THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
Corinthians
1:1: Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ
through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1:2: Unto the church of God which is at Corinth,
to 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 theirs and ours:
1:3: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4: I thank my God always on your behalf, for
the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
1:5: That in every thing ye are enriched by him,
in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
1:6: Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed
in you:
1:7: So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting
for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1:8: Who shall also confirm you unto the end,
that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9: God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto
the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10: Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and
that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly
joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1:11: 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.
1:12: 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.
1:13: Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for
you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
1:14: I thank God that I baptized none of you,
but Crispus and Gaius;
1:15: Lest any should say that I had baptized
in mine own name.
1:16: And I baptized also the household of Stephanas:
besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
1:17: For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to
preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of
Christ should be made of none effect.
1:18: For the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the
power of God.
1:19: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom
of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent.
1:20: Where is the wise? where is the scribe?
where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world?
1:21: 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.
1:22: For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks
seek after wisdom:
1:23: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the
Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1:24: But unto them which are called, both Jews
and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1:25: Because the foolishness of God is wiser
than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1:26: For ye see your calling, brethren, how that
not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,
are called:
1:27: 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;
1:28: 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:
1:29: That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1:30: But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of
God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption:
1:31: That, according as it is written, He that
glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2:1: And I, brethren, when I came to you, came
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you
the testimony of God.
2:2: For I determined not to know any thing among
you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
2:3: And I was with you in weakness, and in fear,
and in much trembling.
2:4: And my speech and my preaching was not with
enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power:
2:5: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom
of men, but in the power of God.
2:6: 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:
2:7: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto
our glory:
2:8: Which none of the princes of this world knew:
for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory.
2:9: 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.
2:10: But God hath revealed them unto us by his
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things
of God.
2:11: 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.
2:12: 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.
2:13: 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.
2:14: 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.
2:15: But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,
yet he himself is judged of no man.
2:16: For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1: And I, brethren, could not speak unto you
as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
3:2: I have fed you with milk, and not with meat:
for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are
ye able.
3:3: For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there
is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal,
and walk as men?
3:4: For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another,
I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
3:5: Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every
man?
3:6: I have planted, Apollos watered; but God
gave the increase.
3:7: So then neither is he that planteth any thing,
neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
3:8: Now he that planteth and he that watereth
are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labour.
3:9: For we are labourers together with God: ye
are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
3:10: According to the grace of God which is given
unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation,
and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how
he buildeth thereupon.
3:11: For other foundation can no man lay than
that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
3:12: Now if any man build upon this foundation
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
3:13: 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.
3:14: If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
3:15: If any man's work shall be burned, he shall
suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
3:16: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
3:17: If any man defile the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple
ye are.
3:18: 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.
3:19: For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
3:20: And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts
of the wise, that they are vain.
3:21: Therefore let no man glory in men. For all
things are yours;
3:22: Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or
the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to
come; all are yours;
3:23: And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
4:1: Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers
of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
4:2: Moreover it is required in stewards, that
a man be found faithful.
4:3: But with me it is a very small thing that
I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge
not mine own self.
4:4: For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not
hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
4:5: 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.
4:6: 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.
4:7: 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?
4:8: 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.
4:9: 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.
4:10: 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.
4:11: Even unto this present hour we both hunger,
and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain
dwellingplace;
4:12: And labour, working with our own hands:
being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
4:13: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as
the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things
unto this day.
4:14: I write not these things to shame you, but
as my beloved sons I warn you.
4:15: For though ye have ten thousand instructors
in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I
have begotten you through the gospel.
4:16: Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers
of me.
4:17: 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.
4:18: Now some are puffed up, as though I would
not come to you.
4:19: 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.
4:20: For the kingdom of God is not in word, but
in power.
4:21: What will ye? shall I come unto you with
a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
5:1: It is reported commonly that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among
the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
5:2: And ye are puffed up, and have not rather
mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away
from among you.
5:3: For I verily, as absent in body, but present
in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning
him that hath so done this deed,
5:4: In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when
ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our
Lord Jesus Christ,
5:5: 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.
5:6: Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that
a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
5:7: Purge out therefore the old leaven, that
ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our
passover is sacrificed for us:
5:8: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with
old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
5:9: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company
with fornicators:
5:10: 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.
5:11: 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.
5:12: For what have I to do to judge them also
that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
5:13: But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore
put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
6:1: Dare any of you, having a matter against
another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
6:2: Do ye not know that the saints shall judge
the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy
to judge the smallest matters?
6:3: Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how
much more things that pertain to this life?
6:4: If then ye have judgments of things pertaining
to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the
church.
6:5: I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there
is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to
judge between his brethren?
6:6: But brother goeth to law with brother, and
that before the unbelievers.
6:7: 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?
6:8: Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your
brethren.
6:9: 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,
6:10: Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
6:11: And such were some of you: but 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.
6:12: All things are lawful unto me, but all things
are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not
be brought under the power of any.
6:13: 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.
6:14: And God hath both raised up the Lord, and
will also raise up us by his own power.
6:15: Know ye not that your bodies are the members
of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them
the members of an harlot? God forbid.
6:16: What? know ye not that he which is joined
to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
6:17: But he that is joined unto the Lord is one
spirit.
6:18: Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth
is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth
against his own body.
6:19: 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?
6:20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
7:1: Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote
unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
7:2: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every
man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
7:3: Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
7:4: The wife 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.
7:5: 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.
7:6: But I speak this by permission, and not of
commandment.
7:7: 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.
7:8: I say therefore to the unmarried and widows,
It is good for them if they abide even as I.
7:9: But if they cannot contain, let them marry:
for it is better to marry than to burn.
7:10: And unto the married I command, yet not
I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
7:11: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried,
or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away
his wife.
7:12: But to the rest 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.
7:13: And the woman which hath an husband that
believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her
not leave him.
7:14: For the unbelieving husband is sanctified
by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband:
else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
7:15: 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.
7:16: For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou
shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou
shalt save thy wife?
7:17: 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.
7:18: Is any man called being circumcised? let
him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision?
let him not be circumcised.
7:19: Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision
is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
7:20: Let every man abide in the same calling
wherein he was called.
7:21: Art thou called being a servant? care not
for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
7:22: For he that is called in the Lord, being
a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called,
being free, is Christ's servant.
7:23: Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the
servants of men.
7:24: Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called,
therein abide with God.
7:25: 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.
7:26: I suppose therefore that this is good for
the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
7:27: Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to
be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
7:28: But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned;
and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such
shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
7:29: But this I say, brethren, the time is short:
it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they
had none;
7:30: 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;
7:31: And they that use this world, as not abusing
it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
7:32: 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:
7:33: But he that is married careth for the things
that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
7:34: 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.
7:35: 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.
7:36: 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.
7:37: 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.
7:38: So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth
well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
7:39: 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.
7:40: But she is happier if she so abide, after
my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
8:1: Now as touching things offered unto idols,
we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but
charity edifieth.
8:2: And if any man think that he knoweth any
thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
8:3: But if any man love God, the same is known
of him.
8:4: As concerning therefore the eating of those
things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that
an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other
God but one.
8:5: For though there be that are called gods,
whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords
many,)
8:6: But to us there is but one God, the Father,
of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom are all things, and we by him.
8:7: Howbeit there is not in 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.
8:8: 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.
8:9: But take heed lest by any means this liberty
of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
8:10: 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;
8:11: And through thy knowledge shall the weak
brother perish, for whom Christ died?
8:12: But when ye sin so against the brethren,
and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
8:13: Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend,
I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother
to offend.
9:1: Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have
I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
9:2: If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless
I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
9:3: Mine answer to them that do examine me is
this,
9:4: Have we not power to eat and to drink?
9:5: 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?
9:6: Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power
to forbear working?
9:7: 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?
9:8: Say I these things as a man? or saith not
the law the same also?
9:9: 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?
9:10: 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.
9:11: If we have sown unto you spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
9:12: 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.
9:13: 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?
9:14: Even so hath the Lord ordained that they
which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
9:15: But I have used none of these things: neither
have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me:
for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make
my glorying void.
9:16: 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!
9:17: 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.
9:18: 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.
9:19: For though I be free from all men, yet have
I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
9:20: And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that
I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under
the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
9:21: 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.
9:22: 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.
9:23: And this I do for the gospel's sake, that
I might be partaker thereof with you.
9:24: Know ye not that they which run in a race
run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
9:25: 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.
9:26: I therefore so run, not as uncertainly;
so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
9:27: 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.
10:1: 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;
10:2: And were all baptized unto Moses in the
cloud and in the sea;
10:3: And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
10:4: And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and
that Rock was Christ.
10:5: But with many of them God was not well pleased:
for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
10:6: Now these things were our examples, to the
intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
10:7: Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of
them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink,
and rose up to play.
10:8: Neither let us commit fornication, as some
of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
10:9: Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of
them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10:10: Neither murmur ye, as some of them also
murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
10:11: 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.
10:12: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall.
10:13: 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.
10:14: Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from
idolatry.
10:15: I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I
say.
10:16: The cup of blessing which we bless, is
it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we
break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
10:17: For we being many are one bread, and one
body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
10:18: Behold Israel after the flesh: are not
they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
10:19: What say I then? that the idol is any thing,
or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
10:20: 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.
10:21: 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.
10:22: Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are
we stronger than he?
10:23: All things are lawful for me, but all things
are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things
edify not.
10:24: Let no man seek his own, but every man
another's wealth.
10:25: Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that
eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
10:26: For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness
thereof.
10:27: 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.
10:28: 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:
10:29: Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of
the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
10:30: For if I by grace be a partaker, why am
I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
10:31: Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
10:32: Give none offence, neither to the Jews,
nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
10:33: Even as I please all men in all things,
not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they
may be saved.
11:1: Be ye followers of me, even as I also am
of Christ.
11:2: Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember
me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them
to you.
11:3: But I would have you know, that the head
of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man;
and the head of Christ is God.
11:4: Every man praying or prophesying, having
his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
11:5: 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.
11:6: 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.
11:7: For a man indeed ought not to cover his
head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman
is the glory of the man.
11:8: For the man is not of the woman; but the
woman of the man.
11:9: Neither was the man created for the woman;
but the woman for the man.
11:10: For this cause ought the woman to have
power on her head because of the angels.
11:11: Nevertheless neither is the man without
the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
11:12: For as the woman is of the man, even so
is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
11:13: Judge in yourselves: is it comely that
a woman pray unto God uncovered?
11:14: Doth not even nature itself teach you,
that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
11:15: But if a woman have long hair, it is a
glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
11:16: But if any man seem to be contentious,
we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
11:17: Now in this that I declare unto you I praise
you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the
worse.
11:18: For first of all, when ye come together
in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I
partly believe it.
11:19: For there must be also heresies among you,
that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
11:20: When ye come together therefore into one
place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
11:21: For in eating every one taketh before other
his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
11:22: 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.
11:23: For I have received of the Lord that which
also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night
in which he was betrayed took bread:
11:24: And when he had given thanks, he brake
it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for
you: this do in remembrance of me.
11:25: After the same manner also he took the
cup, 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.
11:26: For as often as ye eat this bread, and
drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
11:27: 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.
11:28: But let a man examine himself, and so let
him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
11:29: For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,
eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's
body.
11:30: For this cause many are weak and sickly
among you, and many sleep.
11:31: For if we would judge ourselves, we should
not be judged.
11:32: But when we are judged, we are chastened
of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
11:33: Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together
to eat, tarry one for another.
11:34: 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.
12:1: Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren,
I would not have you ignorant.
12:2: Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away
unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
12:3: 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.
12:4: Now there are diversities of gifts, but
the same Spirit.
12:5: And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord.
12:6: And there are diversities of operations,
but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
12:7: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given
to every man to profit withal.
12:8: For to one is given by the Spirit the word
of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
12:9: To another faith by the same Spirit; to
another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
12:10: 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:
12:11: But all these worketh that one and the
selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
12:12: 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.
12:13: 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.
12:14: For the body is not one member, but many.
12:15: If the foot shall say, Because I am not
the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
12:16: And if the ear shall say, Because I am
not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the
body?
12:17: If the whole body were an eye, where were
the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
12:18: But now hath God set the members every
one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
12:19: And if they were all one member, where
were the body?
12:20: But now are they many members, yet but
one body.
12:21: And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I
have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no
need of you.
12:22: Nay, much more those members of the body,
which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
12:23: 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.
12:24: For our comely parts have no need: but
God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant
honour to that part which lacked:
12:25: That there should be no schism in the body;
but that the members should have the same care one for another.
12:26: And whether one member suffer, all the
members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members
rejoice with it.
12:27: Now ye are the body of Christ, and members
in particular.
12:28: 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.
12:29: Are all apostles? are all prophets? are
all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
12:30: Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak
with tongues? do all interpret?
12:31: But covet earnestly the best gifts: and
yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
13:1: Though I speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2: And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I
have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not
charity, I am nothing.
13:3: And though I bestow all my goods to feed
the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not
charity, it profiteth me nothing.
13:4: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5: Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh
not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth
in the truth;
13:7: Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8: 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.
13:9: For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part.
13:10: But when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11: When I was a child, I 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.
13:12: 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.
13:13: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three; but the greatest of these is charity.
14:1: Follow after charity, and desire spiritual
gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
14:2: 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.
14:3: But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men
to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
14:4: He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth
himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
14:5: 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.
14:6: 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?
14:7: 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?
14:8: For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,
who shall prepare himself to the battle?
14:9: 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.
14:10: There are, it may be, so many kinds of
voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
14:11: 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.
14:12: Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous
of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of
the church.
14:13: Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown
tongue pray that he may interpret.
14:14: For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my
spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
14:15: What is it then? I will pray with the spirit,
and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with
the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
14:16: Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit,
how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen
at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou
sayest?
14:17: For thou verily givest thanks well, but
the other is not edified.
14:18: I thank my God, I speak with tongues more
than ye all:
14:19: Yet in the church I 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.
14:20: Brethren, be not children in understanding:
howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
14:21: 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.
14:22: 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.
14:23: 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?
14:24: 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:
14:25: 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.
14:26: 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.
14:27: 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.
14:28: But if there be no interpreter, let him
keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and
to God.
14:29: Let the prophets speak two or three, and
let the other judge.
14:30: If any thing be revealed to another that
sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
14:31: For ye may all prophesy one by one, that
all may learn, and all may be comforted.
14:32: And the spirits of the prophets are subject
to the prophets.
14:33: For God is not the author of confusion,
but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
14:34: Let your women keep silence in the churches:
for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded
to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
14:35: 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.
14:36: What? came the word of God out from you?
or came it unto you only?
14:37: 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.
14:38: But if any man be ignorant, let him be
ignorant.
14:39: Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy,
and forbid not to speak with tongues.
14:40: Let all things be done decently and in
order.
15:1: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received,
and wherein ye stand;
15:2: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in
memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
15:3: For I delivered unto you first of all that
which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures;
15:4: And that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the scriptures:
15:5: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of
the twelve:
15:6: 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.
15:7: After that, he was seen of James; then of
all the apostles.
15:8: And last of all he was seen of me also,
as of one born out of due time.
15:9: For I am the least of the apostles, that
am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
church of God.
15:10: 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.
15:11: Therefore whether it were I or they, so
we preach, and so ye believed.
15:12: Now if Christ be preached that he rose
from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection
of the dead?
15:13: But if there be no resurrection of the
dead, then is Christ not risen:
15:14: And if Christ be not risen, then is our
preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15:15: 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.
15:16: For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ
raised:
15:17: And if Christ be not raised, your faith
is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
15:18: Then they also which are fallen asleep
in Christ are perished.
15:19: If in this life only we have hope in Christ,
we are of all men most miserable.
15:20: But now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
15:21: For since by man came death, by man came
also the resurrection of the dead.
15:22: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
shall all be made alive.
15:23: But every man in his own order: Christ
the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
15:24: 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.
15:25: For he must reign, till he hath put all
enemies under his feet.
15:26: The last enemy that shall be destroyed
is death.
15:27: 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.
15:28: 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.
15:29: 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?
15:30: And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
15:31: I protest by your rejoicing which I have
in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
15:32: 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.
15:33: Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt
good manners.
15:34: Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for
some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
15:35: But some man will say, How are the dead
raised up? and with what body do they come?
15:36: Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it die:
15:37: 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:
15:38: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased
him, and to every seed his own body.
15:39: All flesh is not the same flesh: but there
is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another
of fishes, and another of birds.
15:40: There are also celestial bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory
of the terrestrial is another.
15:41: There is one glory of the sun, and another
glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star
differeth from another star in glory.
15:42: So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
15:43: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in
glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
15:44: It is sown a natural body; it is raised
a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual
body.
15:45: And so it is written, The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
15:46: Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual,
but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
15:47: The first man is of the earth, earthy:
the second man is the Lord from heaven.
15:48: As is the earthy, such are they also that
are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly.
15:49: And as we have borne the image of the earthy,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
15:50: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption.
15:51: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall
not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
15:52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
15:53: For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality.
15:54: So when this corruptible shall have put
on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death
is swallowed up in victory.
15:55: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where
is thy victory?
15:56: The sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law.
15:57: But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:58: 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.
16:1: Now concerning the collection for the saints,
as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
16:2: 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.
16:3: And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve
by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto
Jerusalem.
16:4: And if it be meet that I go also, they shall
go with me.
16:5: Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass
through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
16:6: And it may be that I will abide, yea, and
winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever
I go.
16:7: For I will not see you now by the way; but
I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
16:8: But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
16:9: For a great door and effectual is opened
unto me, and there are many adversaries.
16:10: 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.
16:11: Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct
him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him
with the brethren.
16:12: 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.
16:13: Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit
you like men, be strong.
16:14: Let all your things be done with charity.
16:15: I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house
of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they
have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
16:16: That ye submit yourselves unto such, and
to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
16:17: I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and
Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part
they have supplied.
16:18: For they have refreshed my spirit and yours:
therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
16:19: The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila
and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that
is in their house.
16:20: All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one
another with an holy kiss.
16:21: The salutation of me Paul with mine own
hand.
16:22: If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ,
let him be Anathema Maranatha.
16:23: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
16:24: My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.Amen.