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1 This letter is from Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother.

2 To the congregation of God at Corinth. To you, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus. You who are called to be holy ones, with all whom in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. He is both their Lord and ours.

3 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God that is given you by Jesus Christ.

5 He enriches you in every way, in all speaking, and in all knowledge.

6 The testimony of Christ was confirmed verified established in you.

7 You do not lack spiritual gifts as you wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

8 He will also confirm establish you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

10 I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there are no divisions among you. You should be perfectly joined together united in the same mind and thought.

11 The house of Chloe told me, my brothers, that there are disputes among you.

12 Concerning that I say, that each one of you said, »I follow Paul;« and »I follow Apollos;« and »I follow Cephas;« and »I follow Christ.«

13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul impaled for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius.

15 So no one should say that I baptized in my own name.

16 I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides that I do not know whether I baptized any others.

17 Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news: not with wisdom of words, lest the stake of Christ be emptied of its effect.

18 For the preaching of the stake is foolishness to those who perish. It is the power of God to us who are saved.

19 It is written: »I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.« (Isaiah 29:14)

20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21 This is the wisdom of God that 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.

22 Indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom.

23 We preach Christ impaled. It is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the nations!

24 To those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, it is Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26 Consider your calling, brothers. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.

27 Instead God chose the foolish things of the world to confuse shame the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to confuse shame the things that are mighty.

28 God also chose the base things of the world, and things which are despised, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are.

29 No human being should boast before God.

30 It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

31 Let it be as it is written, »He that boasts, let him boast in Jehovah!« (Jeremiah 9:24)

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1 Brothers, I did not come to you with superiority of speech or with human wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

2 I decided not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and his death on the torture stake.

3 And I came to you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 My speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5 that your faith should not exist in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing are doomed to destruction ?

7 We speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages generations and human entities for our glory.

8 None of the rulers of this age knew understood for had they known it they would not have impaled the glorious Lord esteemed Master .

9 It is written: »Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man, the things God prepared for those who love him.« (Isaiah 64:4)

10 But God revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit investigates searches all things, yes even the deep things of God.

11 For what man knows the things of a man, except the mental disposition that is in man? Even so no one knows the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God. This is so we might know the things that are freely given to us from God.

13 We speak these things, not in the words that man's wisdom teaches. But we speak them with the words the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 He that is spiritual judges all things, yet no man judges him.

16 »Who has understood the mind of Jehovah, or has instructed him, as his counselor?« (Isaiah 40:13) But we do have the mind purpose feelings thoughts understanding of Christ.

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1 Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as fleshly men, as babes infants in Christ.

2 I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!

3 You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?

4 While one said, »I belong to Paul;« and another, »I belong to Apollos;« are you not fleshly human beings?

5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

7 Neither he that plants and neither he that waters is anything; but God gives the increase.

8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one in purpose and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

9 For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building.

10 According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds.

11 No other foundation can be laid than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 Now if any man builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble;

13 every man's work will be made known, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will prove what sort every man's work is.

14 If a man's work that he built upon lasts, he will receive a reward.

15 If a man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss: but he will be saved by fire.

16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

17 God will destroy any man who defiles the temple of God! For the temple of God is holy. You are that temple!

18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. It is written: »He catches the wise in their own craftiness deception .« (Job 5:13)

20 And again: »Jehovah knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain useless empty .« (Psalm 94:11)

21 Therefore let no man boast in men. For all things are yours.

22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours!

23 And you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God.

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1 People should regard us as servants of Christ. God has trusted us with his secrets.

2 It is required of stewards that a man is trustworthy.

3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself.

4 I know nothing against myself. Yet this does not acquit me, but he that judges me is God.

5 Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man’s praise will come from God.

6 Brothers I have applied these things to myself and to Apollos for your sakes. That way you might learn the value of the saying: Do not go beyond the things written. None of you should be arrogant self-important against one another.

7 For who made you superior to different than another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

8 You are full and now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us. I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

9 For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

10 We are fools for Christ. But you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.

11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.

12 We labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

13 being slandered, we answer kindly. We are made as the filth of the world and are the refuse of all things to this day.

14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

15 Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

16 For this reason I urge you to imitate me.

17 I send Timothy, my beloved son faithful in the Lord, to you for this purpose. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ, just as I teach it in every congregation.

18 Now some have become proud arrogant , thinking that I would not come to you.

19 But I will come to you shortly, if God wills, and I will get to know what the proud ones do and not what they say, but their power.

20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with punishment or with love, and in the mild spirit of meekness?

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1 It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations who do not know God . There is a man who has his father’s wife.

2 And you are proud! You should have been filled with sadness that he did this deed. And you should have ejected expelled excommunicated disfellowshiped him from your congregation.

3 I am not there with you in person. But I am with you in spirit. I have already judged the man who did this.

4 When you assemble in the name and with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, I will be with you in spirit.

5 Deliver this one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough?

7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch of dough. For even Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us.

8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote in a letter to you not to keep company with fornicators.

10 Yet you cannot completely avoid the fornicators of this world, nor the greedy persons, nor cheaters and robbers, nor those who worship idols. To do so you would have to leave this world.

11 I wrote you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother who is a fornicator, or who is greedy, or who worships idols, or constantly gets drunk, or cheats people. Do not even eat with such a person.

12 What have I to do with judging those outside in the world ? Do we not judge those who are inside the congregation ?

13 God judges those outside. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

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1 If you have a dispute with another Christian do you dare to go to a law court before judges who are ungodly? Why not let the holy ones decide who is right?

2 Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if you will judge the world, are you unworthy to judge these small matters?

3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the matters that pertain to this life?

4 If you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, would you appoint as judges those who mean nothing to the congregation?

5 I speak to shame you. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? Not one who would be able to judge between his brothers?

6 But brother goes to court against brother, and this before unbelievers.

7 It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded cheated ?

8 Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous greedy , nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.

12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient profitable good . All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the authority power control of anything.

13 Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

14 God has resurrected the Lord, and will also resurrect us by his own power.

15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and unite them with turn them into the members of a prostitute? God forbid!

16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one united with her body? For he said: »Two will be one flesh.«

17 He who is joined to the Lord is one united with him in spirit.

18 Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one Greek: »hos he ho« which, that one is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

20 You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

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1 Concerning the things that you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch have sex with a woman.

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband.

4 The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband does. Likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife does.

5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 But I speak this by concession and not by commandment.

7 I prefer that all men were as I am. But every man has his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they stay unmarried like me.

9 But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. It is better to marry than to be inflamed with lust .

10 To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

11 If she leaves, let her remain unmarried or become reconciled to her husband. A husband should not divorce his wife.

12 To the others, I speak and not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him he should not divorce her.

13 And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, she should not divorce him.

14 For the wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband, and the husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife. Otherwise your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.

15 If the unbelieving leave, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases for God has called us to peace.

16 Wife how do you know that you will save your husband? Husband how do you know whether you will save your wife?

17 But as God has distributed to every person so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the congregations.

18 Is any man called being circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Is any called who is not circumcised? He should not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Obey the commandments of God.

20 Each man should remain in the same condition in which he was called.

21 Were you called being a slave? Do not let it worry you. But if you can become free, do so.

22 He who is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise also he who is called, being free, is Christ's slave.

23 You are bought with a price. Stop being slaves of men.

24 Brothers, let every man remain in the condition in which he was called. Abide with God.

25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my opinion as one who has obtained the mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

26 Because of the present distress I think it is good for you to remain as you are.

27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek a release. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

28 If you marry you have not sinned. If a virgin marries she has not sinned. Those who marry will face many problems in this life and I want to spare you.

29 I will say this brothers the time remaining is short. So from now on those who have wives should be like those who have none.

30 Those who weep should be like those who do not weep. And those who rejoice should be like those who do not rejoice, and those who buy like those who do not possess.

31 Those who use this world should not abuse it, for the fashion of this world is passing away.

32 I want you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

33 But he who is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

35 I say this for your benefit and not to restrict you. I show you how to live a noble life of devotion to the Lord without being distracted by other things.

36 If any man thinks he behaves improperly toward his virgin, if she is past her youth, let him do what he will, he does not sin if they get married.

37 Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virginity he does well.

38 So then he who gives his virginity in marriage does well; but he who does not get married does even better.

39 The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

40 But she is happier if she remains as she is. This is my opinion and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

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1 Concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 If any man thinks he knows any thing, he really knows nothing, according to what he ought to know.

3 But if any man loves God, God knows him.

4 Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

5 There are those called gods in heaven or on earth. There are many gods and many lords.

6 But to us there is but one God, the Father. All things come from him and we live for him. And there is one Lord Jesus Christ. All things were made through him and we were made through him.

7 Not all people know this. Some eat food offered to idols and their conscience being weak is defiled.

8 But food will not recommend us to God. If we do not eat we are not worse. If we eat we are not better.

9 Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

10 If any man with knowledge sees you having a meal from an idol’s temple, will the conscience of the weak one be emboldened encouraged to eat food offered to idols?

11 And because of your knowledge the weak brother will perish. Christ died for him!

12 When you sin against your brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

13 If food makes my brother stumble I will eat no food at all so I do not make my brother stumble.

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1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

2 If I am not an apostle to others, I most certainly am to you, for you are the seal stamp proof of my apostleship in the Lord.

3 My answer defense to those who examine me is as follows:

4 Do we have a right to eat and drink?

5 Do we have a right to lead a sister as a wife just like other apostles, and as brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from secular work?

7 Does a soldier serve at his own expense? Does the one who plants a vineyard not eat of the fruit it produces? Who shepherds a flock and does not eat some of the milk from the flock?

8 I say this from a human point of view. Does the law say the same thing?

9 It is written in the Law of Moses: You should not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads threshes out the grain. Does God care only about oxen?

10 Or did he say it for our benefit? This is written for our benefit without a doubt! He who plows should plow in hope. Likewise he who threshes in hope should be a partaker of his hope.

11 If we sow spiritual seed in you, is it too much if we reap material things?

12 If others are partakers of the right over you, should we also partake? Nevertheless we have not used this power! We suffer all things, lest we should hinder the good news of Christ.

13 Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? And they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

14 Even so, has the Lord ordained that they who preach the good news should earn their living from the good news?

15 But I have used none of these rights! Neither have I written these things, that it should be done to me. It would be better for me to die, than that any man should make my reason for boasting void.

16 Though I preach the good news I do not brag about it. Preaching the good news is my duty obligation and I must do it! It would be terrible if I did not preach the good news!

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, I am just performing the trust of the good news committed to me.

18 What is my reward then? When I preach the good news, I may offer the good news of Christ without charge. That is way I do not abuse my power in the good news.

19 For, though I am free from all persons, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain more.

20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. To those under the Law, as under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law.

21 To those without Law I became like those without Law that I might gain them. I am not without law to God, but under the law to toward of Christ.

22 To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

23 And this I do for the sake of the good news that I might be a partaker of it with others.

24 Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.

25 Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown.

26 I do not run without definite aim purpose and I do not fight like a man beating the air.

27 But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.

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1 Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about how all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

3 They all ate the same spiritual meal.

4 They all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them. That Rock was represented symbolic of Christ! (Exodus 7:6) (Numbers 20:11)

5 God was not pleased with most of them. And their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

6 Now these things were examples for us. They teach us not to lust after evil things like they did.

7 Do not be idolaters like some of them. It is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.

8 Do not commit fornication like some of them committed. Twenty three thousand of them died in one day.

9 Do not test Jehovah like some of them also did and were destroyed by serpents.

10 Do not grumble like some of them grumbled. Venomous snakes killed them.

11 These things happened for examples, and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. God is faithful and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your limits. He will make a way out, that you will be able to endure it.

14 My dearly beloved, flee run away from idolatry.

15 I speak as to wise men. You judge what I say.

16 The cup of blessing we bless, is it not the sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is it not the sharing of the body of Christ?

17 For we being many are one-bread and one-body. We are all partakers of that one bread.

18 Is physical Israel the ones who eat the sacrifices, the partakers of the altar?

19 What do I mean? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

20 But I say, that the things that the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

21 You cannot drink the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Jehovah's Table and of the table of demons. (Malachi 1:12)

22 Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry indignation anger ? Are we stronger than he?

23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient profitable . All things are lawful for me, but all things do not build up confirm strengthen .

24 Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other person .

25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without asking questions for the sake of conscience.

26 For the earth and that which fills it is Jehovah’s. (Psalm 24:1)

27 If a nonbeliever invites you to a feast and you feel you must go eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience sake.

28 But if any man says to you: »This is offered in sacrifice to idols,« do not eat for the sake of the one who said it and for conscience sake.

29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: Yet why is my freedom judged by another man's conscience?

30 For if I by grace am a partaker, why is evil spoken about me concerning that for which I give thanks?

31 Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.

32 Do not stumble or offend do not lead into sin , neither to the Jews, nor to the nations, nor to the congregation of God.

33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

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1 Be followers imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

2 Now I praise you, brothers, because you remember me in all things, and carefully follow the teachings precepts doctrine just as I delivered them to you.

3 I would have you know, that the head authority of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

4 Every man who prays or prophesies having his head covered dishonors his head.

5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head. She is the same as if she had her head shaved.

6 For if the woman were not covered, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame for a woman to have her head shaved, let her be covered.

7 For a man should not cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

8 For the man is not from the woman; but the woman is from the man.

9 Neither was man created for woman but woman for man.

10 That is why the woman should have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels.

11 However in the Lord, both men and women exist together. Not one without the other.

12 For as woman is from man, even so is man also from woman. But all things are from God!

13 Judge in yourselves. Is it proper that women pray to God uncovered?

14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if men have long hair, it is a shame?

15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering.

16 If anyone is contentious about this we have no other practice, neither do the congregations of God.

17 Now in this that I declare to you that I do not praise you. For you come together not for the better but for the worse.

18 For first of all, when you come together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you and I partly believe it.

19 For there must be also heresies among you that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

20 When you come together to one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper.

21 For in eating every one goes ahead with out waiting for everybody else. One is hungry and another is drunk.

22 Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the congregation of God, and shame them that have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I will not praise you!

23 For I received from the Lord that which I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread.

24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, »Take and eat. This represents is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.«

25 In the same manner, after supper, he took the cup, saying, »This cup represents is the new covenant of my blood. Drink this as often as you do it in remembrance of me.«

26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.

27 Whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of sinning against falsely representing the body and blood of the Lord.

28 Let a man examine himself before he eats of that bread, and drinks of that cup.

29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning not judging rightly the Lord's body.

30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

32 But when we are judged, Jehovah disciplines us, that we should not be destroyed condemned with the world. (Proverbs 3:11)

33 When you come together to eat, wait for one another.

34 If any man is hungry let him eat at home. That way you come together without condemnation. I will give direction to care for other matters when I come.

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1 Concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be without knowledge.

2 You know that you were of the nations, carried away and led by mute idols.

3 I want you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed. And no person can say, »Jesus is the Lord,« except by the Holy Spirit.

4 There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

5 There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

6 And there are different operations, but it is the same God who works in all.

7 The manifestation expression of the Spirit is given to everyone for a beneficial purpose.

8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the one Spirit;

10 To another the workings of miracles and to another prophesy. To another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.

11 But in all these the same Spirit works, making a distribution to each one as he God wills.

12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many and are one body, so also is Christ.

13 For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

14 For the body is not one member, but many.

15 If the foot should say: »Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;« is it therefore not of the body?

16 If the ear should say: »Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;« is it therefore not of the body?

17 If the whole body were an eye, where is the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where is the smelling?

18 Has God set the members of the body, every one of them, just as it pleased him?

19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

20 But now they are many members, yet they are one body.

21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, »I have no need of you:« nor again the head to the feet, »I have no need of you.«

22 Those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are necessary.

23 And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability.

24 For our acceptable parts have no need. But God has assembled the body together, having given more abundant honor to the part that was lacking.

25 There should be no division in the body. So the members should have the same care for each other.

26 When one member suffers all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

28 God has appointed some in the congregation: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, abilities to direct, different tongues.

29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

30 Do all have the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

31 Zealously seek earnestly desire the best gifts. Yet I show you a more excellent way.

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1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I have become like loud sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophesy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant proud .

5 Love does not act indecently. It is not selfish. It is not provoked and does not take into account a wrong suffered.

6 Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth.

7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

8 Love never fails. Where there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

10 When the perfect comes, the partial imperfect incomplete will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, and then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

13 Faith, hope and love remain. These three! The greatest of these is love!

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1 Pursue love, yet zealously desire spiritual gifts, especially prophesy proclaiming God’s Word .

2 For the person who speaks in an unknown tongue does not speak to men, but to God. No man understands him. He speaks secrets by the spirit.

3 But the person who prophesies proclaims God’s Word openly speaks to men to build up, encourage and comfort.

4 The person who speaks in an unknown tongue enlightens himself; but he who declares God’s Word enlightens the entire congregation!

5 I would like it that you all speak with tongues, but I prefer that you prophesy. The person who announces teaches preaches God’s Word is greater than the person who speaks with tongues. The person who speaks with tongues should have an interpreter so the congregation may receive understanding and knowledge.

6 Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

7 Inanimate objects that make a sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

8 If the trumpet gives an unclear sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?

9 The same for you unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will speak into the air.

10 There are many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

11 Therefore if I do not know the meaning of what someone is saying I will be a foreigner to him that speaks. And he that speaks will be a foreigner to me too.

12 As much as you are zealous for spiritual gifts, strive to build-up increase the enlightenment understanding of the congregation.

13 Let the one who speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret what he says.

14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding mind is unfruitful.

15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding Greek: nous: mind also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding mind also.

16 When you bless with the spirit, how will the audience of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you said?

17 For you give thanks well, but the other is not given understanding.

18 I thank God that I speak with tongues more then all of you.

19 Yet in the congregation I would rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

20 Brothers, do not be like children in understanding. When it comes to evil be innocent children but in your thinking be mature adults.

21 It is written in the law: »With men of other tongues and lips of foreigners I will speak to this people. Even then they will not listen to me,« said Jehovah.

22 Therefore speaking in tongues is a sign not for believers, but for those who do not believe. Prophesying proclaiming God’s Word serves the believer and not the unbeliever.

23 If therefore the whole congregation comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and the unlearned, or unbelievers, come there will they not say that you are out of your mind?

24 But if all proclaim God’s Word and an unbeliever comes there he is convinced by all.

25 The secrets of his heart are made known. So falling down on his face he will worship God, and report, »God is truly among you.«

26 How is it then, brothers? When you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, and has an interpretation. Let all things be done to clarify and offer understanding!

27 If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three. It should be orderly by plan and someone must interpret.

28 But if there is no interpreter, let the speaker keep silence in the congregation and speak to himself and to God.

29 Let two or three prophets speak and let the others listen.

30 If there is a revelation to another while sitting there, let the others keep quiet.

31 You may all prophesy one by one in turn that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

32 Let the prophets control the spirits minds mental disposition of the prophets.

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the congregations of the holy ones.

34 Let women keep silent in the congregations. They are not permitted to speak. They must be in submission as it says in the law.

35 When they want to learn something, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is improper for a woman to speak in the congregation.

36 Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached?

37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

38 But if any man does not recognize understand this he will not be recognized.

39 Seek to prophesy brothers, and do not forbid speaking with tongues.

40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

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1 Brothers, I declared the good news to you. You have received it and should continue strong in it.

2 You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain.

3 First of all, I delivered to you what I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

4 He was buried, and he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

5 He was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.

6 More than five hundred brothers saw him at the same time after that. Most of them remain to this day, but some have fallen asleep in death .

7 Then he was seen by James, and then by all the apostles.

8 And last of all I also saw him, as of one with an untimely birth.

9 I am the least of the apostles and do not deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the people of God.

10 By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me.

11 Therefore whether they preached or I preached, you believed.

12 If we preached that Christ was raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen.

14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is worth nothing, and your faith is also without value.

15 We are found to be false witnesses of God because we have testified that God raised Christ from the dead. If he did not raise him up from the dead then the dead are not raised up.

16 For if the dead are not raised up then Christ has not been raised.

17 And if Christ is not resurrected, your faith is worth nothing, and you are still in your sins.

18 Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable pitiable .

20 Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who slept in death .

21 Death came because of what one man did. The resurrection of the dead also comes because of what one man did.

22 In Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

23 Everyone will be raised to life in the right order: Christ the first fruits and afterward those who belong to Christ at the time of his coming.

24 In the end Christ will deliver the kingdom to God the Father. Christ will destroy every ruler and all authority and all power.

25 For he Christ must rule as king until he God puts all enemies under his feet his control . (Psalm 2; 110) (Daniel 2:44) (Revelation 5:10; Revelation 20:6)

26 The last enemy to be destroyed will be death. (Revelation 20:14)

27 According to the Scriptures: God has placed all things under his control subjection . (Ephesians 1:22) But when he said all things are placed under him, it is with the exception of God . For God is the one who placed all things under him Christ . (1 Peter 3:22) (John 3:35)

28 When all things shall be subdued under the Son, then the Son will also be subjected to God who put all things under him, that God may be all in all ruler over everything .

29 What will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?

30 Why do we stand in jeopardy in danger every hour?

31 I face death daily even as I rejoice over you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

32 If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.

33 Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.

34 Wake up to righteousness and do not sin. Some do not have knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

35 But someone will say: How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?

36 You fool, that which you sow is not alive unless it first dies.

37 That which you sow, you sow not that body that will develop, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:

38 But God gives it a body as it pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial heavenly bodies and terrestrial earthly bodies. The glory of the celestial is one thing and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. For one star differs from another star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption.

43 It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness and it is raised in power.

44 It is sown a natural body and it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.

45 Thus it is written: »The first man Adam was made a living being.« The last Adam became a life giving spirit!

46 How is it the first is not spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

47 The first man is from the earth, earthy: the second man is from heaven.

48 As is the earthy so are those who are of the earth. And as is the heavenly, so are those who are of heaven.

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50 Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Corruption may not inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I show you a secret. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last reverberation of the trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 When this corruptible shall be clothed with Greek: enduo: dressed, put on incorruption, and this mortal shall be clothed with immortality, then the saying will come true: »Death is swallowed up in victory.«

55 »O death, where is your sting power to hurt ? O grave, where is your victory?«

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks to God, because he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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1 Now concerning the collection for the holy ones, you should do the same as I told the congregations of Galatia.

2 On one day of the week let every one of you set something aside, as God has prospered you, that there be no contributions collected when I come. Greek: heis, number one

3 When I come, whomever you approve by your letters, I will send to bring your gift to Jerusalem.

4 If it is fitting that I also go they will go with me.

5 Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia, for I do pass through Macedonia.

6 And it may be that I will stay there and winter with you, that you may send me on my journey where ever I go.

7 I will not see you now by the way; but I plan to stay a while with you, if the God permits.

8 I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost.

9 For a great door that leads to activity is opened to me. Yet there are many people working against me.

10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear, for he works the work of God, as I also do.

11 Let no one despise him. But conduct him in peace that he may come to me, for I look for him with the brothers.

12 Concerning our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the brothers but his will was not at all to come at this time. He will come when he has a convenient time.

13 Be alert be watchful and stand fast be vigilant persevere in the faith, carry on as men be courageous , be strong. (Ps 31:24)

14 Do everything with love.

15 I exhort you, brothers, you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the holy ones.

16 That you submit yourselves to such, and to every one that helps with us, and labors.

17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus. For they have supplied what was lacking on your part.

18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge them.

19 The congregations of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you in the Lord, with the congregation that is in their house.

20 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

21 The greeting from me Paul is with my own hand.

22 If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come O Lord!

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you.

24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.