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1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

3 Grace be unto 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 which is given to you by Jesus Christ;

5 That in everything you are enriched by him, in all speech, and in all knowledge;

6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

7 So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

8 Who shall also confirm you until the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

10 Now I plead with you, brethren, 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 joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the household of Chloe, that there are disputes among you.

12 Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of 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 baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

15 So that none would say that I had baptized in my own name.

16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides these, I do not know whether I baptized any others.

17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

18 For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness; but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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

21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness;

24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

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

26 For you see your calling, brethren, how not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:

29 That no flesh should glorify itself in his presence.

30 But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to be for us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

31 That, according as it is written, He who finds glory, let him find glory in the Lord.

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1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

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

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 However we speak wisdom among those who are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God determined before the world for our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love him.

10 But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no man.

16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.

3 For you are yet carnal: for in that there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

4 For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

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 gave the increase.

7 So then neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

8 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and everyone shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God's cultivated field, you are God's building.

10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let everyone be careful how he builds on it.

11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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

13 Everyone's work shall be made apparent: for the day shall make it known, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test everyone's work of what sort it is.

14 If anyone's work endures which he has built on it, he shall receive a reward.

15 If anyone's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet as if 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 defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

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

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are worthless.

21 Therefore let no one find glory 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 are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

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1 Let a man so consider us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

2 Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment: yea, I do not judge my own self.

4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

5 Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make known the intentions of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise from God.

6 And these things, brethren, I have in an illustration transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

7 For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you received it, why do you glorify yourself, as if you had not received it?

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

9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as if appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

10 We are fools for Christ's sake, 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, and are naked, and are assaulted, and have no sure dwelling place;

12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we bear it:

13 Being defamed, we appeal: we are made like the filth of the world, and are the refuse of all things until this day.

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

15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

16 Therefore I plead with you, be followers of me.

17 For this reason have I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know, not the speech of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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

21 What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

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1 It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2 And you are puffed up, and have not instead mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I truly, as absent in body but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your self glorification is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

7 Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover lamb is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in an epistle not to associate with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to go out of the world.

11 But now I have written to you not to keep company, if anyone that is called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a scoffer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are within?

13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

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1 Do any of you dare, having a matter against another, to go to court before the unjust, and not before the saints?

2 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more things that concern this life?

4 If then you have to make decisions about things concerning this life, appoint those to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

6 But brother goes to court with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

7 Now therefore there is surely a fault among you, because you go to court with one another. Why do you not rather suffer wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be taken advantage of?

8 No, you do wrong, and injure, and do so to your fellow believers.

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not helpful: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

13 Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

14 And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up 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 make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For two, says he, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

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1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch 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 show his wife due attention: and likewise also the wife her husband.

4 The wife does not have power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband does not have power over his own body, but the wife.

5 Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self control.

6 But I speak this by permission, and not as a commandment.

7 For I would prefer that all men were even like I myself. But every man has his own gift from God, one of one kind, and another of a different kind.

8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.

9 But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, The wife should not leave her husband:

11 But if she leaves, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and the husband should not put away his wife.

12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is pleased to dwell with him, he should not put her away.

13 And the woman who has a husband that does not believe, and if he is pleased to dwell with her, she should not leave him.

14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: otherwise your children would be unclean; but now are they holy.

15 But if the unbelieving one departs, let them depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.

16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

17 But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so I decree in all churches.

18 Is any man called being circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? He should not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but instead keep the commandments of God.

20 Let everyone remain in the same condition in which he was called.

21 Are you called being a servant? Do not be concerned about it: but if you have an opportunity to become free, make use of it.

22 For he who is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he who is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

23 You are bought with a price; do not be the servants of men.

24 Brethren, let everyone, in whatever condition he is called, remain in it with God.

25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Art you free from a wife? Do not look for a wife.

28 But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I would spare you.

29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: therefore, let both those who have wives be as though they had none;

30 And those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

31 And those who make use of this world, as not abusing it: for the form of this world is passing away.

32 But I would have you without anxiety. He who is unmarried is anxious about the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

33 But he who is married is anxious about 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 is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she who is married is anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

35 And this I speak for your own benefit; not to restrain you, but for that which is suitable, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.

36 But if any man thinks that he is not behaving himself properly towards his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and need so requires, let him do what he desires, he does not sin: let them marry.

37 Nevertheless he that remains 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 virgin, does well.

38 So then he who gives her in marriage does well; but he that does not give her in marriage does better.

39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

40 But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

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

2 And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not know anything yet as he ought to know.

3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

4 Concerning therefore the eating of those things that are 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 For though there are things that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods, and many lords,)

6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

7 However there is not in everyone that knowledge: for some with scruples concerning the idol to this hour eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

8 But food does not commend us to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor, if we do not eat, are we the worse.

9 But be careful so that this liberty of yours does not by any means become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sit at dinner in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat those things which are offered to idols;

11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

12 But when you sin so against fellow believers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh while the world stands, so that I do not cause my brother to 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, yet doubtless I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3 My answer to those who examine me is this,

4 Do we not have the right to eat and to drink?

5 Do we not have the right to lead around a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and like the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or only I and Barnabas, do we have no right to abstain from working?

7 Who goes to warfare at any time at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

8 Do I say these things as a man? Or does not the law say the same also?

9 For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Is God concerned about oxen?

10 Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be a have a share of his hope.

11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your fleshly things?

12 If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we have not used this authority; but suffer all things, so that we do not hinder the gospel of Christ.

13 Do you not know that those who minister around holy things live from the things of the temple? And those who serve at the altar have a share of the altar?

14 Even so has the Lord appointed that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

15 But I have made use of none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for it would be better for me to die, than that anyone should make my boasting of no effect.

16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to find glory in: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is me, if I do not preach the gospel!

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a commission of the gospel is entrusted to me.

18 What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without expense, so that I do not abuse my power in the gospel.

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

20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

21 To those who are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law.

22 To the weak I became as 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 gospel's sake, that I might be a sharer in it with you.

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

25 And everyone who strives for the victory is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one who beats the air:

27 But I keep control of my body, and bring it into subjection: so that, when I have preached to others, I myself should not by any means be lost.

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1 Moreover, brethren, I do not desire you to be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

2 And were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3 And all ate the same spiritual food;

4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank from that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

7 Neither should you be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8 Nor should we commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day twenty three thousand.

9 Neither should we provoke Christ, as some of them also provoked, and were destroyed by serpents.

10 Neither should you murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

11 Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

12 Therefore let him who thinks that he stands take heed lest he falls.

13 There has no temptation overtaken you but such as is common to mankind: but God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted more than you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

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

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

17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all sharers of that one bread.

18 Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

19 What then am I saying? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I do not desire you to have fellowship with devils.

21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful: all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.

24 Let no one seek his own, but everyone another's good.

25 Whatever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:

26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

27 If any of those who do not believe invite you to a feast, and you are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.

28 But if anyone says to you, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, abstain from eating for the sake of him that mentioned it, and for conscience' sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

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

30 For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I spoken evil of for that for which I give thanks?

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

32 Give no offense, either to the Jews, or to the Gentiles, or to the church of God:

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

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

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and hold to the instructions, as I delivered them to you.

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

4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

5 But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is even the same as if she were shaven.

6 For if the woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off: but if it is a shame for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaven, let her be covered.

7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, seeing that 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 from the man.

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

10 For this reason ought the woman to have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels.

11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

12 For as the woman is from the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things are from God.

13 Judge for yourselves: is it suitable that a woman prays to God uncovered?

14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a shame to him?

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

16 But if anyone seems inclined to dispute, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

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

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

19 For there must also be heresies among you, that those who are approved may be made known among you.

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

21 For in eating every one has his own supper before the other: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

22 What? Do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

23 For I have received from the Lord that which also 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, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had eaten, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

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

27 Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

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

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

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

32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

33 Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

34 And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; so that you do not come together for condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

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1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as you were led.

3 Therefore I am making you understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no one can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

4 Now there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

5 And there are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.

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

7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for their benefit.

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

10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

11 But that one and the same Spirit works all these, apportioning to every man individually as he chooses.

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

13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or Gentiles, whether we are slaves or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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

15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16 And if the ear shall 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 would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

18 But now has God set the members, every one of them, in the body, as it has pleased him.

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

20 But now are they many members, yet but 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 No, much more those members of the body which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our unattractive parts have more abundant attractiveness.

24 For our attractive parts have no need: but God has adjusted the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:

25 That there should be no division in the body; but that the members should have the same care for one another.

26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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

28 And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues.

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

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

31 But earnestly desire the best gifts: and yet I will show you a more excellent way.

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

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

3 And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love suffers long, and is kind; love neither envies nor boasts, love is not proud,

5 Does not behave itself inappropriately or seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

6 Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails: but if there are prophecies, they shall pass away; if there are tongues, they shall cease; if there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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 shall be taken away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see through a glass dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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1 Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

2 For he who speaks in an unknown tongue does not speak to men, but to God: for no one understands him; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for edification, and encouragement, and comfort.

4 He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he who prophesies edifies the church.

5 I would like you all to speak with tongues, but even more to prophesy: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive edifying.

6 Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by instruction?

7 And even lifeless things giving sounds, whether pipe or harp, unless they give distinct sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

8 For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?

9 So likewise you, unless you speak with the tongue words easy to understand, how shall it be known what is spoken? For you shall speak into the air.

10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

11 Therefore if I do not know the meaning of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a foreigner, and he that speaks shall be a foreigner to me.

12 Even so you, to the extent that you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in edifying the church.

13 Therefore let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding does not bear fruit.

15 What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

16 Otherwise when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the position of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing that he does not understand what you say?

17 For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

18 I thank my God that I speak with tongues more than you all:

19 Yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

20 Brethren, do not be children in understanding: however in malice you should be children, but in understanding you should be men.

21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, says the Lord.

22 Therefore tongues are a sign, not to those who believe, but to those who do not believe: but prophesying is not intended for those who do not believe, but for those who believe.

23 If therefore the whole church comes together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

24 But if all prophesy, and there comes in one who does not believe, or one unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all:

25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made known; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is truly in you.

26 How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of you has a hymn, a teaching, a tongue, a revelation, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edifying.

27 If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be two, or at most three, and that one after another; and let one interpret.

28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

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

30 If anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first hold his peace.

31 For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted for them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also says the law.

35 And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

36 What? Did the word of God come out from you? Or did it come only to you?

37 If anyone 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 anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

39 Therefore, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking with tongues.

40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

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1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;

2 By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

5 And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

6 After that, he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.

7 After that, he was seen by James; then by all the apostles.

8 And last of all he was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit 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 which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

11 Therefore whether it was I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

12 Now if Christ is preached that he rose from the dead, how can some say among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

14 And if Christ is not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

15 Yes, and we are found to be false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he did not raise up, if indeed the dead do not rise.

16 For if the dead do not rise, then is Christ not raised:

17 And if Christ is not raised, your faith is in vain; you are yet in your sins.

18 Then those 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 to be pitied.

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who slept.

21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

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

23 But everyone in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterwards those who are Christ's at his coming.

24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.

26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is plain that he is excepted, who put all things under him.

28 And when all things shall be subjected to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

29 Otherwise what shall 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 And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?

31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what benefit is it to me, if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the 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 made alive, unless it dies:

37 And that which you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but bare grain, perhaps of wheat, or of some other grain:

38 But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed its 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 fish, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but the glory of the celestial is one, 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; it is raised in power:

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

45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

46 However that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterwards that which is spiritual.

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

48 As is the earthy, so are those also who are earthy: and as is the heavenly, so are those also who are heavenly.

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, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

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

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

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

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

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

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

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding 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 saints, as I have directed the churches of Galatia, even so should you do.

2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no collections when I come.

3 And when I come, whomever you shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your generous gift to Jerusalem.

4 And if it is appropriate that I go also, they shall go with me.

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

6 And it may be that I will stay, yea, and winter with you, that you may bring me on my journey wherever I go.

7 For I will not see you now on the way; but I trust to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

8 But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.

9 For a great and effective door is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear: for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I also am.

11 Let no one therefore despise him: but bring him onwards in peace, that he may come to me: for I am waiting for him with the brethren.

12 As for our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have a convenient time.

13 Watch, stand fast in the faith, conduct yourselves like men, be strong.

14 Let all that you do be done in love.

15 I plead with you, brethren, (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 saints,)

16 That you submit yourselves to such, and to everyone that works with us, and labors.

17 I am glad for the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge such persons.

19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

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

21 The greeting of me Paul with my own hand.

22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

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

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