King James Version
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.