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1 ¶ Paul, called to be an
apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are
sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place
call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which
is given you by Jesus Christ;
5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and
in all knowledge;
6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting
for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless
in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of
his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 ¶ Now I beseech you,
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same
thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly
joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them
which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I
of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye
baptized in the name of Paul?
14 ¶
I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know
not whether I baptized any other.
17 ¶ For Christ sent me not to
baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of
Christ should be made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and
will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of
this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock,
and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men
after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things
which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to
nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us
wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord.
1 ¶ And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with
excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I
determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him
crucified.
3 And I was with
you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech
and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith
should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 ¶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect:
yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come
to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of
the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is
written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart
of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath
revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea,
the deep things of God.
11 For what man
knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so
the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is
spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath
known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of
Christ.
1 ¶ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto
spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you
with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither
yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet
carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are
ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith,
I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 ¶ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers
by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted,
Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that
watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that
planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own
reward according to his own labour.
9 For we are
labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
10 According to
the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid
the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how
he buildeth thereupon.
11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man
build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's
work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be
revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.
15 If any man's
work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet
so as by fire.
16 ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man
defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are.
18 ¶ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you
seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom
of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in
their own craftiness.
20 And again, The
Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
21 ¶ Therefore let no man glory
in men. For all things are yours;
22 Whether Paul,
or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or
things to come; all are yours;
23 And ye are
Christ's; and Christ is God's.
1 ¶ Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of
Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Moreover it is
required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it
is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment:
yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know
nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the
Lord.
5 Therefore judge
nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the
hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts:
and then shall every man have praise of God.
6 And these
things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for
your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is
written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
7 ¶ For who maketh thee to
differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if
thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
8 Now ye are
full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God
ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think
that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death:
for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools
for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong;
ye are honourable, but we are despised.
11 Even unto this
present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and
have no certain dwellingplace;
12 And labour,
working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we
suffer it:
13 Being defamed,
we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of
all things unto this day.
14 ¶ I write not these things
to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though ye
have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in
Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I
beseech you, be ye followers of me.
17 ¶ For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who
is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into
remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every
church.
18 Now some are
puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will
come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them
which are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the
kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will ye?
shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
1 ¶ It is reported commonly that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are
puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might
be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily,
as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were
present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4 In the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the
power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 To deliver such
an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be
saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying
is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 ¶ Purge out therefore the old
leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our
passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let
us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and
wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 ¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with
fornicators:
10 Yet not
altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or
extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have
written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a
fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have
I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are
within?
13 But them that
are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked
person.
1 ¶ Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go
to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Do ye not know
that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you,
are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not
that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have
judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least
esteemed in the church.
5 I speak to your
shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall
be able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother
goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go
to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather
suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do
wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
9 ¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the
kingdom of God.
11 And such were
some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 ¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are
not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under
the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly,
and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body
is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us
by his own power.
15 Know ye not that
your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ,
and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye
not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall
be one flesh.
17 But he that is
joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee
fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye
not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye
have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit,
which are God's.
1 ¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have
her own husband.
3 Let the husband
render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the
husband.
4 The wife hath
not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath
not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not
one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give
yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you
not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak
this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man
hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore
to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they
cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 ¶ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the
Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she
depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not
the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest
speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she
be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman
which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with
her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean;
but now are they holy.
15 But if the
unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage
in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
16 For what
knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou,
O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
17 ¶ But as God hath distributed to every man, as the
Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
18 Is any man
called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in
uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision
is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments
of God.
20 Let every man
abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou
mayest be made free, use it rather.
22 For he that is
called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he
that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
23 Ye are bought
with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
24 Brethren, let
every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
25 ¶ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the
Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be
faithful.
26 I suppose
therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good
for a man so to be.
27 Art thou bound
unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a
wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin
marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh:
but I spare you.
29 But this I
say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives
be as though they had none;
30 And they that
weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced
not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that
use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
32 But I would
have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that
belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 But he that is
married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his
wife.
34 There is
difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the
things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she
that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her
husband.
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare
upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord
without distraction.
36 ¶ But if any man think that he behaveth himself
uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so
require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
37 Nevertheless
he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power
over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his
virgin, doeth well.
38 So then he
that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage
doeth better.
39 ¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband
liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she
will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is
happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the
Spirit of God.
1 ¶ Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
2 And if any man
think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if any man
love God, the same is known of him.
4 ¶ As concerning therefore the eating of those things
that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in
the world, and that there is none other God but one.
5 For though
there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods
many, and lords many,)
6 But to us there
is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 ¶ Howbeit there is not in
every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour
eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is
defiled.
8 But meat
commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither,
if we eat not, are we the worse.
9 But take heed
lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that
are weak.
10 For if any man
see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the
conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are
offered to idols;
11 And through
thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12 But when ye
sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against
Christ.
13 Wherefore, if
meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth,
lest I make my brother to offend.