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BOOK 46

FIRST CORINTHIANS

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.