Jubilee2000 - I Corinthians

Chapter 1

1:1  Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes, [our] brother,

1:2  unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to those that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] holy, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

1:3  Grace [be] unto you and peace from God our Father and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:4  I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you in Christ Jesus,

1:5  that in every thing ye are enriched in him in all word and [in] all knowledge,

1:6  with which the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,

1:7  so that ye lack nothing in any gift, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1:8  who shall also confirm that [ye shall remain] unimpeachable unto the end, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1:9  God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1:10  Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you, but [that] ye be perfect, joined together in the same understanding and in the same perception.

1:11  For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by those [of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

1:12  In other words, that each one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

1:13  Is the Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

1:14  I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius,

1:15  lest any should say that [ye were] baptized into my name.

1:16  And I baptized also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

1:17  For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the stake of Christ should be made void.

1:18  For the word of the stake is foolishness to those that perish, but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.

1:19  For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1:20  Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the philosopher of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1:21  For in the wisdom of God, since the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe.

1:22  For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom,

1:23  but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock and unto the Gentiles foolishness;

1:24  but unto those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ [is] the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

1:25  For that which is foolish of God is wiser than men, and that which is weak of God is stronger than men.

1:26  For look upon your vocation, brothers, that ye are not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,

1:27  but rather God has chosen that which is the foolishness of the world to confound the wise, and God has chosen that which is the weakness of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;

1:28  and that which is vile of the world and that which is despised God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are,

1:29  that no flesh should glory in his presence.

1:30  But of him ye are [reborn] in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1:31  that, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.:

Chapter 2

2:1  And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with puffed up speech or wisdom to declare unto you the testimony of God.

2:2  For I judged not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

2:3  And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

2:4  And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

2:5  that your faith should not be founded in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

2:6  For we speak perfect wisdom of God, and not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age, that come to nought,

2:7  but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,

2:8  which none of the princes of this age knew (for had they known [it], they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

2:9  But as it is written, That which eye has not seen nor ear heard neither has entered into the heart of man [is] that which God has prepared for those that love him.

2:10  But God has revealed [this] unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

2:11  For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

2:12  Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that God has given us.

2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but with doctrine of the Holy Spirit, jointly fitting spiritual things by spiritual [means].

2:14  But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand [them] because they are spiritually discerned.

2:15  But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he is discerned by no one.

2:16  For who has known the understanding of the Lord? Who has instructed him? But we have the understanding of Christ.:

Chapter 3

3:1  And I, brothers, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.

3:2  I have fed you with milk, and not with [solid] food, for until now ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

3:3  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?

3:4  For while one says, I am of Paul, and another, I [am] of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

3:5  Who then is Paul? and who [is] Apollos? but servants by whom ye believed, each one according [to that which] the Lord gave.

3:6  I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

3:7  So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that gives the increase.

3:8  Now he that plants and he that waters are one although each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

3:9  For we are labourers together with God; ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.

3:10  According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let each one see how the building is built.

3:11  For no one can lay another foundation than that laid, which is Jesus the Christ.

3:12  Now if anyone builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

3:13  the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.

3:14  If the work of anyone abides which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

3:15  If anyone's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?

3:17  If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy that one; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.

3:18  Let no one deceive themself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise.

3:19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

3:20  And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

3:21  Therefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

3:22  whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all are yours;

3:23  and ye are Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.:

Chapter 4

4:1  Let us reckon men as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

4:2  Moreover, it is required in stewards that each one be found faithful.

4:3  But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by man's judgment; I do not even judge my own self.

4:4  For although I have nothing on my conscience, yet am I not hereby justified, but he that judges me is the Lord.

4:5  Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.

4:6  And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and [to] Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye might not learn above that which is written, lest because of one, some of you become puffed up against others.

4:7  For who makes thee to judge? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], what dost thou glory of, as if thou hadst not received [it]?

4:8  Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye reign as kings without us, and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

4:9  For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men.

4:10  We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] prudent in Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised.

4:11  Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace

4:12  and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

4:13  being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.

4:14  I do not write these things to shame you, but [to] warn you, as to my beloved sons.

4:15  For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye [shall] not [have] many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

4:16  Therefore, I beseech you that ye imitate me.

4:17  For this cause I have sent Timothy unto you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

4:18  Now some are puffed up as though I will never come to you.

4:19  But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the virtue.

4:20  For the kingdom of God [is] not in words, but in virtue.

4:21  What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod or in charity and [in] the spirit of meekness?:

Chapter 5

5:1  It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

5:2  And ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

5:3  For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, him that has so done this deed.

5:4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:5  let such a one be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6  Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

5:7  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ, our passover, is sacrificed for us;

5:8  therefore let us celebrate the feast, not in the old leaven, neither in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

5:9  I wrote unto you in an epistle not to associate with fornicators,

5:10  yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters, for then ye would need to go out of the world.

5:11  But now I have written unto you not to associate with anyone calling himself a brother if he is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a one do not even eat.

5:12  For why shall I judge those that are without? do ye not judge those that are within?

5:13  But those that are without, God shall judge. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person.:

Chapter 6

6:1  Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go unto judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?

6:2  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more [the] things that pertain to this life?

6:4  If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set as judges the most humble who are in the church.

6:5  I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?

6:6  But brother goes to judgment against brother, and that before the unbelievers.

6:7  Now therefore there is certainly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather suffer [the] wrong? why do ye not rather be defrauded?

6:8  But ye do wrong and defraud and [do] this to [your] brothers.

6:9  Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

6:10  nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.

6:11  And such were some of you, but [now] ye are washed, but [now] ye are sanctified, but [now] ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.

6:12  All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

6:13  Foods [are] for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

6:14  And God, who raised up the Lord, will also raise up us by his own power.

6:15  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] the members of a harlot? In no wise.

6:16  What? know ye not that he who is joined to the harlot is one body [with her]? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

6:17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

6:18  Flee fornication. Any [other] sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?

6:20  For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.:

Chapter 7

7:1  Now concerning the things of which ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.

7:2  Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every [man] have his own wife, and let every [woman] have her own husband.

7:3  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

7:4  The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband does not have authority of his own body, but the wife.

7:5  Do not defraud one another, except [it be] with [mutual] consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.

7:6  But I speak this by permission, [and] not by commandment.

7:7  For I would that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one after this manner and another after that.

7:8  I say, therefore, to the unmarried [men] and widowers, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

7:9  But if they do not have [the gift of] continence, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

7:10  And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from [her] husband;

7:11  and if she separates, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to [her] husband, and let not the husband put away [his] wife.

7:12  But to the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that does not believe, and she consents to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

7:13  And the woman who has a husband that does not believe and if he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

7:14  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

7:15  But if the unbelieving [spouse] separates, let them separate. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases], but God has called us to peace.

7:16  For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?

7:17  But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let them walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

7:18  Is anyone called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

7:19  Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of God.

7:20  Let each abide in the same calling in which he was called.

7:21  Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it; but if thou may be made free, use [it] rather.

7:22  For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman; likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant.

7:23  Ye are bought with a price; do not make yourselves the servants of men.

7:24  Each one, brothers, in that [state] in which he was called, let him abide with God.

7:25  Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, yet I give my advice, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

7:26  I hold, therefore, this to be good because of the present distress, that [it is] good for a man to be thus:

7:27  Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

7:28  But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

7:29  But this I say, brothers, the time [is] short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;

7:30  and 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;

7:31  and those that use this world, as not using [it as their own], for the fashion of this world passes away.

7:32  But I would have you without worry. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

7:33  but he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.

7:34  There is [a] difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried [woman] cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.

7:35  And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is honourable and that ye may attend upon the Lord without impediment.

7:36  But if anyone thinks it uncomely regarding his daughter, if she passes the bloom of life, and need so requires, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

7:37  Nevertheless, he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has liberty regarding his own, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his daughter, does well.

7:38  So then he that gives [her] in marriage does well, but he that does not give [her] in marriage does better.

7:39  The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is free [and may] be married to whom she will, if it is in the Lord.

7:40  But she shall be more blessed if she so abides, after my counsel, and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.:

Chapter 8

8:1  Now as concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity edifies.

8:2  And if anyone thinks that they know anything, they know nothing yet as they ought to know.

8:3  But if anyone loves God, the same is known of him.

8:4  As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] no other God but one.

8:5  For though there are [some] that are called gods, whether in heaven or in the earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

8:6  but to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.

8:7  Howbeit [there is] not in everyone that knowledge, for some with conscience of the idol unto now, eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

8:8  But food does not make us more acceptable unto God; for neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worse.

8:9  But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumblingblock to those that are weak.

8:10  For if anyone sees thee who hast [this] knowledge sit at food in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols?

8:11  and through thy knowledge the weak brother shall perish, for whom Christ died.

8:12  In this manner, therefore, sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

8:13  Therefore, if food makes my brother to fall, I will never eat flesh nor do [anything] which [may cause] my brother to fall.:

Chapter 9

9:1  Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

9:2  If I am not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

9:3  My answer to those that examine me is this,

9:4  Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?

9:5  Do we not have authority to bring with us a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles and [as] the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

9:6  Do only Barnabas and I not have authority to forbear working?

9:7  Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

9:8  Do I say this [only] according to men? or does not the law say the same also?

9:9  For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God take care for oxen?

9:10  Or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that plows should plow in hope, and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

9:11  If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap material things from you?

9:12  If others are partakers of [this] authority over you, why not us? Nevertheless we have not used this authority, but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

9:13  Do ye not know that those who work with sacred [things] live [of the things] of the sanctuary? and those who serve at the altar partake of the altar?

9:14  Even so the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

9:15  But I have used none of these things, neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me; for [it were] better for me to die than that anyone should make this my glory void.

9:16  For though I preach the gospel, I have no reason to glory, for it is an obligation laid upon me; for woe is me, if I do not preach the gospel!

9:17  For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, the stewardship [of the gospel] is committed unto me.

9:18  What reward, then, shall I have? That preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel of the Christ without charge, that I abuse not my authority in the gospel.

9:19  Therefore, though I am free regarding everyone, yet I have made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

9:20  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those that are under the law;

9:21  to those that are without law, as without law (being not without law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might gain those that are without law.

9:22  To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to everyone, that I might by all means save some.

9:23  And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker together of it.

9:24  Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain [it].

9:25  And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible [one].

9:26  I therefore so run, not as unto an uncertain thing; so I fight, not as one that beats the air;

9:27  but I keep my body under, and bring [it] into subjection, lest preaching to others, I myself should become reprobate.:

Chapter 10

10:1  Moreover, brothers, I would that ye not ignore how our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea

10:2  and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea

10:3  and did all eat the same spiritual food

10:4  and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was the Christ.

10:5  But with many of them God was not pleased; therefore, they were overthrown in the wilderness.

10:6  Now these things became types of us, that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted.

10:7  Neither 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.

10:8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell [dead]: in one day, twenty-three thousand.

10:9  Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted and perished by the serpents.

10:10  Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and perished by the destroyer.

10:11  Now all these things happened unto them as types, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

10:12  Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

10:13  No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].

10:14  Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

10:15  I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

10:16  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not [the] fellowship of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not [the] fellowship of the body of the Christ?

10:17  For one loaf [of bread means] that many are one body, for we are all partakers of that one loaf.

10:18  Behold Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices participants of the altar?

10:19  What do I say then? that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

10:20  But I [say] that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should be participants of demons.

10:21  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; ye cannot be participants of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.

10:22  Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

10:23  All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

10:24  Let no one seek his own good, but that of the other.

10:25  Whatever is sold in the market, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience sake;

10:26  for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

10:27  If any of those that do not believe bid you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you asking no questions for conscience sake.

10:28  But if anyone says unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, do not eat [it] for the sake of him that disclosed it and for conscience sake; for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

10:29  conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other, for why should my liberty [be] judged by another [man's] conscience?

10:30  For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

10:31  Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye do, do everything for the glory of God.

10:32  Be without offense, neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the church of God;

10:33  even as I please everyone in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.:

Chapter 11

11:1  Be ye imitators of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.

11:2  Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and retain my instructions the same as I spoke unto you.

11:3  But I would have you know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman [is] the man, and the head of Christ [is] God.

11:4  Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonours his head.

11:5  But every woman that prays or prophesies with [her] head uncovered dishonours her head, for that is even the same as if she were shaven.

11:6  For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

11:7  For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

11:8  For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

11:9  Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

11:10  For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her head: because of the angels.

11:11  Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

11:12  For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

11:13  Judge in yourselves: is it honest that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

11:14  Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man lets [his] hair grow, it is dishonest?

11:15  But if a woman lets [her] hair grow, it is a glory to her; for [her] hair is given her for a covering.

11:16  With all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the church of God.

11:17  Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

11:18  For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

11:19  For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.

11:20  So that when ye come together in one [place, this] is not eating the Lord's supper.

11:21  For in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

11:22  What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not.

11:23  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread;

11:24  and when he had given thanks, he broke [it] and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.

11:25  After the same manner also [he took] the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; do this each time that ye drink, in remembrance of me.

11:26  For each time that ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye declare the Lord's death until he comes.

11:27  Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink [this] cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

11:28  But let each man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

11:29  For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

11:30  For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

11:31  For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.

11:32  But being judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

11:33  Therefore, my brothers, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

11:34  And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye not come together unto judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.:

Chapter 12

12:1  Now regarding spiritual things, brothers, I would not have you ignore [them].

12:2  Ye know that when ye were Gentiles, ye went, even as ye were led, unto the dumb idols.

12:3  Therefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema and [that] no one can call Jesus Lord but by [the] Holy Spirit.

12:4  Now there is dispersal of gifts, but the same Spirit.

12:5  And there is dispersal of ministries, but the same Lord.

12:6  And there is dispersal of operations, but it is the same God who works all in each one.

12:7  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one to profit with.

12:8  For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

12:9  to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

12:10  to another, [the] operation of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, [different] kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:

12:11  one and the same Spirit operates all these things, dispersing to each one his own [gift] as he wills.

12:12  For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also the Christ.

12:13  For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether [we are] Jews or Greeks, whether [we are] bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

12:14  For the body is not one member, but many.

12:15  If the foot shall say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

12:16  And if the ear shall say, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

12:17  If the whole body [were] an eye, where [would] the hearing [be]? If the whole [were] hearing, where [would] the smelling [be]?

12:18  But now God has set the members each one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.

12:19  And if they were all one member, where [would] the body [be]?

12:20  But now [they are] indeed many members, yet but one body.

12:21  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

12:22  For those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary;

12:23  and those [members] of the body which we think to be more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are [more] indecent have more honesty.

12:24  For those in us who are more honest need nothing, but God has ordered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [one] which lacked,

12:25  that there should be no contradiction in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.

12:26  And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

12:27  Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.

12:28  And God did set certain [ones] in the church: first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that faculties, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

12:29  [Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [do] all [have] faculties?

12:30  Do all have gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

12:31  But earnestly pursue the best gifts, and yet I show unto you a more excellent way.:

Chapter 13

13:1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.

13:2  And though I have [the gift of] prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

13:3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor] and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity, it profits me nothing.

13:4  Charity suffers long [and] is benign; charity envies not; charity does [nothing] without due reason, is not puffed up,

13:5  is not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

13:6  rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

13:7  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13:8  Charity is never lost, but prophecies shall come to an end, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall come to an end.

13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

13:10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

13:11  When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

13:12  For now we see as through a mirror, in darkness, but then [we shall see] face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I also am known.

13:13  And now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.:

Chapter 14

14:1  Follow after charity and earnestly pursue spiritual [gifts], but above all, that ye may prophesy.

14:2  For he that speaks in an [unknown] tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God, for no one understands [him], even though by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

14:3  But he that prophesies speaks unto men [for] edification and exhortation and comfort.

14:4  He that speaks in an [unknown] tongue edifies himself, but he that prophesies edifies the church.

14:5  I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied, for greater [is] he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive edifying.

14:6  Now, brothers, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either with revelation or with knowledge or with prophecy or with doctrine?

14:7  And even things without life giving sound, whether flute or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is played or harped?

14:8  For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

14:9  So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue a clear and definite word, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

14:10  There are many kinds of distinct voices in the world, and nothing [is] dumb.

14:11  Therefore, if I ignore the virtue of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks [as] a barbarian, and he that speaks [shall be] a barbarian unto me.

14:12  Even so ye, forasmuch as ye desire [the things] of [the] Spirit, earnestly pursue excellence unto the edification of the church.

14:13  Therefore, let him that speaks in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.

14:14  For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

14:15  What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

14:16  Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the ignorant say, Amen, at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understands not what thou sayest?

14:17  For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

14:18  I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all;

14:19  yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

14:20  Brothers, be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children; but in understanding be perfect.

14:21  In the law it is written, In other tongues and with other lips I will speak unto this people; and yet for all that, they will not hear me, saith the Lord.

14:22  Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those that believe, but to those that do not believe; but prophecy is not for those that do not believe, but for those who believe.

14:23  If, therefore, the whole church is come together into one place and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

14:24  But if all prophesy, and there come in one that does not believe or [one] unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all;

14:25  for the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so falling down on [his] face, he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed in you.

14:26  How is it then, brothers? when ye come together, each one of you has a psalm, has doctrine, has tongues, has revelation, has interpretation. Let all things be done unto edification.

14:27  If anyone speaks in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.

14:28  But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church, and let him speak to himself and to God.

14:29  Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge.

14:30  If [any thing] is revealed to another that sits by, let the first be silent.

14:31  For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

14:32  And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

14:33  For God is not [the God] of disorder, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

14:34  Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be in subjection, as also saith the law.

14:35  And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a dishonest thing for women to speak in [the] congregation.

14:36  What? Did the word of God come out from you? or did it come unto you only?

14:37  If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

14:38  But anyone that ignores [them] shall be ignored.

14:39  Therefore, brothers, earnestly pursue prophecy and do not forbid to speak with tongues.

14:40  But let all things be done decently and in order.:

Chapter 15

15:1  Moreover, brothers, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received and in which ye stand;

15:2  by which also ye are being saved if ye retain the word that I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

15:3  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures

15:4  and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures

15:5  and that he appeared to Cephas and then to the twelve;

15:6  after that, he appeared unto more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain unto now, but some are fallen asleep.

15:7  After that, he appeared unto James; then to all the apostles.

15:8  And last of all he appeared unto me also, as of one born out of due time.

15:9  For I am the least of the apostles, for I am not worthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God.

15:10  But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace towards me was not in vain, for I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

15:11  Therefore, whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

15:12  Now if [the] Christ is preached that rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

15:13  But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither is Christ risen;

15:14  and if Christ is not risen, then our preaching [is] vain, and your faith [is] also vain.

15:15  And we are even found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if [it] so be that the dead do not rise.

15:16  For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not raised either;

15:17  and if Christ is not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are even yet in your sins.

15:18  Then those also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

15:19  If in this life only we have existence in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.

15:20  But now Christ is risen from the dead [and] become the firstfruits of those that slept.

15:21  For since by a man [came] death, by a man [came] also the resurrection of the dead.

15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in the Christ shall all be made alive.

15:23  But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward, those that are Christ's at his coming.

15:24  Then [comes] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

15:25  For he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet.

15:26  The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is] death.

15:27  For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under [him, it is] clear that he is excepted, who did put all things under him.

15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also subject himself unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

15:29  Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

15:30  And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?

15:31  I die daily to stay in the glory of having taught you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

15:32  If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what does it advantage me, if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

15:33  Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good character.

15:34  Watch diligently, and sin not; for some do not know God: I speak [this] to your shame.

15:35  But someone will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

15:36  [Thou] fool, that which thou sowest is not brought to life, unless it dies [first];

15:37  and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but bare grain: it may be of wheat or of some other [grain];

15:38  but God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to each seed its own body.

15:39  All flesh [is] not the same flesh, but [there is] one [kind of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, [and] another of birds.

15:40  [There are] also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the heavenly glory [is] one [thing], and the earthly [glory is] another.

15:41  One [thing is the] glory of the sun, and another [the] glory of the moon, and another [the] glory of the stars; for [one] star differs from [another] star in glory.

15:42  So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall be raised in incorruption;

15:43  it is sown in dishonour, it shall be raised with glory; it is sown in weakness, it shall be raised with power;

15:44  it is sown a natural body, it shall be raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a life-giving Spirit.

15:46  Howbeit the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and afterward, that which is spiritual.

15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man [is] the Lord of heaven.

15:48  As [is] the earthy, such [are] those also that are earthy; and as [is] the heavenly, such also [are] those that are heavenly.

15:49  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

15:50  Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

15:51  Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall all indeed be raised, but we shall not all be changed;

15:52  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised without corruption, and we shall be changed.

15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.

15:54  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

15:55  O death, where [is] thy sting? O Hades, where [is] thy victory?

15:56  The sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin [is] the law.

15:57  But thanks [be] to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

15:58  Therefore, my beloved brothers, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.:

Chapter 16

16:1  Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, do ye likewise.

16:2  Each first sabbath let each one of you set aside in store, as [God] has prospered him, that there be no collections when I come.

16:3  And when I come, whomever ye shall approve by [your] letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

16:4  And if it is appropriate that I go also, they shall go with me.

16:5  Now I will come unto you, when I have passed through Macedonia, for I must pass through Macedonia.

16:6  And it may be that I will abide and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey wherever I go.

16:7  For I desire not to see you now in passing, but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permits.

16:8  But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

16:9  For a great and effectual door is opened unto me, and [there are] many adversaries.

16:10  Now if Timothy comes, see that he may stay with you securely, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also [do].

16:11  Let no man therefore, despise, him, but conduct him forth in peace that he may come unto me, for I look for him with the brothers.

16:12  As touching [our] brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with [some of] the brothers, but his will was not at all to come at this time, but he will come when he shall have opportunity.

16:13  Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

16:14  Let all your things be done with charity.

16:15  I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia and [that] they have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints),

16:16  that ye submit yourselves unto such and to each one that helps and labours.

16:17  I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, for they have filled your absence.

16:18  For they have refreshed my spirit and yours; therefore, acknowledge ye those that are such.

16:19  The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

16:20  All the brothers greet you. Greet ye one another with a holy kiss.

16:21  The salutation of [me], Paul, [is] with my own hand.

16:22  If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema. Our Lord has come.

16:23  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

16:24  My charity in Christ Jesus be with you all. Amen.: