GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:46urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:46Paul , [ a ] called apostle of Jesus Christ , by God's will , and Sosthenes the brother , to the assembly of God which is in Corinth , to [ those ] sanctified in Christ Jesus , called saints , with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , both theirs and ours : Grace to you and peace from God our Father , and [ the ] Lord Jesus Christ . I thank my God always about you , in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus ; that in everything ye have been enriched in him , in all word [ of doctrine ] , and all knowledge , ( according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you , ) so that ye come short in no gift , awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall also confirm you to [ the ] end , unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ . God [ is ] faithful , by whom ye have been called into [ the ] fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord . Now I exhort you , brethren , by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , that ye all say the same thing , and that there be not among you divisions ; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion . For it has been shewn to me concerning you , my brethren , by those of [ the house of ] Chloe , that there are strifes among you . But I speak of this , that each of you says , * I * am of Paul , and * I * of Apollos , and * I * of Cephas , and * I * of Christ . Is the Christ divided ? has Paul been crucified for you ? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul ? I thank God that I have baptised none of you , unless Crispus and Gaius , that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name . Yes , I baptised also the house of Stephanas ; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other . For Christ has not sent me to baptise , but to preach glad tidings ; not in wisdom of word , that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain . For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness , but to us that are saved it is God's power . For it is written , I will destroy the wisdom of the wise , and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones . Where [ is the ] wise ? where scribe ? where disputer of this world ? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world ? For since , in the wisdom of God , the world by wisdom has not known God , God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe . Since Jews indeed ask for signs , and Greeks seek wisdom ; but * we * preach Christ crucified , to Jews an offence , and to nations foolishness ; but to those that [ are ] called , both Jews and Greeks , Christ God's power and God's wisdom . Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men , and the weakness of God is stronger than men . For consider your calling , brethren , that [ there are ] not many wise according to flesh , not many powerful , not many high-born . But God has chosen the foolish things of the world , that he may put to shame the wise ; and God has chosen the weak things of the world , that he may put to shame the strong things ; and the ignoble things of the world , and the despised , has God chosen , [ and ] things that are not , that he may annul the things that are ; so that no flesh should boast before God . But of him are * ye * in Christ Jesus , who has been made to us wisdom from God , and righteousness , and holiness , and redemption ; that according as it is written , He that boasts , let him boast in [ the ] Lord . And * I * , when I came to you , brethren , came not in excellency of word , or wisdom , announcing to you the testimony of God . For I did not judge [ it well ] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ , and * him * crucified . And * I * was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling ; and my word and my preaching , not in persuasive words of wisdom , but in demonstration of [ the ] Spirit and of power ; that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom , but in God's power . But we speak wisdom among the perfect ; but wisdom not of this world , nor of the rulers of this world , who come to nought . But we speak God's wisdom in [ a ] mystery , that hidden [ wisdom ] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory : which none of the princes of this age knew , ( for had they known , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory ; ) but according as it is written , Things which eye has not seen , and ear not heard , and which have not come into man's heart , which God has prepared for them that love him , but God has revealed to us by [ his ] Spirit ; for the Spirit searches all things , even the depths of God . For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him ? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God . But * we * have received , not the spirit of the world , but the Spirit which [ is ] of God , that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God : which also we speak , not in words taught by human wisdom , but in those taught by the Spirit , communicating spiritual [ things ] by spiritual [ means ] . But [ the ] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God , for they are folly to him ; and he cannot know [ them ] because they are spiritually discerned ; but the spiritual discerns all things , and * he * is discerned of no one . For who has known the mind of [ the ] Lord , who shall instruct him ? But * we * have the mind of Christ . And * I * , brethren , have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual , but as to fleshly ; as to babes in Christ . I have given you milk to drink , not meat , for ye have not yet been able , nor indeed are ye yet able ; for ye are yet carnal . For whereas [ there are ] among you emulation and strife , are ye not carnal , and walk according to man ? For when one says , * I * am of Paul , and another , * I * of Apollos , are ye not men ? Who then is Apollos , and who Paul ? Ministering servants , through whom ye have believed , and as the Lord has given to each . * I * have planted ; Apollos watered ; but God has given the increase . So that neither the planter is anything , nor the waterer ; but God the giver of the increase . But the planter and the waterer are one ; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour . For we are God's fellow-workmen ; ye are God's husbandry , God's building . According to the grace of God which has been given to me , as a wise architect , I have laid the foundation , but another builds upon it . But let each see how he builds upon it . For other foundation can no man lay besides that which [ is ] laid , which is Jesus Christ . Now if any one build upon [ this ] foundation , gold , silver , precious stones , wood , grass , straw , the work of each shall be made manifest ; for the day shall declare [ it ] , because it is revealed in fire ; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is . If the work of any one which he has built upon [ the foundation ] shall abide , he shall receive a reward . If the work of any one shall be consumed , he shall suffer loss , but * he * shall be saved , but so as through [ the ] fire . Do ye not know that ye are [ the ] temple of God , and [ that ] the Spirit of God dwells in you ? If any one corrupt the temple of God , * him * shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy , and such are * ye * . Let no one deceive himself : if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world , let him become foolish , that he may be wise . For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God ; for it is written , He who takes the wise in their craftiness . And again , [ The ] Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain . So that let no one boast in men ; for all things are yours . Whether Paul , or Apollos , or Cephas , or [ the ] world , or life , or death , or things present , or things coming , all are yours ; and * ye * [ are ] Christ's , and Christ [ is ] God's . Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ , and stewards of [ the ] mysteries of God . Here , further , it is sought in stewards , that a man be found faithful . But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day . Nor do I even examine myself . For I am conscious of nothing in myself ; but I am not justified by this : but he that examines me is the Lord . So that do not judge anything before [ the ] time , until the Lord shall come , who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness , and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts ; and then shall each have [ his ] praise from God . Now these things , brethren , I have transferred , in their application , to myself and Apollos , for your sakes , that ye may learn in us the [ lesson of ] not [ letting your thoughts go ] above what is written , that ye may not be puffed up one for [ such a ] one against another . For who makes thee to differ ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received ? but if also thou hast received , why boastest thou as not receiving ? Already ye are filled ; already ye have been enriched ; ye have reigned without us ; and I would that ye reigned , that * we * also might reign with you . For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last , as appointed to death . For we have become a spectacle to the world , both to angels and men . * We * [ are ] fools for Christ's sake , but * ye * prudent in Christ : * we * weak , but * ye * strong : * ye * glorious , but * we * in dishonour . To the present hour we both hunger and thirst , and are in nakedness , and buffeted , and wander without a home , and labour , working with our own hands . Railed at , we bless ; persecuted , we suffer [ it ] ; insulted , we entreat : we are become as [ the ] offscouring of the world , [ the ] refuse of all , until now . Not [ as ] chiding do I write these things to you , but as my beloved children I admonish [ you ] . For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ , yet not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus * I * have begotten you through the glad tidings . I entreat you therefore , be my imitators . For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus , who is my beloved and faithful child in [ the ] Lord , who shall put you in mind of my ways [ as ] they [ are ] in Christ , according as I teach everywhere in every assembly . But some have been puffed up , as if I were not coming to you ; but I will come quickly to you , if the Lord will ; and I will know , not the word of those that are puffed up , but the power . For the kingdom of God [ is ] not in word , but in power . What will ye ? that I come to you with a rod ; or in love , and [ in ] a spirit of meekness ? It is universally reported [ that there is ] fornication among you , and such fornication as [ is ] not even among the nations , so that one should have his father's wife . And * ye * are puffed up , and ye have not rather mourned , in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you . For * I * , [ as ] absent in body but present in spirit , have already judged as present , [ to deliver , ] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ( ye and my spirit being gathered together , with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ ) , him that has so wrought this : to deliver him , [ I say , ] [ being ] such , to Satan for destruction of the flesh , that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus . Your boasting [ is ] not good . Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump ? Purge out the old leaven , that ye may be a new lump , according as ye are unleavened . For also our passover , Christ , has been sacrificed ; so that let us celebrate the feast , not with old leaven , nor with leaven of malice and wickedness , but with unleavened [ bread ] of sincerity and truth . I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators ; not altogether with the fornicators of this world , or with the avaricious and rapacious , or idolaters , since [ then ] ye should go out of the world . But now I have written to you , if any one called brother be fornicator , or avaricious , or idolater , or abusive , or a drunkard , or rapacious , not to mix with [ him ] ; with such a one not even to eat . For what have * I * [ to do ] with judging those outside also ? * ye * , do not ye judge them that are within ? But those without God judges . Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves . Dare any one of you , having a matter against another , prosecute his suit before the unjust , and not before the saints ? Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world ? and if the world is judged by you , are ye unworthy of [ the ] smallest judgments ? Do ye not know that we shall judge angels ? and not then matters of this life ? If then ye have judgments as to things of this life , set those [ to judge ] who are little esteemed in the assembly . I speak to you [ to put you ] to shame . Thus there is not a wise person among you , not even one , who shall be able to decide between his brethren ! But brother prosecutes his suit with brother , and that before unbelievers . Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves . Why do ye not rather suffer wrong ? why are ye not rather defrauded ? But * ye * do wrong , and defraud , and this [ your ] brethren . Do ye not know that unrighteous [ persons ] shall not inherit [ the ] kingdom of God ? Do not err : neither fornicators , nor idolaters , nor adulterers , nor those who make women of themselves , nor who abuse themselves with men , nor thieves , nor covetous , nor drunkards , nor abusive persons , nor [ the ] rapacious , shall inherit [ the ] kingdom of God . And these things were some of you ; but ye have been washed , but ye have been sanctified , but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus , and by the Spirit of our God . All things are lawful to me , but all things do not profit ; all things are lawful to me , but * I * will not be brought under the power of any . Meats for the belly , and the belly for meats ; but God will bring to nothing both it and them : but the body [ is ] not for fornication , but for the Lord , and the Lord for the body . And God has both raised up the Lord , and will raise us up from among [ the dead ] by his power . Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ ? Shall I then , taking the members of the Christ , make [ them ] members of a harlot ? Far be the thought . Do ye not know that he [ that is ] joined to the harlot is one body ? for the two , he says , shall be one flesh . But he that [ is ] joined to the Lord is one Spirit . Flee fornication . Every sin which a man may practise is without the body , but he that commits fornication sins against his own body . Do ye not know that your body is [ the ] temple of the Holy Spirit which [ is ] in you , which ye have of God ; and ye are not your own ? for ye have been bought with a price : glorify now then God in your body . But concerning the things of which ye have written [ to me ] : [ It is ] good for a man not to touch a woman ; but on account of fornications , let each have his own wife , and each [ woman ] have her own husband . Let the husband render her due to the wife , and in like manner the wife to the husband . The wife has not authority over her own body , but the husband : in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body , but the wife . Defraud not one another , unless , it may be , by consent for a time , that ye may devote yourselves to prayer , and again be together , that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency . But this I say , as consenting [ to ] , not as commanding [ it ] . Now I wish all men to be even as myself : but every one has his own gift of God : one man thus , and another thus . But I say to the unmarried and to the widows , It is good for them that they remain even as I . But if they have not control over themselves , let them marry ; for it is better to marry than to burn . But to the married I enjoin , not * I * , but the Lord , Let not wife be separated from husband ; ( but if also she shall have been separated , let her remain unmarried , or be reconciled to her husband ; ) and let not husband leave wife . But as to the rest , * I * say , not the Lord , If any brother have an unbelieving wife , and * she * consent to dwell with him , let him not leave her . And a woman who has an unbelieving husband , and he consents to dwell with her , let her not leave [ her ] husband . For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife , and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother ; since [ otherwise ] indeed your children are unclean , but now they are holy . But if the unbeliever go away , let them go away ; a brother or a sister is not bound in such [ cases ] , but God has called us in peace . For what knowest thou , O wife , if thou shalt save thy husband ? or what knowest thou , O husband , if thou shalt save thy wife ? However , as the Lord has divided to each , as God has called each , so let him walk ; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies . Has any one been called circumcised ? let him not become uncircumcised : has any one been called in uncircumcision ? let him not be circumcised . Circumcision is nothing , and uncircumcision is nothing ; but keeping God's commandments . Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called . Hast thou been called [ being ] a bondman , let it not concern thee ; but and if thou canst become free , use [ it ] rather . For the bondman that is called in [ the ] Lord is the Lord's freedman ; in like manner [ also ] the freeman being called is Christ's bondman . Ye have been bought with a price ; do not be the bondmen of men . Let each , wherein he is called , brethren , therein abide with God . But concerning virgins , I have no commandment of [ the ] Lord ; but I give my opinion , as having received mercy of [ the ] Lord to be faithful . I think then that this is good , on account of the present necessity , that [ it is ] good for a man to remain so as he is . Art thou bound to a wife ? seek not to be loosed ; art thou free from a wife ? do not seek a wife . But if thou shouldest also marry , thou hast not sinned ; and if the virgin marry , they have not sinned : but such shall have tribulation in the flesh ; but I spare you . But this I say , brethren , the time is straitened . For the rest , that they who have wives , be as not having [ any ] : and they that weep , as not weeping ; and they that rejoice , as not rejoicing ; and they that buy , as not possessing ; and they that use the world , as not disposing of it as their own ; for the fashion of this world passes . But I wish you to be without care . The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord , how he shall please the Lord ; but he that has married cares for the things of the world , how he shall please his wife . There is a difference between the wife and the virgin . The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord , that she may be holy both in body and spirit ; but she that has married cares for the things of the world , how she shall please her husband . But I say this for your own profit ; not that I may set a snare before you , but for what [ is ] seemly , and waiting on the Lord without distraction . But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity , if he be beyond the flower of his age , and so it must be , let him do what he will , he does not sin : let them marry . But he who stands firm in his heart , having no need , but has authority over his own will , and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity , he does well . So that he that marries himself does well ; and he that does not marry does better . A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives ; but if the husband be fallen asleep , she is free to be married to whom she will , only in [ the ] Lord . But she is happier if she so remain , according to my judgment ; but I think that * I * also have God's Spirit . But concerning things sacrificed to idols , we know , ( for we all have knowledge : knowledge puffs up , but love edifies . If any one think he knows anything , he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [ it ] . But if any one love God , * he * is known of him ) : -- concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols , we know that an idol [ is ] nothing in [ the ] world , and that there [ is ] no other God save one . For and if indeed there are [ those ] called gods , whether in heaven or on earth , ( as there are gods many , and lords many , ) yet to us [ there is ] one God , the Father , of whom all things , and * we * for him ; and one Lord , Jesus Christ , by whom [ are ] all things , and * we * by him . But knowledge [ is ] not in all : but some , with conscience of the idol , until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols ; and their conscience , being weak , is defiled . But meat does not commend us to God ; neither if we should not eat do we come short ; nor if we should eat have we an advantage . But see lest anywise this your right [ to eat ] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak . For if any one see thee , who hast knowledge , sitting at table in an idol-house , shall not his conscience , he being weak , be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol ? and the weak [ one ] , the brother for whose sake Christ died , will perish through thy knowledge . Now , thus sinning against the brethren , and wounding their weak conscience , ye sin against Christ . Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother , I will eat no flesh for ever , that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother . Am I not free ? am I not an apostle ? have I not seen Jesus our Lord ? are not * ye * my work in [ the ] Lord ? If I am not an apostle to others , yet at any rate I am to you : for the seal of mine apostleship are * ye * in [ the ] Lord . My defence to those who examine me is this : Have we not a right to eat and to drink ? have we not a right to take round a sister [ as ] wife , as also the other apostles , and the brethren of the Lord , and Cephas ? Or * I * alone and Barnabas , have we not a right not to work ? Who ever carries on war at his own charges ? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit ? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock ? Do I speak these things as a man , or does not the law also say these things ? For in the law of Moses it is written , Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn . Is God occupied about the oxen , or does he say [ it ] altogether for our sakes ? For for our sakes it has been written , that the plougher should plough in hope , and he that treads out corn , in hope of partaking of [ it ] . If we have sown to you spiritual things , [ is it a ] great [ thing ] if * we * shall reap your carnal things ? If others partake of this right over you , should not rather * we * ? But we have not used this right , but we bear all things , that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ . Do ye not know that they who labour [ at ] sacred things eat of the [ offerings offered in the ] temple ; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar ? So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings . But * I * have used none of these things . Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case ; for [ it were ] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast . For if I announce the glad tidings , I have nothing to boast of ; for a necessity is laid upon me ; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings . For if I do this voluntarily , I have a reward ; but if not of my own will , I am entrusted with an administration . What is the reward then that I have ? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [ to others ] , so as not to have made use , as belonging to me , of my right in [ announcing ] the glad tidings . For being free from all , I have made myself bondman to all , that I might gain the most [ possible ] . And I became to the Jews as a Jew , in order that I might gain the Jews : to those under law , as under law , not being myself under law , in order that I might gain those under law : to those without law , as without law , ( not as without law to God , but as legitimately subject to Christ , ) in order that I might gain [ those ] without law . I became to the weak , [ as ] weak , in order that I might gain the weak . To all I have become all things , in order that at all events I might save some . And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings , that I may be fellow-partaker with them . Know ye not that they who run in [ the ] race-course run all , but one receives the prize ? Thus run in order that ye may obtain . But every one that contends [ for a prize ] is temperate in all things : * they * then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown , but * we * an incorruptible . * I * therefore thus run , as not uncertainly ; so I combat , as not beating the air . But I buffet my body , and lead it captive , lest [ after ] having preached to others I should be myself rejected . For I would not have you ignorant , brethren , that all our fathers were under the cloud , and all passed through the sea ; and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea ; and all ate the same spiritual food , and all drank the same spiritual drink , for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [ them ] : ( now the rock was the Christ ; ) yet God was not pleased with the most of them , for they were strewed in the desert . But these things happened [ as ] types of us , that we should not be lusters after evil things , as they also lusted . Neither be ye idolaters , as some of them ; as it is written , The people sat down to eat and to drink , and rose up to play . Neither let us commit fornication , as some of them committed fornication , and fell in one day three and twenty thousand . Neither let us tempt the Christ , as some of them tempted , and perished by serpents . Neither murmur ye , as some of them murmured , and perished by the destroyer . Now all these things happened to them [ as ] types , and have been written for our admonition , upon whom the ends of the ages are come . So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall . No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature ; and God is faithful , who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [ to bear ] , but will with the temptation make the issue also , so that [ ye ] should be able to bear [ it ] . Wherefore , my beloved , flee from idolatry . I speak as to intelligent [ persons ] : do * ye * judge what I say . The cup of blessing which we bless , is it not [ the ] communion of the blood of the Christ ? The bread which we break , is it not [ the ] communion of the body of the Christ ? Because we , [ being ] many , are one loaf , one body ; for we all partake of that one loaf . See Israel according to flesh : are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar ? What then do I say ? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything , or that an idol is anything ? But that what [ the nations ] sacrifice they sacrifice to demons , and not to God . Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons . Ye cannot drink [ the ] Lord's cup , and [ the ] cup of demons : ye cannot partake of [ the ] Lord's table , and of [ the ] table of demons . Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he ? All things are lawful , but all are not profitable ; all things are lawful , but all do not edify . Let no one seek his own [ advantage ] , but that of the other . Everything sold in the shambles eat , making no inquiry for conscience sake . For the earth [ is ] the Lord's and its fulness . But if any one of the unbelievers invite you , and ye are minded to go , all that is set before you eat , making no inquiry for conscience sake . But if any one say to you , This is offered to holy purposes , do not eat , for his sake that pointed it out , and conscience sake ; but conscience , I mean , not thine own , but that of the other : for why is my liberty judged by another conscience ? If * I * partake with thanksgiving , why am I spoken evil of for what * I * give thanks for ? Whether therefore ye eat , or drink , or whatever ye do , do all things to God's glory . Give no occasion to stumbling , whether to Jews , or Greeks , or the assembly of God . Even as * I * also please all in all things ; not seeking my own profit , but that of the many , that they may be saved . Be my imitators , even as * I * also [ am ] of Christ . Now I praise you , that in all things ye are mindful of me ; and that as I have directed you , ye keep the directions . But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man , but woman's head [ is ] the man , and the Christ's head God . Every man praying or prophesying , having [ anything ] on his head , puts his head to shame . But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame ; for it is one and the same as a shaved [ woman ] . For if a woman be not covered , let her hair also be cut off . But if [ it be ] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved , let her be covered . For man indeed ought not to have his head covered , being God's image and glory ; but woman is man's glory . For man is not of woman , but woman of man . For also man was not created for the sake of the woman , but woman for the sake of the man . Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head , on account of the angels . However , neither [ is ] woman without man , nor man without woman , in [ the ] Lord . For as the woman [ is ] of the man , so also [ is ] the man by the woman , but all things of God . Judge in yourselves : is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered ? Does not even nature itself teach you , that man , if he have long hair , it is a dishonour to him ? But woman , if she have long hair , [ it is ] glory to her ; for the long hair is given [ to her ] in lieu of a veil . But if any one think to be contentious , * we * have no such custom , nor the assemblies of God . But [ in ] prescribing [ to you on ] this [ which I now enter on ] , I do not praise , [ namely , ] that ye come together , not for the better , but for the worse . For first , when ye come together in assembly , I hear there exist divisions among you , and I partly give credit [ to it ] . For there must also be sects among you , that the approved may become manifest among you . When ye come therefore together into one place , it is not to eat [ the ] Lord's supper . For each one in eating takes his * own * supper before [ others ] , and one is hungry and another drinks to excess . Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking ? or do ye despise the assembly of God , and put to shame them who have not ? What shall I say to you ? shall I praise you ? In this [ point ] I do not praise . For * I * received from the Lord , that which I also delivered to you , that the Lord Jesus , in the night in which he was delivered up , took bread , and having given thanks broke [ it ] , and said , This is my body , which [ is ] for you : this do in remembrance of me . In like manner also the cup , after having supped , saying , This cup is the new covenant in my blood : this do , as often as ye shall drink [ it ] , in remembrance of me . For as often as ye shall eat this bread , and drink the cup , ye announce the death of the Lord , until he come . So that whosoever shall eat the bread , or drink the cup of the Lord , unworthily , shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord . But let a man prove himself , and thus eat of the bread , and drink of the cup . For [ the ] eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself , not distinguishing the body . On this account many among you [ are ] weak and infirm , and a good many are fallen asleep . But if we judged ourselves , so were we not judged . But being judged , we are disciplined of [ the ] Lord , that we may not be condemned with the world . So that , my brethren , when ye come together to eat , wait for one another . If any one be hungry , let him eat at home , that ye may not come together for judgment . But the other things , whenever I come , I will set in order . But concerning spiritual [ manifestations ] , brethren , I do not wish you to be ignorant . Ye know that when ye were [ of the ] nations [ ye were ] led away to dumb idols , in whatever way ye might be led . I give you therefore to know , that no one , speaking in [ the power of the ] Spirit of God , says , Curse [ on ] Jesus ; and no one can say , Lord Jesus , unless in [ the power of the ] Holy Spirit . But there are distinctions of gifts , but the same Spirit ; and there are distinctions of services , and the same Lord ; and there are distinctions of operations , but the same God who operates all things in all . But to each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for profit . For to one , by the Spirit , is given [ the ] word of wisdom ; and to another [ the ] word of knowledge , according to the same Spirit ; and to a different one faith , in [ the power of ] the same Spirit ; and to another gifts of healing in [ the power of ] the same Spirit ; and to another operations of miracles ; and to another prophecy ; and to another discerning of spirits ; and to a different one kinds of tongues ; and to another interpretation of tongues . But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit , dividing to each in particular according as he pleases . For even as the body is one and has many members , but all the members of the body , being many , are one body , so also [ is ] the Christ . For also in [ the power of ] one Spirit * we * have all been baptised into one body , whether Jews or Greeks , whether bondmen or free , and have all been given to drink of one Spirit . For also the body is not one member but many . If the foot say , Because I am not a hand I am not of the body , is it on account of this not indeed of the body ? And if the ear say , Because I am not an eye I am not of the body , is it on account of this not indeed of the body ? If the whole body [ were ] an eye , where the hearing ? if all hearing , where the smelling ? But now God has set the members , each one of them in the body , according as it has pleased [ him ] . But if all were one member , where the body ? But now the members [ are ] many , and the body one . The eye cannot say to the hand , I have not need of thee ; or again , the head to the feet , I have not need of you . But much rather , the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary ; and those [ parts ] of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour , these we clothe with more abundant honour ; and our uncomely [ parts ] have more abundant comeliness ; but our comely [ parts ] have not need . But God has tempered the body together , having given more abundant honour to [ the part ] that lacked ; that there might be no division in the body , but that the members might have the same concern one for another . And if one member suffer , all the members suffer with [ it ] ; and if one member be glorified , all the members rejoice with [ it ] . Now * ye * are Christ's body , and members in particular . And God has set certain in the assembly : first , apostles ; secondly , prophets ; thirdly , teachers ; then miraculous powers ; then gifts of healings ; helps ; governments ; kinds of tongues . [ Are ] all apostles ? [ are ] all prophets ? [ are ] all teachers ? [ are ] all [ in possession of ] miraculous powers ? have all gifts of healings ? do all speak with tongues ? do all interpret ? But desire earnestly the greater gifts , and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence . If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , but have not love , I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal . And if I have 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 . And if I shall dole out all my goods in food , and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned , but have not love , I profit nothing . Love has long patience , is kind ; love is not emulous [ of others ] ; love is not insolent and rash , is not puffed up , does not behave in an unseemly manner , does not seek what is its own , is not quickly provoked , does not impute evil , does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth , bears all things , believes all things , hopes all things , endures all things . Love never fails ; but whether prophecies , they shall be done away ; or tongues , they shall cease ; or knowledge , it shall be done away . For we know in part , and we prophesy in part : but when that which is perfect has come , that which is in part shall be done away . When I was a child , I spoke as a child , I felt as a child , I reasoned as a child ; when I became a man , I had done with what belonged to the child . For we see now through a dim window obscurely , but then face to face ; now I know partially , but then I shall know according as I also have been known . And now abide faith , hope , love ; these three things ; and the greater of these [ is ] love . Follow after love , and be emulous of spiritual [ manifestations ] , but rather that ye may prophesy . For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God : for no one hears ; but in spirit he speaks mysteries . But he that prophesies speaks to men [ in ] edification , and encouragement , and consolation . He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself ; but he that prophesies edifies [ the ] assembly . Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues , but rather that ye should prophesy . But greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues , unless he interpret , that the assembly may receive edification . And now , brethren , if I come to you speaking with tongues , what shall I profit you , unless I shall speak to you either in revelation , or in knowledge , or in prophecy , or in teaching ? Even lifeless things giving a sound , whether pipe or harp , if they give not distinction to the sounds , how shall it be known what is piped or harped ? For also , if the trumpet give an uncertain sound , who shall prepare himself for war ? Thus also * ye * with the tongue , unless ye give a distinct speech , how shall it be known what is spoken ? for ye will be speaking to the air . There are , it may be , so many kinds of voices in the world , and none of undistinguishable sound . If therefore I do not know the power of the sound , I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian , and he that speaks a barbarian for me . Thus * ye * also , since ye are desirous of spirits , seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly . Wherefore let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he may interpret . For if I pray with a tongue , my spirit prays , but my understanding is unfruitful . What is it then ? I will pray with the spirit , but I will pray also with the understanding ; I will sing with the spirit , but I will sing also with the understanding . Since otherwise , if thou blessest with [ the ] spirit , how shall he who fills the place of the simple [ Christian ] say Amen , at thy giving of thanks , since he does not know what thou sayest ? For * thou * indeed givest thanks well , but the other is not edified . I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you : but in [ the ] assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding , that I may instruct others also , [ rather ] than ten thousand words in a tongue . Brethren , be not children in [ your ] minds , but in malice be babes ; but in [ your ] minds be grown [ men ] . It is written in the law , By people of other tongues , and by strange lips , will I speak to this people ; and neither thus will they hear me , saith the Lord . So that tongues are for a sign , not to those who believe , but to unbelievers ; but prophecy , not to unbelievers , but to those who believe . If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place , and all speak with tongues , and simple [ persons ] enter in , or unbelievers , will not they say ye are mad ? But if all prophesy , and some unbeliever or simple [ person ] come in , he is convicted of all , he is judged of all ; the secrets of his heart are manifested ; and thus , falling upon [ his ] face , he will do homage to God , reporting that God is indeed amongst you . What is it then , brethren ? whenever ye come together , each [ of you ] has a psalm , has a teaching , has a tongue , has a revelation , has an interpretation . Let all things be done to edification . If any one speak with a tongue , [ let it be ] two , or at the most three , and separately , and let one interpret ; but if there be no interpreter , let him be silent in [ the ] assembly , and let him speak to himself and to God . And let two or three prophets speak , and let the others judge . But if there be a revelation to another sitting [ there ] , let the first be silent . For ye can all prophesy one by one , that all may learn and all be encouraged . And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets . For God is not [ a God ] of disorder but of peace , as in all the assemblies of the saints . Let [ your ] women be silent in the assemblies , for it is not permitted to them to speak ; but to be in subjection , as the law also says . But if they wish to learn anything , let them ask their own husbands at home ; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in assembly . Did the word of God go out from you , or did it come to you only ? If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual , let him recognise the things that I write to you , that it is [ the ] Lord's commandment . But if any be ignorant , let him be ignorant . So that , brethren , desire to prophesy , and do not forbid the speaking with tongues . But let all things be done comelily and with order . But I make known to you , brethren , the glad tidings which I announced to you , which also ye received , in which also ye stand , by which also ye are saved , ( if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings , ) unless indeed ye have believed in vain . For I delivered to you , in the first place , what also I had received , that Christ died for our sins , according to the scriptures ; and that he was buried ; and that he was raised the third day , according to the scriptures ; and that he appeared to Cephas , then to the twelve . Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once , of whom the most remain until now , but some also have fallen asleep . Then he appeared to James ; then to all the apostles ; and last of all , as to an abortion , he appeared to * me * also . For * I * am the least of the apostles , who am not fit to be called apostle , because I have persecuted the assembly of God . But by God's grace I am what I am ; and his grace , which [ was ] towards me , has not been vain ; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all , but not * I * , but the grace of God which [ was ] with me . Whether , therefore , I or they , thus we preach , and thus ye have believed . Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among [ the ] dead , how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of [ those that are ] dead ? But if there is not a resurrection of [ those that are ] dead , neither is Christ raised : but if Christ is not raised , then , indeed , vain also [ is ] our preaching , and vain also your faith . And we are found also false witnesses of God ; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ , whom he has not raised if indeed [ those that are ] dead are not raised . For if [ those that are ] dead are not raised , neither is Christ raised ; but if Christ be not raised , your faith [ is ] vain ; ye are yet in your sins . Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished . If in this life only we have hope in Christ , we are [ the ] most miserable of all men . ( But now Christ is raised from among [ the ] dead , first-fruits of those fallen asleep . For since by man [ came ] death , by man also resurrection of [ those that are ] dead . For as in the Adam all die , thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive . But each in his own rank : [ the ] first-fruits , Christ ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming . Then the end , when he gives up the kingdom to him [ who is ] God and Father ; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power . For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet . [ The ] last enemy [ that ] is annulled [ is ] death . For he has put all things in subjection under his feet . But when he says that all things are put in subjection , [ it is ] evident that [ it is ] except him who put all things in subjection to him . But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him , then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him , that God may be all in all . ) Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if [ those that are ] dead rise not at all ? why also are they baptised for them ? Why do * we * also endanger ourselves every hour ? Daily I die , by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord . If , [ to speak ] after the manner of man , I have fought with beasts in Ephesus , what is the profit to me if [ those that are ] dead do not rise ? let us eat and drink ; for to-morrow we die . Be not deceived : evil communications corrupt good manners . Awake up righteously , and sin not ; for some are ignorant of God : I speak to you as a matter of shame . But some one will say , How are the dead raised ? and with what body do they come ? Fool ; what * thou * sowest is not quickened unless it die . And what thou sowest , thou sowest not the body that shall be , but a bare grain : it may be of wheat , or some one of the rest : and God gives to it a body as he has pleased , and to each of the seeds its own body . Every flesh [ is ] not the same flesh , but one [ is ] of men , and another flesh of beasts , and another [ flesh ] of birds , and another of fishes . And [ there are ] heavenly bodies , and earthly bodies : but different is the glory of the heavenly , different that of the earthly : one [ the ] sun's glory , and another [ the ] moon's glory , and another [ the ] stars' glory ; for star differs from star in glory . Thus also [ is ] the resurrection of the dead . It is sown in corruption , it is raised in incorruptibility . It is sown in dishonour , it is raised in glory . It is sown in weakness , it is raised in power . It is sown a natural body , it is raised a spiritual body : if there is a natural body , there is also a spiritual [ one ] . Thus also it is written , The first man Adam became a living soul ; the last Adam a quickening spirit . But that which is spiritual [ was ] not first , but that which is natural , then that which is spiritual : the first man out of [ the ] earth , made of dust ; the second man , out of heaven . Such as he made of dust , such also those made of dust ; and such as the heavenly [ one ] , such also the heavenly [ ones ] . And as we have borne the image of the [ one ] made of dust , we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [ one ] . But this I say , brethren , that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom , nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility . Behold , I tell you a mystery : We shall not all fall asleep , but we shall all be changed , in an instant , in [ the ] twinkling of an eye , at the last trumpet ; for the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible , and * we * shall be changed . For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility , and this mortal put on immortality . But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility , and this mortal shall have put on immortality , then shall come to pass the word written : Death has been swallowed up in victory . Where , O death , [ is ] thy sting ? where , O death , thy victory ? Now the sting of death [ is ] sin , and the power of sin the law ; but thanks to God , who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ . So then , my beloved brethren , be firm , immovable , abounding always in the work of the Lord , knowing that your toil is not in vain in [ the ] Lord . Now concerning the collection for the saints , as I directed the assemblies of Galatia , so do * ye * do also . On [ the ] first of [ the ] week let each of you put by at home , laying up [ in ] whatever [ degree ] he may have prospered , that there may be no collections when I come . And when I am arrived , whomsoever ye shall approve , these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem : and if it be suitable that * I * also should go , they shall go with me . But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia ; for I do go through Macedonia . But perhaps I will stay with you , or even winter with you , that * ye * may set me forward wheresoever I may go . For I will not see you now in passing , for I hope to remain a certain time with you , if the Lord permit . But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost . For a great door is opened to me and an effectual [ one ] , and [ the ] adversaries many . Now if Timotheus come , see that he may be with you without fear ; for he works the work of the Lord , even as I . Let not therefore any one despise him ; but set him forward in peace , that he may come to me ; for I expect him with the brethren . Now concerning the brother Apollos , I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren ; but it was not at all [ his ] will to go now ; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity . Be vigilant ; stand fast in the faith ; quit yourselves like men ; be strong . Let all things ye do be done in love . But I beseech you , brethren , ( ye know the house of Stephanas , that it is the first-fruits of Achaia , and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service , ) that * ye * should also be subject to such , and to every one joined in the work and labouring . But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus ; because * they * have supplied what was lacking on your part . For they have refreshed my spirit and yours : own therefore such . The assemblies of Asia salute you . Aquila and Priscilla , with the assembly in their house , salute you much in [ the ] Lord . All the brethren salute you . Salute one another with a holy kiss . The salutation of [ me ] Paul with my own hand . If any one love not the Lord [ Jesus Christ ] let him be Anathema Maranatha . The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [ be ] with you . My love [ be ] with you all in Christ Jesus . Amen .