Paul’s First Letter to
the Corinthians
1:1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ through the will of God, and our
brother Sosthenes, 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth;
those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus,
called to be saints, with all who call on
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every
place, both theirs and ours: 1:3Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4I always thank my God concerning you,
for the grace of God which was given you
in Christ Jesus; 1:5that in everything you were enriched in
him, in all speech and all knowledge; 1:6even as the testimony
of Christ was confirmed in you: 1:7so that you come
behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation
of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1:8who will also confirm you until the end,
blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9God is faithful, through whom you were
called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus
Christ, our Lord. 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and
in the same judgment. 1:11For it has been reported to me concerning
you, my brothers, by those who are from
Chloe's household, that there are contentions
among you. 1:12Now I mean this,
that each one of you says, "I follow
Paul," "I follow Apollos,"
"I follow Cephas," and, "I
follow Christ." 1:13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified
for you? Or were you baptized into the name
of Paul? 1:14I thank God that I baptized none of you,
except Crispus and Gaius, 1:15so that no one
should say that I had baptized you into
my own name. 1:16(I also baptized the household of Stephanas;
besides them, I don't know whether I baptized
any other.) 1:17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but
to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words,
so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be
made void. 1:18For the word of
the cross is foolishness to those who are
dying, but to us who are saved it is the
power of God. 1:19For it is written,
"I will destroy the wisdom
of the wise,
I will
bring the discernment of the discerning
to nothing."
1:20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe?
Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't
God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1:21For seeing that in the wisdom of God,
the world through its wisdom didn't know
God, it was God's good pleasure through
the foolishness of the preaching to save
those who believe. 1:22For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after
wisdom, 1:23but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling
block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
1:24but to those who
are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1:25Because the foolishness of God is wiser
than men, and the weakness of God is stronger
than men. 1:26For you see your calling, brothers, that
not many are wise according to the flesh,
not many mighty, and not many noble; 1:27but God chose the foolish things of the
world that he might put to shame those who
are wise. God chose the weak things of the
world, that he might put to shame the things
that are strong; 1:28and God chose the lowly things of the
world, and the things that are despised,
and the things that are not, that he might
bring to nothing the things that are: 1:29that no flesh should
boast before God. 1:30But of him, you are in Christ Jesus,
who was made to us wisdom from God, and
righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
1:31that, according
as it is written, "He who boasts, let
him boast in the Lord."
2:1When I came to you, brothers, I didn't
come with excellence of speech or of wisdom,
proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2:2For I determined not to know anything
among you, except Jesus Christ, and him
crucified. 2:3I was with you in weakness, in fear, and
in much trembling. 2:4My speech and my preaching were not in
persuasive words of human wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
2:5that your faith wouldn't stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
2:6We speak wisdom,
however, among those who are full grown;
yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the
rulers of this world, who are coming to
nothing. 2:7But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery,
the wisdom that has been hidden, which God
foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
2:8which none of the rulers of this world
has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't
have crucified the Lord of glory. 2:9But as it is written,
"Things which an eye didn't
see, and an ear didn't hear,
Which
didn't enter into the heart of man,
These God has prepared for those
who love him."
2:10But to us, God revealed them through
the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all
things, yes, the deep things of God. 2:11For who among men knows the things of
a man, except the spirit of the man, which
is in him? Even so, no one knows the things
of God, except God's Spirit. 2:12But we received,
not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is from God, that we might know the
things that were freely given to us by God.
2:13Which things also we speak, not in words
which man's wisdom teaches, but which the
Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual things. 2:14Now the natural
man doesn't receive the things of God's
Spirit, for they are foolishness to him,
and he can't know them, because they are
spiritually discerned. 2:15But he who is spiritual discerns all
things, and he himself is judged by no one.
2:16"For who has
known the mind of the Lord, that he should
instruct him?" But we have Christ's
mind.
3:1Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to
spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies
in Christ. 3:2I fed you with milk, not with meat; for
you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even
now are you ready, 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar
as there is jealousy, strife, and factions
among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't
you walk in the ways of men? 3:4For when one says,
"I follow Paul," and another,
"I follow Apollos," aren't you
fleshly? 3:5Who then is Apollos,
and who is Paul, but servants through whom
you believed; and each as the Lord gave
to him? 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave
the increase. 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything,
nor he who waters, but God who gives the
increase. 3:8Now he who plants and he who waters are
the same, but each will receive his own
reward according to his own labor. 3:9For we are God's fellow workers. You are
God's farming, God's building. 3:10According to the
grace of God which was given to me, as a
wise master builder I laid a foundation,
and another builds on it. But let each man
be careful how he builds on it. 3:11For no one can lay any other foundation
than that which has been laid, which is
Jesus Christ. 3:12But if anyone builds on the foundation
with gold, silver, costly stones, wood,
hay, or stubble; 3:13each man's work will be revealed. For
the Day will declare it, because it is revealed
in fire; and the fire itself will test what
sort of work each man's work is. 3:14If any man's work remains which he built
on it, he will receive a reward. 3:15If any man's work
is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself
will be saved, but as through fire.
3:16Don't you know that you are a temple
of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
3:17If anyone destroys
the temple of God, God will destroy him;
for God's temple is holy, which you are.
3:18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone
thinks that he is wise among you in this
world, let him become a fool, that he may
become wise. 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written, "He has
taken the wise in their craftiness."
3:20And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning
of the wise, that it is worthless."
3:21Therefore let no one boast in men. For
all things are yours, 3:22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas,
or the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things to come. All are yours,
3:23and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
4:1So let a man think of us as Christ's servants,
and stewards of God's mysteries. 4:2Here, moreover,
it is required of stewards, that they be
found faithful. 4:3But with me it is a very small thing that
I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment.
Yes, I don't judge my own self. 4:4For I know nothing against myself. Yet
I am not justified by this, but he who judges
me is the Lord. 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time,
until the Lord comes, who will both bring
to light the hidden things of darkness,
and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then
each man will get his praise from God.
4:6Now these things, brothers, I have in
a figure transferred to myself and Apollos
for your sakes, that in us you might learn
not to think beyond the things which are
written, that none of you be puffed up against
one another. 4:7For who makes you
different? And what do you have that you
didn't receive? But if you did receive it,
why do you boast as if you had not received
it? 4:8You are already filled. You have already
become rich. You have come to reign without
us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign,
that we also might reign with you. 4:9For, I think that God has displayed us,
the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced
to death. For we are made a spectacle to
the world, both to angels and men. 4:10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you
are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you
are strong. You have honor, but we have
dishonor. 4:11Even to this present hour we hunger,
thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have
no certain dwelling place. 4:12We toil, working with our own hands.
When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted,
we endure. 4:13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made
as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped
off by all, even until now. 4:14I don't write these things to shame you,
but to admonish you as my beloved children.
4:15For though you have ten thousand tutors
in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in
Christ Jesus, I became your father through
the Gospel. 4:16I beg you therefore, be imitators of
me. 4:17Because of this I have sent Timothy to
you, who is my beloved and faithful child
in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways
which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere
in every assembly. 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I were
not coming to you. 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the
Lord is willing. And I will know, not the
word of those who are puffed up, but the
power. 4:20For the Kingdom of God is not in word,
but in power. 4:21What do you want? Shall I come to you
with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
5:1It is actually reported that there is
sexual immorality among you, and such sexual
immorality as is not even named among the
Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
5:2You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn,
that he who had done this deed might be
removed from among you. 5:3For I most assuredly, as being absent
in body but present in spirit, have already,
as though I were present, judged him who
has done this thing. 5:4In the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together,
and my spirit, with the power of our Lord
Jesus Christ, 5:5are to deliver such
a one to Satan for the destruction of the
flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the
day of the Lord Jesus.
5:6Your boasting is not good. Don't you know
that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
5:7Purge out the old
yeast, that you may be a new lump, even
as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ,
our Passover, has been sacrificed in our
place. 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with
old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice
and wickedness, but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth. 5:9I wrote to you in
my letter to have no company with sexual
sinners; 5:10yet not at all meaning with the sexual
sinners of this world, or with the covetous
and extortioners, or with idolaters; for
then you would have to leave the world.
5:11But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate
with anyone who is called a brother who
is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater,
or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner.
Don't even eat with such a person. 5:12For what have I
to do with also judging those who are outside?
Don't you judge those who are within? 5:13But those who are outside, God judges.
"Put away the wicked man from among
yourselves."
6:1Dare any of you, having a matter against
his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous,
and not before the saints? 6:2Don't you know that the saints will judge
the world? And if the world is judged by
you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest
matters? 6:3Don't you know that we will judge angels?
How much more, things that pertain to this
life? 6:4If then, you have to judge things pertaining
to this life, do you set them to judge who
are of no account in the assembly? 6:5I say this to move you to shame. Isn't
there even one wise man among you who would
be able to decide between his brothers?
6:6But brother goes to law with brother,
and that before unbelievers! 6:7Therefore it is
already altogether a defect in you, that
you have lawsuits one with another. Why
not rather be wronged? Why not rather be
defrauded? 6:8No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud,
and that against your brothers. 6:9Or don't you know
that the unrighteous will not inherit the
Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither
the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
6:10nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers,
nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom
of God. 6:11Such were some
of you, but you were washed. But you were
sanctified. But you were justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit
of our God. 6:12"All things are lawful for me,"
but not all things are expedient. "All
things are lawful for me," but I will
not be brought under the power of anything.
6:13"Foods for the belly, and the belly
for foods," but God will bring to nothing
both it and them. But the body is not for
sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and
the Lord for the body. 6:14Now God raised up the Lord, and will
also raise us up by his power. 6:15Don't you know
that your bodies are members of Christ?
Shall I then take the members of Christ,
and make them members of a prostitute? May
it never be! 6:16Or don't you know that he who is joined
to a prostitute is one body? For, "The
two," says he, "will become one
flesh." 6:17But he who is joined
to the Lord is one spirit. 6:18Flee sexual immorality!
"Every sin that a man does is outside
the body," but he who commits sexual
immorality sins against his own body. 6:19Or don't you know that your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you,
which you have from God? You are not your
own, 6:20for you were bought with a price. Therefore
glorify God in your body and in your spirit,
which are God's.
7:1Now concerning the things about which
you wrote to me: it is good for a man not
to touch a woman. 7:2But, because of sexual immoralities, let
each man have his own wife, and let each
woman have her own husband. 7:3Let the husband render to his wife the
affection owed her, and likewise also the
wife to her husband. 7:4The wife doesn't have authority over her
own body, but the husband. Likewise also
the husband doesn't have authority over
his own body, but the wife. 7:5Don't deprive one
another, unless it is by consent for a season,
that you may give yourselves to fasting
and prayer, and may be together again, that
Satan doesn't tempt you because of your
lack of self-control.
7:6But this I say by way of concession, not
of commandment. 7:7Yet I wish that all men were like me.
However each man has his own gift from God,
one of this kind, and another of that kind.
7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows,
it is good for them if they remain even
as I am. 7:9But if they don't have self-control, let
them marry. For it's better to marry than
to burn. 7:10But to the married I command--not I,
but the Lord--that the wife not leave her
husband 7:11(but if she departs,
let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled
to her husband), and that the husband not
leave his wife.
7:12But to the rest I--not the Lord--say,
if any brother has an unbelieving wife,
and she is content to live with him, let
him not leave her. 7:13The woman who has
an unbelieving husband, and he is content
to live with her, let her not leave her
husband. 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified
in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is
sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your
children would be unclean, but now are they
holy. 7:15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there
be separation. The brother or the sister
is not under bondage in such cases, but
God has called us in peace. 7:16For how do you
know, wife, whether you will save your husband?
Or how do you know, husband, whether you
will save your wife? 7:17Only, as the Lord
has distributed to each man, as God has
called each, so let him walk. So I command
in all the assemblies.
7:18Was anyone called having been circumcised?
Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone
been called in uncircumcision? Let him not
be circumcised. 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision
is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments
of God. 7:20Let each man stay in that calling in
which he was called. 7:21Were you called being a bondservant?
Don't let that bother you, but if you get
an opportunity to become free, use it. 7:22For he who was called in the Lord being
a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise
he who was called being free is Christ's
bondservant. 7:23You were bought
with a price. Don't become bondservants
of men. 7:24Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition
he was called, stay in that condition with
God.
7:25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment
from the Lord, but I give my judgment as
one who has obtained mercy from the Lord
to be trustworthy. 7:26I think that it
is good therefore, because of the distress
that is on us, that it is good for a man
to be as he is. 7:27Are you bound to
a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you
free from a wife? Don't seek a wife. 7:28But if you marry, you have not sinned.
If a virgin marries, she has not sinned.
Yet such will have oppression in the flesh,
and I want to spare you. 7:29But I say this,
brothers: the time is short, that from now
on, both those who have wives may be as
though they had none; 7:30and those who weep,
as though they didn't weep; and those who
rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice;
and those who buy, as though they didn't
possess; 7:31and those who use the world, as not using
it to the fullest. For the mode of this
world passes away. 7:32But I desire to have you to be free from
cares. He who is unmarried is concerned
for the things of the Lord, how he may please
the Lord; 7:33but he who is married
is concerned about the things of the world,
how he may please his wife. 7:34There is also a difference between a
wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares
about the things of the Lord, that she may
be holy both in body and in spirit. But
she who is married cares about the things
of the world--how she may please her husband.
7:35This I say for your own profit; not that
I may ensnare you, but for that which is
appropriate, and that you may attend to
the Lord without distraction. 7:36But if any man
thinks that he is behaving inappropriately
toward his virgin, if she is past the flower
of her age, and if need so requires, let
him do what he desires. He doesn't sin.
Let them marry. 7:37But he who stands
steadfast in his heart, having no necessity,
but has power over his own heart, to keep
his own virgin, does well. 7:38So then both he
who gives his own virgin in marriage does
well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage
does better. 7:39A wife is bound
by law for as long as her husband lives;
but if the husband is dead, she is free
to be married to whoever she desires, only
in the Lord. 7:40But she is happier if she stays as she
is, in my judgment, and I think that I also
have God's Spirit.
8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols:
We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge
puffs up, but love builds up. 8:2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything,
he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
8:3But if anyone loves
God, the same is known by him. 8:4Therefore concerning
the eating of things sacrificed to idols,
we know that no idol is anything in the
world, and that there is no other God but
one. 8:5For though there are things that are called
"gods," whether in the heavens
or on earth; as there are many "gods"
and many "lords;" 8:6yet to us there
is one God, the Father, of whom are all
things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus
Christ, through whom are all things, and
we live through him. 8:7However, that knowledge isn't in all men.
But some, with consciousness of the idol
until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed
to an idol, and their conscience, being
weak, is defiled. 8:8But food will not commend us to God. For
neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse;
nor, if we eat, are we the better. 8:9But be careful that by no means does this
liberty of yours become a stumbling block
to the weak. 8:10For if a man sees you who have knowledge
sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience,
if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things
sacrificed to idols? 8:11And through your knowledge, he who is
weak perishes, the brother for whose sake
Christ died. 8:12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and
wounding their conscience when it is weak,
you sin against Christ. 8:13Therefore, if food causes my brother
to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore,
that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't
I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you
my work in the Lord? 9:2If to others I am not an apostle, yet
at least I am to you; for you are the seal
of my apostleship in the Lord. 9:3My defense to those who examine me is
this. 9:4Have we no right to eat and to drink?
9:5Have we no right to take along a wife
who is a believer, even as the rest of the
apostles, and the brothers of the Lord,
and Cephas? 9:6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to
not work? 9:7What soldier ever serves at his own expense?
Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of
its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't
drink from the flock's milk? 9:8Do I speak these things according to the
ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say
the same thing? 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses,
"You shall not muzzle an ox while it
treads out the grain." Is it for the
oxen that God cares, 9:10or does he say
it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written
for our sake, because he who plows ought
to plow in hope, and he who threshes in
hope should partake of his hope. 9:11If we sowed to you spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly
things? 9:12If others partake of this right over
you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we
did not use this right, but we bear all
things, that we may cause no hindrance to
the Gospel of Christ. 9:13Don't you know that those who serve around
sacred things eat from the things of the
temple, and those who wait on the altar
have their portion with the altar? 9:14Even so the Lord ordained that those
who proclaim the Gospel should live from
the Gospel. 9:15But I have used none of these things,
and I don't write these things that it may
be done so in my case; for I would rather
die, than that anyone should make my boasting
void. 9:16For if I preach the Gospel, I have nothing
to boast about; for necessity is laid on
me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach
the Gospel. 9:17For if I do this
of my own will, I have a reward. But if
not of my own will, I have a stewardship
entrusted to me. 9:18What then is my reward? That, when I
preach the Gospel, I may present the Gospel
of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse
my authority in the Gospel. 9:19For though I was free from all, I brought
myself under bondage to all, that I might
gain the more. 9:20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
might gain Jews; to those who are under
the law, as under the law, that I might
gain those who are under the law; 9:21to those who are
without law, as without law (not being without
law toward God, but under law toward Christ),
that I might win those who are without law.
9:22To the weak I became as weak, that I
might gain the weak. I have become all things
to all men, that I may by all means save
some. 9:23Now I do this for the Gospel's sake,
that I may be a joint partaker of it. 9:24Don't you know
that those who run in a race all run, but
one receives the prize? Run like that, that
you may win. 9:25Every man who strives in the games exercises
self-control in all things. Now they do
it to receive a corruptible crown, but we
an incorruptible. 9:26I therefore run
like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like
that, as not beating the air, 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into
submission, lest by any means, after I have
preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
10:1Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers,
that our fathers were all under the cloud,
and all passed through the sea; 10:2and were all baptized into Moses in the
cloud and in the sea; 10:3and all ate the same spiritual food;
10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink.
For they drank of a spiritual rock that
followed them, and the rock was Christ.
10:5However with most of them, God was not
well pleased, for they were overthrown in
the wilderness. 10:6Now these things were our examples, to
the intent we should not lust after evil
things, as they also lusted. 10:7Neither be idolaters, as some of them
were. As it is written, "The people
sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
play." 10:8Neither let us commit sexual immorality,
as some of them committed, and in one day
twenty-three thousand fell. 10:9Neither let us test the Lord, as some
of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
10:10Neither grumble,
as some of them also grumbled, and perished
by the destroyer. 10:11Now all these things happened to them
by way of example, and they were written
for our admonition, on whom the ends of
the ages have come. 10:12Therefore let
him who thinks he stands be careful that
he doesn't fall.
10:13No temptation has taken you except what
is common to man. God is faithful, who will
not allow you to be tempted above what you
are able, but will with the temptation also
make the way of escape, that you may be
able to endure it. 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
10:15I speak as to wise men. Judge what I
say. 10:16The cup of blessing which we bless,
isn't it a communion of the blood of Christ?
The bread which we break, isn't it a communion
of the body of Christ? 10:17Because we, who
are many, are one bread, one body; for we
all partake of the one bread. 10:18Consider Israel after the flesh. Don't
those who eat the sacrifices have communion
with the altar?
10:19What am I saying then? That a thing
sacrificed to idols is anything, or that
an idol is anything? 10:20But I say that the things which the
Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons,
and not to God, and I don't desire that
you would have communion with demons. 10:21You can't both drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both
partake of the table of the Lord, and of
the table of demons. 10:22Or do we provoke
the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than
he? 10:23"All things are lawful for me,"
but not all things are profitable. "All
things are lawful for me," but not
all things build up. 10:24Let no one seek
his own, but each one his neighbor's good.
10:25Whatever is sold
in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question
for the sake of conscience, 10:26for "the earth is the Lord's, and
its fullness." 10:27But if one of
those who don't believe invites you to a
meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever
is set before you, asking no questions for
the sake of conscience. 10:28But if anyone says to you, "This
was offered to idols," don't eat it
for the sake of the one who told you, and
for the sake of conscience. For "the
earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."
10:29Conscience, I say, not your own, but
the other's conscience. For why is my liberty
judged by another conscience? 10:30If I partake with thankfulness, why
am I denounced for that for which I give
thanks? 10:31Whether therefore you eat, or drink,
or whatever you do, do all to the glory
of God. 10:32Give no occasions for stumbling, either
to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly
of God; 10:33even as I also please all men in all
things, not seeking my own profit, but the
profit of the many, that they may be saved.
11:1Be imitators of me, even as I also am
of Christ. 11:2Now I praise you, brothers, that you
remember me in all things, and hold firm
the traditions, even as I delivered them
to you. 11:3But 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. 11:4Every man praying or prophesying, having
his head covered, dishonors his head. 11:5But every woman
praying or prophesying with her head unveiled
dishonors her head. For it is one and the
same thing as if she were shaved. 11:6For if a woman is not covered, let her
also be shorn. But if it is shameful for
a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be
covered. 11:7For a man indeed ought not to have his
head covered, because he is the image and
glory of God, but the woman is the glory
of the man. 11:8For man is not from woman, but woman
from man; 11:9for neither was man created for the woman,
but woman for the man. 11:10For this cause
the woman ought to have authority on her
head, because of the angels.
11:11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent
of the man, nor the man independent of the
woman, in the Lord. 11:12For as woman came from man, so a man
also comes through a woman; but all things
are from God. 11:13Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate
that a woman pray to God unveiled? 11:14Doesn't even nature
itself teach you that if a man has long
hair, it is a dishonor to him? 11:15But if a woman has long hair, it is
a glory to her, for her hair is given to
her for a covering. 11:16But if any man seems to be contentious,
we have no such custom, neither do God's
assemblies.
11:17But in giving you this command, I don't
praise you, that you come together not for
the better but for the worse. 11:18For first of all, when you come together
in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist
among you, and I partly believe it. 11:19For there also must be factions among
you, that those who are approved may be
revealed among you. 11:20When therefore you assemble yourselves
together, it is not possible to eat the
Lord's supper. 11:21For in your eating each one takes his
own supper before others. One is hungry,
and another is drunken. 11:22What, don't you have houses to eat and
to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly,
and put them to shame who don't have? What
shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In
this I don't praise you.
11:23For I received from the Lord that which
also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus
on the night in which he was betrayed took
bread. 11:24When he had given
thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take,
eat. This is my body, which is broken for
you. Do this in memory of me."
11:25In the same way he also took the cup,
after supper, saying, "This
cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do
this, as often as you drink, in memory of
me." 11:26For as often as you eat this bread and
drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's
death until he comes. 11:27Therefore whoever eats this bread or
drinks the Lord's cup in a manner unworthy
of the Lord will be guilty of the body and
the blood of the Lord. 11:28But let a man
examine himself, and so let him eat of the
bread, and drink of the cup. 11:29For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy
manner eats and drinks judgment to himself,
if he doesn't discern the Lord's body. 11:30For this cause many among you are weak
and sickly, and not a few sleep. 11:31For if we discerned
ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. 11:32But when we are
judged, we are punished by the Lord, that
we may not be condemned with the world.
11:33Therefore, my brothers, when you come
together to eat, wait one for another. 11:34But if anyone
is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your
coming together be for judgment. The rest
I will set in order whenever I come.
12:1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers,
I don't want you to be ignorant. 12:2You know that when
you were heathen, you
were led away to those mute idols, however
you might be led. 12:3Therefore I make
known to you that no man speaking by God's
Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed."
No one can say, "Jesus is Lord,"
but by the Holy Spirit. 12:4Now there are various kinds of gifts,
but the same Spirit.
12:5There are various kinds of service, and
the same Lord. 12:6There are various kinds of workings,
but the same God, who works all things in
all. 12:7But to each one is given the manifestation
of the Spirit for the profit of all. 12:8For to one is given
through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and
to another the word of knowledge, according
to the same Spirit; 12:9to another faith,
by the same Spirit; and to another gifts
of healings, by the same Spirit; 12:10and to another workings of miracles;
and to another prophecy; and to another
discerning of spirits; to another different
kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation
of languages. 12:11But the one and the same Spirit works
all of these, distributing to each one separately
as he desires.
12:12For as the body is one, and has many
members, and all the members of the body,
being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized
into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether
bond or free; and were all given to drink
into one Spirit. 12:14For the body is
not one member, but many. 12:15If the foot would
say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm
not part of the body," it is not therefore
not part of the body. 12:16If the ear would say, "Because
I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body,"
it's not therefore not part of the body.
12:17If the whole body
were an eye, where would the hearing be?
If the whole were hearing, where would the
smelling be? 12:18But now God has
set the members, each one of them, in the
body, just as he desired. 12:19If they were all one member, where would
the body be? 12:20But now they are many members, but one
body. 12:21The eye can't tell the hand, "I
have no need for you," or again the
head to the feet, "I have no need for
you." 12:22No, much rather, those members of the
body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
12:23Those parts of
the body which we think to be less honorable,
on those we bestow more abundant honor;
and our unpresentable parts have more abundant
propriety; 12:24whereas our presentable parts have no
such need. But God composed the body together,
giving more abundant honor to the inferior
part, 12:25that there should
be no division in the body, but that the
members should have the same care for one
another. 12:26When one member suffers, all the members
suffer with it. Or when one member is honored,
all the members rejoice with it.
12:27Now you are the body of Christ, and
members individually. 12:28God has set some in the assembly: first
apostles, second prophets, third teachers,
then miracle workers, then gifts of healings,
helps, governments, and various kinds of
languages. 12:29Are all apostles? Are all prophets?
Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?
12:30Do all have gifts of healings? Do all
speak with various languages? Do all interpret?
12:31But earnestly desire the best gifts.
Moreover, I show a most excellent way to
you.
13:1If I speak with the languages of men
and of angels, but don't have love, I have
become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know
all mysteries and all knowledge; and if
I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3If I dole out all my goods to feed the
poor, and if I give my body to be burned,
but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
13:4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't
envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 13:5doesn't behave
itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its
own way, is not provoked, takes no account
of evil; 13:6doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth; 13:7bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures
all things. 13:8Love never fails. But where there are
prophecies, they will be done away with.
Where there are various languages, they
will cease. Where there is knowledge, it
will be done away with. 13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy
in part; 13:10but when that which is complete has
come, then that which is partial will be
done away with. 13:11When I was a child, I spoke as a child,
I felt as a child, I thought as a child.
Now that I have become a man, I have put
away childish things. 13:12For now we see
in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I will know
fully, even as I was also fully known. 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain--these
three. The greatest of these is love.
14:1Follow after love, and earnestly desire
spiritual gifts, but especially that you
may prophesy. 14:2For he who speaks in another language
speaks not to men, but to God; for no one
understands; but in the Spirit he speaks
mysteries. 14:3But he who prophesies speaks to men for
their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
14:4He who speaks in another language edifies
himself, but he who prophesies edifies the
assembly. 14:5Now I desire to have you all speak with
other languages, but rather that you would
prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies
than he who speaks with other languages,
unless he interprets, that the assembly
may be built up.
14:6But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what
would I profit you, unless I speak to you
either by way of revelation, or of knowledge,
or of prophesying, or of teaching? 14:7Even things without life, giving a voice,
whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give
a distinction in the sounds, how would it
be known what is piped or harped? 14:8For if the trumpet gave an uncertain
sound, who would prepare himself for war?
14:9So also you, unless
you uttered by the tongue words easy to
understand, how would it be known what is
spoken? For you would be speaking into the
air. 14:10There are, it may be, so many kinds
of sounds in the world, and none of them
is without meaning. 14:11If then I don't know the meaning of
the sound, I would be to him who speaks
a foreigner, and he who speaks would be
a foreigner to me. 14:12So also you, since you are zealous for
spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound
to the building up of the assembly. 14:13Therefore let him who speaks in another
language pray that he may interpret. 14:14For if I pray
in another language, my spirit prays, but
my understanding is unfruitful.
14:15What 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. 14:16Otherwise if you bless with the spirit,
how will he who fills the place of the unlearned
say the "Amen" at your giving
of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you
say? 14:17For you most assuredly give thanks well,
but the other person is not built up. 14:18I thank my God,
I speak with other languages more than you
all. 14:19However in the assembly I would rather
speak five words with my understanding,
that I might instruct others also, than
ten thousand words in another language.
14:20Brothers, don't be children in thoughts,
yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts
be mature. 14:21In the law it is written, "By men
of strange languages and by the lips of
strangers I will speak to this people. Not
even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."
14:22Therefore other languages are for a
sign, not to those who believe, but to the
unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign,
not to the unbelieving, but to those who
believe. 14:23If therefore the whole assembly is assembled
together and all speak with other languages,
and unlearned or unbelieving people come
in, won't they say that you are crazy? 14:24But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving
or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by
all, and he is judged by all. 14:25And thus the secrets of his heart are
revealed. So he will fall down on his face
and worship God, declaring that God is among
you indeed.
14:26What is it then, brothers? When you
come together, each one of you has a psalm,
has a teaching, has a revelation, has another
language, has an interpretation. Let all
things be done to build each other up. 14:27If any man speaks in another language,
let it be two, or at the most three, and
in turn; and let one interpret. 14:28But if there is no interpreter, let
him keep silent in the assembly, and let
him speak to himself, and to God. 14:29Let the prophets speak, two or three,
and let the others discern. 14:30But if a revelation
is made to another sitting by, let the first
keep silent. 14:31For you all can prophesy one by one,
that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
14:32The spirits of
the prophets are subject to the prophets,
14:33for God is not a God of confusion, but
of peace.
As in all the assemblies of the saints,
14:34let your wives
keep silent in the assemblies, for it has
not been permitted for them to speak; but
let them be in subjection, as the law also
says. 14:35If they desire to learn anything, let
them ask their own husbands at home, for
it is shameful for a woman to chatter in
the assembly. 14:36What? Was it from
you that the word of God went out? Or did
it come to you alone? 14:37If any man thinks himself to be a prophet,
or spiritual, let him recognize the things
which I write to you, that they are the
commandment of the Lord. 14:38But if anyone
is ignorant, let him be ignorant. 14:39Therefore, brothers,
desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't
forbid speaking with other languages. 14:40Let all things be done decently and
in order.
15:1Now I declare to you, brothers, the Gospel
which I preached to you, which also you
received, in which you also stand, 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold
firmly the word which I preached to you--unless
you believed in vain. 15:3For I delivered to you first of all that
which I also received: that Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures,
15:4that he was buried, that he was raised
on the third day according to the Scriptures,
15:5and that he appeared
to Cephas, then to the twelve. 15:6Then he appeared
to over five hundred brothers at once, most
of whom remain until now, but some have
also fallen asleep. 15:7Then he appeared
to James, then to all the apostles, 15:8and last of all,
as to the child born at the wrong time,
he appeared to me also. 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, who
is not worthy to be called an apostle, because
I persecuted the assembly of God. 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I
am. His grace which was bestowed on me was
not futile, but I worked more than all of
them; yet not I, but the grace of God which
was with me. 15:11Whether then it is I or they, so we
preach, and so you believed.
15:12Now if Christ is preached, that he has
been raised from the dead, how do some among
you say that there is no resurrection of
the dead? 15:13But if there is no resurrection of the
dead, neither has Christ been raised. 15:14If Christ has
not been raised, then our preaching is in
vain, and your faith also is in vain. 15:15Yes, we are found false witnesses of
God, because we testified about God that
he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise
up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
15:16For if the dead aren't raised, neither
has Christ been raised. 15:17If Christ has
not been raised, your faith is vain; you
are still in your sins. 15:18Then they also who are fallen asleep
in Christ have perished. 15:19If we have only
hoped in Christ in this life, we are of
all men most pitiable.
15:20But now Christ has been raised from
the dead. He became the first fruits of
those who are asleep. 15:21For since death came by man, the resurrection
of the dead also came by man. 15:22For as in Adam
all die, so also in Christ all will be made
alive. 15:23But each in his own order: Christ the
first fruits, then those who are Christ's,
at his coming. 15:24Then the end comes, when he will deliver
up the Kingdom to God, even the Father;
when he will have abolished all rule and
all authority and power. 15:25For he must reign
until he has put all his enemies under his
feet. 15:26The last enemy that will be abolished
is death. 15:27For, "He put all things in subjection
under his feet." But when he says,
"All things are put in subjection,"
it is evident that he is excepted who subjected
all things to him. 15:28When all things have been subjected
to him, then the Son will also himself be
subjected to him who subjected all things
to him, that God may be all in all. 15:29Or else what will they do who are baptized
for the dead? If the dead aren't raised
at all, why then are they baptized for the
dead? 15:30Why do we also stand in jeopardy every
hour? 15:31I affirm, by the boasting in you which
I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
15:32If I fought with
animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what
does it profit me? If the dead are not raised,
then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow
we die." 15:33Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships
corrupt good morals." 15:34Wake up righteously,
and don't sin, for some have no knowledge
of God. I say this to your shame. 15:35But someone will say, "How are
the dead raised?" and, "With what
kind of body do they come?" 15:36You foolish one, that which you yourself
sow is not made alive unless it dies. 15:37That which you
sow, you don't sow the body that will be,
but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of
some other kind. 15:38But God gives it a body even as it pleased
him, and to each seed a body of its own.
15:39All flesh is not
the same flesh, but there is one flesh of
men, another flesh of animals, another of
fish, and another of birds. 15:40There are also
celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies;
but the glory of the celestial differs from
that of the terrestrial. 15:41There is one glory
of the sun, another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars; for one star
differs from another star in glory. 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption; it is raised in
incorruption. 15:43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised
in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is
raised in power. 15:44It is sown a natural body; it is raised
a spiritual body. There is a natural body
and there is also a spiritual body.
15:45So also it is written, "The first
man, Adam, became a living soul." The
last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 15:46However that which is spiritual isn't
first, but that which is natural, then that
which is spiritual. 15:47The first man is of the earth, made
of dust. The second man is the Lord from
heaven. 15:48As is the one made of dust, such are
those who are also made of dust; and as
is the heavenly, such are they also that
are heavenly. 15:49As we have borne the image of those
made of dust, let's also
bear the image of the heavenly. 15:50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God;
neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
15:51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will
not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
15:52in a moment, in
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead
will be raised incorruptible, and we will
be changed. 15:53For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.
15:54But when this corruptible will have
put on incorruption, and this mortal will
have put on immortality, then what is written
will happen: "Death is swallowed up
in victory."
15:55"Death, where is your sting?
Hades,
where is your victory?"
15:56The sting of death is sin, and the power
of sin is the law. 15:57But thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 15:58Therefore, my
beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable,
always abounding in the Lord's work, because
you know that your labor is not in vain
in the Lord.
16:1Now concerning the collection for the
saints, as I commanded the assemblies of
Galatia, you do likewise. 16:2On the first day of the week, let each
one of you save, as he may prosper, that
no collections be made when I come. 16:3When I arrive, I will send whoever you
approve with letters to carry your gracious
gift to Jerusalem. 16:4If it is appropriate for me to go also,
they will go with me. 16:5But I will come to you when I have passed
through Macedonia, for I am passing through
Macedonia. 16:6But with you it may be that I will stay,
or even winter, that you may send me on
my journey wherever I go. 16:7For I do not wish to see you now in passing,
but I hope to stay a while with you, if
the Lord permits. 16:8But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
16:9for a great and effective door has opened
to me, and there are many adversaries. 16:10Now if Timothy
comes, see that he is with you without fear,
for he does the work of the Lord, as I also
do. 16:11Therefore let no one despise him. But
set him forward on his journey in peace,
that he may come to me; for I expect him
with the brothers.
16:12Now concerning Apollos, the brother,
I strongly urged him to come to you with
the brothers; and it was not at all his
desire to come now; but he will come when
he has an opportunity.
16:13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous!
Be strong! 16:14Let all that you do be done in love.
16:15Now I beg you, brothers (you know the
house of Stephanas, that it is the first
fruits of Achaia, and that they have set
themselves to minister to the saints), 16:16that you also be in subjection to such,
and to everyone who helps in the work and
labors. 16:17I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas,
Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which
was lacking on your part, they supplied.
16:18For they refreshed my spirit and yours.
Therefore acknowledge those who are like
that.
16:19The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila
and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord,
together with the assembly that is in their
house. 16:20All the brothers
greet you. Greet one another with a holy
kiss.
16:21This greeting is by me, Paul, with my
own hand. 16:22If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus
Christ, let him be accursed.
Come, Lord! 16:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be
with you. 16:24My love to all of you in Christ Jesus.
Amen.
Notes:
[1] back
to 1:10 The word for "brothers"
here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and
sisters" or "siblings."
[2] back
to 12:2 or Gentiles
[3] back
to 14:6 The word for "brothers"
here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and
sisters" or "siblings."
[4] back
to 15:49 NU, TR read "we will"
instead of "let's"
[5] back
to 15:50 The word for "brothers"
here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and
sisters" or "siblings."
[6] back
to 16:22 Greek: anathema.
[7] back
to 16:22 Aramaic: Maranatha!
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