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Was Paul crucified for you? + Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? +001:014 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, +001:015 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into + my own name. +001:016 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, + I don't know whether I baptized any other.) +001:017 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News-- + not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't + be made void. +001:018 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, + but to us who are saved it is the power of God. +001:019 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will + bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."{Isaiah 29:14} +001:020 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer + of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? +001:021 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its + wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through + the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. +001:022 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, +001:023 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, + and foolishness to Greeks, +001:024 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is + the power of God and the wisdom of God. +001:025 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness + of God is stronger than men. +001:026 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise + according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; +001:027 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put + to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, + that he might put to shame the things that are strong; +001:028 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things + that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might + bring to nothing the things that are: +001:029 that no flesh should boast before God. +001:030 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom + from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: +001:031 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him + boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24} +002:001 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence + of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. +002:002 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, + and him crucified. +002:003 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. +002:004 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of + human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, +002:005 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, + but in the power of God. +002:006 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; + yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, + who are coming to nothing. +002:007 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has + been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds + for our glory, +002:008 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they + known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. +002:009 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, + and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, + these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4} +002:010 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. + For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. +002:011 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit + of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things + of God, except God's Spirit. +002:012 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit + which is from God, that we might know the things that were + freely given to us by God. +002:013 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, + but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things + with spiritual things. +002:014 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, + for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, + because they are spiritually discerned. +002:015 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself + is judged by no one. +002:016 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct + him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind. +003:001 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, + as to babies in Christ. +003:002 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. + Indeed, not even now are you ready, +003:003 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, + strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't + you walk in the ways of men? +003:004 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," + aren't you fleshly? +003:005 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom + you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? +003:006 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. +003:007 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, + but God who gives the increase. +003:008 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each + will receive his own reward according to his own labor. +003:009 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, + God's building. +003:010 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise + master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. + But let each man be careful how he builds on it. +003:011 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has + been laid, which is Jesus Christ. +003:012 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, + costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; +003:013 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, + because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test + what sort of work each man's work is. +003:014 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will + receive a reward. +003:015 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself + will be saved, but as through fire. +003:016 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit + lives in you? +003:017 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; + for God's temple is holy, which you are. +003:018 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is + wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, + that he may become wise. +003:019 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it + is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."{Job 5:13} +003:020 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it + is worthless."{Psalm 94:11} +003:021 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, +003:022 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, + or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. + All are yours, +003:023 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. +004:001 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards + of God's mysteries. +004:002 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they + be found faithful. +004:003 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged + by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. +004:004 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified + by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. +004:005 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, + who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, + and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get + his praise from God. +004:006 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred + to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might + learn not to think beyond the things which are written, + that none of you be puffed up against one another. +004:007 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you + didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast + as if you had not received it? +004:008 You are already filled. You have already become rich. + You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you + did reign, that we also might reign with you. +004:009 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, + like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle + to the world, both to angels and men. +004:010 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. + We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, + but we have dishonor. +004:011 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, + are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. +004:012 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. + Being persecuted, we endure. +004:013 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, + the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. +004:014 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you + as my beloved children. +004:015 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not + many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father + through the Good News. +004:016 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. +004:017 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my + beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you + of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere + in every assembly. +004:018 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. +004:019 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. + And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, + but the power. +004:020 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. +004:021 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love + and a spirit of gentleness? +005:001 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, + and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, + that one has his father's wife. +005:002 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had + done this deed might be removed from among you. +005:003 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present + in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him + who has done this thing. +005:004 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, + and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, +005:005 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, + that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. +005:006 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast + leavens the whole lump? +005:007 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, + even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, + has been sacrificed in our place. +005:008 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, + neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with + the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. +005:009 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; +005:010 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, + or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; + for then you would have to leave the world. +005:011 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone + who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, + or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. + Don't even eat with such a person. +005:012 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? + Don't you judge those who are within? +005:013 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man + from among yourselves."{Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7} +006:001 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, + go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? +006:002 Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? + And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge + the smallest matters? +006:003 Don't you know that we will judge angels? How much more, + things that pertain to this life? +006:004 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, + do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? +006:005 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man + among you who would be able to decide between his brothers? +006:006 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! +006:007 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you + have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? + Why not rather be defrauded? +006:008 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that + against your brothers. +006:009 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom + of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, + nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, +006:010 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, + nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. +006:011 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. + But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, + and in the Spirit of our God. +006:012 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. + "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought + under the power of anything. +006:013 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," + but God will bring to nothing both it and them. + But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; + and the Lord for the body. +006:014 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up + by his power. +006:015 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then + take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? + May it never be! +006:016 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? + For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."{Genesis 2:24} +006:017 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. +006:018 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside + the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against + his own body. +006:019 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit + which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, +006:020 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God + in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. +007:001 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: + it is good for a man not to touch a woman. +007:002 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his + own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. +007:003 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, + and likewise also the wife to her husband. +007:004 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. + Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his + own body, but the wife. +007:005 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, + that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, + and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you + because of your lack of self-control. +007:006 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. +007:007 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his + own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. +007:008 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them + if they remain even as I am. +007:009 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. + For it's better to marry than to burn. +007:010 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife + not leave her husband +007:011 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled + to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. +007:012 But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has + an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, + let him not leave her. +007:013 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content + to live with her, let her not leave her husband. +007:014 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, + and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. + Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. +007:015 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. + The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, + but God has called us in peace. +007:016 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? + Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? +007:017 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, + so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. +007:018 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not + become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? + Let him not be circumcised. +007:019 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, + but the keeping of the commandments of God. +007:020 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. +007:021 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, + but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. +007:022 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is + the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free + is Christ's bondservant. +007:023 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men. +007:024 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, + stay in that condition with God. +007:025 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, + but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from + the Lord to be trustworthy. +007:026 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress + that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. +007:027 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. + Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife. +007:028 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, + she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, + and I want to spare you. +007:029 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, + both those who have wives may be as though they had none; +007:030 and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those + who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, + as though they didn't possess; +007:031 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. + For the mode of this world passes away. +007:032 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. + He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, + how he may please the Lord; +007:033 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, + how he may please his wife. +007:034 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. + The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, + that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. + But she who is married cares about the things of the world-- + how she may please her husband. +007:035 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, + but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend + to the Lord without distraction. +007:036 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately + toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, + and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. + He doesn't sin. Let them marry. +007:037 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, + but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. +007:038 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, + and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better. +007:039 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; + but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever + she desires, only in the Lord. +007:040 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, + and I think that I also have God's Spirit. +008:001 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we + all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. +008:002 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet + know as he ought to know. +008:003 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. +008:004 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, + we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there + is no other God but one. +008:005 For though there are things that are called "gods," + whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" + and many "lords;" +008:006 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, + and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom + are all things, and we live through him. +008:007 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, + with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of + a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, + being weak, is defiled. +008:008 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, + are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. +008:009 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours + become a stumbling block to the weak. +008:010 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, + won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat + things sacrificed to idols? +008:011 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother + for whose sake Christ died. +008:012 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience + when it is weak, you sin against Christ. +008:013 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat + no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble. +009:001 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, + our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord? +009:002 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; + for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. +009:003 My defense to those who examine me is this. +009:004 Have we no right to eat and to drink? +009:005 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, + even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of + the Lord, and Cephas? +009:006 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? +009:007 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? + Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? + Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk? +009:008 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? + Or doesn't the law also say the same thing? +009:009 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle + an ox while it treads out the grain."{Deuteronomy 25:4} Is + it for the oxen that God cares, +009:010 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written + for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, + and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. +009:011 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we + reap your fleshly things? +009:012 If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? + Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, + that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ. +009:013 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat + from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar + have their portion with the altar? +009:014 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News + should live from the Good News. +009:015 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things + that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, + than that anyone should make my boasting void. +009:016 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; + for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't + preach the Good News. +009:017 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. + But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. +009:018 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may + present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not + to abuse my authority in the Good News. +009:019 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage + to all, that I might gain the more. +009:020 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; + to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I + might gain those who are under the law; +009:021 to those who are without law, as without law (not being + without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), + that I might win those who are without law. +009:022 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. + I have become all things to all men, that I may by all + means save some. +009:023 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be + a joint partaker of it. +009:024 Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one + receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. +009:025 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control + in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, + but we an incorruptible. +009:026 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, + as not beating the air, +009:027 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, + after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. +010:001 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers + were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; +010:002 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; +010:003 and all ate the same spiritual food; +010:004 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a + spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. +010:005 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they + were overthrown in the wilderness. +010:006 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should + not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. +010:007 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, + "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up + to play."{Exodus 32:6} +010:008 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, + and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. +010:009 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, + and perished by the serpents. +010:010 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished + by the destroyer. +010:011 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, + and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends + of the ages have come. +010:012 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that + he doesn't fall. +010:013 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. + God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above + what you are able, but will with the temptation also make + the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. +010:014 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. +010:015 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. +010:016 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a communion + of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it + a communion of the body of Christ? +010:017 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; + for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. +010:018 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat + the sacrifices have communion with the altar? +010:019 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols + is anything, or that an idol is anything? +010:020 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, + they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire + that you would have communion with demons. +010:021 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. + You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of + the table of demons. +010:022 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? +010:023 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. + "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up. +010:024 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good. +010:025 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question + for the sake of conscience, +010:026 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."{Psalm 24:1} +010:027 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, + and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, + asking no questions for the sake of conscience. +010:028 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," + don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, + and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, + and all its fullness." +010:029 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. + For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? +010:030 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that + for which I give thanks? +010:031 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, + do all to the glory of God. +010:032 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, + or to the assembly of God; +010:033 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my + own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. +011:001 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. +011:002 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, + and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. +011:003 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, + and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of + Christ is God. +011:004 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, + dishonors his head. +011:005 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled + dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if + she were shaved. +011:006 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. + But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, + let her be covered. +011:007 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, + because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman + is the glory of the man. +011:008 For man is not from woman, but woman from man; +011:009 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. +011:010 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, + because of the angels. +011:011 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, + nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. +011:012 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; + but all things are from God. +011:013 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray + to God unveiled? +011:014 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, + it is a dishonor to him? +011:015 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her + hair is given to her for a covering. +011:016 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, + neither do God's assemblies. +011:017 But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you + come together not for the better but for the worse. +011:018 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, + I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it. +011:019 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are + approved may be revealed among you. +011:020 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not + the Lord's supper that you eat. +011:021 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. + One is hungry, and another is drunken. +011:022 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? + Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame + who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? + In this I don't praise you. +011:023 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered + to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was + betrayed took bread. +011:024 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. + This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in + memory of me." +011:025 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, + saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. + Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." +011:026 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, + you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. +011:027 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup + in a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body + and the blood of the Lord. +011:028 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, + and drink of the cup. +011:029 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks + judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body. +011:030 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not + a few sleep. +011:031 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. +011:032 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we + may not be condemned with the world. +011:033 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, + wait one for another. +011:034 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming + together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order + whenever I come. +012:001 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you + to be ignorant. +012:002 You know that when you were heathen{or Gentiles}, you were led + away to those mute idols, however you might be led. +012:003 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by + God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, + "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit. +012:004 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. +012:005 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord. +012:006 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, + who works all things in all. +012:007 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit + for the profit of all. +012:008 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, + and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; +012:009 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts + of healings, by the same Spirit; +012:010 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; + and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds + of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. +012:011 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, + distributing to each one separately as he desires. +012:012 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members + of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. +012:013 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, + whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all + given to drink into one Spirit. +012:014 For the body is not one member, but many. +012:015 If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part + of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body. +012:016 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part + of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body. +012:017 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? + If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? +012:018 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, + just as he desired. +012:019 If they were all one member, where would the body be? +012:020 But now they are many members, but one body. +012:021 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," + or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you." +012:022 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be + weaker are necessary. +012:023 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, + on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable + parts have more abundant propriety; +012:024 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. + But God composed the body together, giving more abundant + honor to the inferior part, +012:025 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members + should have the same care for one another. +012:026 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. + Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. +012:027 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. +012:028 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, + second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, + then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various + kinds of languages. +012:029 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? + Are all miracle workers? +012:030 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? + Do all interpret? +012:031 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most + excellent way to you. +013:001 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't + have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. +013:002 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and + all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, + but don't have love, I am nothing. +013:003 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my + body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. +013:004 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. + Love doesn't brag, is not proud, +013:005 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, + is not provoked, takes no account of evil; +013:006 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; +013:007 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, + endures all things. +013:008 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done + away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. + Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. +013:009 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; +013:010 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is + partial will be done away with. +013:011 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, + I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, + I have put away childish things. +013:012 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. + Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I + was also fully known. +013:013 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. + The greatest of these is love. +014:001 Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, + but especially that you may prophesy. +014:002 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; + for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. +014:003 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, + exhortation, and consolation. +014:004 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who + prophesies edifies the assembly. +014:005 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, + but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater + who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, + unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up. +014:006 But now, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context + allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} if I come to you speaking with other languages, + what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either + by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, + or of teaching? +014:007 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, + if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would + it be known what is piped or harped? +014:008 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare + himself for war? +014:009 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy + to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? + For you would be speaking into the air. +014:010 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, + and none of them is without meaning. +014:011 If then I don't know the meaning of the sound, I would + be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would + be a foreigner to me. +014:012 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, + seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly. +014:013 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that + he may interpret. +014:014 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my + understanding is unfruitful. +014:015 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray + with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, + and I will sing with the understanding also. +014:016 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills + the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving + of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say? +014:017 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person + is not built up. +014:018 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all. +014:019 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words + with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, + than ten thousand words in another language. +014:020 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, + but in thoughts be mature. +014:021 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages + and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. + Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."{Isaiah 28:11-12} +014:022 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, + but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, + not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. +014:023 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all + speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving + people come in, won't they say that you are crazy? +014:024 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, + he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. +014:025 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will + fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God + is among you indeed. +014:026 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, + each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, + has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things + be done to build each other up. +014:027 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, + or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. +014:028 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, + and let him speak to himself, and to God. +014:029 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern. +014:030 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, + let the first keep silent. +014:031 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, + and all may be exhorted. +014:032 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, +014:033 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. + As in all the assemblies of the saints, +014:034 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been + permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, + as the law also says. +014:035 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own + husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter + in the assembly. +014:036 What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? + Or did it come to you alone? +014:037 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, + let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they + are the commandment of the Lord. +014:038 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. +014:039 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't + forbid speaking with other languages. +014:040 Let all things be done decently and in order. +015:001 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached + to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, +015:002 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word + which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. +015:003 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: + that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, +015:004 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day + according to the Scriptures, +015:005 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. +015:006 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, + most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. +015:007 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, +015:008 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, + he appeared to me also. +015:009 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be + called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. +015:010 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was + bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; + yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. +015:011 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. +015:012 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, + how do some among you say that there is no resurrection + of the dead? +015:013 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has + Christ been raised. +015:014 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, + and your faith also is in vain. +015:015 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified + about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, + if it is so that the dead are not raised. +015:016 For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised. +015:017 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still + in your sins. +015:018 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. +015:019 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all + men most pitiable. +015:020 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became + the first fruits of those who are asleep. +015:021 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead + also came by man. +015:022 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. +015:023 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, + then those who are Christ's, at his coming. +015:024 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, + even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all + authority and power. +015:025 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. +015:026 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. +015:027 For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet."{Psalm + 8:6} But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," + it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. +015:028 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will + also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, + that God may be all in all. +015:029 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? + If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized + for the dead? +015:030 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? +015:031 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus + our Lord, I die daily. +015:032 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, + what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let + us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."{Isaiah 22:13} +015:033 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals." +015:034 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge + of God. I say this to your shame. +015:035 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what + kind of body do they come?" +015:036 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive + unless it dies. +015:037 That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, + but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. +015:038 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each + seed a body of its own. +015:039 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, + another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. +015:040 There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; + but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial. +015:041 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, + and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from + another star in glory. +015:042 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; + it is raised in incorruption. +015:043 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown + in weakness; it is raised in power. +015:044 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. + There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. +015:045 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living + soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. +015:046 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which + is natural, then that which is spiritual. +015:047 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man + is the Lord from heaven. +015:048 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; + and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. +015:049 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's{NU, TR read + "we will" instead of "let's"} also bear the image of the heavenly. +015:050 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where + context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit + the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. +015:051 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we + will all be changed, +015:052 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. + For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised + incorruptible, and we will be changed. +015:053 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal + must put on immortality. +015:054 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, + and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written + will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."{Isaiah 25:8} +015:055 "Death, where is your sting? Hades{or, Hell}, where is + your victory?"{Hosea 13:14} +015:056 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. +015:057 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our + Lord Jesus Christ. +015:058 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, + always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that + your labor is not in vain in the Lord. +016:001 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded + the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. +016:002 On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, + as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. +016:003 When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters + to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem. +016:004 If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me. +016:005 But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, + for I am passing through Macedonia. +016:006 But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, + that you may send me on my journey wherever I go. +016:007 For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay + a while with you, if the Lord permits. +016:008 But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, +016:009 for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there + are many adversaries. +016:010 Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, + for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. +016:011 Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his + journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him + with the brothers. +016:012 Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come + to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire + to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. +016:013 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! +016:014 Let all that you do be done in love. +016:015 Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, + that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set + themselves to serve the saints), +016:016 that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone + who helps in the work and labors. +016:017 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; + for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. +016:018 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge + those who are like that. +016:019 The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet + you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is + in their house. +016:020 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. +016:021 This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand. +016:022 If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be + accursed{Greek: anathema.}. Come, Lord!{Aramaic: Maranatha!} +016:023 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. +016:024 My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): 1 CORINTHIANS *** + +This file should be named 8273.txt or 8273.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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