1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Sosthenes,
2 to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy to all who call everywhere the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus;
5 for in all things you were enriched in him, in all speech and in all knowledge;
6 just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed in you,
7 so that you lack nothing in any gift, waiting for the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
8 who will also establish you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into communion with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.
11 For I have been informed about you, my brothers, by Chloe’s people, that there are strife among you.
12 I mean, that each one of you says: I am of Paul; and I from Apollos; and I from Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I have baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15 so that no one will say that you were baptized in my name.
16 I also baptized the family of Stephanas; Of the others, I don’t know if I have baptized anyone else.
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ may not become vain.
18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing; but to those who are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.
19 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will reject the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world mad?
21 For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God to save believers through the foolishness of preaching.
22 For the Jews ask for signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom;
23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness;
24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 Well, consider your calling, brothers, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, nor many powerful, nor many noble;
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; and God chose the weak in the world to shame the strong;
28 And God chose what is vile in the world and what is despised, and what is not, to destroy what is,
29 so that no one can boast in his presence.
30 But through him you are in Christ Jesus, who from God has become unto us wisdom, justification, sanctification, and redemption;
31 so that, as it is written: He who boasts, may glory in the Lord.
1 Therefore, brothers, when I came to you to announce to you the testimony of God, I did not come with excellence of words or of wisdom.
2 For I resolved not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was among you in weakness, and much fear and trembling;
4 And neither my speech nor my preaching was with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 so that your faith would not be based on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6 However, we speak wisdom among those who have reached maturity; and wisdom, not of this age, nor of the princes of this age, who perish.
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,
8 which none of the princes of this age knew; because if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man: These are the things that God has prepared for those who love him.
10 But God revealed them to us by the Spirit; because the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11 For which of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one knew the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12 And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know what God has given us,
13 which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit , accommodating the spiritual to the spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are to be spiritually discerned.
15 But the spiritual man judges all things; but he is not judged by anyone.
16 For who knew the mind of the Lord? Who will instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Therefore, brothers, I could not speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to carnal people, as to babes in Christ.
2 I gave you milk to drink, and not food; because you were not yet capable, nor are you still capable,
3 because you are still carnal; For since there is jealousy, strife, and dissension among you, are you not carnal, and walk like men?
4 For the one said, I am of Paul; and the other: I am from Apollos, are you not carnal?
5 What then is Paul, and what is Apollos? Servants through whom you have believed; and that according to what the Lord granted to each one.
6 I planted, Apollos watered; but the growth has been given by God.
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but God, who gives growth.
8 And he who plants and he who waters are one; although each will receive his reward according to his work.
9 For we are God’s workers, and you are God’s husbandry, God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God given to me, as a skilled architect I laid the foundation, and another builds on it; but let each one see how he builds up.
11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 And if anyone builds on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
13 each one’s work will become manifest; for the day will declare it, for it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each person’s work, whatever it may be.
14 If anyone’s work that he built remains, he will receive a reward.
15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, even as by fire.
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God, which is you, is holy.
18 Let no one deceive himself; If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this world, let him become ignorant, so that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness toward God; For it is written: He catches the wise in their cunning.
20 And again: The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
21 Therefore, let no one boast in men; for everything is yours:
22 whether Paul, whether Apollos, whether Cephas, whether the world, whether life, whether death, whether things present, whether things to come, all things are yours,
23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. .
1 Therefore let men consider us servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Now it is required of administrators that each one be found faithful.
3 I have very little value in being judged by you, or by a human tribunal; and even I do not judge myself.
4 For although I have a bad conscience of nothing, I am not justified on that account; but the one who judges me is the Lord.
5 Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes, who will also clarify the hidden things of darkness, and will reveal the intentions of the hearts; and then each one will receive his praise from God.
6 But this, brothers, I have set forth as an example in myself and in Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to think more than what is written, lest you become conceited against one another because of one.
7 For who distinguishes you? Or what do you have that you haven’t received? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
8 You are already satisfied, you are already rich, without us you reign. And that you would reign, so that we might also reign with you!
9 For as I think, God has shown us the apostles as last, as those sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.
10 We are foolish for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; We are weak, but you are strong; you honorable, but we despised.
11 Until this hour we hunger, we thirst, we are naked, we are buffeted, and we have no permanent abode.
12 We wear ourselves out working with our own hands; They curse us, and we bless; We suffer persecution, and we endure it.
13 They slander us, and we pray; Until now we have become like the scum of the world, everyone’s refuse.
14 I do not write this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
15 For even though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you will not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.
16 Therefore, I beseech you, imitate me.
17 For this very reason I have sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as he taught everywhere and in all churches.
18 But some are puffed up, as if I would never come to you.
19 But I will come to you quickly, if the Lord wills, and will know, not the words, but the power of those who walk in pride.
20 For the kingdom of God consists not in words, but in power.
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of meekness?
1 Truly it is heard that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles; so much so that someone has his father’s wife.
2 And you are puffed up. Shouldn’t you rather have mourned, so that he who committed such an action might be removed from your midst?
3 Truly I, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged him who has done such a thing as present.
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you and my spirit are gathered together, in the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 let him be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus .
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leaves the entire dough?
7 Therefore cleanse yourselves from the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, unleavened as you are; because our Passover, which is Christ, has already been sacrificed for us.
8 So let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I have written to you by letter not to associate with fornicators;
10 not absolutely with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or with thieves, or with idolaters; because in that case it would be necessary for you to leave the world.
11 But I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who, calling himself brother, is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a thief; Don’t even eat with him.
12 For what reason would I have to judge those who are outside? Do not you judge the ones inside?
13 For those who are outside, God will judge. Remove, then, that perverse from between us.
1 Dare any of you, when he has something against another, go to trial before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge very small things?
3 Or do you not know that we must judge the angels? How much more the things of this life?
4 If then you have judgments about the things of this life, do you judge those who are of lesser esteem in the church?
5 I say this to shame you. What then, is there not among you a wise man, not even one, who can judge between his brothers,
6 but brother pleads with brother in judgment, and this before unbelievers?
7 So it is already a fault in you that you have quarrels among yourselves. Why don’t you rather suffer the grievance? Why don’t you rather suffer from being defrauded?
8 But you commit the wrong, and you defraud, and this the brothers.
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err; Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor those who lie with men,
10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. .
11 And this were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are convenient; All things are lawful for me, but I will not allow myself to be dominated by any.
13 Foods for the belly, and the belly for food; but God will destroy both the one and the others. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 And God, who raised up the Lord, will also raise us up by his power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? No way.
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For he says: The two will become one flesh.
17 But whoever is joined to the Lord, one spirit is with him.
18 Flee from fornication. Any other sin that man commits is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
20 For you were bought with a price; Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 As for the things you wrote to me about, it would be good for a man not to touch a woman;
2 But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
3 The husband fulfills his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 A woman has no power over her own body, but her husband does; nor does the husband have power over her own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not deny one another, except for a time by mutual consent, to occupy yourselves calmly in prayer; and come together again as one, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your incontinence.
6 But I say this by way of concession, not by command.
7 I would rather that all men were like me; but each one has his own gift from God, one to the truth in one way, and another in another.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows, that it would be good for them to remain as I am;
9 But if you do not have the gift of continence, get married, because it is better to get married than to be burning.
10 But to those who are married, I command, not I, but the Lord: Let the wife not separate from her husband;
11 and if she separates from her, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and that the husband does not abandon his wife.
12 And to the rest I say, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and she consents to live with him, let her not abandon him.
13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer, and he consents to live with her, let him not abandon him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife in the husband; for otherwise your children would be unclean, while now they are holy.
15 But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate; For the brother or sister is not subject to slavery in such a case, but God has called us to peace.
16 For what do you know, O woman, whether you will save your husband? Or what do you know, O husband, if perhaps you will save your wife?
17 But as the Lord has divided each one, and as God has called each one, let him do so; I order this in all churches.
18 Was anyone called when he was circumcised? He remains circumcised. Was anyone called being uncircumcised? He doesn’t get circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God.
20 Let each one abide in the state in which he was called.
21 Were you called as a slave? Don’t worry; but also, if you can make yourself free, try harder.
22For he who was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; Likewise he who was called, being free, is Christ’s slave.
23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
24 Let each one, brethren, in the state in which he was called, so remain with God.
25 Concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord; but I give my opinion, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.
26 Therefore I consider this good because of the pressing need; that the man will do well to remain as he is.
27 Are you linked to a woman? Don’t try to let go. Are you free of woman? Don’t try to get married.
28 But also if you marry, you do not sin; and if the maiden marries, she does not sin; but such will have affliction of the flesh, and I would like to prevent it for you.
29 But this I say, brothers: the time is short; It remains, therefore, that those who have wives are as if they did not have one;
30 and those who cry, as if they did not cry; and those who rejoice, as if they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as if they did not possess;
31 and those who enjoy this world, as if they did not enjoy it; because the appearance of this world passes away.
32 I would therefore like you to be without anguish. The single person takes care of the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord;
33 But a married man takes care of the things of the world, how to please his wife.
34 There is also a difference between the married woman and the maiden. The maiden takes care of the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; But the married woman takes care of the things of the world, of how to please her husband.
35 I say this for your benefit; not to snare you, but for what is honest and decent, and so that you may approach the Lord without hindrance.
36 But if anyone thinks that it is improper for his virgin daughter to grow old, and it is necessary that it be so, she does what he wants, he does not sin; for her to get married.
37 But he who is firm in his heart, having no need, but is master of his own will, and has resolved in his heart to keep his virgin daughter, does well.
38 So he who gives her in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage does better.
39 A married woman is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; But if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she wants, as long as she is in the Lord.
40 But in my opinion, she will be happier if she stays like this; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
1 Concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 And if anyone imagines that he knows anything, he still knows nothing as he should know.
3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.
4 So concerning the food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is only one God.
5 For although there are some who are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
6 yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come , and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
7 But not everyone has this knowledge; because some, accustomed until now to idols, eat as if they were sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, being weak, becomes defiled.
8 Although food does not make us more acceptable before God; Well, neither because we eat, we will be more, nor because we do not eat, we will be less.
9 But take care that this freedom of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, sitting at table in a place of idols, will not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols?
11 And because of your knowledge, the weak brother for whom Christ died will be lost.
12 In this way, therefore, by sinning against the brothers and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, so as not to cause my brother to stumble.
1 Am I not an apostle? I’m not free? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, to you I certainly am; because the seal of my apostolate is you in the Lord.
3 Against those who accuse me, this is my defense:
4 Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
5 Have we not the right to bring with us a sister as a wife, like the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or don’t only I and Barnabas have the right not to work?
7 Who was ever a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds the flock and does not drink the milk of the flock?
8 Am I saying this only as a man? Does not this also the law?
9 For in the law of Moses it is written: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads the grain. Does God take care of the oxen,
10 or does he say it entirely for us? Well, it was written for us; for he who plows must plow with hope, and he who threshes must plow with hope of receiving the fruit.
11 If we sow spiritual things among you, is it a big deal if we reap material things from you?
12 If others share this right over you, how much more do we? But we have not used this right, but endured everything, so as not to put any obstacle to the gospel of Christ.
13 Do you not know that those who work in sacred things eat from the temple, and that those who serve the altar partake of the altar?
14 Likewise the Lord commanded those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel.
15 But I have not taken advantage of any of this, nor have I written this so that it would be done like this to me; because I prefer to die, before anyone fades this my glory.
16 For if I proclaim the gospel, I have no reason to boast; because necessity is imposed on me; and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel!
17 Therefore, if I do it willingly, I will have a reward; But if out of ill will, the commission has been entrusted to me.
18 What then is my reward? May I, preaching the gospel, freely present the gospel of Christ, so as not to abuse my right in the gospel.
19 Therefore, being free of all, I have become a slave to all, that I may gain the greater number.
20 I became like a Jew to the Jews, to win the Jews; to those who are subject to the law (although I am not subject to the law) as subject to the law, to win those who are subject to the law;
21 to those who are without law, as if I were without law (not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
22 I have become weak to the weak, to win the weak; I have become all things to all, so that I may save some by all means.
23 And this I do for the sake of the gospel, to become a partaker of it.
24 Don’t you know that those who run in the stadium all run, but only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you obtain it.
25 Everyone who fights abstains from everything; They, indeed, to receive a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible one.
26 Therefore, I run in this way, not as at random; In this way I fight, not as one who strikes the air,
27 but I strike my body, and put it into bondage, lest, having been a herald to others, I myself should be destroyed.
1 For I do not want you, brothers, to be unaware that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 and all in Moses were baptized in the cloud and in the sea,
3 and all ate the same spiritual food,
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink; because they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
5 But God was not pleased with most of them; for which they remained prostrate in the desert.
6 But these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not covet evil things, as they coveted.
7 Nor be idolaters, like some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
9 Nor let us tempt the Lord, as some of them also tempted him, and perished by serpents.
10 Nor murmur, as some of them murmured, and perished of the destroyer.
11 And these things happened to them as an example, and they are written to warn us, to whom the ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore, he who thinks he will stand must take care that he does not fall.
13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man; But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but he will also provide a way out with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 As to wise men I speak to you; Judge what I say.
16 Is not the cup of blessing that we bless the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 Since there is only one bread, we, though many, are one body; because we all partake of that same bread.
18 Look at Israel according to the flesh; Are they not partakers of the altar who eat the sacrifices?
19 What do I say then? That the idol is something, or that what is sacrificed to idols is something?
20 But I say that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, nor the cup of demons; you cannot participate in the table of the Lord, and in the table of demons.
22 Or shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than him?
23 Everything is lawful for me, but not everything is convenient; Everything is lawful for me, but not everything builds.
24 No one seeks his own good, but that of another.
25 Eat everything that is sold in the butcher shop, without asking anything for reasons of conscience;
26 because the earth and its fullness belong to the Lord.
27 If an unbeliever invites you, and you want to go, eat whatever is set before you, without asking anything for reasons of conscience.
28 But if anyone says to you, This was sacrificed to idols; do not eat it, for the sake of him who declared it, and for reasons of conscience; for the earth and the fullness of it belong to the Lord.
29 The conscience, I say, not yours, but that of the other. Well, why should my freedom be judged by the conscience of another?
30 And if I participate with gratitude, why should I be blamed for that for which I give thanks?
31 So whether you eat or drink, or do anything else, do it all to the glory of God.
32 Do not be a stumbling block either to Jews or to Gentiles or to the church of God;
33 Just as I also please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1 Be imitators of me, as I imitate Christ.
2 I praise you, brothers, because you remember me in everything, and retain the instructions just as I gave them to you.
3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.
4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head; because it would be the same as if she had shaved her hair.
6 For if a woman does not cover herself, let her also cut off her hair; And if it is shameful for a woman to cut her hair or shave her hair, she should cover herself.
7 For a man should not cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For man is not created from woman, but woman from man,
9 nor was man created for woman, but woman for man.
10 Therefore the woman must have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 But in the Lord, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man;
12 For just as woman comes from man, so man is born from woman; but everything comes from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God without covering her head?
14 Doesn’t nature itself teach you that it is dishonorable for a man to let his hair grow?
15 On the other hand, it is honorable for a woman to let her hair grow long; because instead of a veil she is given her hair.
16 Nevertheless, if anyone wants to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.
17 But in announcing this to you, I do not praise you; because you do not gather for the best, but for the worst.
18 For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and in part I believe it.
19 For there must be dissensions among you, so that those who are approved may be made manifest among you.
20 So when you come together, this is not eating the Lord’s Supper.
21 For when eating, each one comes forward to take his own supper; and one is hungry, and another gets drunk.
22 So what, don’t you have houses where you can eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have nothing? What will I tell you? Will I praise you? In this I do not praise you.
23 For I received from the Lord what I also taught you: That the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread;
24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat; This is my body that is broken for you; Do this in remembrance of me.
25 Likewise he also took the cup, after he had supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood; Do this every time you drink it, in memory of me.
26 Therefore, as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you announce the death of the Lord until he comes.
27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 Therefore let each one test himself, and so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
29 For he who eats and drinks unworthily, without discerning the body of the Lord, eats and drinks judgment for himself.
30 Therefore there are many sick and weak among you, and many are sleeping.
31 If therefore we examined ourselves, we would not be judged;
32 but being judged, we are punished by the Lord, so that we will not be condemned with the world.
33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat in his house, so that you will not gather together for judgment. I’ll put the rest of the things in order when I go.
1 I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about spiritual gifts.
2 You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led astray, leading you, as you were led, to mute idols.
3 Therefore I make you know that no one who speaks by the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema; and no one can call Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the Spirit is the same.
5 And there are diversities of ministries, but the Lord is the same.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but God, who works all things in all, is the same.
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit.
8 For to him the word of wisdom is given by the Spirit; to another, the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
9 to another, faith by the same Spirit; and to another, gifts of healing by the same Spirit.
10 To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discernment of spirits; to another, various genres of languages; and another, interpretation of languages.
11 But one and the same Spirit does all these things, distributing to each one individually as he wills.
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free; and we were all given to drink from the same Spirit.
14 Furthermore, the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, will it not therefore be of the body?
16 And if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, shall it not be of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the ear be? If everything were heard, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he wanted.
19 For if they were all one member, where would the body be?
20 But now there are many members, but the body is one.
21 Neither the eye can say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you,’ nor the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’
22 Rather, the members of the body that seem weakest are the most necessary;
23 and those of the body that seem less worthy to us, these we dress more worthily; and those in us that are less decorous are treated with more decorum.
24 For those in us who are more decorous have no need; But God ordered the body, giving more abundant honor to what was lacking,
25 so that there would be no disagreement in the body, but that the members would all care for one another.
26 So if one member suffers, all the members grieve with it, and if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 You, then, are the body of Christ, and each one individually members.
28 And God placed some in the church, first apostles, then prophets, thirdly teachers, then those who perform miracles, then those who heal, those who help, those who administer, those who have the gift of tongues.
29 Are they all apostles? Are they all prophets? all teachers? Do they all work miracles?
30 Do everyone have gifts of healing? Do they all speak languages? Do they all interpret?
31 Seek therefore the best gifts. But I show you a much better way.
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I become like a resounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I distribute all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and I have no love, it is of no use to me.
4 Love is long-suffering, it is benign; love does not envy, love is not boastful, it is not conceited;
5 He does nothing wrong, he does not seek his own, he does not get angry, he does not hold a grudge;
6 one does not rejoice in injustice, but one rejoices in the truth.
7 He endures all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ceases to be; but prophecies will end, and tongues will cease, and knowledge will end.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is in part will come to an end.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I judged like a child; But when I was a man, I left what I was like as a child.
12 Now we see through a mirror, darkly; but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part; but then I will know as I was known.
13 And now faith, hope and love remain, these three; But the greatest of these is love.
1 Follow love; and seek spiritual gifts, but above all that you prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in tongues does not speak to men, but to God; for no one understands him, although by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for edification, exhortation, and consolation.
4 He who speaks in a strange tongue edifies himself; but he who prophesies builds up the church.
5 Therefore, I would like you all to speak in tongues, but more so to prophesy; For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets them so that the church may receive edification.
6 Now therefore, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will it profit you, except I speak to you with revelation, or with knowledge, or with prophecy, or with doctrine?
7 Certainly inanimate things that produce sounds, like the flute or the zither, if they do not give distinction of voices, how will one know what is played with the flute or with the zither?
8 And if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?
9 Likewise, you also, if you do not speak clearly understandable words through your tongue, how will what you say be understood? Because you will speak on the air.
10 There are surely so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is meaningless.
11 But if I do not know the value of words, I will be as a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be as a foreigner to me.
12 So also you; Since you long for spiritual gifts, try to abound in them for the edification of the church.
13 Therefore, let him who speaks in a strange tongue ask in prayer to be able to interpret it.
14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding remains unfruitful.
15 What then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will also pray with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, but I will also sing with the understanding.
16 For if you bless only with the spirit, which occupies the place of a simple listener, how will it say Amen to your thanksgiving? Well he doesn’t know what you said.
17 For you, indeed, give thanks well; but the other is not built.
18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you;
19 But in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, to teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
20 Brothers, do not be children in the way of thinking, but be children in malice, but mature in the way of thinking.
twenty-oneIn the law it is written: In other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people; and even then they will not hear me, says the Lord.
22 Therefore, tongues are a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecy, not to unbelievers, but to believers.
23 If then the whole church is gathered together in one place, and everyone speaks in tongues, and unlearned or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are mad?
24 But if everyone prophesizes, and someone who is unbelieving or unlearned enters, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all;
25 the hidden things of his heart become manifest; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God is truly among you.
26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a language, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let everything be done for edification.
27 If anyone speaks in a strange tongue, let this be done by two, or at most three, and in turn; and one interpreter.
28 And if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in the church, and speak to himself and to God.
29 Likewise, let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge.
30 And if anything is revealed to another sitting, let the first be silent.
31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;
33 for God is not the God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
34 your women be silent in the congregations; because it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subject, as the law also says.
35 And if you want to learn something, ask your husbands at home; because it is unseemly for a woman to speak in the congregation.
36 Has the word of God come from you, or has it only reached you?
37 If anyone believes himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that what I write to you are commandments from the Lord.
38 But he who ignores, ignores.
39 Therefore, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not prevent speaking with tongues;
40 but everything should be done decently and in order.
1 Furthermore, I declare to you, brothers, the gospel that I preached to you, which you also received, in which you also continue;
2 By which also, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, ye are saved, if ye have not believed in vain.
3 For I have taught you first what I also received: That Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures;
4 and that he was buried, and that he rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures;
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the twelve.
6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at the same time, many of whom are still alive and others are asleep.
7 Then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;
8 And last of all, as to an abortive one, he appeared to me.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace has not been in vain for me, but I have worked harder than all of them; but not I, but the grace of God with me.
11 For whether it is I or they, so we preach, and so you have believed.
12 But if it is preached of Christ that he rose from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is also in vain.
15 And we are found false witnesses of God; for we have testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise, if indeed the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised;
17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is in vain; you are still in your sins.
18 Then also those who fell asleep in Christ perished.
19 If in this life we only hope in Christ, we are the most pitiable of all men.
20 But now Christ has risen from the dead; firstfruits of those who slept is done.
21 For since death came through one man, the resurrection of the dead also came through one man.
22 For just as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each one in his due order: Christ, the firstfruits; then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
24 Then the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God and the Father, when he has abolished all dominion, all authority and power.
25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26 And the last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
27 For he put all things under his feet. And when he says that all things have been subjected to him, he clearly excepts the one who subjected all things to him.
28 But after all things are subject to him, then the Son himself will also be subject to him who put all things in subjection to him, so that God may be all in all.
29 Otherwise, what will those who are baptized for the dead do, if the dead are not resurrected at all? Why then dead people are baptized?
30 And why are we in danger at all times?
31 Truly I say to you, brothers, because of the glory that I have for you in our Lord Jesus Christ, I die every day.
32 If as a man I fought against wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit does it profit me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we will die.
33 Do not err; Bad conversations corrupt good customs.
34 Be duly vigilant, and sin not; because some do not know God; To your shame I say it.
35 But someone will say: How will the dead be raised? What body will they come with?
36 Fool, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies first.
37 And what you sow is not the body that is to come forth, but the naked grain, whether wheat or another grain;
38 But God gives it the body as he wanted, and to each seed its own body.
39 Not all flesh is the same flesh, but one flesh is that of men, another flesh is that of beasts, another is that of fish, and another is that of birds.
40 And there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another is that of the earthly.
41 One is the glory of the sun, another is the glory of the moon, and another is the glory of the stars, for one star is different from another in glory.
42 So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it will be raised in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonor, it will rise in glory; It is sown in weakness, it will rise in power.
44 An animal body is sown, a spiritual body will be resurrected. There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 Thus it is also written: The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam, life-giving spirit.
46 But the spiritual is not first, but the animal; then the spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthly; the second man, who is the Lord, is from heaven.
48 As is the earthly, so are the earthly; and as the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly ones.
49 And just as we have brought the image of the earthly, we will also bring the image of the heavenly.
50 But this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep; but we will all be transformed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will be blown, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then the word that is written will be fulfilled: Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 Where is your sting, O death? Where, oh grave, is your victory?
56 since the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm and constant, always growing in the work of the Lord, knowing that your work in the Lord is not in vain.
1 As for the offering for the saints, you also do as I commanded in the churches of Galatia.
2 Every first day of the week, let each of you set aside something, as it has prospered, keeping it, so that when I arrive no offerings will be collected.
3 And when it has arrived, whomever you have designated by letter, these I will send to take your donation to Jerusalem.
4 And if it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.
5 I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I must pass through Macedonia.
6 And it may be that I stay with you, or even pass through the winter, so that you can direct me to where I should go.
7 Because I do not want to see you now in passing, because I hope to be with you for some time, if the Lord allows it.
8 But I will be in Ephesus until Pentecost;
9 because a large and effective door has been opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
10 And if Timothy comes, see that he is with you safely, because he does the work of the Lord just as I do.
11 Therefore let no one despise him, but guide him in peace, so that he may come to me, for I am waiting for him with his brothers.
12 Concerning brother Apollos, I begged him many times to come to you with the brothers, but he was by no means willing to go for now; but he will go when he has the chance.
13 Watch, stand firm in the faith; Behave manfully, and make an effort.
14 All your things be done with love.
15 Brothers, you know that the family of Stephanas is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have dedicated themselves to the service of the saints.
16 I beg you to submit to people like them, and to all those who help and work.
17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus, for they have made up for your absence.
18 Because they comforted my spirit and yours; So recognize such people.
19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the church that is in their house, greet you very much in the Lord.
20 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21 I, Paul, write this greeting to you with my own hand.
22 He who does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord is coming.
23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love in Christ Jesus be with you all. Amen.
