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1ST
CORINTHIANS
CHAPTER
1
1
Paul, called `to be' an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and
Sosthenes our brother,
2 unto the church of God which is at Corinth, `even' them that are sanctified in
Christ Jesus, called `to be' saints, with all that call upon the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their `Lord' and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you
in Christ Jesus;
5 that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all
knowledge;
6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord
Jesus Christ;
8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, `that ye be' unreproveable in the day
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son
Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
ye all speak the same thing and `that' there be no divisions among you; but
`that' ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them `that
are of the household' of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos:
and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the
name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;
15 lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I
baptized any other.
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.
18 For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who
are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment
of the discerning will I bring to nought.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?
hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not
God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save
them that believe.
22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles
foolishness;
24 but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God,
and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is
stronger than men.
26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not
many mighty, not many noble, `are called':
27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame
them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might
put to shame the things that are strong;
28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God
choose, `yea' and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the
things that are:
29 that no flesh should glory before God.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and
righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord.
CHAPTER
2
1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or
of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him
crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of
God.
6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of
this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, `even' the `wisdom' that hath been
hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:
8 which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they
would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
9 but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And `which'
entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that
love him.
10 But unto us God revealed `them' through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man,
which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from
God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but
which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual `words'.
14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they
are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually
judged.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no
man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ.
CHAPTER
3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able `to bear it':
nay, not even now are ye able;
3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are
ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not
men?
5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed;
and each as the Lord gave to him.
6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but
God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his
own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise
masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each
man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.
12 But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood,
hay, stubble;
13 each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because
it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what
sort it is.
14 If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a
reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall
be saved; yet so as through fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and `that' the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you?
17 If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the
temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in
this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He
that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
20 and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.
21 Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or
things present, or things to come; all are yours;
23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
CHAPTER
4
1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the
mysteries of God.
2 Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of
man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that
judgeth me is the Lord.
5 Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both
bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of
the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.
6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and
Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not `to go' beyond the things
which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the
other.
7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received
it?
8 Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign
without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with
you.
9 For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to
death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but
ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and
are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being
persecuted, we endure;
13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the
offscouring of all things, even until now.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved
children.
15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet `have ye' not many
fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful
child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in
Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the
word of them that are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of
gentleness?
CHAPTER
5
1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such
fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one `of you' hath his
father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this
deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as
though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,
4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with
the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the
spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump?
7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are
unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, `even' Christ:
8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven
of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;
10 not at all `meaning' with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous
and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:
11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named
a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
12 For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge
them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among
yourselves.
CHAPTER
6
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the
unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is
judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to
this life?
4 If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to
judge who are of no account in the church?
5 I say `this' to move you to shame. What, cannot there be `found' among you one
wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,
6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with
another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
8 Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that `your' brethren.
9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be
not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye
were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our
God.
12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things
are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought
both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the
Lord for the body:
14 and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away
the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The
twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you,
which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
CHAPTER
7
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch
a woman.
2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each
woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto
the husband.
4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also
the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye
may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you
not because of your incontinency.
6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own
gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide
even as I.
9 But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry
than to burn.
10 But unto the married I give charge, `yea' not I, but the Lord, That the wife
depart not from her husband
11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to
her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
12 But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife,
and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
13 And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell
with her, let her not leave her husband.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving
wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are
they holy.
15 Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister
is not under bondage in such `cases': but God hath called us in peace.
16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how
knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
17 Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so
let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.
18 Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath
any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of
the commandments of God.
20 Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.
21 Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou
canst become free, use `it' rather.
22 For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's
freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.
23 Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
24 Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my
judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
26 I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon
us, `namely,' that it is good for a man to be as he is.
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a
wife? Seek not a wife.
28 But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she
hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare
you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those
that have wives may be as though they had none;
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;
31 and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of
this world passeth away.
32 But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful
for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may
please his wife,
34 and is divided. `So' also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is
careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in
spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she
may please her husband.
35 And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but
for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without
distraction.
36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin
`daughter', if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let
him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.
37 But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath
power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin `daughter', shall do
well.
38 So then both he that giveth his own virgin `daughter' in marriage doeth well;
and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.
39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be
dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think
that I also have the Spirit of God.
CHAPTER
8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
2 If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought
to know;
3 but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no
idol is `anything' in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as
there are gods many, and lords many;
6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto
him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through
him.
7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now
to the idol, eat as `of' a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience
being weak is defiled.
8 But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse;
nor, if we eat, are we the better.
9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock
to the weak.
10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple,
will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed
to idols?
11 For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose
sake Christ died.
12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it
is weak, ye sin against Christ.
13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for
evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
CHAPTER
9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye
my work in the Lord?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of
mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 My defence to them that examine me is this.
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of
the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
7 What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and
eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk
of the flock?
8 Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the
same?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he
treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,
10 or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written:
because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, `to
thresh' in hope of partaking.
11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap
your carnal things?
12 If others partake of `this' right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless
we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no
hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
13 Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat `of' the things
of the temple, `and' they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the
altar?
14 Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of
the gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it
may be so done in my case; for `it were' good for me rather to die, than that
any man should make my glorifying void.
16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid
upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.
17 For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own
will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.
18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel
without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
19 For though I was free from all `men,' I brought myself under bondage to all,
that I might gain the more.
20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are
under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might
gain them that are under the law;
21 to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God,
but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.
22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things
to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker
thereof.
24 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the
prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all
things. Now they `do it' to receive a corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after
that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
CHAPTER
10
1 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under
the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 and did all eat the same spiritual food;
4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock
that followed them: and the rock was Christ.
5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown
in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after
evil things, as they also lusted.
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.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one
day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and
perished by the serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
11 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written
for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will
with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure
it.
14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of
Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?
17 seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake
of the one bread.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices
communion with the altar?
19 What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an
idol is anything?
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 have communion with
demons.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake
of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are
lawful; but not all things edify.
24 Let no man seek his own, but `each' his neighbor's `good'.
25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience'
sake,
26 for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
27 If one of them that believe not biddeth you `to a feast', and ye are disposed
to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience'
sake.
28 But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not,
for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake:
29 conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my liberty
judged by another conscience?
30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I
give thanks?
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory
of God.
32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the
church of God:
33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but
the `profit' of the many, that they may be saved.
CHAPTER
11
1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the
traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head
of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoreth his
head.
5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her
head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.
6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a
woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.
7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the
image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:
9 for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:
10 for this cause ought the woman to have `a sign of' authority on her head,
because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the
woman, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all
things are of God.
13 Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a
dishonor to him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given
her for a covering.
16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the
churches of God.
17 But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not
for the better but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions
exist among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be
made manifest among you.
20 When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the
Lord's supper:
21 for in your eating each one taketh before `other' his own supper; and one is
hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of
God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I
praise you? In this I praise you not.
23 For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the
Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;
24 and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which
is for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new
covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink `it', in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's
death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an
unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of
the cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself,
if he discern not the body.
30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be
condemned with the world.
33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another.
34 If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that your coming together be not
unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order whensoever I come.
CHAPTER
12
1 Now concerning spiritual `gifts', brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that when ye were Gentiles `ye were' led away unto those dumb idols,
howsoever ye might led.
3 Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God
saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy
Spirit.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who worketh all
things in all.
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.
8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the
word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
9 to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the
one Spirit;
10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another
discernings of spirits; to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another the
interpretation of tongues:
11 but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one
severally even as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the
body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks,
whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is
not therefore not of the body.
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it
is not therefore not of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were
hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it
pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now they are many members, but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head
to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are
necessary:
23 and those `parts' of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon
these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely `parts' have more abundant
comeliness;
24 whereas our comely `parts' have no need: but God tempered the body together,
giving more abundant honor to that `part' which lacked;
25 that there should be no schism in the body; but `that' the members should
have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or `one'
member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets,
thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments,
`divers' kinds of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all `workers of'
miracles?
30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way
show I unto you.
CHAPTER
13
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am
become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have `the gift of' prophecy, and know all mysteries and all
knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing.
3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed `the poor', and if I give my body to be
burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love suffereth long, `and' is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not
itself, is not puffed up,
5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh
not account of evil;
6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things.
8 Love never faileth: but whether `there be' prophecies, they shall be done
away; whether `there be' tongues, they shall cease; whether `there be'
knowledge, it shall be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done
away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a
child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in
part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is
love.
CHAPTER
14
1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual `gifts', but rather that ye
may prophesy.
2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no
man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and
consolation.
4 He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth
edifieth the church.
5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should
prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues,
except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
6 But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I
profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge,
or of prophesying, or of teaching?
7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give
not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
9 So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall
it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no `kind' is
without signification.
11 If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh
a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.
12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual `gifts', seek that ye may
abound unto the edifying of the church.
13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is
unfruitful.
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.
16 Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of
the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what
thou sayest?
17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding,
that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be
men.
21 In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of
strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me,
saith the Lord.
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the
unbelieving: but prophesying `is for a sign', not to the unbelieving, but to
them that believe.
23 If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with
tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that
ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is
reproved by all, he is judged by all;
25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his
face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath
a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all
things be done unto edifying.
27 If any man speaketh in a tongue, `let it be' by two, or at the most three,
and `that' in turn; and let one interpret:
28 but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let
him speak to himself, and to God.
29 And let the prophets speak `by' two or three, and let the others discern.
30 But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep
silence.
31 For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be
exhorted;
32 and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;
33 for God is not `a God' of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of
the saints,
34 let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them
to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.
35 And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home:
for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.
36 What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you
alone?
37 If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take
knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of
the Lord.
38 But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak
with tongues.
40 But let all things be done decently and in order.
CHAPTER
15
1 Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you,
which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,
2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto
you, except ye believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ
died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day
according to the scriptures;
5 and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;
6 then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater
part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep;
7 then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;
8 and last of all, as to the `child' untimely born, he appeared to me also.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon
me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I,
but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Whether then `it be' I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say
some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither hath Christ been raised:
14 and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith
also is vain.
15 Yea, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he
raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:
17 and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your
sins.
18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most
pitiable.
20 But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that
are asleep.
21 For since by man `came' death, by man `came' also the resurrection of the
dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are
Christ's, at his coming.
24 Then `cometh' the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the
Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.
27 For, He put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he saith, All
things are put in subjection, it is evident that he is excepted who did subject
all things unto him.
28 And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also
himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may
be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not
raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
31 I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus
our Lord, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it
profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we
die.
33 Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of
God: I speak `this' to move you to shame.
35 But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body
do they come?
36 Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it
die:
37 and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a
bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;
38 but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of
its own.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one `flesh' of men, and another
flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the
celestial is one, and the `glory' of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another
glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is
raised in incorruption:
43 it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is
raised in power:
44 it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a
natural body, there is also a spiritual `body'.
45 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam
`became' a life-giving spirit.
46 Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then
that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly,
such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of
the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be
changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality.
54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
57 but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.
58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding
in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the
Lord.
CHAPTER
16
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches
of Galatia, so also do ye.
2 Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he
may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
3 And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters
to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem:
4 and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.
5 But I will come unto you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia; for I
pass through Macedonia;
6 but with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye may set me
forward on my journey whithersoever I go.
7 For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with
you, if the Lord permit.
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost;
9 for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many
adversaries.
10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he worketh the
work of the Lord, as I also do:
11 let no man therefore despise him. But set him forward on his journey in
peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the brethren.
12 But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you
with the brethren: and it was not all `his' will to come now; but he will come
when he shall have opportunity.
13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
14 Let all that ye do be done in love.
15 Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the
firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the
saints),
1Co 16:16 that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth
in the work and laboreth.
17 And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for
that which was lacking on your part they supplied.
18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that
are such.
19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in the
Lord, with the church that is in their house.
20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.
21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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