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                                I 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.