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1st. Corinthians 1
1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sosthenes our
brother, 2To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus,
called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both
theirs and ours: 3Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus
Christ. 4I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus
Christ; 5That in every thing you are enriched by him, in all utterance and in all knowledge;
6Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 7So that you do not lack any
charismatic gift;
waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: 8Who shall also confirm you to the end, so
that
you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful, by whom
you were
called to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10Now I beg you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the
same thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together
in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11For it has been declared to me of you, my
brothers, by those who are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and
I of Christ. 13Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of
Paul?
14I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 15Lest any should say that I
had baptized in my own name. 16And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I do
not know whether I baptized any other.
17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. 18For the preaching of the cross is
foolishness to those who perish; but to us who are saved it is the power of God. 19For it is
written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent. 20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the
disputer of this world? Has not
God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by
wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23But we preach Christ
crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks; 24But Christ the power of
God and the wisdom of God to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks. 25Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26For you
see your calling, brothers, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, are called: 27But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28And God has chosen base things of the world and things which are despised, yes and things
which are not, to bring to nothing things that are: 29That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and
sanctification and redemption: 31That, according as it is written, Let him who glories, glory in
the Lord.
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Chapter 2
1And brothers, when I came to you, I did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring to you the testimony of God. 2For I determined not to know any thing among you,
except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in
much trembling. 4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6But we speak wisdom among those who are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of
the princes of this world, who come to nothing: 7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory:
8Which none of the
princes of this world knew: for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory. 9But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have the things entered
into the heart of
man, that God has prepared for those who love him. 10But God has revealed them to
us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11For what man
knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God
no man knows, but the Spirit of God. 12Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us from God. 13Which
things we also declare, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit
teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man does not receive the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: nor can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned. 15But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is not
judged by any man. 16For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But
we have the mind of Christ.
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Chapter 3
1And brothers, I could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to
babes in
Christ. 2I have fed you with milk and not with meat: for you were not able to bear it before,
nor are you yet now able. 3For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you
envying,
and strife and divisions, are you not carnal and walk as men? 4For while one says, I am of
Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?
5Who then is Paul and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the
Lord gave to every man? 6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7So then
neither is he who plants any thing, nor he who waters; but God who gives the increase. 8Now
he who plants and he who waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labor. 9For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, you are
God's building. 10According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder,
I have laid the foundation and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds
on it.
11For no man can lay any other foundation than which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12Now if
any man builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13Every
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. 14If any man's work which he has
built on it abides, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer
loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17If any man defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him; for the temple of God is holy,
which temple you are.
18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him
become a fool, that he may be wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For
it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness. 20And again, The Lord knows the thoughts
of the wise, that they are vain.
21Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 22Whether Paul, or
Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23And
you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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Chapter 4
1Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of
God. 2 Also it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 3But with me it is a very
small thing that I should be judged by you, or of man's judgment: yes, I do not judge my own
self. 4For I know nothing of myself; yet I am not thereby justified: but he who judges me is the
Lord. 5Therefore 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
every man shall have praise of God. 6And these things, brothers, I have transferred in a figure to
myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you 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.
7For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive?
now if you received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?
8Now you are full, now
you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we
might also reign with you. 9For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were
appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men. 10We
are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you
are strong; you are
honorable, but we are despised. 11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are
naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place; 12And labor, working with our own
hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: 13Being defamed, we entreat: we
are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things to this day.
14I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15For though
you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I
have begotten you through the gospel. 16Therefore I beg you, be followers of me.
17For this cause I have sent Timotheus to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the
Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach every
where in every church. 18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will and will know, not the speech of those who are
puffed up, but the power. 20For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21What would you? should I come to you with a rod, or in love and in the spirit of meekness?
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Chapter 5
1It 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. 2And you are
puffed up and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away
from among you. 3For verily I, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as
though I were present, concerning him who has so done this deed, 4In the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 5To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be
saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little
leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For
even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8Therefore 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.
9I wrote to you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10Yet not altogether
with the
fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you
would need to go out of the world. 11But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any
man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard,
or an extortioner; no not to eat with such a one. 12For what have I to do to judge also those who
are without? do you not judge those who are within? 13But those who are without God judges.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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Chapter 6
1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust and not before
the saints? 2Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be
judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3Do you not know that we shall
judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 4If then you have judgments of
things pertaining to this life, set those who are least esteemed in the church to judge. 5I speak to
your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one who shall be able to
judge between his brothers? 6But brother goes to law with brother and that before the
unbelievers. 7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law with one
another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be
defrauded? 8No, you do wrong and defraud and that your brothers.
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you: but you are
washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the
Spirit of our God.
12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me,
but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13Meats are 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. 14And God has both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his
own power. 15Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the
members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? Let that never happen. 16What?
Do you not
know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, said he, shall be one flesh. 17But he
who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without
the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body. 19What? Do you not know
that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, who you have of God and you are
not your own? 20For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your
spirit, which are God's.
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Chapter 7
1Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a
woman. 2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife and let every
woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and
likewise also the wife to the husband. 4The wife has not power of her own body, but the
husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife. 5Do not
defraud one another, unless it is with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting
and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you with your incontinency.
6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. 7For I would that all
men were even
as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner and another after
that. 8Therefore I say to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from
her
husband: 11But and if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and
let not the husband put away his wife. 12But to the rest I speak, not the Lord:
If any brother has a
wife who does not believe and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13And
the woman who has a husband who does not believe and if he is pleased to dwell with her, let
her not leave him. 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife and the unbelieving
wife is sanctified by the husband: else your children were unclean; but now they are holy. 15But
if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases:
but God has called us to peace. 16For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your
husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
17But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk.
And so I ordain in all churches. 18Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19Circumcision is
nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God is
something. 20Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.
21 But if you are
called being a servant? Do not care for it: and if you may be made free, use that rather.
22For he
who is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he who is called,
being free, is Christ's servant. 23You are bought with a price; do not be the servants
of men. 24Brothers, let every man abide with God in that which he is called.
25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as
one who has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26Therefore I suppose that this is good for
the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. 27Are you
bound to a wife? Do not
seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28But and if you marry, you
have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble
in the flesh: but I spare you. 29But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains,
that both those
who have wives are as though they had none; 30And those who weep, as though they do not
weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they
did not possess; 31And those who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of
this world
is passing away. 32But I would have you without carefulness. He who is unmarried cares for the
things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33But he who is married cares for
the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34There is difference
also between a
wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy
both in body and in spirit: but she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may
please her husband. 35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare
on you, but for that which is comely and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.
36But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she passes the
flower of her age and need so requires, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.
37Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his
own will and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep himself virgin, does well. 38So then he
who gives in marriage does well; but he who does not give in marriage does better.
39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at
liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40But she is happier if she so abides
after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
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Chapter 8
1Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge
puffs up, but love edifies. 2And if any man thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet
as he ought to know. 3But if any man loves God, the same is known of him.
4Therefore concerning the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we
know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no other God but one.
5For though
there are those that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there are many gods and many
lords,) 6But to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things are and
we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things and we by him.
7But that knowledge is not in every man: for some with conscience of the idol
to this hour eat
it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8But meat does not
commend us to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor, if we do not eat, are we the
worse. 9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to
those who are weak. 10For if any man sees you who have knowledge sit at meat in the idol's
temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things which
are offered to idols; 11And the weak brother, for whom Christ died, shall perish through
your knowledge? 12But when you sin so against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you
sin against Christ. 13Therefore, if meat makes my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the
world stands, lest I should make my brother offend.
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Chapter 9
1Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are you not my
work in the Lord? 2If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for you are the
seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3My answer to those who examine me is this, 4Do we not have a right to eat and to
drink?
5Do we not have a right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles and the brothers
of the
Lord and Cephas? 6Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have a right to forbear working?
7Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its
fruit? or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock? 8Do I say these things as a
man? or does not the law say the same also? 9For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not
muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen? 10Or did he
say it altogether for our sakes? This is no doubt written for our sakes: so that he who
plows should
plow in hope; and that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11If we have sown
to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your carnal things?
12If others are
partakers of this right over you, have we not also the same? Nevertheless we have
not used this right;
but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13Do you not know that those
who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and those who wait at the altar
are partakers with the altar? 14Even so has the Lord ordained that those who preach the gospel
should live of the gospel.
15But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be
so done to me: for it is better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
16For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory in: for necessity is laid on me; yes, woe
is me, if I do not preach the gospel! 17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if
against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me. 18What 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 right in the gospel.
19For though I am free from all men, yet I have made myself servant to all, that
I might gain more. 20And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those
who are
under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21To those who
are without law, as without law, (not being without law to God, but under the law of Christ,) that
I might gain those who are without law. 22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the
weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 23And this I
do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker of it with you.
24Do you not know that of those who run in a race, all run but one receives the prize? So run,
that you may obtain. 25And every man who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26I therefore so
run, not as uncertainly; so do I fight, not as one who beats the air: 27But I keep my body
under and bring it
into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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Chapter 10
1Moreover, brothers, I would not that you would be ignorant, how that all our fathers were
under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2And were all baptized to Moses in the cloud
and in the sea; 3And all ate the same spiritual meat; 4And all drank the same spiritual
drink: for
they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5But God was
not well pleased with many of them: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things,
as they also lusted. 7Neither be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written,
The people
sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. 8Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them
committed and twenty three thousand fell in one day. 9Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them
also tempted and were destroyed of serpents. 10Nor murmur, as some of them also murmured,
and were destroyed of the destroyer. 11Now all these things happened to them for examples: and
they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the world have come. 12Therefore let
him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13There has no temptation taken you but such as
is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are
able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.
14Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15I speak as to wise men; judge what I say. 16The 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? 17For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all
partakers of that
one bread. 18Behold Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers
of the altar? 19What do I say then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered
in sacrifice to idols is
any thing? 20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to
demons and
not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons. 21You cannot drink
the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of
the table of demons. 22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
23All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me,
but all things do not edify. 24Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
25What
ever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience sake: 26For the earth and its
fulness is the Lord's. 27 If any of those who do not believe bid you to a feast
and you are
disposed to go; what ever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
28But if
any man says to you, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for his sake who showed it,
and for conscience sake: for the earth and its fulness is the Lord's: 29Conscience,
I say, not your
own, but the others: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
30For if I by grace
am a partaker, why am I spoken evil of for that which I give thanks? 31Therefore whether you
eat, or drink, or what ever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32Give no offence, neither to the
Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33Even as I please all men
in all things, not
seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
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Chapter 11
1Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2Now I praise you,
brothers, that you
remember me in all things and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3But I would
have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and
the head of Christ is God. 4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head
covered,
dishonors his head. 5But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered
dishonors her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaved. 6For if the woman is not
covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be
covered. 7For a man indeed should not cover his head, because he is the image and glory
of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman
of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
\10For this
cause a woman ought to have authority on her head because of the angels.
11But neither is the
man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12For as the woman is
of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13Judge in yourselves: is it
comely for a woman to pray to God uncovered? 14Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a
man has long hair, it is a shame to him? 15But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for
her hair is given to her for a covering. 16But if any man seem to be contentious,
we have no other custom, neither the churches of God.
17Now in this that I declare to you I do not praise you, because you come
together not for the
better, but for the worse. 18For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that
there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 19For there must also be heresies among
you, so that those who are approved may be made manifest among you. 20When you come
together therefore into one place, it is not the eating of the Lord's supper.
21For in eating every
one takes before another his own supper: and one is hungry and another is drunken.
22What? Do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do you despise the church of God and shame
those who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.
23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus took
bread in the same night in which he was betrayed: 24And when he had given thanks, he broke it,
and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25He also took the cup after the same manner, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the
new
testament in my blood: this do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
26For as often as
you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death until he comes.
27Therefore
whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the
body and blood of the Lord. 28But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread,
and drink of that cup. 29For he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to
himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30For this cause many are weak and sickly among you,
and many sleep. 31For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
33Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another.
34And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home; so that you do not come together to
condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.
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1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.
2You know that you
were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as you were led. 3Therefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can
say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit. 4Now there are differences of gifts, but the
same Spirit. 5And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6And there are
differences of operations, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7But the manifestation of
the Spirit is given to each man to profit all. 8For by the Spirit to one is given the word of
wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same
Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles;
to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to
another the interpretation of tongues: 11But all these the one and the selfsame Spirit works,
dividing to every man separately as he wills.
12For as the body is one and has many members and all the members of that one body, being
many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13For by one Spirit we all have been baptized into
one
body, whether we are Jews or Gentiles, whether we are bond or free; and have all been made
to
drink into one Spirit. 14For the body is not one member, but many. 15If the foot shall
say,
Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16And if the ear
shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17If the
whole body was an eye, where is the hearing? If the whole was hearing,
where is the smelling?
18But now God has set the members every one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.
19And
if they were all one member, where is the body? 20But now are they many members,
but yet one
body. 21And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet,
I have no need of you. 22No, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more
feeble, are necessary: 23And those members of the body, which we think to be less
honorable, on
these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24For our comely parts have no need of adornment: but God has tempered the body together,
having given
more abundant honor to that part which lacked: 25That there should be no schism in the body; but
that the members should have the same care one for another. 26And when one member suffers,
all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27Now you are the body of Christ and members in particular. 28And God has set some
in the
church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of
healings, helps, governments, differences of tongues. 29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all
teachers? are all workers of miracles? 30Have all the gifts of healing? do all
speak with tongues?
do all interpret? 31But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet I will show you a more excellent
way.
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1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And 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 love, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I
give my body to be burned and have not love, it profits me nothing.
4Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed
up, 5Does not behave itself unseemly, does not seek her own, is not easily provoked, does not
think evil; 6Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails: but if there are prophecies, they shall fail; if
there are tongues, they shall
cease; if there is knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9For we know in part and
we prophesy in
part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I
became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see in a glass, darkly; but then face to
face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13And now faith, hope,
and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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1Follow after love and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.
2For he who
speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no man understands him; but in
the spirit he speaks mysteries. 3But he who prophesies speaks to men to edification and
exhortation and comfort. 4He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but he who
prophesies edifies the church. 5 I would that all speaking with tongues would rather prophesy:
for greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks with tongues, except he interprets, that the
church may receive edifying.
6 Now, brothers, if I come to 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? 7And
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? 8For if the trumpet gives an uncertain
sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue
words easily understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you shall speak into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without
significance. 11Therefore if I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him who speaks
a barbarian and he who speaks shall be a barbarian to me. 12Even so you, forasmuch as you
are
zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.
13Therefore let
him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret. 14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit
prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15What 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. 16Or else when you shall bless
with
the spirit, how shall he who occupies the room of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of
thanks, seeing he does not understand what you say? 17For you verily give thanks well, but the
other is not edified. 18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
19Yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand
words in a tongue, so that by my voice I might also teach others. 20Brothers, be not
children in understanding: but be children in malice, but in understanding be men.
21It is written in the law, With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to
this people;
and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord. 22Therefore tongues are for a sign,
not to
those who believe, but to those who do not believe: but prophesying does not serve for those
who do not believe, but for those who believe. 23If therefore the whole church is come together
into one place and all speak with tongues and there comes in those who are unlearned, or
unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad? 24But if all prophesy and there comes in one who
does not believe, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25And 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.
26How is it then, brothers? when you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a
doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edifying.
27If any man speaks in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three
and that by course; and
let one interpret. 28But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church; and let him
speak to himself and to God. 29 Let the prophets speak two or three and let the other judge.
30If
any thing is revealed to another who sits by, let the first hold his peace.
31For you may all
prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be comforted. 32And the spirits of the
prophets are subject to the prophets. 33For God is not the author of confusion,
but of peace. As in all churches of the saints,
34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to preach; but
they are commanded to be under obedience, as also says the law. 35And if they will teach
any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to preach in the church.
36What? Did the word of God come out from you? or did it come only to you ?
37If any man thinks
himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are
the commandments of the Lord. 38But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39Therefore, brothers, desire to prophesy and forbid not to speak with tongues.
40Let all things be done decently and in order.
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1Also, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have
received and in which you stand; 2By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I
preached to you, unless you have believed in vain. 3For I delivered to you first of all that which
I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4And that he was
buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5And that he was seen by
Cephas, then by the twelve: 6After that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers at once; of
whom the greater part remain to this present, but some have fallen asleep. 7After that, he was
seen by James; then by all the apostles. 8And last of all he was also seen by me, as of one born
out of due time. 9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not fit to be called an apostle, because
I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which
was bestowed on me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but
the grace of God which was with me. 11Therefore whether it was I or they, so we preach and so
you believed.
12Now if Christ is preached that he rose from the dead, how do some among you say that
there is no resurrection of the dead? 13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is
not risen: 14And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain and your faith
is also vain.
15Yes and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised
up Christ: whom he did not raise up, if it is so that the dead do not rise. 16For if the dead do not
rise, then Christ is not raised: 17And if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your
sins. 18Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19If in this life only we have
hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who
sleep.
21For since death came by man, also the resurrection of the dead came by man.
22For as in Adam
all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But every man in his own order: Christ the
first fruits; afterward those who are Christ's at his coming. 24Then the end shall come,
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. 25For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27For he has put
all things under his feet. But
when he said all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, who put all things
under him. 28And when all things shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be
subject to him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all. 29Or else what shall they do
who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why are they then baptized for the
dead? 30And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? 31I protest by your rejoicing
which I have in
Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at
Ephesus, what does it advantage me, if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow
we die. 33Do not be deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 34Awake to
righteousness and do not sin; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your
shame.
35But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
36You fool, that which you sow is not quickened, except it dies: 37And that which you
sow, you do not
sow that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38But God gives it a body as it has pleased him and to every seed his own body.
39All flesh is not
the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,
another of fish,
and another of birds. 40There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies:
but the glory of the
celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41There is one glory of the sun and
another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another
star in
glory. 42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in
incorruption: 43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in
power: 44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there
is a spiritual body. 45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last
Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46But he was not first who is spiritual,
but he who was
natural; and afterward he who is spiritual. 47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man
is the Lord from heaven. 48As is the earthy, such are they also who
are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also who are heavenly. 49And as we have borne the image of the
earthy,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52In 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. 53For this corruptible must put on
incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. 54So 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. 55O death, where is your sting?
O grave,
where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin
is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the
work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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Chapter 16
1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of
Galatia, you do the same. 2On the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him
in store, as
God has prospered him, so that there will be no gatherings when I come. 3And when I come,
whomever you shall approve by your letters, I will send them to bring your liberality to
Jerusalem. 4And if it is fitting that I go also, they shall go with me.
5Now I will come to you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through
Macedonia. 6And it may be that I will abide, yes and winter with you, that you may bring me on
my journey where ever I go. 7For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to stay a while
with you, if the Lord permits. 8But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost. 9For a
great and effectual door is opened to me and there are many adversaries.
10Now if Timotheus comes, see that he may be with you without fear: for he works the work
of the Lord, as I also do. 11Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in
peace, that
he may come to me: for I look for him with the brothers. 12As touching our brother
Apollos, I
greatly desired him to come to you with the brothers: but his will was not at all to come at this
time; but he will come when he shall have a convenient time.
13Watch, stand fast in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14Let all your things be
done with
love. 15 I beg you, brothers, (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of
Achaia and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
16 That you submit
yourselves to such and to every one who helps with us and labors. 17 I am glad at the
coming of
Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have
supplied. 18For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge those who are
such.
19The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the
church that is in their house. 20All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21The salutation of me Paul with my own hand. 22If any man does not love the
Lord Jesus Christ,
let him be Anathema Maranatha. 23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24My love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
{The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas and Fortunatus
and Achaicus and Timotheus, carried by Titus.}-- The local origin of the epistle noted above in the KJV
is a mistake. The epistle was written from Ephesus, but indeed carried by Titus and 2 Corinthians was written
from Philippi.]
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