1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
",""],["","2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
",""],["","3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
",""],["","4I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.
",""],["","5For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,
",""],["","6because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.
",""],["","7Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
",""],["","8He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
",""],["","9God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
",""],["","10I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.
",""],["","11My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
",""],["","12What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
",""],["","13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?
",""],["","14I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
",""],["","15so no one can say that I baptized into my name.
",""],["","16Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not remember if I baptized anyone else.
",""],["","17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
",""],["","18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
",""],["","19For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
",""],["","20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
",""],["","21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
",""],["","22Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom,
",""],["","23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
",""],["","24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
",""],["","25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.
",""],["","26Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
",""],["","27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
",""],["","28He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
",""],["","29so that no one may boast in His presence.
",""],["","30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
",""],["","31Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
",""]],[["","",""],["","1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
",""],["","2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
",""],["","3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.
",""],["","4My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
",""],["","5so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
",""],["","6Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
",""],["","7No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.
",""],["","8None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
",""],["","9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
",""],["","10But God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
",""],["","11For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
",""],["","12We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
",""],["","13And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
",""],["","14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
",""],["","15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.
",""],["","16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
",""],["","2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
",""],["","3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension and division among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
",""],["","4For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not of the flesh?
",""],["","5Who then is Paul? And who is Apollos? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.
",""],["","6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
",""],["","7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
",""],["","8He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
",""],["","9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
",""],["","10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.
",""],["","11For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
",""],["","12If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
",""],["","13his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
",""],["","14If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
",""],["","15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.
",""],["","16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
",""],["","17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
",""],["","18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
",""],["","19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
",""],["","20And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
",""],["","21Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
",""],["","22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,
",""],["","23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
",""],["","2Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
",""],["","3I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
",""],["","4My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.
",""],["","5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
",""],["","6Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to think beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.
",""],["","7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
",""],["","8Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
",""],["","9For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
",""],["","10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
",""],["","11To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
",""],["","12We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
",""],["","13when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
",""],["","14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
",""],["","15Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
",""],["","16Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
",""],["","17That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.
",""],["","18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
",""],["","19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.
",""],["","20For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
",""],["","21Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?
",""]],[["","",""],["","1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not even named among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
",""],["","2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
",""],["","3Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
",""],["","4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
",""],["","5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord Jesus.
",""],["","6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
",""],["","7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed for us.
",""],["","8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
",""],["","9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
",""],["","10I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy or swindlers or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
",""],["","11But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
",""],["","12What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
",""],["","13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
",""]],[["","",""],["","1If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!
",""],["","2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
",""],["","3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
",""],["","4So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?
",""],["","5I say this to your shame. Is there really not even one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
",""],["","6Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
",""],["","7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
",""],["","8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
",""],["","9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
",""],["","10nor the covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
",""],["","11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
",""],["","12“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
",""],["","13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
",""],["","14By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
",""],["","15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
",""],["","16Don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
",""],["","17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
",""],["","18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
",""],["","19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
",""],["","20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body and with your spirit, which belong to God.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Now for the matters about which you wrote me: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
",""],["","2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
",""],["","3The husband should render the affection due to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
",""],["","4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
",""],["","5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to fasting and to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
",""],["","6I say this as a concession, not as a command.
",""],["","7For I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that.
",""],["","8Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.
",""],["","9But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
",""],["","10To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
",""],["","11But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
",""],["","12To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.
",""],["","13And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.
",""],["","14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
",""],["","15But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called us to live in peace.
",""],["","16How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
",""],["","17Regardless, each one should lead the life that God has assigned to him and to which the Lord has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.
",""],["","18Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.
",""],["","19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
",""],["","20Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.
",""],["","21Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.
",""],["","22For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.
",""],["","23You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
",""],["","24Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.
",""],["","25Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
",""],["","26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
",""],["","27Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.
",""],["","28But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
",""],["","29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
",""],["","30those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;
",""],["","31and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
",""],["","32I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he will please the Lord.
",""],["","33But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he will please his wife.
",""],["","34And there is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she will please her husband.
",""],["","35I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.
",""],["","36However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.
",""],["","37But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.
",""],["","38So then, he who marries her does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
",""],["","39A wife is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
",""],["","40In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
",""],["","2The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
",""],["","3But the one who loves God is known by God.
",""],["","4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
",""],["","5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
",""],["","6yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
",""],["","7But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people with consciousness of the idol still eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
",""],["","8But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no better if we do not eat, and no worse if we do.
",""],["","9Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
",""],["","10For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
",""],["","11Should this weak brother, for whom Christ died, be destroyed by your knowledge?
",""],["","12By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
",""],["","13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
",""],["","2Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
",""],["","3This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:
",""],["","4Have we no right to food and to drink?
",""],["","5Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
",""],["","6Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
",""],["","7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
",""],["","8Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
",""],["","9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
",""],["","10Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.
",""],["","11If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
",""],["","12If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
",""],["","13Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
",""],["","14In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
",""],["","15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.
",""],["","16Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
",""],["","17If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.
",""],["","18What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer the gospel of Christ free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.
",""],["","19Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
",""],["","20To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law, to win those under the law.
",""],["","21To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
",""],["","22To the weak I became like one who is weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
",""],["","23I do this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
",""],["","24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
",""],["","25Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
",""],["","26Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
",""],["","27No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
",""],["","2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
",""],["","3They all ate the same spiritual food
",""],["","4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
",""],["","5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
",""],["","6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
",""],["","7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
",""],["","8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
",""],["","9We should not test Christ, as some of them also did, and were killed by snakes.
",""],["","10And do not complain, as also some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
",""],["","11Now all these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
",""],["","12So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
",""],["","13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
",""],["","14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
",""],["","15I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.
",""],["","16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
",""],["","17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
",""],["","18Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
",""],["","19Am I suggesting, then, that an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to an idol is anything?
",""],["","20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
",""],["","21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
",""],["","22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
",""],["","23“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is edifying.
",""],["","24No one should seek his own good, but each one should seek the good of others.
",""],["","25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
",""],["","26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
",""],["","27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.
",""],["","28But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not 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 the fullness thereof—
",""],["","29the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?
",""],["","30If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
",""],["","31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
",""],["","32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
",""],["","33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
",""],["","2Now I commend you, brothers, for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
",""],["","3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
",""],["","4Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
",""],["","5And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.
",""],["","6If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.
",""],["","7A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
",""],["","8For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.
",""],["","9Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
",""],["","10For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
",""],["","11In the Lord, however, man is not independent of woman, nor is woman independent of man.
",""],["","12For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
",""],["","13Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
",""],["","14Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
",""],["","15but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given as a covering.
",""],["","16If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
",""],["","17In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
",""],["","18First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
",""],["","19And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
",""],["","20Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.
",""],["","21For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
",""],["","22Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
",""],["","23For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,
",""],["","24and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take and eat. This is My body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
",""],["","25In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
",""],["","26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
",""],["","27Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
",""],["","28Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
",""],["","29For anyone who eats and drinks unworthily, without recognizing the body of the Lord, eats and drinks judgment on himself.
",""],["","30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
",""],["","31Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
",""],["","32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
",""],["","33So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
",""],["","34If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
",""],["","2You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
",""],["","3Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.
",""],["","4There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
",""],["","5There are different ministries, but the same Lord.
",""],["","6There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.
",""],["","7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
",""],["","8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,
",""],["","9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that same Spirit,
",""],["","10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
",""],["","11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.
",""],["","12The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.
",""],["","13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given into one Spirit to drink.
",""],["","14For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.
",""],["","15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
",""],["","16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
",""],["","17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
",""],["","18But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.
",""],["","19If they were all one part, where would the body be?
",""],["","20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
",""],["","21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
",""],["","22On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
",""],["","23and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,
",""],["","24whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
",""],["","25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.
",""],["","26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
",""],["","27Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.
",""],["","28And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.
",""],["","29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
",""],["","30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?
",""],["","31But eagerly desire the better gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
",""],["","2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
",""],["","3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
",""],["","4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
",""],["","5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
",""],["","6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
",""],["","7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
",""],["","8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
",""],["","9Now we know in part and we prophesy in part,
",""],["","10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
",""],["","11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
",""],["","12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
",""],["","13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.
",""],["","2For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
",""],["","3But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort.
",""],["","4The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.
",""],["","5I wish that all of you could speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. For he who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be edified.
",""],["","6Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
",""],["","7Even in the case of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize the tune they are playing unless the notes are distinct?
",""],["","8Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle?
",""],["","9So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.
",""],["","10Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.
",""],["","11If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.
",""],["","12It is the same with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, strive to excel in gifts that build up the church.
",""],["","13Therefore, the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
",""],["","14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
",""],["","15What then shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
",""],["","16Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
",""],["","17You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.
",""],["","18I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
",""],["","19But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
",""],["","20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
",""],["","21It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
",""],["","22Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
",""],["","23So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
",""],["","24But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,
",""],["","25and so the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”
",""],["","26What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm or a teaching, a tongue, a revelation, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church.
",""],["","27If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.
",""],["","28But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God.
",""],["","29Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.
",""],["","30And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop.
",""],["","31For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.
",""],["","32The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
",""],["","33For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
",""],["","34Your women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
",""],["","35If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church.
",""],["","36Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?
",""],["","37If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord’s command.
",""],["","38But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
",""],["","39So, brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
",""],["","40But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm.
",""],["","2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
",""],["","3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
",""],["","4that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
",""],["","5and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.
",""],["","6After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
",""],["","7Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
",""],["","8And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.
",""],["","9For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
",""],["","10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
",""],["","11Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
",""],["","12But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
",""],["","13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
",""],["","14And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.
",""],["","15In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.
",""],["","16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
",""],["","17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
",""],["","18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
",""],["","19If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.
",""],["","20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
",""],["","21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
",""],["","22For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
",""],["","23But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.
",""],["","24Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
",""],["","25For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
",""],["","26The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
",""],["","27For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.
",""],["","28And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.
",""],["","29If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for the dead?
",""],["","30And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
",""],["","31I face death every day, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
",""],["","32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
",""],["","33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
",""],["","34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
",""],["","35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
",""],["","36You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
",""],["","37And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
",""],["","38But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
",""],["","39Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, fish another, and birds another.
",""],["","40There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.
",""],["","41The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
",""],["","42So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.
",""],["","43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
",""],["","44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body; there is also a spiritual body.
",""],["","45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
",""],["","46The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
",""],["","47The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
",""],["","48As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.
",""],["","49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also let us bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
",""],["","50Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
",""],["","51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
",""],["","52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
",""],["","53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
",""],["","54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
",""],["","55“Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?”
",""],["","56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
",""],["","57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
",""],["","58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
",""]],[["","",""],["","1Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:
",""],["","2On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.
",""],["","3Then, on my arrival, I will send letters with those you recommend to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
",""],["","4And if it is advisable for me to go also, they can travel with me.
",""],["","5After I go through Macedonia, however, I will come to you; for I will be going through Macedonia.
",""],["","6Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go.
",""],["","7For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
",""],["","8But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
",""],["","9because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.
",""],["","10If Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.
",""],["","11No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.
",""],["","12Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was not at all inclined to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity.
",""],["","13Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
",""],["","14Do everything in love.
",""],["","15You know that Stephanas and his household were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. Now I urge you, brothers,
",""],["","16to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.
",""],["","17I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you.
",""],["","18For they refreshed my spirit and yours as well. Show your appreciation, therefore, to such men.
",""],["","19The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.
",""],["","20All the brothers here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
",""],["","21This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.
",""],["","22If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!
",""],["","23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
",""],["","24My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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