toil,
working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted,
we endure; {4:13} being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth
of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now. {4:14} I
write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved
children. {4:15} For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet
[have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the
gospel. {4:16} I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me. {4:17}
For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and
faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways
which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church. {4:18}
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. {4:19} But
I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the
word of them that are puffed up, but the power. {4:20} For the kingdom
of God is not in word, but in power. {4:21} What will ye? shall I come
unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?





   {5:1} It is actually reported that there is fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of
you] hath his father's wife. {5:2} And ye are puffed up, and did not
rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from
among you. {5:3} For I verily, being absent in body but present in
spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so
wrought this thing, {5:4} in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being
gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
{5:5} to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the
flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. {5:6}
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump? {5:7} Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been
sacrificed, [even] Christ: {5:8} wherefore let us keep the feast, not
with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. {5:9} I wrote unto
you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; {5:10} not at
all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous
and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of
the world: {5:11} but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company,
if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an
idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a
one no, not to eat. {5:12} For what have I to do with judging them that
are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? {5:13} But them that
are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.



   {6:1} Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to
law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? {6:2} Or know ye
not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged
by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? {6:3} Know ye
not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to
this life? {6:4} If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this
life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?
{6:5} I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found]
among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his
brethren, {6:6} but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before
unbelievers? {6:7} Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that
ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not
rather be defrauded? {6:8} Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and
defraud, and that [your] brethren. {6:9} Or know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived:
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
abusers of themselves with men, {6:10} nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of
God. {6:11} And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were
sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and in the Spirit of our God. {6:12} All things are lawful for me; but
not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will
not be brought under the power of any. {6:13} Meats for the belly, and
the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them.
But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for
the body: {6:14} and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as
through his power. {6:15} Know ye not that your bodies are members of
Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them
members of a harlot? God forbid. {6:16} Or know ye not that he that is
joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become
one flesh. {6:17} But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
{6:18} Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
{6:19} Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
{6:20} for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your
body.



   {7:1} Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a
man not to touch a woman. {7:2} But, because of fornications, let each
man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. {7:3}
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the
wife unto the husband. {7:4} The wife hath not power over her own body,
but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his
own body, but the wife. {7:5} Defraud ye not one the other, except it
be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer,
and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your
incontinency. {7:6} But this I say by way of concession, not of
commandment. {7:7} Yet I would that all men were even as I myself.
Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and
another after that. {7:8} But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It
is good for them if they abide even as I. {7:9} But if they have not
continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
{7:10} But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord,
That the wife depart not from her husband {7:11} (but should she
depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her
husband); and that the husband leave not his wife. {7:12} But to the
rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and
she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. {7:13} And the
woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with
her, let her not leave her husband. {7:14} For the unbelieving husband
is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in
the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
{7:15} Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or
the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us
in peace. {7:16} For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save
thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save
thy wife? {7:17} Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God
hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.
{7:18} Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become
uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be
circumcised. {7:19} Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. {7:20} Let each
man abide in that calling wherein he was called. {7:21} Wast thou
called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst
become free, use [it] rather. {7:22} For he that was called in the Lord
being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was
called being free, is Christ's bondservant. {7:23} Ye were bought with
a price; become not bondservants of men. {7:24} Brethren, let each man,
wherein he was called, therein abide with God. {7:25} Now concerning
virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as
one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy. {7:26} I
think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is
upon us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to be as he is. {7:27} Art
thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a
wife? Seek not a wife. {7:28} But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not
sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have
tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you. {7:29} But this I say,
brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have
wives may be as though they had none; {7:30} and those that weep, as
though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced
not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not; {7:31} and those
that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of
this world passeth away. {7:32} But I would have you to be free from
cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how
he may please the Lord: {7:33} but he that is married is careful for
the things of the world, how he may please his wife, {7:34} and is
divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is
careful for the things of 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. {7:35} And this I say for your
own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is
seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
{7:36} But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward
his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if
need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them
marry. {7:37} But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own
virgin [daughter], shall do well. {7:38} So then both he that giveth
his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth
her not in marriage shall do better. {7:39} A wife is bound for so long
time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to
be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. {7:40} But she is
happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I
also have the Spirit of God.



   {8:1} Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all
have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. {8:2} If any
man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought
to know; {8:3} but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
{8:4} Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we
know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God
but one. {8:5} For though there be that are called gods, whether in
heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many; {8:6} yet
to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto
him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we
through him. {8:7} Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but
some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed
to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. {8:8} But food
will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse;
nor, if we eat, are we the better. {8:9} But take heed lest by any
means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. {8:10}
For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's
temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat
things sacrificed to idols? {8:11} For through thy knowledge he that is
weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. {8:12} And
thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when
it is weak, ye sin against Christ. {8:13} Wherefore, if meat causeth my
brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not
my brother to stumble.



   {9:1} Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our
Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord? {9:2} If to others I am not an
apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are
ye in the Lord. {9:3} My defence to them that examine me is this. {9:4}
Have we no right to eat and to drink? {9:5} Have we no right to lead
about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and
the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? {9:6} Or I only and Barnabas,
have we not a right to forbear working? {9:7} What soldier ever serveth
at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit
thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the
flock? {9:8} Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith
not the law also the same? {9:9} For it is written in the law of Moses,
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for
the oxen that God careth, {9:10} or saith he it assuredly for our sake?
Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow
in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.
{9:11} If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if
we shall reap your carnal things? {9:12} If others 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. {9:13} Know ye not that they that minister about
sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait
upon the altar have their portion with the altar? {9:14} Even so did
the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the
gospel. {9:15} But I have used none of these things: and I write not
these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for
me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.
{9:16} For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for
necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the
gospel. {9:17} For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but
if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me. {9:18}
What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the
gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the
gospel. {9:19} For though I was free from all [men,] I brought myself
under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. {9:20} And to the
Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under
the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might
gain them that are under the law; {9:21} to them that are without law,
as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ,
that I might gain them that are without law. {9:22} 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. {9:23} And I do all things for
the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof. {9:24} Know
ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the
prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. {9:25} And every man that
striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they
[do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. {9:26}
I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the
air: {9:27} but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by
any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be
rejected.



   {10:1} For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our
fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
{10:2} and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
{10:3} and did all eat the same spiritual food; {10:4} and did all
drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that
followed them: and the rock was Christ. {10:5} Howbeit with most of
them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the
wilderness. {10:6} Now these things were our examples, to the intent we
should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. {10:7} Neither
be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat
down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. {10:8} Neither let us
commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day
three and twenty thousand. {10:9} Neither let us make trial of the
Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents. {10:10}
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the
destroyer. {10:11} Now these things happened unto them by way of
example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends
of the ages are come. {10:12} Wherefore let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall. {10:13} There hath no temptation taken
you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer
you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation
make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it. {10:14}
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. {10:15} I speak as to wise
men; judge ye what I say. {10:16} The cup of blessing which we bless,
is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break,
is it not a communion of the body of Christ? {10:17} seeing that we,
who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the
one bread. {10:18} Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that
eat the sacrifices communion with the altar? {10:19} What say I then?
that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is
anything? {10:20} But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not
that ye should have communion with demons. {10:21} Ye cannot drink the
cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table
of the Lord, and of the table of demons. {10:22} Or do we provoke the
Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? {10:23} All things are
lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but
not all things edify. {10:24} Let no man seek his own, but [each] his
neighbor's [good]. {10:25} Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat,
asking no question for conscience' sake, {10:26} for the earth is the
Lord's, and the fulness thereof. {10:27} If one of them that believe
not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is
set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake. {10:28}
But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat
not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: {10:29}
conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my
liberty judged by another conscience? {10:30} If I partake with
thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
{10:31} Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all
to the glory of God. {10:32} Give no occasions of stumbling, either to
Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: {10:33} even as I also
please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the
[profit] of the many, that they may be saved.



   {11:1} Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. {11:2}
Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the
traditions, even as I delivered them to you. {11:3} But I would have
you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the
woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. {11:4} Every man
praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoreth his head.
{11:5} But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled
dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were
shaven. {11:6} For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but
if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.
{11:7} For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as
he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the
man. {11:8} For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:
{11:9} for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for
the man: {11:10} for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign of]
authority on her head, because of the angels. {11:11} Nevertheless,
neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in
the Lord. {11:12} For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by
the woman; but all things are of God. {11:13} Judge ye in yourselves:
is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled? {11:14} Doth not even
nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a
dishonor to him? {11:15} But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory
to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. {11:16} But if any
man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the
churches of God. {11:17} But in giving you this charge, I praise you
not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
{11:18} For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear
that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it. {11:19} For
there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may
be made manifest among you. {11:20} When therefore ye assemble
yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:
{11:21} for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own
supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. {11:22} What, have
ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God,
and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I
praise you? In this I praise you not. {11:23} For I received of the
Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the
night in which he was betrayed took bread; {11:24} and when he had
given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you:
this do in remembrance of me. {11:25} In like manner also the cup,
after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this
do, as often as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me. {11:26} For as
often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's
death till he come. {11:27} Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or
drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the
body and the blood of the Lord. {11:28} But let a man prove himself,
and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. {11:29} For he
that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if
he discern not the body. {11:30} For this cause many among you are weak
and sickly, and not a few sleep. {11:31} But if we discerned ourselves,
we should not be judged. {11:32} But when we are judged, we are
chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
{11:33} Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one
for another. {11:34} If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that
your coming together be not unto judgment. And the rest will I set in
order whensoever I come.



   {12:1} Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have
you ignorant. {12:2} Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led
away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led. {12:3} Wherefore I
make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith,
Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy
Spirit. {12:4} Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
{12:5} And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.
{12:6} And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who
worketh all things in all. {12:7} But to each one is given the
manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. {12:8} For to one is
given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of
knowledge, according to the same Spirit: {12:9} to another faith, in
the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit;
{12:10} and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy;
and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of
tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: {12:11} but all
these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one
severally even as he will. {12:12} For as the body is one, and hath
many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one
body; so also is Christ. {12:13} For in one Spirit were we all baptized
into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were
all made to drink of one Spirit. {12:14} For the body is not one
member, but many. {12:15} If the foot shall say, Because I am not the
hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
{12:16} And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of
the body; it is not therefore not of the body. {12:17} If the whole
body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing,
where were the smelling? {12:18} But now hath God set the members each
one of them in the body, even as it pleased him. {12:19} And if they
were all one member, where were the body? {12:20} But now they are many
members, but one body. {12:21} And the eye cannot say to the hand, I
have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of
you. {12:22} Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to
be more feeble are necessary: {12:23} and those [parts] of the body,
which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant
honor; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness; {12:24}
whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body
together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked;
{12:25} that there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the
members should have the same care one for another. {12:26} And whether
one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member
is honored, all the members rejoice with it. {12:27} Now ye are the
body of Christ, and severally members thereof. {12:28} And God hath set
some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly
teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments,
[divers] kinds of tongues. {12:29} Are all apostles? are all prophets?
are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles? {12:30} have all gifts
of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? {12:31} But
desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way
show I unto you.



   {13:1} If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. {13:2} And
if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all
knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing. {13:3} And if I bestow all my goods to feed
[the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it
profiteth me nothing. {13:4} Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love
envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {13:5} doth
not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked,
taketh not account of evil; {13:6} rejoiceth not in unrighteousness,
but rejoiceth with the truth; {13:7} beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. {13:8} Love never
faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away;
whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be]
knowledge, it shall be done away. {13:9} For we know in part, and we
prophesy in part; {13:10} but when that which is perfect is come, that
which is in part shall be done away. {13:11} When I was a child, I
spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I
am become a man, I have put away childish things. {13:12} For now we
see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but
then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. {13:13} But now
abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is
love.



   {14:1} Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts],
but rather that ye may prophesy. {14:2} For he that speaketh in a
tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth;
but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. {14:3} But he that prophesieth
speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation. {14:4}
He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth
edifieth the church. {14:5} Now I would have you all speak with
tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that
prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret,
that the church may receive edifying. {14:6} But now, brethren, if I
come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I
speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of
prophesying, or of teaching? {14:7} Even things without life, giving a
voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the
sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? {14:8} For if
the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
{14:9} So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be
understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be
speaking into the air. {14:10} There are, it may be, so many kinds of
voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification. {14:11} If
then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that
speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.
{14:12} So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek
that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church. {14:13} Wherefore
let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret. {14:14}
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is
unfruitful. {14:15} What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I
will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and
I will sing with the understanding also. {14:16} Else if thou bless
with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned
say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou
sayest? {14:17} For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is
not edified. {14:18} I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you
all: {14:19} howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with
my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand
words in a tongue. {14:20} Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in
malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. {14:21} In the law it is
written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I
speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the
Lord. {14:22} Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that
believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not
to the unbelieving, but to them that believe. {14:23} If therefore the
whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and
there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye
are mad? {14:24} But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving
or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all; {14:25} the
secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his
face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed. {14:26}
What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a
psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an
interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. {14:27} If any
man speaketh in a tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most three, and
[that] in turn; and let one interpret: {14:28} but if there be no
interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to
himself, and to God. {14:29} And let the prophets speak [by] two or
three, and let the others discern. {14:30} But if a revelation be made
to another sitting by, let the first keep silence. {14:31} For ye all
can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;
{14:32} and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;
{14:33} for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all
the churches of the saints, {14:34} let the women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be
in subjection, as also saith the law. {14:35} And if they would learn
anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful
for a woman to speak in the church. {14:36} What? was it from you that
the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone? {14:37} If any
man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take
knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the
commandment of the Lord. {14:38} But if any man is ignorant, let him be
ignorant. {14:39} Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy,
and forbid not to speak with tongues. {14:40} But let all things be
done decently and in order.



   {15:1} Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I
preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,
{15:2} by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I
preached unto you, except ye believed in vain. {15:3} For I delivered
unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for
our sins according to the scriptures; {15:4} and that he was buried;
and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the
scriptures; {15:5} and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;
{15:6} then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom
the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep; {15:7}
then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles; {15:8} and last of
all, as to the [child] untimely born, he appeared to me also. {15:9}
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an
apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. {15:10} But by the
grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me
was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet
not I, but the grace of God which was with me. {15:11} Whether then [it
be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. {15:12} Now if Christ
is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among
you that there is no resurrection of the dead? {15:13} But if there is
no resurrection of the dead, neither hath Christ been raised: {15:14}
and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your
faith also is vain. {15:15} Yea, we are found false witnesses of God;
because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised
not up, if so be that the dead are not raised. {15:16} For if the dead
are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised: {15:17} and if Christ
hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
{15:18} Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
{15:19} If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men
most pitiable. {15:20} But now hath Christ been raised from the dead,
the firstfruits of them that are asleep. {15:21} For since by man
[came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead. {15:22}
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
{15:23} But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they
that are Christ's, at his coming. {15:24} Then [cometh] the end, when
he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall
have abolished all rule and all authority and power. {15:25} For he
must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet. {15:26}
The last enemy that shall be abolished is death. {15:27} For, He put
all things in subjection under his feet. But when he saith, All things
are put in subjection, it is evident that he is excepted who did
subject all things unto him. {15:28} And when all things have been
subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him
that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all.
{15:29} Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the
dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
{15:30} Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? {15:31} I protest
by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our
Lord, I die daily. {15:32} If after the manner of 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-morrow we die. {15:33} Be not deceived:
Evil companionships corrupt good morals. {15:34} Awake to soberness
righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak
[this] to move you to shame. {15:35} But some one will say, How are the
dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? {15:36} Thou
foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it
die: {15:37} and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that
shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other
kind; {15:38} but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to
each seed a body of its own. {15:39} All flesh is not the same flesh:
but there is one [flesh] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and
another flesh of birds, and another of fishes. {15:40} There are also
celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the
celestial is one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial is another.
{15:41} There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another
star in glory. {15:42} So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is
sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: {15:43} it is sown in
dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised
in power: {15:44} it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual
body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [body].
{15:45} So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul.
The last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit. {15:46} Howbeit that is
not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that
which is spiritual. {15:47} The first man is of the earth, earthy: the
second man is of heaven. {15:48} As is the earthy, such are they also
that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly. {15:49} And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly. {15:50} Now this I say,
brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. {15:51} Behold, I tell
you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
{15:52} in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed. {15:53} For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. {15:54} But when
this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall
have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in victory. {15:55} O death, where is
thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? {15:56} The sting of death is
sin; and the power of sin is the law: {15:57} but thanks be to God, who
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. {15:58} Wherefore,
my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain
in the Lord.



   {16:1} Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order
to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye. {16:2} Upon the first day of
the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper,
that no collections be made when I come. {16:3} And when I arrive,
whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry
your bounty unto Jerusalem: {16:4} and if it be meet for me to go also,
they shall go with me. {16:5} But I will come unto you, when I shall
have passed through Macedonia; for I pass through Macedonia; {16:6} but
with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye may set
me forward on my journey whithersoever I go. {16:7} For I do not wish
to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with you, if the
Lord permit. {16:8} But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost; {16:9}
for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many
adversaries. {16:10} Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you
without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do:
{16:11} let no man therefore despise him. But set him forward on his
journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the
brethren. {16:12} But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him
much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not all [his] will
to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity. {16:13}
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
{16:14} Let all that ye do be done in love. {16:15} Now I beseech you,
brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of
Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),
{16:16} that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that
helpeth in the work and laboreth. {16:17} And I rejoice at the coming
of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on
your part they supplied. {16:18} For they refreshed my spirit and
yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such. {16:19} The
churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in the
Lord, with the church that is in their house. {16:20} All the brethren
salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss. {16:21} The salutation
of me Paul with mine own hand. {16:22} If any man loveth not the Lord,
let him be anathema. Maranatha. {16:23} The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ be with you. {16:24} My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.
Amen.




