1 Corinthians

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1 Corinthians 1

(1) Paul, called as an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, (2) to the assembly of God that is in Corinth — to those having been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called holy ones — together with all those calling upon the name of our lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: (3) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the lord Jesus Christ. (4) I give thanks to my God always concerning you, for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus, (5) that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge, (6) just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, (7) so that you are not lacking in any gift, eagerly awaiting the revelation of our lord Jesus Christ, (8) who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our lord Jesus Christ. (9) Faithful is God, through whom you were called into fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our lord.

(10) Now I exhort you, brothers, through the name of our lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same thing, and that there may not be divisions among you; but that you may be united in the same mind and in the same judgment. (11) For it was made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are strifes among you. (12) But I say this: that each of you says, “I indeed am of Paul,” “but I of Apollos,” “but I of Cephas,” “but I of Christ.” (13) Has the Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? (14) I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, (15) so that no one might say that you were baptized into my name. (16) But I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. (17) For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim glad-tidings — not in wisdom of speech, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied.

(18) For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (19) For it has been written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will reject the understanding of the intelligent ones.” (20) Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (21) For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased, through the foolishness of the proclamation, to save those who believe. (22) For indeed Judeans ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom; (23) but we proclaim Christ crucified — to Judeans indeed a stumbling-block, and to the nations foolishness; (24) but to the called, both Judeans and Greeks, Christ: God’s power and God’s wisdom. (25) Because the foolish thing of God is wiser than humans, and the weak thing of God is stronger than humans.

(26) For consider your calling, brothers: not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many noble. (27) But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that He might put the wise to shame; and God chose the weak things of the world, so that He might put the strong to shame; (28) and God chose the base things of the world and the despised things — the things that are not — so that He might nullify the things that are, (29) so that no flesh might boast before God. (30) But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption, (31) so that, just as it has been written, “The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 2

(1) And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the mystery of God in excellence of speech or wisdom. (2) For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ — and him crucified. (3) And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. (4) And my word and my proclamation were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of spirit and of power, (5) so that your faith might not be in human wisdom, but in God’s power.

(6) But we speak wisdom among the mature — yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being nullified. (7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery — the hidden wisdom, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory, (8) which none of the rulers of this age has known; for if they had known, they would not have crucified the lord of glory. (9) But, just as it has been written: “What the eye has not seen, and the ear has not heard, and has not gone up upon the heart of a human — what God prepared for those who love Him.”

(10) But to us God revealed them through the spirit; for the spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. (11) For who among humans knows the things of a human, except the spirit of the human that is in him? So also no one has known the things of God, except the spirit of God. (12) But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God. (13) Which things we also speak — not in words taught by human wisdom, but in [words] taught by the spirit, combining spiritual things with spiritual. (14) But a natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are examined spiritually. (15) But the spiritual one examines all things, but he himself is examined by no one. (16) For who has known the mind of the Lord, who will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 3

(1) And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly ones, as to infants in Christ. (2) I gave you milk to drink, not food; for you were not yet able — but you are not even able now. (3) For you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not walk according to man? (4) For when someone says, “I indeed am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not men?

(5) What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each as the lord gave. (6) I planted; Apollos watered; but God caused the growth. (7) So then neither the one who plants is anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth. (8) And the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labour. (9) For we are God’s fellow-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

(10) According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master-builder I laid a foundation; but another builds upon it. Let each watch how he builds upon it. (11) For no one is able to lay another foundation beside the one being laid, which is Jesus Christ. (12) But if anyone builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, (13) each one’s work will become evident; for the day will make it clear, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. (14) If the work that anyone built remains, he will receive a reward. (15) If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. (16) Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you? (17) If anyone destroys the sanctuary of God, God will destroy this one; for the sanctuary of God is holy, which you are.

(18) Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool, so that he might become wise. (19) For the wisdom of this world is folly before God. For it has been written: “The one who captures the wise in their craftiness.” (20) And again: “The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.” (21) So then let no one boast in men; for all things are yours — (22) whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things are yours, (23) but you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

1 Corinthians 4

(1) So let a man account us as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. (2) Here, furthermore, it is required among stewards that a person be found faithful. (3) But to me it is a very small thing that I might be examined by you or by a human day; but I do not even examine myself. (4) For I am conscious of nothing against myself; but I have not been vindicated by this; but the one examining me is the lord. (5) So then do not judge anything before the due time, until the lord comes, who will also illuminate the hidden things of the darkness and disclose the counsels of the hearts; and then each one will receive praise from God.

(6) But these things, brothers, I have transferred to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that in us you might learn the “not beyond what has been written,” so that you might not be inflated, one on behalf of one, against the other. (7) For who discerns you? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you also received, why do you boast as though not having received? (8) Already you are satisfied! Already you were enriched! You reigned without us — and indeed I wish you did reign, so that we also might co-reign with you! (9) For I think God exhibited us, the apostles, as last, as condemned-to-death, because we became a spectacle to the world — both to angels and to humans. (10) We are fools for Christ, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honoured, but we are dishonoured. (11) Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are naked, and we are beaten, and we wander; (12) and we labour, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; (13) being slandered, we exhort. We became as the offscourings of the world, the refuse of all, until now.

(14) I am not writing these things to shame you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. (15) For even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the glad-tidings, I begot you. (16) Therefore I exhort you: become imitators of me. (17) For this reason I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every assembly. (18) But some were inflated, as though I were not coming to you. (19) But I will come to you quickly, if the lord wills; and I will know not the speech of those who are inflated, but the power. (20) For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power. (21) What do you wish? That I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

1 Corinthians 5

(1) It is actually heard of sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the nations — so that a certain man has his father’s wife. (2) And you are inflated, and did not rather mourn, so that the one having done this work might be removed from your midst. (3) For I, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as being present, the one who accomplished such a thing: (4) in the name of our lord Jesus — you having been gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our lord Jesus — (5) to hand over such a one to the Adversary for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the lord. (6) Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch? (7) Clean out the old leaven, so that you might be a new batch, just as you are unleavened. For our Passover was sacrificed: Christ. (8) So then let us celebrate the festival, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of wickedness and evil, but with unleavened ones of sincerity and truth.

(9) I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral ones — (10) not altogether with the sexually immoral ones of this world, or the covetous and robbers, or idol-worshippers, since then you would be obligated to go out of the world. (11) But now I wrote to you not to associate with anyone named a brother who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idol-worshipper, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a robber — not even to eat with such a one. (12) For what is it to me to judge those outside? Do you not judge those inside? (13) But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil one from among yourselves.

1 Corinthians 6

(1) Does anyone of you, having a matter against another, dare to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the holy ones? (2) Or do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is judged among you, are you unworthy of the least tribunals? (3) Do you not know that we will judge angels — not to mention everyday matters? (4) If then you have tribunals for everyday matters, do you seat the ones despised in the assembly? (5) I say this to your shame: is there no one among you wise, who will be able to discern between his brother and another? (6) But a brother is judged with a brother, and this before unbelievers! (7) Therefore it is already altogether a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? (8) But you do wrong and defraud — and this against brothers! (9) Or do you not know that unrighteous ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither sexually immoral ones, nor idol-worshippers, nor adulterers, nor soft ones, nor men lying with males, (10) neither thieves, nor covetous ones, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. (11) And some of you were these things. But you were washed; but you were sanctified; but you were justified in the name of the lord Jesus Christ and in the spirit of our God.

(12) All things are permissible to me — but not all things are beneficial. All things are permissible to me — but I will not be mastered by anything. (13) The foods are for the belly, and the belly is for the foods — but God will nullify both this and these. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the lord; and the lord is for the body. (14) And God both raised the lord and will raise us up through His power. (15) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Having taken the members of Christ, shall I make them members of a prostitute? May it not become so! (16) Or do you not know that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? “For the two will be one flesh,” he says. (17) But the one being joined to the lord is one spirit. (18) Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man may do is outside the body; but the one committing sexual immorality sins against his own body. (19) Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God? And you are not of yourselves. (20) For you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 7

(1) Now concerning the things you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.” (2) But because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. (3) Let the husband render the due to the wife; and likewise also the wife to the husband. (4) The wife does not exercise authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not exercise authority over his own body, but the wife does. (5) Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a time, so that you may have leisure for prayer; and again be together, so that the Adversary might not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (6) But this I say by concession, not by command. (7) But I wish all people to be as even I myself am; but each has his own gift from God — one indeed in this way, another in that way.

(8) But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they remain as even I am. (9) But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to be burned. (10) But to those having married I command — not I, but the lord — a wife not to be separated from a husband (11) (but if she is separated, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to the husband), and a husband not to send a wife away. (12) But to the rest I say — I, not the lord — if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, let him not send her away. (13) And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to dwell with her, let her not send the husband away. (14) For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the brother; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. (15) But if the unbelieving one separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such circumstances. But God has called you in peace. (16) For how do you know, wife, whether you will save the husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save the wife?

(17) Only, as the lord apportioned to each, as God has called each — thus let him walk. And thus I enjoin in all the assemblies. (18) Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not draw over. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. (19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping the commandments of God matters. (20) Each in the calling in which he was called — in this let him remain. (21) Were you called as a slave? Let it not be a concern to you; but if you are able even to become free, rather make use [of it]. (22) For the one having been called in the lord as a slave is a freedman of the lord; likewise the one having been called as a free person is a slave of Christ. (23) With a price you were bought; do not become slaves of humans. (24) Each, in that which he was called, brothers, in this let him remain with God.

(25) Now concerning the virgins, I have no command of the lord, but I give a judgment, as one having been shown mercy by the lord to be faithful. (26) I think therefore this is good because of the present necessity — that it is good for a man to be as he is. (27) Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. (28) But if you also marry, you did not sin; and if the virgin marries, she did not sin. But such ones will have tribulation in the flesh, and I am sparing you. (29) But this I say, brothers: the time has been shortened — so that even those having wives may be as not having, (30) and those weeping as not weeping, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not possessing, (31) and those using the world as not abusing it; for the form of this world is passing away. (32) But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man cares for the things of the lord, how he might please the lord; (33) but the one having married cares for the things of the world, how he might please the wife — (34) and has been divided. Both the unmarried woman and the virgin care for the things of the lord, so that she might be holy both in body and in spirit; but the one having married cares for the things of the world, how she might please the husband. (35) But this I say for your own advantage — not so that I might place a snare upon you, but for what is proper and devoted attendance to the lord without distraction. (36) But if anyone thinks he is behaving unseemly toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and thus it ought to be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry. (37) But whoever stands steadfast in his heart, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart — to keep his own virgin — he will do well. (38) So that both the one giving in marriage does well, and the one not giving in marriage will do better. (39) A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband lives; but if the husband falls asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wishes — only in the lord. (40) But she is more blessed if she remains thus, according to my judgment; and I think I also have the spirit of God.

1 Corinthians 8

(1) Now concerning the idol-sacrificed things: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge inflates, but love builds. (2) If anyone thinks he has known anything, he has not yet known as it is necessary to know. (3) But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him. (4) Therefore, concerning the eating of the idol-sacrificed things, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that no one is god except one. (5) For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or upon the earth — just as there are many gods and many lords — (6) but for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things, and we for Him; and one lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things, and we through him.

(7) But knowledge is not in all; but some, by the custom of the idol until now, eat as an idol-sacrificed thing, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. (8) But food will not present us to God; neither if we do not eat do we lack, nor if we eat do we abound. (9) But watch, lest somehow this authority of yours becomes a stumbling-block to the weak ones. (10) For if anyone sees you, the one having knowledge, reclining in an idol-temple — will not his conscience, being weak, be built up to eat the idol-sacrificed things? (11) For the one being weak is being destroyed in your knowledge — the brother for whom Christ died. (12) Thus, sinning against the brothers and striking their conscience while it is weak, you sin against Christ. (13) Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat into the age, so that I might not cause my brother to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9

(1) Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our lord? Are you not my work in the lord? (2) If to others I am not an apostle, at least to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship — you are — in the lord. (3) My defense to those examining me is this: (4) Do we not have the right to eat and to drink? (5) Do we not have the right to lead around a sister as wife, as also the other apostles and the brothers of the lord and Cephas? (6) Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right not to work?

(7) Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock? (8) Am I not speaking these things according to man? Or does the law not also say these things? (9) For in the law of Moses it has been written: “You shall not muzzle an ox threshing.” Is it not for the oxen that God cares? (10) Or does he say it altogether for our sake? For it was written for our sake, that the one plowing ought to plow in hope, and the one threshing, in hope of partaking. (11) If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it great if we will reap your fleshly things? (12) If others partake of your right, should we not rather? But we did not use this right, but we endure all things, so that we might not give any hindrance to the glad-tidings of the Christ. (13) Do you not know that those working the holy things eat the things from the sanctuary, that those attending the altar share with the altar? (14) So also the lord commanded those proclaiming the glad-tidings to live from the glad-tidings.

(15) But I have used none of these things. And I did not write these things so that it might become so in my case. For it is good for me rather to die than — no one will empty my boasting! (16) For if I proclaim glad-tidings, there is no boasting for me; for necessity lies upon me. For woe is me if I do not proclaim glad-tidings. (17) For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. (18) What then is my reward? That, proclaiming glad-tidings, I may place the glad-tidings free of charge, so as not to abuse my right in the glad-tidings.

(19) For being free from all, I enslaved myself to all, so that I might gain the more. (20) And I became to the Judeans as a Judean, so that I might gain Judeans; to those under law as under law — not being myself under law — so that I might gain those under law; (21) to those without law as without law — not being without law of God but in-law of Christ — so that I might gain those without law. (22) I became to the weak weak, so that I might gain the weak ones. I have become all things to all, so that by all means I might save some. (23) But I do all things for the sake of the glad-tidings, so that I might become a co-sharer of it.

(24) Do you not know that those running in the racecourse all run, but one receives the prize? Thus run, so that you might attain. (25) But everyone competing exercises self-control in all things; those indeed therefore, so that they might receive a perishable crown; but we, an imperishable one. (26) I therefore run thus — not aimlessly; thus I box — not striking air; (27) but I pummel my body and enslave it, lest somehow, having proclaimed to others, I myself might become disqualified.

1 Corinthians 10

(1) For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers all were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, (2) and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, (3) and all ate the same spiritual food, (4) and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking from the spiritual rock that followed, and the rock was the Christ. (5) But God was not pleased with most of them; for they were struck down in the wilderness.

(6) But these things became types of us, so that we might not be desirers of evil things, just as also those desired. (7) Neither become idol-worshippers, just as some of them; as it has been written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.” (8) Neither let us commit sexual immorality, just as some of them committed sexual immorality, and fell in one day twenty-three thousand. (9) Neither let us test the Christ, just as some of them tested, and were being destroyed by the serpents. (10) Neither grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. (11) But these things were happening to those typically, and were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have arrived. (12) So then let the one thinking to stand watch, lest he fall. (13) Temptation has not taken you except a human one; but God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tested beyond what you are able, but will make, with the temptation, also the way out, so that you might be able to endure.

(14) Therefore, my beloved, flee from idol-worship. (15) I speak as to wise ones; you yourselves judge what I say. (16) The cup of blessing that we bless — is it not participation in the blood of the Christ? The bread that we break — is it not participation in the body of the Christ? (17) Because we, the many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake from the one bread. (18) Consider Israel according to flesh: are not those eating the sacrifices sharers of the altar? (19) What then do I say? That an idol-sacrificed thing is anything? Or that an idol is anything? (20) But that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to become sharers of demons. (21) You are not able to drink the cup of the lord and the cup of demons; you are not able to partake of the table of the lord and the table of demons. (22) Or do we provoke the lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

(23) All things are permissible, but not all things are beneficial; all things are permissible, but not all things build up. (24) Let no one seek his own, but the other’s. (25) Eat everything being sold in the meat-market, examining nothing, because of conscience. (26) For the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness. (27) If anyone of the unbelievers invites you, and you wish to go, eat everything being set before you, examining nothing, because of conscience. (28) But if anyone says to you, “This is sacred-sacrificed,” do not eat, because of the one having indicated, and the conscience — (29) conscience, I say, not your own but the other’s. For why is my freedom judged by another conscience? (30) If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered for that which I give thanks? (31) Whether then you eat or drink or do anything, do all things for the glory of God. (32) Become without stumbling, both to Judeans and to Greeks and to the assembly of God, (33) just as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own advantage but that of the many, so that they might be saved.

1 Corinthians 11

(1) Become imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. (2) But I praise you that you remember me in all things, and that you hold fast the traditions just as I delivered them to you. (3) But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of the Christ is God. (4) Every man praying or prophesying with something down from his head shames his head. (5) But every woman praying or prophesying with uncovered head shames her head; for it is one and the same as the one having been shaved. (6) For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. (7) For a man indeed ought not to be covered, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of a man. (8) For man is not from woman, but woman from man; (9) for indeed man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man. (10) Because of this the woman ought to have authority upon the head, because of the angels. (11) Nevertheless, neither woman apart from man, nor man apart from woman, in the lord. (12) For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman; but all things are from God. (13) Among yourselves judge: is it proper for an uncovered woman to pray to God? (14) Does not even nature itself teach you that a man, if he wears long hair, it is dishonor to him? (15) But a woman, if she wears long hair, it is glory to her; because the long hair has been given to her in place of a wrap. (16) But if anyone thinks to be contentious, we do not have such a custom, nor do the assemblies of God.

(17) But commanding this, I do not praise, because you come together not for the better but for the worse. (18) For first, when you come together in assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it. (19) For it is necessary also for factions to be among you, so that the approved might become evident among you. (20) Therefore when you come together upon the same place, it is not to eat the lord’s supper. (21) For each one takes his own supper beforehand in the eating, and one indeed is hungry, another is drunk. (22) Do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the assembly of God and shame those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise.

(23) For I received from the lord what I also delivered to you: that the lord Jesus, in the night in which he was being delivered, took bread, (24) and having given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this for my remembrance.” (25) Likewise also the cup, after supping, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, for my remembrance.” (26) For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the lord until he comes.

(27) So then whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and the blood of the lord. (28) But let a man test himself, and thus let him eat from the bread and drink from the cup. (29) For the one eating and drinking eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body. (30) Because of this many among you are weak and sick, and a considerable number are falling asleep. (31) But if we were discerning ourselves, we would not be judged. (32) But being judged, we are disciplined by the lord, so that we might not be condemned with the world. (33) So then, my brothers, coming together to eat, wait for one another. (34) If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you might not come together into judgment. And the remaining things I will enjoin whenever I come.

1 Corinthians 12

(1) Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not wish you to be ignorant. (2) You know that when you were nations, you were led away to the mute idols, however you were led. (3) Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the spirit of God says, “Accursed is Jesus”; and no one is able to say, “Lord Jesus,” except in holy spirit.

(4) Now there are distributions of gifts, but the same spirit; (5) and there are distributions of services, and the same lord; (6) and there are distributions of workings, but the same God, the one working all things in all. (7) But to each is given the manifestation of the spirit for the advantage. (8) For to one indeed is given through the spirit a word of wisdom; to another a word of knowledge according to the same spirit; (9) to another faith in the same spirit; to another gifts of healings in the one spirit; (10) to another workings of powers; to another prophecy; to another distinguishing of spirits; to another kinds of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues. (11) But the one and the same spirit works all these things, distributing individually to each as it wills.

(12) For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ. (13) For in one spirit we all were baptized into one body — whether Judeans or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and all were made to drink one spirit. (14) For the body is not one member but many. (15) If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” it is not, on account of this, not of the body. (16) And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” it is not, on account of this, not of the body. (17) If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If all were hearing, where would the smelling be? (18) But now God placed the members, each one of them, in the body, as He willed. (19) But if all were one member, where would the body be? (20) But now many indeed are members, but one body. (21) But the eye is not able to say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” (22) But much more, the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary. (23) And those that we seem to be more dishonorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unseemly ones have greater seemliness. (24) But our seemly ones have no need. But God compounded the body, giving more abundant honor to the lacking one, (25) so that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same care for one another. (26) And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it. (27) Now you are the body of Christ, and members from part.

(28) And whom indeed God placed in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then powers, then gifts of healings, helpings, guidances, kinds of tongues. (29) Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all are powers, are they? (30) Not all have gifts of healings, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they? (31) But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And yet I show you a still more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 13

(1) If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become a resounding bronze or a clanging cymbal. (2) And if I have prophecy and know all the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but I do not have love, I am nothing. (3) And if I feed all my possessions, and if I deliver my body, so that I might boast, but I do not have love, I am benefited nothing. (4) Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not jealous; love does not boast; it is not inflated; (5) it does not behave unseemly, it does not seek its own, it is not irritated, it does not reckon the evil; (6) it does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; (7) it endures all things, believes all things, hopes all things, perseveres all things. (8) Love never falls. But whether prophecies — they will be nullified; or tongues — they will cease; or knowledge — it will be nullified. (9) For we know from part, and we prophesy from part; (10) but when the perfect comes, the from-part will be nullified. (11) When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant; when I have become a man, I have nullified the things of the infant. (12) For now we see through a mirror in a riddle, but then face to face; now I know from part, but then I will fully know, just as also I was fully known. (13) But now these three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 14

(1) Pursue love; and earnestly desire the spiritual things, but rather that you might prophesy. (2) For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to humans but to God; for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries. (3) But the one prophesying speaks to humans: building and encouragement and consolation. (4) The one speaking in a tongue builds himself; but the one prophesying builds an assembly. (5) But I wish you all to speak in tongues, but rather that you might prophesy. But greater is the one prophesying than the one speaking in tongues, except if he interprets, so that the assembly might receive building. (6) But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I benefit you, if I do not speak to you either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in teaching? (7) Nevertheless, lifeless things giving a sound — whether flute or harp — if they give no distinction to the tones, how will what is fluted or what is harped be known? (8) For also if a trumpet gives an unclear sound, who will prepare for war? (9) So also you, through the tongue, if you do not give a clear word, how will what is being spoken be known? For you will be speaking into the air. (10) There are, it may chance, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none is without voice. (11) If therefore I do not know the force of the voice, I will be a barbarian to the one speaking, and the one speaking a barbarian in me. (12) So also you, since you are zealots of spirits, seek for the building of the assembly, so that you might abound. (13) Therefore let the one speaking in a tongue pray that he might interpret. (14) For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is fruitless. (15) What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray also with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing also with the mind. (16) Otherwise, if you bless in spirit, how will the one filling the place of the uninitiated say the amen upon your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you say? (17) For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not built. (18) I give thanks to God, I speak in tongues more than all of you. (19) But in assembly I wish to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

(20) Brothers, do not become little children in minds; but in evil be infants, and in minds become perfect. (21) In the law it has been written: “By other-tongues and by lips of others I will speak to this people, and not even thus will they listen to me,” says the Lord. (22) So that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing but to the unbelieving; but prophecy, not to the unbelieving but to the believing. (23) If therefore the whole assembly comes together upon the same place, and all speak in tongues, and uninitiated or unbelieving ones should enter, will they not say that you are raving? (24) But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or uninitiated one should enter, he is convicted by all, he is examined by all; (25) the hidden things of his heart become evident; and thus, having fallen upon his face, he will worship God, declaring that really God is among you.

(26) What then is it, brothers? When you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things become for building. (27) If anyone speaks in a tongue — by two, or at the most three, and in turn — and let one interpret. (28) But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in assembly; let him speak to himself and to God. (29) But let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern. (30) But if something is revealed to another while sitting, let the first be silent. (31) For you are able, one by one, all to prophesy, so that all might learn and all might be encouraged. (32) And the spirits of prophets are subjected to prophets. (33) For God is not of disorder but of peace — as in all the assemblies of the holy ones, (34) the women in the assemblies, let them be silent; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but let them be subjected, just as also the law says. (35) But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for a woman to speak in assembly. (36) Or did the word of God go out from you? Or did it arrive to you alone? (37) If anyone thinks to be a prophet or spiritual, let him fully know what I write to you, that it is a command of the lord. (38) But if anyone ignores, he is ignored. (39) So that, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not hinder speaking in tongues. (40) But let all things become decently and according to order.

1 Corinthians 15

(1) But I make known to you, brothers, the glad-tidings which I proclaimed to you, which you also received, in which you also stand, (2) through which you are also being saved — by what word I proclaimed it to you, if you hold fast, unless you believed in vain. (3) For I delivered to you, among the first things, what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, (4) and that he was buried, and that he has been raised on the third day according to the scriptures, (5) and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. (6) Then he was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some fell asleep. (7) Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles. (8) And last of all, as if to the miscarried one, he was seen also to me. (9) For I am the least of the apostles, who am not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. (10) But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace toward me did not become empty; but I labored more abundantly than all of them — but not I, but the grace of God with me. (11) Whether then I or those, thus we proclaim, and thus you believed.

(12) But if Christ is proclaimed that he has been raised from dead ones, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of dead ones? (13) But if there is no resurrection of dead ones, neither has Christ been raised. (14) But if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is also empty, and your faith is empty. (15) And we are found false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against God that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise — if indeed then dead ones are not raised. (16) For if dead ones are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. (17) But if Christ has not been raised, vain is your faith; you are still in your sins. (18) Then also those having fallen asleep in Christ perished. (19) If we have hoped in Christ only in this life, we are more pitiable than all humans.

(20) But now Christ has been raised from dead ones — a firstfruit of those having fallen asleep. (21) For since through a man death, and through a man resurrection of dead ones, (22) for just as in the Adam all die, so also in the Christ all will be made alive. (23) But each in his own rank: the firstfruit, the Christ; then those of the Christ at his arrival; (24) then the end, when he delivers the kingdom to the God and Father, when he nullifies every rule and every authority and power. (25) For it is necessary for him to reign until he places all the enemies under his feet. (26) The last enemy is nullified: death. (27) For all things He subjected under his feet. But when He says that all things have been subjected, it is clear that it is except the one having subjected all things to him. (28) But when all things have been subjected to him, then also the Son himself will be subjected to the one having subjected all things to him, so that God might be all things in all.

(29) Otherwise what will those do, the ones being baptized for the dead? If altogether dead ones are not raised, why also are they baptized for them? (30) Why also are we in danger every hour? (31) Every day I die — by your boasting, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our lord. (32) If according to man I fought wild beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If dead ones are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” (33) Do not be deceived: “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” (34) Become sober rightly, and do not sin; for some have ignorance of God — I speak to your shame.

(35) But someone will say, “How are the dead ones raised? And with what body do they come?” (36) Fool! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies. (37) And what you sow — you do not sow the body that will come to be, but a bare seed, if it might chance, of wheat or of some of the rest. (38) But God gives to it a body as He willed, and to each of the seeds its own body. (39) Not all flesh is the same flesh; but one indeed is flesh of humans, another flesh of animals, another flesh of birds, another of fish. (40) And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but different indeed is the glory of the heavenly ones, and different that of the earthly ones. (41) There is another glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars — for star differs from star in glory. (42) So also is the resurrection of the dead ones: it is sown in decay, it is raised in imperishability; (43) it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; (44) it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. (45) So also it has been written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (46) But the spiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. (47) The first man is from earth, dusty; the second man is from heaven. (48) As the dusty one, such also the dusty ones; and as the heavenly one, such also the heavenly ones. (49) And just as we bore the image of the dusty one, we will also bear the image of the heavenly one.

(50) But this I say, brothers: that flesh and blood are not able to inherit the kingdom of God; nor does decay inherit imperishability. (51) Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed — (52) in a moment, in a blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for he will trumpet, and the dead ones will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. (53) For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal must put on immortality. (54) But when this perishable puts on imperishability, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the word that was written will come to pass: “Death was swallowed up into victory.” (55) “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (56) But the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. (57) But thanks be to God, the one giving us the victory through our lord Jesus Christ. (58) So then, my beloved brothers, become steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the lord always, knowing that your labor is not empty in the lord.

1 Corinthians 16

(1) Now concerning the collection for the holy ones: just as I enjoined the assemblies of Galatia, so you also do. (2) On the first day of the week, let each of you, by himself, put something aside, storing up as he prospers, so that when I come, collections might not need to be made then. (3) But when I arrive, whomever you approve — through letters these I will send to carry your gift to Jerusalem. (4) But if it is worthy for me also to go, they will go with me.

(5) But I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia; for I am passing through Macedonia. (6) And perhaps I will remain with you, or even winter, so that you may send me forward wherever I go. (7) For I do not wish to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain some time with you, if the lord permits. (8) But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost; (9) for a great and effective door has been opened to me, and there are many opponents. (10) But if Timothy comes, see that he may be without fear among you; for he works the work of the lord as also I do. (11) Let no one therefore despise him. But send him forward in peace, so that he might come to me; for I am awaiting him with the brothers. (12) But concerning Apollos the brother, I urged him much that he might come to you with the brothers; and altogether it was not his will that he come now; but he will come when he has opportunity.

(13) Keep watch, stand in the faith, act like men, be strengthened. (14) Let all things of yours be done in love. (15) But I urge you, brothers — you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and that they appointed themselves for service to the holy ones — (16) so that you also be subject to such ones, and to everyone who works with and labors. (17) But I rejoice at the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these filled up your deficiency. (18) For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore fully recognize such ones.

(19) The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you much in the lord, with the assembly in their house. (20) All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. (21) The greeting is by my hand — Paul’s. (22) If anyone does not love the lord, let him be accursed; Marana tha! (23) The grace of the lord Jesus be with you. (24) My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.