| 1:1 |
Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother Sosthenes, |
| 1:2 |
To the church of God which is atin Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: |
| 1:6 |
evenjust as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you, |
| 1:7 |
so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaitingas you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 1:8 |
who will also confirm you to the end, blameless inon the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:10 |
Now I exhorturge you, brethrenbrothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. |
| 1:11 |
For I have been informed concerning you, my brethrenbrothers and sisters, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you. |
| 1:12 |
Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am ofwith Paul,” andor “I ofam with Apollos,” andor “I ofam with Cephas,” andor “I ofam with Christ.” |
| 1:14 |
I thankam Godthankful that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, |
| 1:15 |
so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.! |
| 1:16 |
NowBut I did baptize also the household of Stephanas also; beyond that, I do not know whetherif I baptized anyanyone otherelse. |
| 1:17 |
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not inwith cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made voidof no effect. |
| 1:19 |
For it is written,: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the clevernessunderstanding of thethose cleverwho have understanding, I will set asideconfound.” |
| 1:20 |
Where is the wise manperson? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? |
| 1:21 |
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. |
| 1:23 |
but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness, |
| 1:25 |
BecauseFor the foolishness of God is wiser than menmankind, and the weakness of God is stronger than menmankind. |
| 1:26 |
For consider your calling, brethrenbrothers and sisters, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; |
| 1:28 |
and the baseinsignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, |
| 1:29 |
so that no manhuman may boast before God. |
| 1:30 |
But byit Hisis doingdue to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, |
| 1:31 |
so that, just as it is written,: “Let himthe one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” |
| 2:1 |
And when I came to you, brethrenbrothers and sisters, I did not come withas superioritysomeone ofsuperior speechin speaking ability or of wisdom, proclaimingas I proclaimed to you the testimony of God. |
| 2:3 |
I also was with you in weakness and in fear, and in muchgreat trembling, |
| 2:5 |
so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of menmankind, but on the power of God. |
| 2:8 |
the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; |
| 2:9 |
but just as it is written,: “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the human heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.” |
| 2:11 |
For who among menpeople knows the thoughts of a manperson except the spirit of the manperson whichthat is in him? EvenSo soalso the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. |
| 2:12 |
Now we have not received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,. |
| 2:13 |
whichWe thingsalso wespeak alsothese speakthings, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. |
| 2:14 |
But a natural manperson does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraiseddiscerned. |
| 2:15 |
But hethe one who is spiritual appraisesdiscerns all things, yet he himself is appraiseddiscerned by no one. |
| 3:1 |
And I, brethrenbrothers and sisters, could not speak to you as to spiritual menpeople, but only as to men of fleshfleshly, as to infants in Christ. |
| 3:2 |
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receiveconsume it. Indeed,But even now you are not yet able, |
| 3:3 |
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mereordinary menpeople? |
| 3:4 |
For when one person says, “I am ofwith Paul,” and another, “I am ofwith Apollos,” are you not mereordinary menpeople? |
| 3:8 |
Now hethe one who plants and hethe one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. |
| 3:10 |
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each manperson must be careful how he builds on it. |
| 3:11 |
For no manone can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. |
| 3:12 |
Now if anyanyone man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, |
| 3:13 |
each manone’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each manone’s work. |
| 3:14 |
If any mananyone’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. |
| 3:15 |
If any mananyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet only so as through fire. |
| 3:17 |
If anyanyone man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him,that person; for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. |
| 3:18 |
Let Take care that no manone deceivedeceives himself. If anyanyone man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise. |
| 3:19 |
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness beforein the sight of God. For it is written,: “He is the one who catches the wise inby their craftiness”; |
| 3:20 |
and again, “The Lord knows the reasoningsthoughts of the wise, that they are useless.” |
| 3:21 |
So then, let no one boastis to be boasting in menpeople. For all things belong to you, |
| 3:22 |
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come; all things belong to you, |
| 3:23 |
and you belong to Christ;, and Christ belongs to God. |
| 4:1 |
LetThis ais manthe regardway usany inperson thisis manner,to regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. |
| 4:3 |
But to me it is aan veryinsignificant smallmatter thing that I maywould be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. |
| 4:4 |
For I am consciousnot aware of nothinganything against myself,; yethowever I am not vindicated by this, acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord. |
| 4:5 |
Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’shuman hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to himeach person from God. |
| 4:6 |
Now these things, brethrenbrothers and sisters, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos foron your sakesaccount, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other. |
| 4:7 |
For who regardsconsiders you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? |
| 4:8 |
You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.! |
| 4:9 |
For, I think, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all, as men condemned to death;, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to menmankind. |
| 4:10 |
We are fools foron account of Christ’s sake, but you are prudent in Christ;! weWe are weak, but you are strong;! youYou are distinguished, but we are without honor.! |
| 4:11 |
ToUp to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless; |
| 4:12 |
and we toillabor, working with our own hands; when we are reviledverbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; |
| 4:13 |
when we are slandered, we tryreply toas conciliatefriends; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. |
| 4:16 |
Therefore I exhorturge you, be imitators of me. |
| 4:19 |
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant, but their power. |
| 4:20 |
For the kingdom of God doesis not consist in words, but in power. |
| 4:21 |
What do you desire? ShallThat I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness? |
| 5:1 |
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father’s wife. |
| 5:5 |
I have decided to deliverturn such a oneperson over to Satan for the destruction of his fleshbody, so that his spirit may be saved inon the day of the Lord Jesus. |
| 5:8 |
Therefore let’s us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. |
| 5:9 |
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people; |
| 5:10 |
I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetousgreedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to goleave out of the world. |
| 5:11 |
But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is ana sexually immoral person, or covetousa greedy person, or an idolater, or ais revilerverbally abusive, or ahabitually drunkarddrunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a oneperson. |
| 5:12 |
For what havebusiness Iof tomine dois withit judgingto judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? |
| 5:13 |
But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wickedevil manperson from among yourselves. |
| 6:2 |
Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constituteform the smallest law courts? |
| 6:5 |
I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you oneanyone wise man who will be able to decide between his brethrenbrothers and sisters, |
| 6:7 |
Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather besuffer wrongedthe wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? |
| 6:8 |
On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. YouAnd do this even to your brethren.brothers and sisters! |
| 6:9 |
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicatorsthe sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, |
| 6:10 |
nor thieves, nor the covetousgreedy, nor drunkardsthose habitually drunk, nor revilersverbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. |
| 6:12 |
All things are lawfulpermitted for me, but not all things are profitableof benefit. All things are lawfulpermitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. |
| 6:13 |
Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, buthowever God will do away with both of them. YetBut the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. |
| 6:15 |
Do you not know that your bodies are membersparts of Christ? Shall I then take away the membersparts of Christ and make them membersparts of a prostitute? MayFar from it never be! |
| 6:18 |
Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a manperson commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral manperson sins against his own body. |
| 6:19 |
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit whowithin is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? |
| 6:20 |
For you have been bought withfor a price: therefore glorify God in your body. |
| 7:2 |
But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. |
| 7:3 |
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife also to her husband. |
| 7:4 |
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. |
| 7:5 |
Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. |
| 7:7 |
Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this mannerway, and another in that. |
| 7:10 |
But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife shouldis not to leave her husband |
| 7:11 |
(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband shouldis not to divorce his wife. |
| 7:12 |
But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has aan unbelieving wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. |
| 7:13 |
And aif any woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not senddivorce her husband away. |
| 7:15 |
Yet if the unbelieving one leavesis leaving, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us toin peace. |
| 7:16 |
For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife? |
| 7:17 |
Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this mannerway let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches. |
| 7:20 |
Each manperson mustis to remain in that conditionstate in which he was called. |
| 7:21 |
Were you called whileas a slave? Do not worrylet about it; butconcern you. But if you are also able also to become free, rathertake doadvantage of that. |
| 7:22 |
For hethe one who was called in the Lord whileas a slave, is the Lord’s freedmanfreed person; likewise hethe one who was called whileas free, is Christ’s slave. |
| 7:23 |
You were bought withfor a price; do not become slaves of menpeople. |
| 7:24 |
BrethrenBrothers and sisters, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called. |
| 7:25 |
Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord, but I giveam anoffering opiniondirection as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. |
| 7:26 |
I think, then, that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is. |
| 7:28 |
But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people as yourselves will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you. |
| 7:29 |
But this I say, brethrenbrothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; |
| 7:31 |
and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the present form of this world is passing away. |
| 7:35 |
This I say this for your own benefit;, not to put a restraint uponon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord. |
| 7:36 |
But if anyanyone man thinks that he is acting unbecominglydishonorably toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it mustought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he doesis not sinsinning; let herthem marry. |
| 7:37 |
But hethe one who stands firm in his heart, beingif he is not under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well. |
| 7:38 |
So then, both hethe one who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and hethe one who does not give her in marriage will do better. |
| 7:39 |
A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is deaddies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. |
| 8:1 |
Now concerning thingsfood sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogantone conceited, but love edifies people. |
| 8:2 |
If anyone supposesthinks that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; |
| 8:4 |
Therefore, concerning the eating of thingsfood sacrificed to idols, we know that therean idol is nonothing suchat thingall as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one. |
| 8:6 |
yet for us there is butonly one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. |
| 8:7 |
However, not all menpeople have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. |
| 8:8 |
ButNow food will not commendbring us close to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. |
| 8:9 |
But take care that this libertyfreedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. |
| 8:10 |
For if someone sees you, the one who havehas knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? |
| 8:11 |
For through your knowledge hethe one who is weak is ruined, the brother or sister for whose sake Christ died. |
| 8:12 |
And so, by sinning against the brethrenbrothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. |
| 8:13 |
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumblesin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumblesin. |
| 9:2 |
If to others I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. |
| 9:5 |
Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? |
| 9:6 |
Or do only Barnabas and I not have ano right to refrain from working? |
| 9:7 |
Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat theits fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not useconsume some of the milk of the flock? |
| 9:8 |
I am not speakingjust asserting these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law alsonot say these things as well? |
| 9:9 |
For it is written in the Law of Moses,: “You shall not muzzle the ox while heit is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He? |
| 9:10 |
Or is He speaking altogetherentirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops. |
| 9:15 |
But I have used none of these things. And I amhave not writingwritten these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than havethat. anyNo manone shall make my boast an empty one.! |
| 9:16 |
For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast ofabout, for I am under compulsion; for woe isto me if I do not preach the gospel. |
| 9:17 |
For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have abeen stewardship entrusted towith mea commission nonetheless. |
| 9:18 |
What, then, is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. |
| 9:19 |
For though I am free from all menpeople, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may wingain more. |
| 9:20 |
To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might wingain Jews; to those who are under the Law, I became as one under the Law, though not being myself under the Law myself, so that I might wingain those who are under the Law; |
| 9:21 |
to those who are without lawthe Law, I became as one without lawthe Law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might wingain those who are without lawthe Law. |
| 9:22 |
To the weak I became weak, that I might wingain the weak; I have become all things to all menpeople, so that I may by all means save some. |
| 9:25 |
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. TheySo thenthey do it to receiveobtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. |
| 9:26 |
Therefore I run in such a way, as not withoutto aimrun aimlessly; I box in such a way, as notto beatingavoid thehitting air; |
| 9:27 |
but I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. |
| 10:1 |
For I do not want you to be unaware, brethrenbrothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and they all passed through the sea; |
| 10:2 |
and they all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; |
| 10:3 |
and they all ate the same spiritual food;, |
| 10:5 |
Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for theytheir dead bodies were laidspread lowout in the wilderness. |
| 10:6 |
Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they alsoindeed craved them. |
| 10:7 |
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written,: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stoodrose up to play.” |
| 10:8 |
Nor letare uswe actto immorallycommit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. |
| 10:9 |
Nor letare uswe tryto put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyedkilled by the serpentssnakes. |
| 10:10 |
Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyedkilled by the destroyer. |
| 10:12 |
Therefore let himthe one who thinks he stands takewatch heedout that he does not fall. |
| 10:13 |
No temptation has overtaken you butexcept suchsomething as is common to manmankind; and God is faithful, whoso He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. |
| 10:15 |
I speak as to wise menpeople; you then, judge what I say. |
| 10:16 |
Is not the cup of blessing which we bless not a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break not a sharing in the body of Christ? |
| 10:17 |
Since there is one breadloaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one breadloaf. |
| 10:18 |
Look at the nationpeople of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharersnot partners in the altar? |
| 10:19 |
What do I mean then? That afood thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? |
| 10:20 |
No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharerspartners inwith demons. |
| 10:23 |
All things are lawfulpermitted, but not all things are profitableof benefit. All things are lawfulpermitted, but not all things edifybuild people up. |
| 10:24 |
LetNo no one is to seek his own goodadvantage, but rather that of his neighbor. |
| 10:25 |
Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions, for conscience’the sake of conscience; |
| 10:27 |
If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions, for conscience’the sake of conscience. |
| 10:28 |
But if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of thethat one who informed you, and for conscience’the sake of conscience; |
| 10:29 |
Now by “conscience” I meando not mean your own conscience, but the other manperson’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience? |
| 10:30 |
If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerningabout that for which I give thanks? |
| 10:31 |
WhetherTherefore, then,whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all tothings for the glory of God. |
| 10:32 |
GiveDo nonot offenseoffend either to Jews or to Greeks, or to the church of God; |
| 10:33 |
just as I also please alleveryone men in all things, not seeking my own profitbenefit but the profitbenefit of the many, so that they may be saved. |
| 11:2 |
Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I deliveredhanded them down to you. |
| 11:5 |
But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for sheit is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved. |
| 11:6 |
For if a woman does not cover her head, lethave her also havecut her hair cut off; buthowever, if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, lethave her cover her head. |
| 11:7 |
For a man oughtshould not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. |
| 11:10 |
Therefore the woman oughtshould to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. |
| 11:12 |
For as the woman originatesoriginated from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God. |
| 11:14 |
Does not even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, |
| 11:15 |
but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her foras a covering. |
| 11:16 |
But if oneanyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no othersuch practice, nor have the churches of God. |
| 11:17 |
ButNow in giving this next instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse. |
| 11:19 |
For there must also have to be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you. |
| 11:20 |
Therefore when you meetcome together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper, |
| 11:21 |
for inwhen youryou eatingeat, each one takes his own supper first; and one isgoes hungry andwhile another isgets drunk. |
| 11:22 |
What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shallam I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I willdo not praise you. |
| 11:23 |
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, inon the night inwhen which He was betrayed, took bread; |
| 11:25 |
In the same way He also took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” |
| 11:27 |
Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy mannerway, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. |
| 11:28 |
But a manperson must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. |
| 11:29 |
For hethe one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judgeproperly recognize the body rightly. |
| 11:30 |
For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleepare asleep. |
| 11:33 |
So then, my brethrenbrothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. |
| 11:34 |
If anyone is hungry, lethave him eat at home, so that you willdo not come together for judgment. TheAs to the remaining matters, I will arrangegive instructions when I come. |
| 12:1 |
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethrenbrothers and sisters, I do not want you to be unaware. |
| 12:12 |
For evenjust as the body is one and yet has many membersparts, and all the membersparts of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. |
| 12:14 |
For the body is not one memberpart, but many. |
| 12:15 |
If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. |
| 12:16 |
And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. |
| 12:17 |
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? |
| 12:18 |
But now God has placedarranged the membersparts, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. |
| 12:19 |
If they were all one memberpart, where would the body be? |
| 12:20 |
But now there are many membersparts, but one body. |
| 12:21 |
And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again, the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” |
| 12:22 |
On the contrary, it is much truer that the membersparts of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; |
| 12:23 |
and those membersparts of the body which we deemconsider less honorable, on these we bestow moregreater abundant honor, and our less presentable membersparts become much more presentable, |
| 12:24 |
whereas our more presentable membersparts have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that memberpart which lacked, |
| 12:25 |
so that there may be no division in the body, but that the membersparts may have the same care for one another. |
| 12:26 |
And if one memberpart of the body suffers, all the membersparts suffer with it; if onea memberpart is honored, all the membersparts rejoice with it. |
| 12:27 |
Now you are Christ’s body, and individually membersparts of it. |
| 12:28 |
And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, and various kinds of tongues. |
| 12:31 |
But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And yet, I am going to show you a stillfar morebetter excellent way. |
| 13:1 |
If I speak with the tongues of menmankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. |
| 13:2 |
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 do not have love, I am nothing. |
| 13:3 |
And if I give away all my possessions to feed the poorcharity, and if I surrender my body toso bethat burnedI may glory, but do not have love, it profitsdoes me nothingno good. |
| 13:4 |
Love is patient, love is kind, andit is not jealous; love does not brag, andit is not arrogant,. |
| 13:5 |
It does not act unbecomingly;disgracefully, it does not seek its own, benefit; it is not provoked, does not takekeep intoan account of a wrong suffered, |
| 13:6 |
it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; |
| 13:7 |
bearsit allkeeps thingsevery confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
| 13:8 |
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. |
| 13:9 |
For we know in part and we prophesy in part; |
| 13:10 |
but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. |
| 13:12 |
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. |
| 13:13 |
But now faith, hope, and love remain, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
| 14:1 |
Pursue love, yet earnestly desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. |
| 14:2 |
For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to menpeople, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries. |
| 14:3 |
But the one who prophesies speaks to menpeople for edification, and exhortation, and consolation. |
| 14:4 |
OneThe one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but the one who prophesies edifies the church. |
| 14:5 |
Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but evenrather more that you would prophesy; and greater is the one who prophesies than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifyingedification. |
| 14:6 |
But now, brethrenbrothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, whathow will I profitbenefit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophecy, or of teaching? |
| 14:7 |
Yet even lifeless thingsinstruments, eitherwhether flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? |
| 14:8 |
For if the bugletrumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle? |
| 14:9 |
So alsoyou youtoo, unless you utterproduce intelligible speech by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will just be speakingtalking intoto the air. |
| 14:10 |
There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and nonone kind is withoutincapable of meaning. |
| 14:11 |
IfSo thenif I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be unintelligible to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be aunintelligible barbarian to me. |
| 14:12 |
So alsoyou youtoo, since you are zealouseager ofto possess spiritual gifts, seekstrive to aboundexcel for the edification of the church. |
| 14:13 |
Therefore, let one who speaks in a tongue is to pray that he may interpret. |
| 14:14 |
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitfulunproductive. |
| 14:15 |
What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit, andbut I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit, andbut I will sing with the mind also. |
| 14:16 |
OtherwiseFor otherwise, if you bless God in the spirit only, how will the one who fillsoccupies the place of the ungiftedoutsider know to say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not knowunderstand what you are saying? |
| 14:19 |
howevernevertheless, in the church I desireprefer to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue. |
| 14:20 |
BrethrenBrothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature. |
| 14:21 |
In the Law it is written,: “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the Lord. |
| 14:22 |
So then, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not tofor unbelievers, but tofor those who believe. |
| 14:23 |
Therefore if the whole church assemblesgathers together and all the people speak in tongues, and ungiftedoutsiders men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are madinsane? |
| 14:24 |
But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungiftedoutsider man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all; |
| 14:26 |
What is the outcome then, brethrenbrothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. LetAll all things are to be done for edification. |
| 14:27 |
If anyone speaks in a tongue, it shouldmust be by two or at the most three, and each one in turn, and one mustis to interpret; |
| 14:28 |
but if there is no interpreter, he mustis to keep silent in the church; and lethave him speak to himself and to God. |
| 14:29 |
LetHave two or three prophets speak, and lethave the others pass judgment. |
| 14:30 |
But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, then the first one mustis to keep silent. |
| 14:33 |
for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace,. asAs in all the churches of the saints., |
| 14:34 |
Thethe women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says. |
| 14:36 |
WasOr was it from you that the word of God first went forthout? Or has it come to you only? |
| 14:37 |
If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment. |
| 14:39 |
Therefore, my brethrenbrothers and sisters, earnestly desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid tospeaking speak in tongues. |
| 14:40 |
But all things must be done properly and in an orderly mannerway. |
| 15:1 |
Now I make known to you, brethrenbrothers and sisters, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also you received, in which you also you stand, |
| 15:2 |
by which you also you are saved, if you hold fastfirmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. |
| 15:3 |
For I deliveredhanded down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, |
| 15:6 |
After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethrenbrothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; |
| 15:13 |
But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; |
| 15:14 |
and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, your faith also is in vain. |
| 15:15 |
Moreover, we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. |
| 15:16 |
For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised; |
| 15:18 |
Then also those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. |
| 15:19 |
If we have hoped in Christ only in this life only, we are of all menpeople most to be pitied. |
| 15:20 |
But nowthe fact is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. |
| 15:21 |
For since by a man death came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. |
| 15:24 |
then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to theour God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. |
| 15:27 |
For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evidentclear that Hethis isexcludes exceptedthe Father who put all things in subjection to Him. |
| 15:28 |
When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all. |
| 15:29 |
OtherwiseFor otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them? |
| 15:31 |
I affirm, brethrenbrothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily. |
| 15:32 |
If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what doesgood is it profitto me? If the dead are not raised, let’s us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. |
| 15:34 |
BecomeSober sober-mindedup asmorally you ought, and stop sinning;, for some have no knowledge of God. I speaksay this to your shame. |
| 15:39 |
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of menmankind, and another flesh of beastsanimals, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. |
| 15:41 |
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. |
| 15:45 |
So also it is written,: “The first man, Adam, became a living soulperson.” The last Adam becamewas a life-giving spirit. |
| 15:48 |
As is the earthy one, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly one, so also are those who are heavenly. |
| 15:50 |
Now I say this, brethrenbrothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. |
| 15:51 |
Behold, I tellam telling you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, |
| 15:54 |
But when this perishable willputs have put on the imperishable, and this mortal willputs have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written,: “Death ishas been swallowed up in victory. |
| 15:55 |
Where, O deathDeath, where is your victory? Where, O deathDeath, where is your sting?” |
| 15:56 |
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the lawLaw; |
| 15:58 |
Therefore, my beloved brethrenbrothers and sisters, be steadfastfirm, immovable, always aboundingexcelling in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toillabor is not in vain in the Lord. |
| 16:1 |
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you are to do youas alsowell. |
| 16:2 |
On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections need to be made when I come. |
| 16:3 |
When I arrive, whomever you may approve, I will send them with letters to carrytake your gift to Jerusalem; |
| 16:4 |
and if it is fittingappropriate for me to go also, they will go with me. |
| 16:5 |
But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia,; for I am going through Macedonia;, |
| 16:6 |
and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go. |
| 16:7 |
For I do not wishwant to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits. |
| 16:10 |
Now if Timothy comes, see that he ishas withno youreason without cause to be afraid while among you, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I also am. |
| 16:11 |
So letdo nonot onelook despisedown on him, anyone. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethrenbrothers. |
| 16:12 |
ButNow concerning Apollos our brother Apollos, I strongly encouraged him greatly to come to you with the brethrenbrothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has the opportunity. |
| 16:14 |
LetAll all that you do must be done in love. |
| 16:15 |
Now I urge you, brethrenbrothers (and sisters: you know the household of Stephanas, that they wereare the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves forto ministry to the saints),; |
| 16:16 |
I urge that you also be insubject subjection to such menas these and to everyone who helps in the work and labors. |
| 16:17 |
I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because they have supplied what was lacking on your part. |
| 16:20 |
All the brethrenbrothers and sisters greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. |
| 16:21 |
The greeting is in my own hand—that of Paul. |
| 16:22 |
If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha.! |