If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of 1 Corinthians
Chapter 1
001:001 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ
through the will
of God, and
Sosthenes our brother,
001:002 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to
them that are
sanctified in Christ
Jesus, called to be saints, with all
that
in every place call upon the
name of Jesus Christ our Lord,
both their's and our's:
001:003 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and from
the Lord Jesus
Christ.
001:004 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the
grace of God
which is given you by
Jesus Christ;
001:005 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in
all utterance,
and in all
knowledge;
001:006 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
001:007 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for
the coming of
our Lord Jesus
Christ:
001:008 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye
may be
blameless in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
001:009 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the
fellowship of
his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord.
001:010 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 perfectly joined together
in
the same mind and in the same judgment.
001:011 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my
brethren, by them
which are of the
house of Chloe, that there are
contentions
among you.
001:012 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am
of Paul; and
I of Apollos; and I
of Cephas; and I of Christ.
001:013 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or
were ye
baptized in the name of
Paul?
001:014 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but
Crispus and
Gaius;
001:015 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
001:016 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas:
besides, I
know not whether I
baptized any other.
001:017 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach
the gospel:
not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should
be
made of none effect.
001:018 For the preaching of the cross is to them that
perish
foolishness; but unto us
which are saved it is the power of
God.
001:019 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of
the wise, and
will bring to
nothing the understanding of the prudent.
001:020 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is
the disputer
of this world? hath
not God made foolish the wisdom of
this
world?
001:021 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by
wisdom knew
not God, it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching
to
save them that believe.
001:022 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
001:023 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews
a
stumblingblock, and unto the
Greeks foolishness;
001:024 But unto them which are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ
the power of God,
and the wisdom of God.
001:025 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;
and the
weakness of God is
stronger than men.
001:026 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not
many wise men
after the flesh, not
many mighty, not many noble, are called:
001:027 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to
confound the wise; and
God hath chosen the weak things of
the
world to confound the things
which are mighty;
001:028 And base things of the world, and things which
are despised,
hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not, to bring
to
nought things that are:
001:029 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
001:030 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is
made unto us
wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
001:031 That, according as it is written, He that
glorieth, let him
glory in the
Lord.
002:001 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not
with excellency
of speech or of
wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony
of
God.
002:002 For I determined not to know any thing among you,
save Jesus
Christ, and him
crucified.
002:003 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and
in much
trembling.
002:004 And my speech and my preaching was not with
enticing words of
man's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
002:005 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in
the power of God.
002:006 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are
perfect: yet not
the wisdom of
this world, nor of the princes of this
world,
that come to nought:
002:007 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even
the hidden
wisdom, which God
ordained before the world unto our glory:
002:008 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for
had they
known it, they would not
have crucified the Lord of glory.
002:009 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard,
neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which
God hath prepared for them that love him.
002:010 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit:
for the
Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God.
002:011 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save
the spirit of
man which is in him?
even so the things of God knoweth no
man,
but the Spirit of God.
002:012 Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the
spirit which is of
God; that we might know the things that
are
freely given to us of God.
002:013 Which things also we speak, not in the words
which man's
wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing
spiritual things with
spiritual.
002:014 But the natural man receiveth not the things of
the Spirit of
God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he
know
them, because they are
spiritually discerned.
002:015 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet
he himself is
judged of no
man.
002:016 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he
may instruct
him? But we have the
mind of Christ.
003:001 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto
spiritual,
but as unto carnal,
even as unto babes in Christ.
003:002 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for
hitherto ye
were not able to bear
it, neither yet now are ye able.
003:003 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among
you envying,
and strife, and
divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
003:004 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I
am of
Apollos; are ye not
carnal?
003:005 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye
believed,
even as the Lord gave to every man?
003:006 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
003:007 So then neither is he that planteth any thing,
neither he that
watereth; but God
that giveth the increase.
003:008 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are
one: and every
man shall receive
his own reward according to his own labour.
003:009 For we are labourers together with God: ye are
God's
husbandry, ye are God's
building.
003:010 According to the grace of God which is given unto
me, as a
wise masterbuilder, I
have laid the foundation, and
another
buildeth thereon. But let
every man take heed how he
buildeth
thereupon.
003:011 For other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid, which
is Jesus Christ.
003:012 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold,
silver,
precious stones, wood,
hay, stubble;
003:013 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the
day shall
declare it, because it
shall be revealed by fire; and the
fire
shall try every man's work of
what sort it is.
003:014 If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he
shall receive a
reward.
003:015 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall
suffer loss: but
he himself shall
be saved; yet so as by fire.
003:016 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and
that the Spirit
of God dwelleth in
you?
003:017 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall
God destroy;
for the temple of God
is holy, which temple ye are.
003:018 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you
seemeth to be
wise in this world,
let him become a fool, that he may
be
wise.
003:019 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with
God. For it
is written, He taketh
the wise in their own craftiness.
003:020 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the
wise, that
they are vain.
003:021 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
003:022 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or
death, or
things present, or things to come; all are your's;
003:023 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
004:001 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers
of Christ, and
stewards of the
mysteries of God.
004:002 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man
be found
faithful.
004:003 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.
004:004 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby
justified:
but he that judgeth me
is the Lord.
004:005 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until
the Lord come,
who both will bring
to light the hidden things of
darkness,
and will make manifest
the counsels of the hearts: and
then
shall every man have praise
of God.
004:006 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure
transferred to
myself and to
Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn
in
us not to think of men above
that which is written, that no
one
of you be puffed up for one against another.
004:007 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and
what hast thou
that thou didst not
receive? now if thou didst receive it,
why
dost thou glory, as if thou
hadst not received it?
004:008 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned
as kings
without us: and I would
to God ye did reign, that we also
might reign with you.
004:009 For I think that God hath 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.
004:010 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise
in Christ; we
are weak, but ye are
strong; ye are honourable, but we
are
despised.
004:011 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and
thirst, and
are naked, and are
buffeted, and have no certain
dwellingplace;
004:012 And labour, working with our own hands: being
reviled, we
bless; being
persecuted, we suffer it:
004:013 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the
filth of the
world, and are the
offscouring of all things unto this day.
004:014 I write not these things to shame you, but as my
beloved sons
I warn you.
004:015 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in
Christ, yet
have ye not many
fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have
begotten
you through the
gospel.
004:016 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
004:017 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus,
who is my
beloved son, and
faithful in the Lord, who shall bring
you
into remembrance of my ways
which be in Christ, as I teach
every where in every church.
004:018 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
004:019 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will,
and will
know, not the speech of
them which are puffed up, but the
power.
004:020 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
004:021 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod,
or in love,
and in the spirit of
meekness?
005:001 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.
005:002 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather
mourned, that he
that hath done
this deed might be taken away from among you.
005:003 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in
spirit, have
judged already, as
though I were present, concerning him
that
hath so done this deed,
005:004 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are
gathered
together, and my spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
005:005 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the
destruction of the
flesh, that the
spirit may be saved in the day of the
Lord
Jesus.
005:006 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a
little leaven
leaveneth the whole
lump?
005:007 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:
005:008 Therefore 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.
005:009 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company
with
fornicators:
005:010 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this
world, or with
the covetous, or
extortioners, or with idolaters; for
then
must ye needs go out of the
world.
005:011 But now I have written unto you not to keep
company, if any
man that is called
a brother be a fornicator, or covetous,
or
an idolater, or a railer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner;
with
such an one no not to eat.
005:012 For what have I to do to judge them also that are
without? do
not ye judge them that
are within?
005:013 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore
put away from
among yourselves
that wicked person.
006:001 Dare any of you, having a matter against another,
go to law
before the unjust, and
not before the saints?
006:002 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?
006:003 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much
more things
that pertain to this
life?
006:004 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to
this life,
set them to judge who
are least esteemed in the church.
006:005 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
brethren?
006:006 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that
before the
unbelievers.
006:007 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you,
because ye
go to law one with
another. Why do ye not rather take
wrong?
why do ye not rather suffer
yourselves to be defrauded?
006:008 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
006:009 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
mankind,
006:010 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor
extortioners, shall
inherit the kingdom of God.
006:011 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but
ye are
sanctified, but ye are
justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
006:012 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.
006:013 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: 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.
006:014 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will
also raise up
us by his own
power.
006:015 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 an harlot? God
forbid.
006:016 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an
harlot is one
body? for two, saith
he, shall be one flesh.
006:017 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
006:018 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is
without the
body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against
his
own body.
006:019 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy
Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are
not
your own?
006:020 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify
God in your
body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
007:001 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto
me: It is good
for a man not to
touch a woman.
007:002 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man
have his own
wife, and let every
woman have her own husband.
007:003 Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and
likewise also the
wife unto the husband.
007:004 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the
husband: and
likewise also the
husband hath not power of his own body,
but
the wife.
007:005 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with
consent for a
time, that ye may
give yourselves to fasting and prayer;
and
come together again, that
Satan tempt you not for your
incontinency.
007:006 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
007:007 For I would that all men were even as I myself.
But every man
hath his proper gift
of God, one after this manner, and
another after that.
007:008 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It
is good for
them if they abide
even as I.
007:009 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for
it is better
to marry than to
burn.
007:010 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but
the Lord, Let
not the wife depart
from her husband:
007:011 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried
or be
reconciled to her husband:
and let not the husband put away
his wife.
007:012 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any
brother hath a
wife that believeth
not, and she be pleased to dwell with
him,
let him not put her away.
007:013 And the woman which hath an husband that
believeth not, and if
he be
pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
007:014 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the
wife, and the
unbelieving wife is
sanctified by the husband: else were
your
children unclean; but now are
they holy.
007:015 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A
brother or a
sister is not under
bondage in such cases: but God hath
called
us to peace.
007:016 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt
save thy
husband? or how knowest
thou, O man, whether thou shalt
save
thy wife?
007:017 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the
Lord hath
called every one, so let
him walk. And so ordain I in all
churches.
007:018 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not
become
uncircumcised. Is any
called in uncircumcision? let him not
be
circumcised.
007:019 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing, but
the keeping of the
commandments of God.
007:020 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
007:021 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it:
but if thou
mayest be made free,
use it rather.
007:022 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.
007:023 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
007:024 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called,
therein abide
with God.
007:025 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of
the Lord: yet
I give my judgment,
as one that hath obtained mercy of
the
Lord to be faithful.
007:026 I suppose therefore that this is good for the
present
distress, I say, that it
is good for a man so to be.
007:027 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be
loosed. Art thou
loosed from a
wife? seek not a wife.
007:028 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and
if a virgin
marry, she hath not
sinned. Nevertheless such shall
have
trouble in the flesh: but I
spare you.
007:029 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it
remaineth,
that both they that
have wives be as though they had none;
007:030 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and
they that
rejoice, as though they
rejoiced not; and they that buy,
as
though they possessed not;
007:031 And they that use this world, as not abusing it:
for the
fashion of this world
passeth away.
007:032 But I would have you without carefulness. He that
is unmarried
careth for the things
that belong to the Lord, how he
may
please the Lord:
007:033 But he that is married careth for the things that
are of the
world, how he may
please his wife.
007:034 There is difference also between a wife and a
virgin. The
unmarried woman careth
for the things of the Lord, that
she
may be holy both in body and
in spirit: but she that is
married
careth for the things of the world, how she may
please
her husband.
007:035 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I
may cast a
snare upon you, but for
that which is comely, and that ye
may
attend upon the Lord without
distraction.
007:036 But if any man think that he behaveth himself
uncomely toward
his virgin, if she
pass the flower of her age, and need
so
require, let him do what he
will, he sinneth not: let them
marry.
007:037 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his
heart, having no
necessity, but
hath power over his own will, and hath
so
decreed in his heart that he
will keep his virgin, doeth well.
007:038 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth
well; but he that
giveth her not
in marriage doeth better.
007:039 The wife is bound by the law as long as her
husband liveth;
but if her husband
be dead, she is at liberty to be married
to
whom she will; only in the
Lord.
007:040 But she is happier if she so abide, after my
judgment: and I
think also that I
have the Spirit of God.
008:001 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we
know that we all
have knowledge.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
008:002 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing,
he knoweth
nothing yet as he ought
to know.
008:003 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
008:004 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 none other God but
one.
008:005 For though there be that are called gods, whether
in heaven or
in earth, (as there
be gods many, and lords many,)
008:006 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.
008:007 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge:
for some
with conscience of the
idol unto this hour eat it as a
thing
offered unto an idol; and
their conscience being weak is
defiled.
008:008 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither,
if we eat, are
we the better;
neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
008:009 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of
your's become
a stumblingblock to
them that are weak.
008:010 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit
at meat in
the idol's temple,
shall not the conscience of him which
is
weak be emboldened to eat those
things which are offered to
idols;
008:011 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother
perish, for
whom Christ died?
008:012 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and
wound their weak
conscience, ye
sin against Christ.
008:013 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I
will eat no
flesh while the world
standeth, lest I make my brother
to
offend.
009:001 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?
009:002 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless
I am to you:
for the seal of mine
apostleship are ye in the Lord.
009:003 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
009:004 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
009:005 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife,
as well as
other apostles, and as
the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
009:006 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
009:007 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?
who planteth
a vineyard, and
eateth not of the fruit thereof? or
who
feedeth a flock, and eateth
not of the milk of the flock?
009:008 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law
the same
also?
009:009 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt
not muzzle
the mouth of the ox
that treadeth out the corn. Doth God
take
care for oxen?
009:010 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our
sakes, no
doubt, this is written:
that he that ploweth should plow
in
hope; and that he that
thresheth in hope should be partaker
of
his hope.
009:011 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it
a great thing
if we shall reap
your carnal things?
009:012 If others be partakers of this power over you,
are not we
rather? Nevertheless we
have not used this power; but
suffer
all things, lest we should
hinder the gospel of Christ.
009:013 Do ye not know that they which minister about
holy things live
of the things of
the temple? and they which wait at the
altar
are partakers with the
altar?
009:014 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which
preach the
gospel should live of
the gospel.
009:015 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 any man should make my
glorying void.
009:016 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to
glory of:
for necessity is laid
upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I
preach not the gospel!
009:017 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a
reward: but if
against my will, a
dispensation of the gospel is
committed
unto me.
009:018 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I
preach the gospel,
I may make the
gospel of Christ without charge, that I
abuse
not my power in the
gospel.
009:019 For though I be free from all men, yet have I
made myself
servant unto all, that
I might gain the more.
009:020 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might
gain the
Jews; to them that are
under the law, as under the law, that
I
might gain them that are under
the law;
009:021 To them that are without law, as without law,
(being not
without law to God, but
under the law to Christ,) that I
might
gain them that are without
law.
009:022 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain
the weak: I am
made all things to
all men, that I might by all means
save
some.
009:023 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might
be partaker
thereof with you.
009:024 Know ye not that they which run in a race run
all, but one
receiveth the prize?
So run, that ye may obtain.
009:025 And every man that striveth for the mastery is
temperate in
all things. Now they
do it to obtain a corruptible crown;
but
we an incorruptible.
009:026 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight
I, not as one
that beateth the
air:
009:027 But I keep under my body, and bring it into
subjection: lest
that by any
means, when I have preached to others, I
myself
should be a castaway.
010:001 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant,
how that all our fathers
were under the cloud, and all
passed
through the sea;
010:002 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
010:003 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
010:004 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for
they drank of
that spiritual Rock
that followed them: and that Rock
was
Christ.
010:005 But with many of them God was not well pleased:
for they were
overthrown in the
wilderness.
010:006 Now these things were our examples, to the intent
we should
not lust after evil
things, as they also lusted.
010:007 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as
it is
written, The people sat down
to eat and drink, and rose up to
play.
010:008 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of
them committed,
and fell in one
day three and twenty thousand.
010:009 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also
tempted, and
were destroyed of
serpents.
010:010 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured,
and were
destroyed of the
destroyer.
010:011 Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and
they are written
for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
the
world are come.
010:012 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take
heed lest he
fall.
010:013 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is
common to
man: but God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to
be
tempted above that ye are able;
but will with the temptation
also
make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
010:014 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
010:015 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
010:016 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the
communion of
the blood of Christ?
The bread which we break, is it not
the
communion of the body of
Christ?
010:017 For we being many are one bread, and one body:
for we are all
partakers of that
one bread.
010:018 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which
eat of the
sacrifices partakers of
the altar?
010:019 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or
that which is
offered in sacrifice
to idols is any thing?
010:020 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice, they
sacrifice to
devils, and not to God: and I would not that
ye
should have fellowship with
devils.
010:021 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup
of devils: ye
cannot be partakers
of the Lord's table, and of the table
of
devils.
010:022 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
010:023 All things are lawful for me, but all things are
not
expedient: all things are
lawful for me, but all things
edify
not.
010:024 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
010:025 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat,
asking no
question for conscience
sake:
010:026 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
010:027 If any of them that believe not bid you to a
feast, and ye be
disposed to go;
whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking
no
question for conscience
sake.
010:028 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in
sacrifice unto
idols, eat not for
his sake that shewed it, and for
conscience
sake: for the earth is
the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
010:029 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the
other: for why is
my liberty
judged of another man's conscience?
010:030 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil
spoken of for
that for which I
give thanks?
010:031 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever
ye do, do
all to the glory of
God.
010:032 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to
the Gentiles,
nor to the church of
God:
010:033 Even as I please all men in all things, not
seeking mine own
profit, but the
profit of many, that they may be saved.
011:001 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
011:002 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me
in all things,
and keep the
ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
011:003 But I would have you know, that the head of every
man is
Christ; and the head of the
woman is the man; and the head of
Christ is God.
011:004 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head
covered,
dishonoureth his
head.
011:005 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with
her head
uncovered dishonoureth
her head: for that is even all one
as
if she were shaven.
011:006 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be
shorn: but if
it be a shame for a
woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
be
covered.
011:007 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.
011:008 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
011:009 Neither was the man created for the woman; but
the woman for
the man.
011:010 For this cause ought the woman to have power on
her head
because of the
angels.
011:011 Nevertheless neither is the man without the
woman, neither the
woman without
the man, in the Lord.
011:012 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the
man also by the
woman; but all
things of God.
011:013 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman
pray unto God
uncovered?
011:014 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a
man have
long hair, it is a shame
unto him?
011:015 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to
her: for her
hair is given her for
a covering.
011:016 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no
such custom,
neither the churches
of God.
011:017 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you
not, that ye
come together not for
the better, but for the worse.
011:018 For first of all, when ye come together in the
church, I hear
that there be
divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
011:019 For there must be also heresies among you, that
they which are
approved may be
made manifest among you.
011:020 When ye come together therefore into one place,
this is not to
eat the Lord's
supper.
011:021 For in eating every one taketh before other his
own supper:
and one is hungry, and
another is drunken.
011:022 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?
or despise ye
the church of God,
and shame them that have not? What shall
I
say to you? shall I praise you
in this? I praise you not.
011:023 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:
011:024 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and
said, Take,
eat: this is my body,
which is broken for you: this do
in
remembrance of me.
011:025 After the same manner also he took the cup, when
he had
supped, saying, This cup is
the new testament in my blood:
this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
011:026 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this
cup, ye do
shew the Lord's death
till he come.
011:027 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and
drink this cup
of the Lord,
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and
blood
of the Lord.
011:028 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat
of that
bread, and drink of that
cup.
011:029 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,
eateth and
drinketh damnation to
himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
011:030 For this cause many are weak and sickly among
you, and many
sleep.
011:031 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
011:032 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the
Lord, that we
should not be
condemned with the world.
011:033 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to
eat, tarry
one for another.
011:034 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that
ye come not
together unto
condemnation. And the rest will I set in
order
when I come.
012:001 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would
not have you
ignorant.
012:002 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto
these dumb
idols, even as ye were
led.
012:003 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man
speaking by
the Spirit of God
calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man
can
say that Jesus is the Lord,
but by the Holy Ghost.
012:004 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
012:005 And there are differences of administrations, but
the same
Lord.
012:006 And there are diversities of operations, but it
is the same
God which worketh all
in all.
012:007 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to
every man to
profit withal.
012:008 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of
wisdom; to
another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit;
012:009 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another
the gifts of
healing by the same
Spirit;
012:010 To another the working of miracles; to another
prophecy; to
another discerning of
spirits; to another divers kinds
of
tongues; to another the
interpretation of tongues:
012:011 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame
Spirit,
dividing to every man
severally as he will.
012:012 For as the body is one, and hath many members,
and all the
members of that one
body, being many, are one body: so also
is
Christ.
012:013 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one
body, whether
we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and
have
been all made to drink into
one Spirit.
012:014 For the body is not one member, but many.
012:015 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand,
I am not of
the body; is it
therefore not of the body?
012:016 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the
eye, I am not
of the body; is it
therefore not of the body?
012:017 If the whole body were an eye, where were the
hearing? If the
whole were
hearing, where were the smelling?
012:018 But now hath God set the members every one of
them in the
body, as it hath
pleased him.
012:019 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
012:020 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
012:021 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.
012:022 Nay, much more those members of the body, which
seem to be
more feeble, are
necessary:
012:023 And those members of the body, which we think to
be less
honourable, upon these we
bestow more abundant honour; and
our
uncomely parts have more
abundant comeliness.
012:024 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath
tempered the
body together, having
given more abundant honour to that
part
which lacked.
012:025 That there should be no schism in the body; but
that the
members should have the
same care one for another.
012:026 And whether one member suffer, all the members
suffer with it;
or one member be
honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
012:027 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
012:028 And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles,
secondarily prophets,
thirdly teachers, after that
miracles,
then gifts of healings,
helps, governments, diversities of
tongues.
012:029 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all
teachers? are all
workers of
miracles?
012:030 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with
tongues? do
all interpret?
012:031 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew
I unto you a
more excellent
way.
013:001 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.
013:002 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.
013:003 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
profiteth me nothing.
013:004 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not;
charity vaunteth not
itself, is not puffed up,
013:005 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her
own, is not
easily provoked,
thinketh no evil;
013:006 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
013:007 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth
all things,
endureth all
things.
013:008 Charity never faileth: but whether there be
prophecies, they
shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall
cease;
whether there be knowledge,
it shall vanish away.
013:009 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
013:010 But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in
part shall be done
away.
013:011 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
understood as a
child, I thought
as a child: but when I became a man, I
put
away childish things.
013:012 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face:
now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I
am
known.
013:013 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three; but the
greatest of these
is charity.
014:001 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts,
but rather
that ye may
prophesy.
014:002 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue
speaketh not unto
men, but unto
God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit
in
the spirit he speaketh
mysteries.
014:003 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to
edification, and
exhortation, and
comfort.
014:004 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth
himself; but he
that prophesieth
edifieth the church.
014:005 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather
that ye
prophesied: for greater is
he that prophesieth than he that
speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the
church
may receive edifying.
014:006 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with
tongues, what
shall I profit you,
except I shall speak to you either
by
revelation, or by knowledge, or
by prophesying, or by
doctrine?
014:007 And even things without life giving sound,
whether pipe or
harp, except they
give a distinction in the sounds, how
shall
it be known what is piped or
harped?
014:008 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who
shall prepare
himself to the
battle?
014:009 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue
words easy to be
understood, how
shall it be known what is spoken? for ye
shall
speak into the air.
014:010 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in
the world,
and none of them is
without signification.
014:011 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice,
I shall be
unto him that speaketh
a barbarian, and he that speaketh
shall
be a barbarian unto me.
014:012 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of
spiritual gifts,
seek that ye may
excel to the edifying of the church.
014:013 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown
tongue pray that
he may
interpret.
014:014 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit
prayeth, but my
understanding is
unfruitful.
014:015 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and
I will pray
with the understanding
also: I will sing with the spirit,
and
I will sing with the
understanding also.
014:016 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how
shall he that
occupieth the room
of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving
of
thanks, seeing he understandeth
not what thou sayest?
014:017 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other
is not
edified.
014:018 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
014:019 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words
with my
understanding, that by my
voice I might teach others also,
than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
014:020 Brethren, be not children in understanding:
howbeit in malice
be ye children,
but in understanding be men.
014:021 In the law it is written, With men of other
tongues and other
lips will I
speak unto this people; and yet for all that
will
they not hear me, saith the
Lord.
014:022 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them
that believe,
but to them that
believe not: but prophesying serveth not
for
them that believe not, but for
them which believe.
014:023 If therefore the whole church be 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?
014:024 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that
believeth not,
or one unlearned,
he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
014:025 And thus are the secrets of his heart made
manifest; and so
falling down on
his face he will worship God, and report
that
God is in you of a truth.
014:026 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together,
every one of
you hath a psalm,
hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath
a
revelation, hath an
interpretation. Let all things be
done
unto edifying.
014:027 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be
by two, or at
the most by three,
and that by course; and let one interpret.
014:028 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep
silence in the
church; and let him
speak to himself, and to God.
014:029 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
014:030 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth
by, let the
first hold his
peace.
014:031 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may
learn, and
all may be
comforted.
014:032 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
014:033 For God is not the author of confusion, but of
peace, as in
all churches of the
saints.
014:034 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for
it is not
permitted unto them to
speak; but they are commanded to
be
under obedience as also saith
the law.
014:035 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask
their husbands
at home: for it is
a shame for women to speak in the church.
014:036 What? came the word of God out from you? or came
it unto you
only?
014:037 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let
him acknowledge
that the things that I write unto you are
the
commandments of the Lord.
014:038 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
014:039 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and
forbid not to
speak with
tongues.
014:040 Let all things be done decently and in order.
015:001 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel
which I
preached unto you, which
also ye have received, and wherein
ye
stand;
015:002 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory
what I
preached unto you, unless
ye have believed in vain.
015:003 For I delivered unto you first of all that which
I also
received, how that Christ
died for our sins according to the
scriptures;
015:004 And that he was buried, and that he rose again
the third day
according to the
scriptures:
015:005 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
015:006 After that, he was seen of above five hundred
brethren at
once; of whom the
greater part remain unto this present,
but
some are fallen asleep.
015:007 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
015:008 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one
born out of
due time.
015:009 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not
meet to be
called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.
015:010 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his
grace which
was bestowed upon me
was not in vain; but I laboured
more
abundantly than they all: yet
not I, but the grace of God
which
was with me.
015:011 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we
preach, and so ye
believed.
015:012 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the
dead, how say
some among you that
there is no resurrection of the dead?
015:013 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then
is Christ
not risen:
015:014 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching
vain, and
your faith is also
vain.
015:015 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God;
because we have
testified of God
that he raised up Christ: whom he raised
not
up, if so be that the dead
rise not.
015:016 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
015:017 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain;
ye are yet in
your sins.
015:018 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
015:019 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we
are of all men
most miserable.
015:020 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become
the
firstfruits of them that
slept.
015:021 For since by man came death, by man came also the
resurrection
of the dead.
015:022 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall
all be made
alive.
015:023 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits;
afterward they that
are Christ's at his coming.
015:024 Then cometh 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.
015:025 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies
under his
feet.
015:026 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
015:027 For he hath put all things under his feet. But
when he saith
all things are put
under him, it is manifest that he
is
excepted, which did put all
things under him.
015:028 And when all things shall be subdued unto him,
then shall the
Son also himself be
subject unto him that put all things
under
him, that God may be all in
all.
015:029 Else what shall they do which are baptized for
the dead, if
the dead rise not at
all? why are they then baptized for
the
dead?
015:030 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
015:031 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in
Christ Jesus our
Lord, I die
daily.
015:032 If after the manner of men I have fought with
beasts at
Ephesus, what
advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let
us
eat and drink; for to morrow we
die.
015:033 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
015:034 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some
have not the
knowledge of God: I
speak this to your shame.
015:035 But some man will say, How are the dead raised
up? and with
what body do they
come?
015:036 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it
die:
015:037 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that
body that
shall be, but bare
grain, it may chance of wheat, or of
some
other grain:
015:038 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him,
and to every
seed his own
body.
015:039 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.
015:040 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but
the glory of the
celestial is one, and the glory of
the
terrestrial is another.
015:041 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.
015:042 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is
sown in
corruption; it is raised
in incorruption:
015:043 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory:
it is sown in
weakness; it is
raised in power:
015:044 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body.
There is a natural
body, and there is a spiritual body.
015:045 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made
a living
soul; the last Adam was
made a quickening spirit.
015:046 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual,
but that which
is natural; and
afterward that which is spiritual.
015:047 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second
man is the
Lord from heaven.
015:048 As is the earthy, such are they also that are
earthy: and as
is the heavenly,
such are they also that are heavenly.
015:049 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we
shall also
bear the image of the
heavenly.
015:050 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit
the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption.
015:051 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all
sleep, but we
shall all be
changed,
015:052 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.
015:053 For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal
must put on
immortality.
015:054 So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and
this mortal
shall have put on immortality, then shall
be
brought to pass the saying that
is written, Death is swallowed
up
in victory.
015:055 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
015:056 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
015:057 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
015:058 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
unmoveable,
always abounding in
the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know
that your labour is not in
vain in the Lord.
016:001 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as
I have given
order to the churches
of Galatia, even so do ye.
016:002 Upon the first day of the week let every one of
you lay by him
in store, as God
hath prospered him, that there be
no
gatherings when I come.
016:003 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by
your letters,
them will I send to
bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
016:004 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
016:005 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass
through Macedonia:
for I do pass
through Macedonia.
016:006 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter
with you,
that ye may bring me on
my journey whithersoever I go.
016:007 For I will not see you now by the way; but I
trust to tarry a
while with you,
if the Lord permit.
016:008 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
016:009 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me,
and there
are many
adversaries.
016:010 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with
you without
fear: for he worketh
the work of the Lord, as I also do.
016:011 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
brethren.
016:012 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly
desired him to come
unto you with
the brethren: but his will was not at all
to
come at this time; but he will
come when he shall have
convenient
time.
016:013 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like
men, be
strong.
016:014 Let all your things be done with charity.
016:015 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of
Stephanas, that
it is the
firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have
addicted
themselves to the
ministry of the saints,)
016:016 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every
one that
helpeth with us, and
laboureth.
016:017 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and
Fortunatus and
Achaicus: for that
which was lacking on your part they
have
supplied.
016:018 For they have refreshed my spirit and your's:
therefore
acknowledge ye them that
are such.
016:019 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and
Priscilla salute
you much in the
Lord, with the church that is in their house.
016:020 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another
with an holy
kiss.
016:021 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
016:022 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let
him be Anathema
Maranatha.
016:023 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
016:024 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.