11:1I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 11:2God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel: 11:3Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 11:4But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 11:5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 11:6But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. 11:7What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened: 11:8according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day. 11:9And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them: 11:10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always. 11:11I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 11:12Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? 11:13But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them. 11:15For if the casting away of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead? 11:16And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree; 11:18glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee. 11:19Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 11:20Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 11:21for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. 11:22Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God`s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 11:23And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 11:24For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive tree? 11:25For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in; 11:26and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 11:27And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins. 11:28As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers` sake. 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of. 11:30For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 11:31even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy. 11:32For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! 11:34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? 11:35or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 11:36For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him [be] the glory for ever. Amen.
12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service. 12:2And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith. 12:4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office: 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another. 12:6And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith; 12:7or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching; 12:8or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, [let him do it] with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 12:10In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another; 12:11in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; 12:12rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer; 12:13communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality. 12:14Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not. 12:15Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep. 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits. 12:17Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. 12:18If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men. 12:19Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath [of God]: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord. 12:20But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. 12:21Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
13:1Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the [powers] that be are ordained of God. 13:2Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment. 13:3For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same: 13:4for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil. 13:5Wherefore [ye] must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience` sake. 13:6For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God`s service, attending continually upon this very thing. 13:7Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. 13:8Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. 13:9For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 13:10Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law. 13:11And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed. 13:12The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13:13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
14:1But him that is weak in faith receive ye, [yet] not for decision of scruples. 14:2One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs. 14:3Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 14:4Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand. 14:5One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. 14:6He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord: and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. 14:7For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. 14:8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord`s. 14:9For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 14:10But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. 14:11For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God. 14:12So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. 14:13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother`s way, or an occasion of falling. 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 14:15For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died. 14:16Let not then your good be evil spoken of: 14:17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 14:18For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men. 14:19So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another. 14:20Overthrow not for meat`s sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 14:21It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth. 14:22The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth. 14:23But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
15:1Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying. 15:3For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. 15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope. 15:5Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus: 15:6that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15:7Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. 15:8For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises [given] unto the fathers, 15:9and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name. 15:10And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. 15:11And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; And let all the peoples praise him. 15:12And again, Isaiah saith, There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope. 15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. 15:14And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15:15But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God, 15:16that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 15:17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ; 15:20yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man`s foundation; 15:21but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand. 15:22Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you: 15:23but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you, 15:24whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)-- 15:25but now, I [say], I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints. 15:26For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem. 15:27Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in carnal things. 15:28When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain. 15:29And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ. 15:30Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; 15:31that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints; 15:32that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest. 15:33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
16:1I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae: 16:2that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self. 16:3Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, 16:4who for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles: 16:5and [salute] the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia unto Christ. 16:6Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you. 16:7Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me. 16:8Salute Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord. 16:9Salute Urbanus our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. 16:10Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute them that are of the [household] of Aristobulus. 16:11Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute them of the [household] of Narcissus, that are in the Lord. 16:12Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord. 16:13Salute Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 16:14Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren that are with them. 16:15Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with them. 16:16Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you. 16:17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. 16:18For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent. 16:19For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil. 16:20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 16:21Timothy my fellow-worker saluteth you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. 16:22I Tertius, who write the epistle, salute you in the Lord. 16:23Gaius my host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the treasurer of the city saluteth you, and Quartus the brother. 16:24[The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.] 16:25Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal, 16:26but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith: 16:27to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians
1:1Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 1:2unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours: 1:3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1:4I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; 1:5that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge; 1:6even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 1:7so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1:8who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1:11For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them [that are of the household] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 1:12Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 1:13Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul? 1:14I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius; 1:15lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name. 1:16And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 1:17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. 1:18For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God. 1:19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought. 1:20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 1:21For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God`s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe. 1:22Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom: 1:23but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness; 1:24but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 1:25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1:26For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: 1:27but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 1:28and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: 1:29that no flesh should glory before God. 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 1:31that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2:1And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2:2For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 2:3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 2:4And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 2:5that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 2:6We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought: 2:7but we speak God`s wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory: 2:8which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory: 2:9but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him. 2:10But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 2:11For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. 2:12But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God. 2:13Which things also we speak, not in words which man`s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words]. 2:14Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. 2:15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man. 2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 3:2I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it]: nay, not even now are ye able; 3:3for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? 3:4For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men? 3:5What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him. 3:6I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 3:7So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 3:8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 3:9For we are God`s fellow-workers: ye are God`s husbandry, God`s building. 3:10According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon. 3:11For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; 3:13each man`s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man`s work of what sort it is. 3:14If any man`s work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward. 3:15If any man`s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire. 3:16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 3:17If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye. 3:18Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness: 3:20and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain. 3:21Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours; 3:22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 3:23and ye are Christ`s; and Christ is God`s.
4:1Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 4:2Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 4:3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man`s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4:4For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 4:5Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God. 4:6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other. 4:7For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? 4:8Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 4:9For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. 4:10We are fools for Christ`s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. 4:11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 4:12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 4:13being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now. 4:14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 4:15For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel. 4:16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me. 4:17For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church. 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power. 4:20For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
5:1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father`s wife. 5:2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you. 5:3For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing, 5:4in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5:5to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 5:7Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ: 5:8wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 5:9I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; 5:10not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: 5:11but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. 5:12For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? 5:13But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
6:1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 6:2Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 6:3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? 6:4If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church? 6:5I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren, 6:6but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 6:7Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? 6:8Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren. 6:9Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 6:11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. 6:12All 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 any. 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: 6:14and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power. 6:15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. 6:16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. 6:17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 6:19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; 6:20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 7:2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 7:3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 7:4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife. 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. 7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. 7:7Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that. 7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 7:9But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 7:10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband 7:11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife. 7:12But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. 7:13And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 7:15Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us in peace. 7:16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 7:17Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches. 7:18Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. 7:20Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called. 7:21Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use [it] rather. 7:22For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord`s freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ`s bondservant. 7:23Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men. 7:24Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God. 7:25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy. 7:26I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to be as he is. 7:27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. 7:28But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you. 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none; 7:30and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not; 7:31and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 7:32But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 7:33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife, 7:34and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 7:35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 7:36But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry. 7:37But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well. 7:38So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better. 7:39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 7:40But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 8:2If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know; 8:3but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him. 8:4Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one. 8:5For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many; 8:6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him. 8:7Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8:8But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. 8:9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. 8:10For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol`s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 8:11For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 8:12And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. 8:13Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
9:1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord? 9:2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 9:3My defence to them that examine me is this. 9:4Have we no right to eat and to drink? 9:5Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 9:6Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working? 9:7What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 9:8Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth, 9:10or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking. 9:11If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? 9:12If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 9:13Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar? 9:14Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel. 9:15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void. 9:16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. 9:17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me. 9:18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel. 9:19For though I was free from all [men,] I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 9:20And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 9:21to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. 9:22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 9:23And I do all things for the gospel`s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof. 9:24Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. 9:25And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 9:26I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air: 9:27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
10:1For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 10:2and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3and did all eat the same spiritual food; 10:4and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ. 10:5Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 10:7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 10:9Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents. 10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. 10:11Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. 10:12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it. 10:14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 10:15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 10:16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ? 10:17seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread. 10:18Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar? 10:19What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 10:20But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons. 10:21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? 10:23All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. 10:24Let no man seek his own, but [each] his neighbor`s [good]. 10:25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience` sake, 10:26for the earth is the Lord`s, and the fulness thereof. 10:27If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience` sake. 10:28But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: 10:29conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other`s; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience? 10:30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 10:31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 10:32Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
11:1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. 11:2Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. 11:3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 11:4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoreth his head. 11:5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven. 11:6For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled. 11:7For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 11:8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: 11:9for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man: 11:10for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign of] authority on her head, because of the angels. 11:11Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord. 11:12For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God. 11:13Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled? 11:14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 11:15But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. 11:16But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 11:17But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse. 11:18For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it. 11:19For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you. 11:20When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord`s supper: 11:21for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 11:22What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not. 11:23For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; 11:24and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me. 11:25In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me. 11:26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord`s death till he come. 11:27Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 11:28But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. 11:29For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body. 11:30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 11:31But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged. 11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. 11:33Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another. 11:34If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that your coming together be not unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order whensoever I come.
12:1Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 12:2Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led. 12:3Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit. 12:4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 12:5And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. 12:6And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who worketh all things in all. 12:7But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. 12:8For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: 12:9to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; 12:10and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: 12:11but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will. 12:12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 12:13For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. 12:14For the body is not one member, but many. 12:15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 12:16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 12:17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 12:18But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him. 12:19And if they were all one member, where were the body? 12:20But now they are many members, but one body. 12:21And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 12:22Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary: 12:23and those [parts] of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness; 12:24whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked; 12:25that there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another. 12:26And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 12:27Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof. 12:28And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [divers] kinds of tongues. 12:29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles? 12:30have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? 12:31But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.
13:1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 13:2And 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 have not love, I am nothing. 13:3And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 13:4Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 13:5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 13:6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 13:7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 13:8Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away. 13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 13:10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. 13:11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. 13:12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 13:13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.