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BOOK 46  ........FIRST BOOK OF CORINTHIANS
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.....CHAPTER 1
    1  Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God,
and Sosthenes our brother,
    2  Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are
sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that 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 you by Jesus Christ;
    5  That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in
all knowledge;
    6  Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
    7  So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ:
    8  Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in
the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    9  God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son
Jesus Christ our Lord.
   10  Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among
you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in
the same judgment.
   11  For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which
are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
   12  Now this I say, that every one of you saith, 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 ye baptized in
the name of Paul?
   14  I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
   15  Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
   16  And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not
whether I baptized any other.
   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 none
effect.
   18  For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which 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? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
   21  For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that
believe.
   22  For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
   23  But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and
unto the Greeks foolishness;
   24  But unto them which 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 ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after
the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
   27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise; and God hath 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, hath God
chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that
are:
   29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.
   30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
   31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in
the Lord.
.....CHAPTER 2
    1  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
    2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save 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  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the
wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to
nought:
    7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
which God ordained before the world unto 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 hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him.
   10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
   11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God.
   12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to
us of God.
   13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual.
   14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him:  neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned.
   15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged
of no man.
   16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
.....CHAPTER 3
    1  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as
unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
    2  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not
able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
    3  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and
strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
    4  For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are
ye not carnal?
    5  Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
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 planteth any thing, neither he that
watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
    8  Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall
receive his own reward according to his own labour.
    9  For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are
God's building.
   10  According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
   11  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.
   12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble;
   13  Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare
it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every
man's work of what sort it is.
   14  If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.
   15  If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
   16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you?
   17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the
temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
   18  Let no man deceive himself.  If any man among you seemeth 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 taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
   20  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are
vain.
   21  Therefore let no man 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 ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
.....CHAPTER 4
    1  Let a man so account of us, as of the 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 of you,
or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
    4  For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he
that judgeth me is the Lord.
    5  Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both
will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make
manifest the counsels of the hearts:  and then shall every man have
praise of God.
    6  And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself
and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye 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 maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that
thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou
glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
    8  Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us:
and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
    9  For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were
appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to
angels, and to men.
   10  We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are
weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
   11  Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are
naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
   12  And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless;
being persecuted, we suffer it:
   13  Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and
are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
   14  I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn
you.
   15  For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye
not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel.
   16  Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
   17  For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son,
and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my
ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where 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 will, and will know, not
the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
   20  For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
   21  What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in
the spirit of meekness?
.....CHAPTER 5
    1  It is reported commonly 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 ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath
done this deed might be taken away from among you.
    3  For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged
already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this
deed,
    4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together,
and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
    5  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
    6  Your glorying is not good.  Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump?
    7  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye
are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
    8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the
leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
    9  I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
   10  Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the
covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go
out of the world.
   11  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that
is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to
eat.
   12  For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye
judge them that are within?
   13  But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among
yourselves that wicked person.
.....CHAPTER 6
    1  Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
unjust, and not before the saints?
    2  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world
shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
    3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that
pertain to this life?
    4  If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them
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 goeth to law with brother, and that before the
unbelievers.
    7  Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law
one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather
suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
    8  Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
    9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived:  neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with 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 ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of
our God.
   12  All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient:  all
things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of
any.
   13  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: 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 hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by
his own power.
   15  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then
take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?  God
forbid.
   16  What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
   17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
   18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but
he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
   19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
   20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are God's.
.....CHAPTER 7
    1  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto 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 render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise
also the wife unto the husband.
    4  The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise
also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
    5  Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time,
that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together
again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
    6  But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
    7  For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his
proper gift of 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 abide even as I.
    9  But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry
than to burn.
   10  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the
wife depart from her husband:
   11  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to
her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
   12  But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife
that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not
put her away.
   13  And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be
pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
   14  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children
unclean; but now are they holy.
   15  But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister
is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
   16  For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?
or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
   17  But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called
every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
   18  Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be
circumcised.
   19  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the
keeping of the commandments of God.
   20  Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
   21  Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest
be made free, use it rather.
   22  For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's
freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's
servant.
   23  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
   24  Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with
God.
   25  Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give
my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of 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  Art thou bound unto a wife?  seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed
from a wife? seek not a wife.
   28  But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry,
she hath not sinned.  Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh:
but I spare you.
   29  But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both
they that have wives be as though they had none;
   30  And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice,
as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed
not;
   31  And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of
this world passeth away.
   32  But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth
for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
   33  But he that is married careth 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 careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in
body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the
world, how she may please her husband.
   35  And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare
upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the
Lord without distraction.
   36  But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his
virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him
do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
   37  Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his
heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
   38  So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth
her not in marriage doeth better.
   39  The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if
her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will;
only in the Lord.
   40  But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think
also that I have the Spirit of God.
.....CHAPTER 8
    1  Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have
knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
    2  And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet
as he ought to know.
    3  But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
    4  As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in
sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and
that there is none other God but one.
    5  For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in
earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
    6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,
and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we
by him.
    7  Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with
conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an
idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
    8  But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the
better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
    9  But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a
stumblingblock to them that are weak.
   10  For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the
idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be
emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
   11  And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom
Christ died?
   12  But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak
conscience, ye sin against Christ.
   13  Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh
while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
.....CHAPTER 9
    1  Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our
Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
    2  If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you:  for
the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
    3  Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
    4  Have we not power to eat and to drink?
    5  Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other
apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
    6  Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
    7  Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a
vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock,
and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
    8  Say I these things as a man?  or saith not the law the same also?
    9  For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth
of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
   10  Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt,
this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he
that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
   11  If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we
shall reap your carnal things?
   12  If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?
Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we
should hinder the gospel of Christ.
   13  Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the
things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers
with the altar?
   14  Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel
should live of the gospel.
   15  But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these
things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to
die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
   16  For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of:  for
necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the
gospel!
   17  For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my
will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
   18  What is my reward then?  Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may
make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in
the gospel.
   19  For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant
unto all, that I might gain the more.
   20  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to
them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them
that are under the law;
   21  To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law
to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are
without law.
   22  To the weak became I 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 partaker thereof
with you.
   24  Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth
the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
   25  And every man that striveth for the mastery 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 fight I, not as one that
beateth the air:
   27  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by
any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway.
.....CHAPTER 10
    1  Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that
all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
    2  And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
    3  And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
    4  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of 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 we should not lust
after evil things, as they also lusted.
    7  Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The
people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
    8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell
in one day three and twenty thousand.
    9  Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were
destroyed of serpents.
   10  Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed
of the destroyer.
   11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
   12  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
   13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but
God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye
may be able to bear it.
   14  Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
   15  I speak as to wise men; judge ye 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
partakers of that one bread.
   18  Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the
sacrifices partakers of the altar?
   19  What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered
in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
   20  But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to devils, and not to God:  and I would not that ye should
have fellowship with devils.
   21  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye 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 all things are not expedient: all
things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
   24  Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
   25  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for
conscience sake:
   26  For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
   27  If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be
disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question
for conscience sake.
   28  But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols,
eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake:  for the
earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
   29  Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my
liberty judged of another man's conscience?
   30  For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for
which I give thanks?
   31  Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to
the glory of God.
   32  Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to
the church of God:
   33  Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit,
but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
.....CHAPTER 11
    1  Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
    2  Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and
keep the ordinances, 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,
dishonoureth his head.
    5  But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered
dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
    6  For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a
shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
    7  For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the
image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
    8  For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
    9  Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
   10  For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of
the angels.
   11  Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman
without the man, in the Lord.
   12  For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman;
but all things of God.
   13  Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God
uncovered?
   14  Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair,
it is a shame unto him?
   15  But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is
given her for a covering.
   16  But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,
neither the churches of God.
   17  Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come
together not for the better, but for the worse.
   18  For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that
there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
   19  For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are
approved may be made manifest among you.
   20  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat
the Lord's supper.
   21  For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper:  and one
is hungry, and another is drunken.
   22  What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the
church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you?
shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
   23  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you,
That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
   24  And when he had given thanks, he brake 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 supped,
saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as
ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
   26  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the
Lord's death till he come.
   27  Wherefore whosoever 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 eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not discerning 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, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should
not be condemned with the world.
   33  Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for
another.
   34  And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together
unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
.....CHAPTER 12
    1  Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
ignorant.
    2  Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols,
even as ye were led.
    3  Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit
of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the
Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
    4  Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
    5  And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
    6  And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which
worketh all in all.
    7  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit
withal.
    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 divers kinds of tongues; to another
the interpretation of tongues:
   11  But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to
every man severally as he will.
   12  For as the body is one, and hath 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 be
Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond 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 were the hearing? If the whole
were hearing, where were the smelling?
   18  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it
hath pleased him.
   19  And if they were all one member, where were the body?
   20  But now are they many members, yet but one body.
   21  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor
again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
   22  Nay, 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 honourable,
upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have
more abundant comeliness.
   24  For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body
together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
   25  That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members
should have the same care one for another.
   26  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one
member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
   27  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
   28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily
prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings,
helps, governments, diversities 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 covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more
excellent way.
.....CHAPTER 13
    1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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 charity, I am nothing.
    3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
    4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
    5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily
provoked, thinketh no evil;
    6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
    7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth
all things.
    8  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall
fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be
knowledge, it shall vanish away.
    9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
   10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
shall be done away.
   11  When I was a child, I spake 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, darkly; but then face to face:  now I
know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
   13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest
of these is charity.
.....CHAPTER 14
    1  Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye
may prophesy.
    2  For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but
unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he
speaketh mysteries.
    3  But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and
exhortation, and comfort.
    4  He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that
prophesieth edifieth the church.
    5  I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied:
for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues,
except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
    6  Now, brethren, if I come unto 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  And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp,
except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what
is piped or harped?
    8  For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself
to the battle?
    9  So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be
understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak
into the air.
   10  There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none
of them is without signification.
   11  Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him
that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian
unto me.
   12  Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that
ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
   13  Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may
interpret.
   14  For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my
understanding is unfruitful.
   15  What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with
the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing
with the understanding also.
   16  Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that
occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks,
seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
   17  For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
   18  I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
   19  Yet in the church I had 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, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye
children, but in understanding be men.
   21  In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips
will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear
me, saith the Lord.
   22  Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to
them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe
not, but for them which believe.
   23  If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and
all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or
unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
   24  But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one
unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
   25  And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling
down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a
truth.
   26  How is it then, brethren?  when ye come together, every one of you
hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an
interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
   27  If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the
most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
   28  But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church;
and let him speak to himself, and to God.
   29  Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
   30  If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first
hold his peace.
   31  For ye 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
unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as
also saith the law.
   35  And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at
home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
   36  What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
   37  If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him
acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments
of the Lord.
   38  But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
   39  Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with
tongues.
   40  Let all things be done decently and in order.
.....CHAPTER 15
    1  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached
unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
    2  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto
you, unless ye have believed in vain.
    3  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how
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 of Cephas, then of the twelve:
    6  After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of
whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen
asleep.
    7  After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
    8  And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due
time.
    9  For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an
apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
   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 laboured more abundantly than
they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
   11  Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye
believed.
   12  Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some
among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
   13  But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
risen:
   14  And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your
faith is also vain.
   15  Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have
testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so
be that the dead rise not.
   16  For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
   17  And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your
sins.
   18  Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
   19  If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most
miserable.
   20  But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of
them that 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 every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward
they that are Christ's at his coming.
   24  Then cometh 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 hath put all enemies under his feet.
   26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
   27  For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all
things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did
put all things under him.
   28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son
also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God
may be all in all.
   29  Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead
rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
   30  And why stand we 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
advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to
morrow 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 some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body
do they come?
   36  Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
   37  And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,
but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
   38  But God giveth it a body as it hath 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 bodies, and bodies terrestrial: 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 differeth 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 dishonour; 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 quickening spirit.
   46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; and afterward 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, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that 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; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
   51  Behold, I shew 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 thy sting?  O grave, where is thy victory?
   56  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
   57  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.
   58  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour
is not in vain in the Lord.
.....CHAPTER 16
    1  Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to
the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
    2  Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in
store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I
come.
    3  And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them
will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
    4  And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
    5  Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I
do pass through Macedonia.
    6  And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may
bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
    7  For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while
with you, if the Lord permit.
    8  But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
    9  For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many
adversaries.
   10  Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear:  for
he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
   11  Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace,
that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
   12  As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto
you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time;
but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
   13  Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
   14  Let all your things be done with charity.
   15  I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is
the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the
ministry of the saints,)
   16  That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth
with us, and laboureth.
   17  I am glad of 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 ye
them that are such.
   19  The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much
in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
   20  All the brethren greet you.  Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
   21  The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
   22  If any man love not 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.