The First Letter Of Paul The Apostle To The
Corinthians
1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ through the will of
God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1:2 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 their's
and our's:
1:3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from
God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf,
for the grace of God which
is given you by Jesus Christ;
1:5 That in everything you are enriched
by him, in all utterance, and
in all knowledge;
1:6 Just as the testimony of Christ was
confirmed in you:
1:7 So that you come behind in no gift;
waiting for the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ:
1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the
end, that you may be blameless
in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 God is faithful, by whom you were
called unto the fellowship of
his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10 Now I beseech you, brothers, by
the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that you all speak the same thing,
and that there be no
divisions among you; but that you be
perfectly joined together in the
same mind and in the same judgment.
1:11 For it has been declared unto me
of you, my brothers, by them
which are of the house of Chloe, that
there are contentions among you.
1:12 Now this I say, that each of you
says, I am of Paul; and I of
Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified
for you? or were you
baptized in the name of Paul?
1:14 I thank God that I baptized none
of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized
in my own name.
1:16 And I baptized also the household
of Stephanas: besides, I know
not whether I baptized any other.
1:17 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.
1:18 For the preaching of the cross is
to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved
it is the power of God.
1:19 For it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise, and
will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent.
1:20 Where is the wise? where is the
scribe? where is the disputer of
this world? has not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world?
1:21 For after in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom did not know
God, it pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that
believe.
1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and
the Greeks seek after wisdom:
1:23 But we preach Christ crucified,
unto the Jews a stumbling block,
and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1:24 But unto those who are called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1:25 Because the foolishness of God is
wiser than men; and the
weakness of God is stronger than men.
1:26 For you see your calling, brothers,
that not many wise men after
the flesh, not many mighty, not many
noble, are called:
1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things
of the world to confound
the wise; and God has chosen the weak
things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty;
1:28 And base things of the world, and
things which are despised, has
God chosen, yes, and things which are
not, to bring to nought things
that are:
1:29 That no flesh should glory in his
presence.
1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us
wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption:
1:31 That, according as it is written,
He that glories, let him glory
in the Lord.
2:1 And I, brothers, when I came to you,
came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you
the testimony of God.
2:2 For I determined not to know any
thing among you, save Jesus
Christ, and him crucified.
2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and
in fear, and in much
trembling.
2:4 And my speech and my preaching was
not with enticing words of
man's wisdom, but in demonstration of
the Spirit and of power:
2:5 That your faith should not stand
in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God.
2:6 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:
2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in
a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the
world unto our glory:
2:8 Which none of the princes of this
world knew: for had they known
it, they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory.
2:9 But as it is written, eye has not
seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God has prepared
for them that love him.
2:10 But God has revealed them unto us
by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the deep things
of God.
2:11 For what man knows the things of
a man, save the spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of
God knows no man, but the
Spirit of God.
2:12 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.
2:13 Which things also we speak, not
in the words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches;
comparing spiritual things
with spiritual.
2:14 But the natural man receives not
the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he that is spiritual judges
all things, yet he himself is
judged of no man.
2:16 For who has known the mind of the
Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1 And I, brothers, could not speak
unto you as unto spiritual, but
as unto carnal, just as unto babes in
Christ.
3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not
with food: for until now you
were not able to bear it, neither yet
now are you able.
3:3 For you are yet carnal: for whereas
there is among you envying,
and strife, and divisions, are you not
carnal, and walk as men?
3:4 For while one says, I am of Paul;
and another, I am of Apollos;
are you not carnal?
3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos,
but ministers by whom you
believed, just as the Lord gave to every
man?
3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered;
but God gave the increase.
3:7 So then neither is he that plants
any thing, neither he that
waters; but God that gives the increase.
3:8 Now he that plants and he that waters
are one: and every man shall
receive his own reward according to his
own labor.
3:9 For we are laborers together with
God: you are God's husbandry,
you are God's building.
3:10 According to the grace of God which
is given unto me, as a wise
master builder, I have laid the foundation,
and another builds
thereon. But let every man take heed
how he builds thereupon.
3:11 For other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is
Jesus Christ.
3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation
gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble;
3:13 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.
3:14 If any man's work abide which he
has built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.
3:15 If any man's work shall be burned,
he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by
fire.
3:16 Do you not know that you are the
temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you?
3:17 If any man defile the temple of
God, him shall God destroy; for
the temple of God is holy, which temple
you are.
3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any
man among you seems to be wise
in this world, let him become a fool,
that he may be wise.
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness with God. For it is
written, He takes the wise in their own
craftiness.
3:20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts
of the wise, that they are
vain.
3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men.
For all things are your's;
3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas,
or the world, or life, or
death, or things present, or things to
come; all are your's;
3:23 And you are Christ's; and Christ
is God's.
4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of
the ministers of Christ, and
stewards of the mysteries of God.
4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful.
4:3 But with me it is a very small thing
that I should be judged of
you, or of man's judgment: yes, I judge
not my own self.
4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet
am I not hereby justified: but
he that judges me is the Lord.
4:5 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.
4:6 And these things, brothers, I have
in a figure transferred to
myself and to Apollos for your sakes;
that you might learn in us not
to think of men above that which is written,
that no one of you be
puffed up for one against another.
4:7 For who makes you to differ from
another? and what have you that
you did not receive? now if you did receive
it, why do you glory, as
if you had not received it?
4:8 Now you are full, now you are rich,
you have reigned as kings
without us: and I would to God you did
reign, that we also might reign
with you.
4:9 For I think that God has 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.
4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake,
but you are wise in Christ; we
are weak, but you are strong; you are
honorable, but we are despised.
4:11 Even unto this present hour we both
hunger, and thirst, and are
naked, and are buffeted, and have no
certain dwelling place;
4:12 And labor, working with our own
hands: being reviled, we bless;
being persecuted, we tolerate it:
4:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are
made as the filth of the world,
and are the offscouring of all things
unto this day.
4:14 I write not these things to shame
you, but as my beloved sons I
warn you.
4:15 For though you have ten thousand
instructors in Christ, yet have
you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus
I have begotten you through
the gospel.
4:16 Therefore I beseech you, be followers
of me.
4:17 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.
4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though
I would not come to you.
4:19 But I will come to you shortly,
if the Lord will, and will know,
not the speech of those who are puffed
up, but the power.
4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in
word, but in power.
4:21 What will you? shall I come unto
you with a rod, or in love, and
in the spirit of meekness?
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.
5:2 And you are puffed up, and have not
rather mourned, that he that
has done this deed might be taken away
from among you.
5:3 For I truthfully, as absent in body,
but present in spirit, have
judged already, as though I were present,
concerning him that has so
done this deed,
5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when you are gathered
together, and my spirit, with the power
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:5 To deliver such a one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day
of the Lord Jesus.
5:6 Your glorying is not good. Do you
not know that a little leaven
leavens the whole lump?
5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that you may be a new lump, as
you are unleavened. For even Christ our
passover is sacrificed for us:
5:8 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.
5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not
to company with fornicators:
5:10 yet not altogether with the fornicators
of this world, or with
the covetous, or extortioners, or with
idolaters; for then must you
needs go out of the world.
5:11 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 a one no not
to eat.
5:12 For what have I to do to judge them
also that are outside? do not
you judge them that are within?
5:13 But them that are outside God judges.
Therefore put away from
among yourselves that wicked person.
6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter
against another, go to law before
the unjust, and not before the saints?
6:2 Do you not know that the saints shall
judge the world? and if the
world shall be judged by you, are you
unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?
6:3 Do you not know that we shall judge
angels? how much more things
that pertain to this life?
6:4 If then you have judgments of things
pertaining to this life, set
them to judge who are least esteemed
in the church.
6:5 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
brothers?
6:6 But brother goes to law with brother,
and that before the
unbelievers.
6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a
fault among you, because you go
to law one with another. Why do you not
rather take wrong? why do you
not rather permit yourselves to be defrauded?
6:8 No, you do wrong, and defraud, and
that your brothers.
6:9 Do you not know 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,
6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom
of God.
6:11 And such were some of you: but you
are washed, but you are
sanctified, but you are justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus, and
by the Spirit of our God.
6:12 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.
6:13 Foods for the belly, and the belly
for foods: but God shall
destroy both it and them. Now the body
is not for fornication, but for
the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
6:14 And God has both raised up the Lord,
and will also raise up us by
his own power.
6:15 Do you not know that your bodies
are the members of Christ? shall
I then take the members of Christ, and
make them the members of an
harlot? God forbid.
6:16 What? do you not know that he which
is joined to a harlot is one
body? for two, says he, shall be one
flesh.
6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord
is one spirit.
6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that
a man does is outside the body;
but he that commits fornication sins
against his own body.
6:19 What? do you not know that your
body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which you have
of God, and you are not your
own?
6:20 For you are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
7:1 Now concerning the things whereof
you wrote unto me: It is good
for a man not to touch a woman.
7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication,
let every man have his own
wife, and let every woman have her own
husband.
7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife
due benevolence: and likewise
also the wife unto the husband.
7:4 The wife has not power of her own
body, but the husband: and
likewise also the husband has not power
of his own body, but the wife.
7:5 Defraud you not one the other, unless
it be with consent for a
time, that you may give yourselves to
fasting and prayer; and come
together again, that Satan tempt you
not for your lack of self
control.
7:6 But I speak this by permission, and
not of commandment.
7:7 For I would that all men were just
as I myself. But every man has
his proper gift of God, one after this
manner, and another after that.
7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried
and widows, It is good for them
if they abide just as I.
7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them
marry: for it is better to
marry than to burn.
7:10 And unto the married I command,
yet not I, but the Lord, Let not
the wife depart from her husband:
7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain
unmarried or be reconciled
to her husband: and let not the husband
put away his wife.
7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the
Lord: If any brother has a wife
that believes not, and she be pleased
to dwell with him, let him not
put her away.
7:13 And the woman which has a husband
that believes not, and if he be
pleased to dwell with her, let her not
leave him.
7:14 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.
7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let
him depart. A brother or a
sister is not under bondage in such cases:
but God has called us to
peace.
7:16 For what know you, O wife, whether
you shall save your husband?
or how know you, O man, whether you shall
save your wife?
7:17 But as God has distributed to every
man, as the Lord has called
every one, so let him walk. And so ordain
I in all churches.
7:18 Is any man called being circumcised?
let him not become
uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision?
let him not be
circumcised.
7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision
is nothing, but the
keeping of the commandments of God.
7:20 Let every man abide in the same
calling in which he was called.
7:21 Are you called being a servant?
care not for it: but if you may
be made free, use it rather.
7:22 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.
7:23 You are bought with a price; be
not you the servants of men.
7:24 Brethren, let every man, in which
he is called, in it abide with
God.
7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no
commandment of the Lord: yet I
give my judgment, as one that has obtained
mercy of the Lord to be
faithful.
7:26 I suppose therefore that this is
good for the present distress, I
say, that it is good for a man so to
be.
7:27 Are you bound unto a wife? seek
not to be loosed. Are you loosed
from a wife? seek not a wife.
7:28 But and if you marry, you have not
sinned; and if a virgin marry,
she has not sinned. Nevertheless such
shall have trouble in the flesh:
but I spare you.
7:29 But this I say, brothers, the time
is short: it remains, that
both they that have wives be as though
they had none;
7:30 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;
7:31 And they that use this world, as
not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passes away.
7:32 But I would have you without carefulness.
He that is unmarried
cares for the things that belong to the
Lord, how he may please the
Lord:
7:33 But he that is married cares for
the things that are of the
world, how he may please his wife.
7:34 There is difference also between
a wife and a virgin. The
unmarried woman cares for the things
of the Lord, that she may be holy
both in body and in spirit: but she that
is married cares for the
things of the world, how she may please
her husband.
7:35 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 you may attend upon
the Lord without distraction.
7:36 But if any man think that he behaves
himself improperly toward
his virgin, if she pass the flower of
her age, and need so require,
let him do what he will, he sins not:
let them marry.
7:37 Nevertheless he that stands steadfast
in his heart, having no
necessity, but has power over his own
will, and has so decreed in his
heart that he will keep his virgin, does
well.
7:38 So then he that gives her in marriage
does well; but he that
gives her not in marriage does better.
7:39 The wife is bound by the law as
long as her husband lives; but if
her husband be dead, she is at liberty
to be married to whom she will;
only in the Lord.
7:40 But she is happier if she so abide,
after my judgment: and I
think also that I have the Spirit of
God.
8:1 Now as touching things offered unto
idols, we know that we all
have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but
love edifies.
8:2 And if any man think that he knows
any thing, he knows nothing yet
as he ought to know.
8:3 But if any man love God, the same
is known of him.
8:4 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.
8:5 For though there be that are called
gods, whether in heaven or in
earth, (as there be gods many, and lords
many,)
8:6 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.
8:7 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.
8:8 But food commends us not to God:
for neither, if we eat, are we
the better; neither, if we eat not, are
we the worse.
8:9 But take heed lest by any means this
liberty of your's become a
stumbling block to them that are weak.
8:10 For if any man see you who have
knowledge sit at food 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;
8:11 And through your knowledge shall
the weak brother perish, for
whom Christ died?
8:12 But when you sin so against the
brothers, and wound their weak
conscience, you sin against Christ.
8:13 Therefore, if food make my brother
to offend, I will eat no flesh
while the world stands, lest I make my
brother to offend.
9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free?
have I not seen Jesus Christ
our Lord? are not you my work in the
Lord?
9:2 If I be not an apostle unto others,
yet doubtless I am to you: for
the seal of mine apostleship are you
in the Lord.
9:3 Mine answer to them that do examine
me is this, 9:4 Have we not
power to eat and to drink?
9:5 Have we not power to lead about a
sister, a wife, as well as other
apostles, and as the brothers of the
Lord, and Cephas?
9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not
we power to forbear working?
9:7 Who goes a warfare any time at his
own charges? who plants a
vineyard, and eats not of the fruit of
it? or who feeds a flock, and
eats not of the milk of the flock?
9:8 Say I these things as a man? or says
not the law the same also?
9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses,
You shall not muzzle the
mouth of the ox that treads out the corn.
Does God take care for oxen?
9:10 Or says he it altogether for our
sakes? For our sakes, no doubt,
this is written: that he that plows should
plow in hope; and that he
that threshes in hope should be partaker
of his hope.
9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual
things, is it a great thing if
we shall reap your carnal things?
9:12 If others be partakers of this power
over you, are not we rather?
Nevertheless we have not used this power;
but tolerate all things,
lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
9:13 Do you 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?
9:14 Even so has the Lord ordained that
they which preach the gospel
should live of the gospel.
9:15 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.
9:16 For though I preach the gospel,
I have nothing to glory of: for
necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is
unto me, if I preach not the
gospel!
9:17 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.
9:18 What is my reward then? truthfully
that, when I preach the
gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ
without charge, that I abuse
not my power in the gospel.
9:19 For though I be free from all men,
yet have I made myself servant
unto all, that I might gain the more.
9:20 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;
9:21 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.
9:22 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.
9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake,
that I might be partaker of
it with you.
9:24 Do you not know that they which
run in a race run all, but one
receives the prize? So run, that you
may obtain.
9:25 And every man that strives for the
mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible
crown; but we an
incorruptible.
9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly;
so fight I, not as one
that beats the air:
9:27 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.
10:1 Moreover, brothers, I would not
that you should be ignorant, how
that all our fathers were under the cloud,
and all passed through the
sea;
10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses
in the cloud and in the sea;
10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual
food; 10:4 And did all drink
the same spiritual drink: for they drank
of that spiritual Rock that
followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
10:5 But with many of them God was not
well pleased: for they were
overthrown in the wilderness.
10:6 Now these things were our examples,
to the intent we should not
lust after evil things, as they also
lusted.
10:7 Neither be idolaters, as were some
of them; as it is written, The
people sat down to eat and drink, and
rose up to play.
10:8 Neither let us commit fornication,
as some of them committed, and
fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as
some of them also tempted, and
were destroyed of serpents.
10:10 Neither murmur you, as some of
them also murmured, and were
destroyed of the destroyer.
10:11 Now all these things happened unto
them for examples: and they
are written for our admonition, upon
whom the ends of the world are
come.
10:12 Therefore let him that thinks he
stands take heed lest he fall.
10:13 There has no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful, who will not permit
you to be tempted above that
you are able; but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape,
that you may be able to bear it.
10:14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee
from idolatry.
10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge you
what I say.
10:16 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?
10:17 For we being many are one bread,
and one body: for we are all
partakers of that one bread.
10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh:
are not they which eat of the
sacrifices partakers of the altar?
10:19 What say I then? that the idol
is any thing, or that which is
offered in sacrifice to idols is any
thing?
10:20 But I say, that the things which
the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to devils, and not to God:
and I would not that you should
have fellowship with devils.
10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the
Lord, and the cup of devils: you
cannot be partakers of the Lord's table,
and of the table of devils.
10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
are we stronger than he?
10:23 All things are lawful for me, but
all things are not expedient:
all things are lawful for me, but all
things edify not.
10:24 Let no man seek his own, but every
man another's wealth.
10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles,
that eat, asking no question
for conscience sake:
10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and
the fullness of it.
10:27 If any of them that believe not
invite you to a feast, and you
be disposed to go; whatsoever is set
before you, eat, asking no
question for conscience sake.
10:28 But if any man say unto you, This
is offered in sacrifice unto
idols, eat not for his sake that showed
it, and for conscience sake:
for the earth is the Lord's, and the
fullness of it:
10:29 Conscience, I say, not your own,
but of the other: for why is my
liberty judged of another man's conscience?
10:30 For if I by grace be a partaker,
why am I evil spoken of for
that for which I give thanks?
10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink,
or whatsoever you do, do
all to the glory of God.
10:32 Give none offense, neither to the
Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor
to the church of God:
10:33 Just as I please all men in all
things, not seeking my own
profit, but the profit of many, that
they may be saved.
11:1 Be you followers of me, just as
I also am of Christ.
11:2 Now I praise you, brothers, that
you remember me in all things,
and keep the ordinances, as I delivered
them to you.
11:3 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.
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered,
dishonors his head.
11:5 But every woman that prays or prophesies
with her head uncovered
dishonors her head: for that is even
all one as if she were shaven.
11:6 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.
11:7 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.
11:8 For the man is not of the woman:
but the woman of the man.
11:9 Neither was the man created for
the woman; but the woman for the
man.
11:10 For this cause ought the woman
to have power on her head because
of the angels.
11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man
without the woman, neither the
woman without the man, in the Lord.
11:12 For as the woman is of the man,
even so is the man also by the
woman; but all things of God.
11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely
that a woman pray unto God
uncovered?
11:14 Does not even nature itself teach
you, that, if a man have long
hair, it is a shame unto him?
11:15 But if a woman have long hair,
it is a glory to her: for her
hair is given her for a covering.
11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious,
we have no such custom,
neither the churches of God.
11:17 Now in this that I declare unto
you I praise you not, that you
come together not for the better, but
for the worse.
11:18 For first of all, when you come
together in the church, I hear
that there be divisions among you; and
I partly believe it.
11:19 For there must be also heresies
among you, that they which are
approved may be made manifest among you.
11:20 When you come together therefore
into one place, this is not to
eat the Lord's supper.
11:21 For in eating every one takes before
other his own supper: and
one is hungry, and another is drunken.
11:22 What? have you not houses to eat
and to drink in? or despise you
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.
11:23 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:
11:24 And when he had given thanks, he
broke it, and said, Take, eat:
this is my body, which is broken for
you: this do in remembrance of
me.
11:25 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 you, as
often as you drink it, in remembrance
of me.
11:26 For as often as you eat this bread,
and drink this cup, you do
show the Lord's death till he come.
11:27 Therefore whosoever shall eat this
bread, and drink this cup of
the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty
of the body and blood of the
Lord.
11:28 But let a man examine himself,
and so let him eat of that bread,
and drink of that cup.
11:29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily,
eats and drinks
damnation to himself, not discerning
the Lord's body.
11:30 For this cause many are weak and
sickly among you, and many
sleep.
11:31 For if we would judge ourselves,
we should not be judged.
11:32 But when we are judged, we are
chastened of the Lord, that we
should not be condemned with the world.
11:33 Therefore, my brothers, when you
come together to eat, tarry one
for another.
11:34 And if any man hunger, let him
eat at home; that you come not
together unto condemnation. And the rest
will I set in order when I
come.
12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brothers, I would not have you
ignorant.
12:2 You know that you were Gentiles,
carried away unto these dumb
idols, just as you were led.
12:3 Therefore I give you to understand,
that no man speaking by the
Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and
that no man can say that Jesus
is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts,
but the same Spirit.
12:5 And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord.
12:6 And there are diversities of operations,
but it is the same God
which works all in all.
12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit
is given to every man for the
profit of all.
12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit
the word of wisdom; to another
the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit;
to another the gifts of
healing by the same Spirit;
12:10 To another the working of miracles;
to another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to another
different kinds of tongues;
to another the interpretation of tongues:
12:11 But all these works that one and
the very same Spirit, dividing
to every man severally as he will.
12:12 For as the body is one, and has
many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many,
are one body: so also is Christ.
12:13 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.
12:14 For the body is not one member,
but many.
12:15 If the foot shall say, Because
I am not the hand, I am not of
the body; is it therefore not of the
body?
12:16 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?
12:17 If the whole body were an eye,
where were the hearing? If the
whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
12:18 But now has God set the members
every one of them in the body,
as it has pleased him.
12:19 And if they were all one member,
where were the body? 12:20 But
now are they many members, yet but one
body.
12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the
hand, I have no need of you: nor
again the head to the feet, I have no
need of you.
12:22 No, much more those members of
the body, which seem to be more
feeble, are necessary:
12:23 And those members of the body,
which we think to be less
honorable, upon these we bestow more
abundant honor; and our uncomely
parts have more abundant comeliness.
12:24 For our comely parts have no need:
but God has tempered the body
together, having given more abundant
honor to that part which lacked.
12:25 That there should be no schism
in the body; but that the members
should have the same care one for another.
12:26 And whether one member suffer,
all the members suffer with it;
or one member be honored, all the members
rejoice with it.
12:27 Now you are the body of Christ,
and members in particular.
12:28 And God has set some in the church,
first apostles, secondarily
prophets, thirdly teachers, after that
miracles, then gifts of
healings, helps, governments, diversities
of tongues.
12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets?
are all teachers? are all
workers of miracles?
12:30 Have all the gifts of healing?
do all speak with tongues? do all
interpret?
12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts:
and yet show I unto you a
more excellent way.
13:1 Though I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels, and have
not love, I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge; and though
I have all faith, so that I
could remove mountains, and have not
love, I am nothing.
13:3 And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I
give my body to be burned, and have not
love, it profits me nothing.
13:4 Love suffers long, and is kind;
love envies not; love vaunts not
itself, is not puffed up,
13:5 Does not behave itself unseemly,
seeks not her own, is not easily
provoked, thinks no evil;
13:6 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices
in the truth; 13:7 Bears
all things, believes all things, hopes
all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never fails: but whether there
be prophecies, they shall
fail; whether there be tongues, they
shall cease; whether there be
knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy
in part.
13:10 But when that which is perfect
is come, then that which is in
part shall be done away.
13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as
a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child: but when I became
a man, I put away childish
things.
13:12 For now we see through a glass,
darkly; but then face to face:
now I know in part; but then shall I
know just as also I am known.
13:13 And now abide faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest
of these is love.
14:1 Follow after love, and desire spiritual
gifts, but rather that
you may prophesy.
14:2 For he that speaks in an unknown
tongue speaks not unto men, but
unto God: for no man understands him;
howbeit in the spirit he speaks
mysteries.
14:3 But he that prophesies speaks unto
men to edification, and
exhortation, and comfort.
14:4 He that speaks in an unknown tongue
edifies himself; but he that
prophesies edifies the church.
14:5 I would that you all spoke with
tongues but rather that you
prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies
than he that speaks with
tongues, unless he interpret, that the
church may receive edifying.
14:6 Now, brothers, if I come unto you
speaking with tongues, what
shall I profit you, unless I shall speak
to you either by revelation,
or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or
by doctrine?
14:7 And even things without life giving
sound, whether pipe or harp,
unless they give a distinction in the
sounds, how shall it be known
what is piped or harped?
14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain
sound, who shall prepare
himself to the battle?
14:9 So likewise you, unless you utter
by the tongue words easy to be
understood, how shall it be known what
is spoken? for you shall speak
into the air.
14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds
of voices in the world, and
none of them is without signification.
14:11 Therefore if I do not know the
meaning of the voice, I shall be
unto him that speaks a barbarian, and
he that speaks shall be a
barbarian unto me.
14:12 Even so you, forasmuch as you are
zealous of spiritual gifts,
seek that you may excel to the edifying
of the church.
14:13 Therefore let him that speaks in
an unknown tongue pray that he
may interpret.
14:14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue,
my spirit prays, but my
understanding is unfruitful.
14:15 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.
14:16 Else when you shall bless with
the spirit, how shall he that
occupies the room of the unlearned say
Amen at your giving of thanks,
seeing he does not understand what you
say?
14:17 For you truthfully give thanks
well, but the other is not
edified.
14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues
more than you all: 14:19
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.
14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding:
howbeit in malice be
you children, but in understanding be
men.
14:21 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, says the LORD.
14:22 Therefore tongues are for a sign,
not to them that believe, but
to them that believe not: but prophesying
serves not for them that
believe not, but for those who believe.
14:23 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 you are mad?
14:24 But if all prophesy, and there
come in one that believes not, or
one unlearned, he is convinced of all,
he is judged of all:
14:25 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.
14:26 How is it then, brothers? when
you come together, every one of
you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has
a tongue, has a revelation, has
an interpretation. Let all things be
done unto edifying.
14:27 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.
14:28 But if there be no interpreter,
let him keep silence in the
church; and let him speak to himself,
and to God.
14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three,
and let the other judge.
14:30 If any thing be revealed to another
that sits by, let the first
hold his peace.
14:31 For you may all prophesy one by
one, that all may learn, and all
may be comforted.
14:32 And the spirits of the prophets
are subject to the prophets.
14:33 For God is not the author of confusion,
but of peace, as in all
churches of the saints.
14:34 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 says the law.
14:35 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.
14:36 What? came the word of God out
from you? or came it unto you
only?
14:37 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.
14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let
him be ignorant.
14:39 Therefore, brothers, covet to prophesy,
and forbid not to speak
with tongues.
14:40 Let all things be done decently
and in order.
15:1 Moreover, brothers, I declare unto
you the gospel which I
preached unto you, which also you have
received, and in which you
stand;
15:2 By which also you are saved, if
you keep in memory what I
preached unto you, unless you have believed
in vain.
15:3 For I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received,
that Christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures;
15:4 And that he was buried, and that
he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:
15:5 And that he was seen of Cephas,
then of the twelve:
15:6 After that, he was seen of above
five hundred brothers at once;
of whom the greater part remain unto
this present, but some are fallen
asleep.
15:7 After that, he was seen of James;
then of all the apostles.
15:8 And last of all he was seen of me
also, as of one born out of due
time.
15:9 For I am the least of the apostles,
that am not suitable to be
called an apostle, because I persecuted
the church of God.
15:10 But by the grace of God I am what
I am: and his grace which was
bestowed upon me was not in vain; but
I labored more abundantly than
they all: yet not I, but the grace of
God which was with me.
15:11 Therefore whether it were I or
they, so we preach, and so you
believed.
15:12 Now if Christ be preached that
he rose from the dead, how say
some among you that there is no resurrection
of the dead?
15:13 But if there be no resurrection
of the dead, then is Christ not
risen:
15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then
is our preaching vain, and your
faith is also vain.
15:15 Yes, 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.
15:16 For if the dead rise not, then
is not Christ raised: 15:17 And
if Christ be not raised, your faith is
vain; you are yet in your sins.
15:18 Then they also which are fallen
asleep in Christ are perished.
15:19 If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men
most miserable.
15:20 But now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the first
fruits of them that slept.
15:21 For since by man came death, by
man came also the resurrection
of the dead.
15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ shall all be made
alive.
15:23 But every man in his own order:
Christ the first fruits;
afterward they that are Christ's at his
coming.
15:24 Then comes the end, when he shall
have delivered up the kingdom
to God, even the Father; when he shall
have put down all rule and all
authority and power.
15:25 For he must reign, till he has
put all enemies under his feet.
15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed
is death.
15:27 For he has put all things under
his feet. But when he says all
things are put under him, it is manifest
that he is excepted, which
did put all things under him.
15:28 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.
15:29 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?
15:30 And why stand we in jeopardy every
hour?
15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which
I have in Christ Jesus our
LORD, I die daily.
15:32 If after the manner of men I have
fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what advantages it me, if the dead rise
not? let us eat and drink; for
tomorrow we die.
15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications
corrupt good manners.
15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin
not; for some have not the
knowledge of God: I speak this to your
shame.
15:35 But some man will say, How are
the dead raised up? and with what
body do they come?
15:36 You fool, that which you sow is
not given life, unless it die:
15:37 And that which you sow, you do
not sow that body that shall be,
but bore grain, it may chance of wheat,
or of some other grain:
15:38 But God gives it a body as it has
pleased him, and to every seed
his own body.
15:39 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.
15:40 There are also celestial bodies,
and bodies terrestrial: but the
glory of the celestial is one, and the
glory of the terrestrial is
another.
15:41 There is one glory of the sun,
and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars: for one
star differs from another star
in glory.
15:42 So also is the resurrection of
the dead. It is sown in
corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised
in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power:
15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is
raised a spiritual body. There
is a natural body, and there is a spiritual
body.
15:45 And so it is written, The first
man Adam was made a living soul;
the last Adam was made a life-giving
spirit.
15:46 Howbeit that was not first which
is spiritual, but that which is
natural; and afterward that which is
spiritual.
15:47 The first man is of the earth,
earthy; the second man is the
Lord from heaven.
15:48 As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy: and as is
the heavenly, such are they also that
are heavenly.
15:49 And as we have borne the image
of the earthy, we shall also bear
the image of the heavenly.
15:50 Now this I say, brothers, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God; neither does corruption
inherit incorruption.
15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We
shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed,
15:52 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.
15:53 For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality.
15:54 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.
15:55 O death, where is your sting? O
grave, where is your victory?
15:56 The sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the law.
15:57 But thanks be to God, which gives
us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers,
be steadfast, unmovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch
as you know that your
labor is not in vain in the Lord.
16:1 Now concerning the collection for
the saints, as I have given
order to the churches of Galatia, even
so do you.
16:2 Upon the first day of the week let
every one of you lay by him in
store, as God has prospered him, that
there be no gatherings when I
come.
16:3 And when I come, whomsoever you
shall approve by your letters,
them will I send to bring your liberality
unto Jerusalem.
16:4 And if it be suitable that I go
also, they shall go with me.
16:5 Now I will come unto you, when I
shall pass through Macedonia:
for I do pass through Macedonia.
16:6 And it may be that I will abide,
yes, and winter with you, that
you may bring me on my journey to wheresoever
I go.
16:7 For I will not see you now by the
way; but I trust to tarry a
while with you, if the Lord permit.
16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until
Pentecost.
16:9 For a great and effective door is
opened unto me, and there are
many adversaries.
16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that
he may be with you without fear:
for he works the work of the Lord, as
I also do.
16:11 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 brothers.
16:12 As touching our brother Apollos,
I greatly desired him to come
unto you with the brothers: but his will
was not at all to come at
this time; but he will come when he shall
have convenient time.
16:13 Watch you, stand fast in the faith,
quit you like men, be
strong.
16:14 Let all your things be done with
love.
16:15 I beseech you, brothers, (you know
the house of Stephanas, that
it is the first fruits of Achaia, and
that they have addicted
themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
16:16 That you submit yourselves unto
such, and to every one that
helps with us, and labors.
16:17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas
and Fortunatus and
Achaicus: for that which was lacking
on your part they have supplied.
16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit
and your's: therefore
acknowledge you them that are such.
16:19 The churches of Asia salute you.
Aquila and Priscilla salute you
much in the Lord, with the church that
is in their house.
16:20 All the brothers greet you. Greet
you one another with a holy
kiss.
16:21 The salutation of me Paul with
my own hand.
16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus
Christ, let him be Anathema
Maranatha.
16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you.
16:24 My love be with you all in Christ
Jesus. Amen.