1 Scroll 36 First Epistle to the Corinthians.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
2 to the Church of God which being in Corinth, to them who having been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called Saints,
with all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.
3 Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
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I give thanks to my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
5 that in everything ye were enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation[coming] of our Lord Jesus Christ:
8 who shall also confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called to the communion of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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.
11 For it was declared to me concerning you, my brethren,
by them who are of the house of Chloe, that strifes are among you.
12 Now this I say, that every one of you says, I indeed am of Paul; but I of Apollos; but I of Cephas; but I of Christ.
13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I give thanks to God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;
15 lest any should say that I baptized in my own name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas; besides, I have not known whether any other I baptized.
17 For Christ has not sent me to baptize,
but to preach the Gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made in void.
18 For the account of the cross is to them that are perishing, foolishness;
but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
19 For it has been written,
I shall destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and shall set away the intellect of the intellectuals. Isa 29:14
20 Where is the wise?
Where is the scribe?
Where is the disputer of this Age[World]?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this World?
21 For since in the wisdom of GOD the World by the wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believing.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks[gentiles] seek wisdom:
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks[gentiles] foolishness;
24 but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks[gentiles],
Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of GOD;
25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;
and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many nobles are called:
27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the World that might confound the wise;
and God has chosen the weak things of the World that might confound the things which are mighty;
28 and base things of the World, and things which are despised, has God chosen,
and things which are not, that He may bring to naught things that are:
29 that no flesh may boast in His presence.
30 But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,
both righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
31 that, according as it has been written,
He who boasts, let him boast in the LORD. Jer 9:24
1 And I, brethren, when I having come to you, I came not with excellence of speech, or of wisdom,
preaching to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined 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 preaching was not with enticing words of human's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:
5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 But we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this Age[World],
nor of the rulers of this Age[World], that coming to naught:
7 but we speak the wisdom of GOD in a mystery,
that having been hidden which God predetermined before the Ages[Worlds] to our glory:
8 which none of the rulers of this Age[World] has known:
if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory.
9 But as it has been written,
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
neither came it up into the heart of man,
the things which GOD has prepared for them that loving Him. Isa 64:4
10 But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit;
for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For what man has known the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him?
So also the things of God have known no one, except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we received, not the spirit of the World,
but the Spirit which is from God;
that we may know the things that are granted to us by God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which human's wisdom teaches,
but which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him:
neither can he to know them, because they are spiritually examined.
15 But he who is spiritual examines all things, yet he himself is examined by no one.
16 For who has known the mind of the LORD, who shall instruct Him?
But we have the mind of the Christ[Messiah].
1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to infants in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food:
for ye were not yet able, but neither now are ye yet able.
3 For ye are yet fleshly: for whereas there is among you envying,
and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and walk according to man?
4 For when one said, I indeed am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not fleshly?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered: but God was giving growth.
7 So then, neither is he who planting anything, neither he who watering: but God that giving growth.
8 Now he who planting and he who watering are one;
and every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.
9 For we are fellow-workers with God:
ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder,
I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it.
But let every man take heed how he builds upon it.
11 For other foundation can no one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ[Messiah].
12 But if anyone builds upon this foundation,
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble;
13 every one's work shall become manifest: for the day shall declare it,
because it is revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every one's work, of what sort it is.
14 If anyone's work stays which he has built upon it, he shall receive a reward.
15 If anyone's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Have ye not known that ye are the Sanctuary of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If anyone destroy the Sanctuary of God, him shall God destroy: for the Sanctuary of God is Holy, which ye are.
18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this Age[World],
let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this World is foolishness with God. For it has been written,
He takes the wise in their own craftiness. Job 5:13
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise men, that they are vain. Psa 94:11
21 Therefore let no man 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 are yours;
23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 But moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a least thing that I should be examined by you,
or by human's day[judgment]: but I examine not myself.
4 For I have considered nothing against myself;
but by this I have not been justified: but He who examining me is the Lord.
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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord should come,
who shall both bring to light the hidden things of darkness,
and shall make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then the praise shall come to each from God.
6 And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself, and to Apollos,
for your sakes; that ye may learn in us not to think of men above that which has been written,
that no one of you on account of one, may be puffed up against another.
7 For who makes Thee to differ from another? And what have Thou that Thou not received?
But if Thou received, why do Thou boast, as if Thou having not received?
8 Now are ye having satisfied, now ye were rich, ye have reigned as kings without us:
and I would yet ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death:
for we are made a spectacle to the World, and to Angels, and to men.
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.
11 Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 and labour, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we bear it;
13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the World, the offscouring of all things to this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.
15 For though ye should have myriads instructors in Christ,
but have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel.
16 Therefore I beseech you, become ye followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord,
who shall remind you of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every Church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I shall come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and shall know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will ye? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not named among the gentiles, that one to have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who having done this work might be taken away from among you.
3 For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already as though I were present, concerning him that having so wrought this deed,
4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are assembled, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 to deliver such one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus.
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Your boasting is not good.
Have ye not known that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are Unleavened.
For even our Passover was sacrificed for us: Christ.
8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
but with the Unleavened Bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in the letter, not to associate with fornicators:
10 and surely not with fornicators of this World,
or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters:
for then ye must necessarily go out of the World.
11 But now I wrote to you not to associate,
if anyone that being named a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater,
or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such person even not to eat.
12 For what have I to judge them also that are outsiders?
Do ye not judge them that are insiders?
13 But them that are outsiders God judges.
And ye shall remove the evil from among yourselves.
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another,
go to Law before the unjust, and not before the Saints?
2 Have ye not known that the Saints shall judge the World?
And if the World is judged by you,
are ye unworthy of the least judgments?
3 Have ye not known that we shall judge Angels? Why not then of ordinary life?
4 Then if ye may have judgments of ordinary life,
why have ye set up those that are despised in the Church?
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 someone and his brother?
6 But a brother is judged with a brother, and that before unbelievers.
7 Now indeed there is utterly a loss among you,
because ye have lawsuits one with another.
Why are ye not rather wronged? Why are ye not rather defrauded?
8 But ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
9 Or have ye not known that the unjust shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?
Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminates, nor homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified,
but ye were justified in the name of the LORD Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient.
All things are lawful for me, but I shall not be under authority by any.
13 Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both this and these.
Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 But God both raised up the Lord, and shall also raise up us by His own power.
15 Have ye not known that your bodies are the members of Christ?
Having taken the members of Christ, make I them the members of a whore?
Let it not be.
16 Or have ye not known that he who being joined to a whore is one body?
For He says: they two shall be one flesh. Gen 2:24
17 But he who being joined to the Lord is One spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man may do, is outside the body;
but he who committing fornication, sins against his own body.
19 Or have ye not known that your body is the Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit which is in you,
which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of the God.
1 Now concerning what ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
2 but because of the fornications, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
4 The wife has no authority of her own body, but the husband:
and likewise also the husband has no authority of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one another, except with consent for a time, that ye may leisure for fasting and prayer;
and should come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your excess.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not by a command.
7 For I wish that all men to be as even myself. But every man has his proper gift from God,
one indeed thus, and one thus.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord,
Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 but if she departed, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:
and let not the husband put away his wife;
12 but to the rest I speak, not the Lord, if any brother has a faithless wife,
and she consents to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman who has a faithless husband,
and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the faithless husband is sanctified by the wife,
and the faithless wife is sanctified by the husband:
else were your children unclean; but now are they Holy.
15 But if the faithless departs, let him depart.
The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases; but in peace God has called us.
16 For how have known Thou, wife, if Thou shall save the husband?
Or how have known Thou, man, if Thou shall save the wife?
17 Except as God has distributed to every man,
as the Lord has called every one,
so let him walk. And so I ordain in all Churches.
18 Was any called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised.
Was any called in uncircumcision? Let him not become circumcised.
19 The circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing,
but keeping of the Commandments of God.
20 Let every man continue in the calling in which he was called.
21 Are Thou called being a servant? Care Thee not for it; but if Thou may be made free, use it rather.
22 For he who being called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's free-man:
likewise also he who being called, being free, is servant of Christ.
23 Ye are bought with a price; become ye not the servants of men.
24 Brethren, each in the state in which he was called, in this let him abide with God.
25 Now concerning the virgins, I have no command of the LORD:
yet I give my judgment as one that has obtained mercy by the Lord to be faithful.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27 Are Thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed.
Are Thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
28 But if Thou may marry, Thou have not sinned: and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned.
But such shall have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, that the time is short.
It remains, that both they who have wives may be as though they having none;
30 and they who weeping, as though they weeping not;
and they who rejoicing, as though they rejoicing not;
and they who buying, as though they possessing not;
31 and they that use this World, as not abusing it. For the fashion of this World passes away;
32 but I wish have you without anxious care. He who be unmarried,
is anxious for the things that belong to the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:
33 but he who being married, is anxious for the things that are of the World, how he shall please his wife.
34 It has been a difference between the wife and the virgin.
The unmarried woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be Holy,
both in body and in spirit: but she who is married,
is anxious for the things of the World, how she shall please her husband.
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.
36 But if anyone supposes that he behaves himself unseemly towards his virgin,
if she should pass the bloom of her age, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.
37 But he who has stood steadfast in his heart, having no necessity,
but has power concerning his own will, and this has decreed in his heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
38 So then he who giving her in marriage does well; but he who giving her not in marriage does better.
39 The wife has been bound by the Law as long as her husband lives;
but if the husband may have fallen asleep[dead], she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is blessed if she may so remain, after my judgment; and I think also that I to have the Spirit of God.
1 Now as concerning things offered to idols,
we have known that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 But if anyone thinks to know anything, he has known nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by Him.
4 Therefore as concerning the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols,
we have known that an idol is nothing in the World, and that there is no other God except One.
5 For if indeed there are that being called gods, whether in Heaven or upon Earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many).
6 Yet to us there is One GOD, the Father, from whom are all things, and we into Him;
and One Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we through Him.
7 But the knowledge is not in all:
for some with conscience of the idol until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol;
and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But food commends us not to God:
for neither if we eat, are we the better;
neither if we eat not, are we the worse.
9 But take heed lest this authority[liberty] of yours,
should become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.
10 For if anyone may see Thee, who have knowledge,
sit eating in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience who being weak,
be edified to eat those things which are offered to idols;
11 and through Thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12 But when ye thus sin against the brethren,
and beating their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food offends my brother,
I should eat no flesh while the Age[World] stands, lest I may make my brother offend.
1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free?
Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, but doubtless I am to you:
for ye are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 My defence to them that examine me is this,
4 have we not power to eat and to drink;
5 have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles,
and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas[Peter]?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?
7 Who goes a warfare at any time at his own charges?
Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit?
Or who shepherds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
8 Do I say these things as a man? Or also says not the Law the same?
9 For it has been written in the Law of Moses,
Thou shall not muzzle an ox that is threshing. Deu 25:4
Does God not care for the oxen?
10 Or says He surely because of us? For it was written because us:
that he who ploughing to plough in hope;
and that he who threshing in hope ought to partaker of his hope.
11 If we have sown to you the spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we shall reap your fleshly things?
12 If others are partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?
But we have not used this power; but endure all things,
lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ.
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Have ye not known that they who working about Holy things eat from the things of the Temple,
and they who wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar?
14 So also has the Lord ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things: neither I wrote these things, that it should be so done to me:
for it were better for me to die, than that anyone should make my glorying void.
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For though I preach the Gospel, no boasting is to me:
for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I preach not the Gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward:
but if against my will, a stewardship I have been entrusted.
18 What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the Gospel,
I may make the Gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my power in the Gospel.
19 For being free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.
20 And to 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;
21 to them that are without Law, as without Law,
(being not without Law to God, but lawful to Christ),
that I might gain them that are without Law;
22 to the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak:
I have become all things to all, that I might surely save some.
23 And this I do for the Gospel's sake, that I may become partaker of it with you.
24 Have ye not known that they who running in a stadium, all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 But each that striving contain himself in all things.
Then they truly may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, as not beating air:
27 but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:
lest when I having preached to others, I myself may be reprobated.
1 Now I will not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 and all were baptized to 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 drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was the Christ[Messiah]).
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 And these things were our examples,
that we not to be lust evil things, as they also lusted;
7 neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them: as it has been written,
The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play; Exo 32:6
8 neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day twenty three thousand;
9 neither let us tempt the Christ[Messiah], as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;
10 neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened to them for examples:
and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the Ages[Worlds] are come.
12 Therefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he may fall.
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No temptation except of human has taken you: but God is faithful,
who shall not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able;
but with the temptation also shall make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16 The cup of the 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?
17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
18 Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not they who eating of the sacrifices, partakers of the Altar?
19 What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?
20 But I say, that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.
But I will not that ye to become partners of demons. Deu 32:17 Psa 106:37
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons.
Ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.
22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.
All things are lawful for me, but all things not edify.
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's.
25 Whatever being sold in the provision market, that eat, not inquiring for the sake of conscience:
26 for the Earth is the LORD's, and its fullness. Psa 24:1
27 But if any of those unbelievers calls you, and ye wish to go;
whatever being set before you, eat, not inquiring for the sake of conscience.
28 But if anyone may say to you, This is offered in sacrifice to idols,
eat not for his sake that showed it, and for the conscience' sake:
for the Earth is the LORD's, and its fullness: Psa 24:1
29 but conscience, I say, not Thy own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?
30 But if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
31 Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Become without offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Greeks[gentiles], nor to the Church of God:
33 as I also please all in all things, not seeking profit for myself, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
1 Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things,
and keep the traditions, as I delivered them to you.
3 But I will you to know, that the head of every man is Christ;
and the head of a woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having on his head covered, dishonours his head.
5 But every woman that praying or prophesying with her head uncovered,
dishonours her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaved;
6 for if the 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 cover his head,
being the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man;
8 for the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man;
9 neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man;
10 therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, because of the Angels;
11 nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord;
12 for as the woman is from the man, so also is the man by the woman; but all things from God;
13 judge in yourselves: Is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?
14 Or does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man has long hair, it is shameful to him?
15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her instead of a covering.
16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God.
17 Now this I commanding, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the Church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they who be approved may become manifest among you.
20 When therefore ye come together in the same place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
21 For in eating every one takes before another his own supper:
and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 For have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?
Or despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that have not?
What should I say to you? Should I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23
For I have received from the Lord, that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread:
24 and He having given thanks, He broke it, and said,
Take, eat: this is My body, which being broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me. Luk 22:19
25 Likewise also He took the cup, after having supped, saying,
This cup is the New Covenant in My blood: this do ye, as often as ye may drink it, in remembrance of Me.
26
For as often as ye may eat this bread, and may drink this cup,
ye preach the Lord's death until He should come.
27 Therefore, whoever may eat this bread or may drink this cup of the Lord unworthily,
shall be liable of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and let him drink of that cup.
29 For he who eating and drinking unworthily,
eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.
30 Therefore many are weak and sickly among you, and many are slept.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But we being judged, we are chastened by the Lord,
that we should not with the World be condemned.
33 Therefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
34 But if anyone hungers, let him eat in his house; that ye should come not together to condemnation.
And the rest shall I set in order when I should come.
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I wish not you to be ignorant.
2 Ye known that ye were gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as ye being led.
3 Therefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God,
calls Jesus anathema[accursed]: and that no one can say LORD Jesus, except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of workings, but it is the same God who works all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for profit.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healings by the same Spirit;
10 to another, the workings of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits;
to another, diverse kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:
11 but all these works that one and the same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.
12 For even as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body,
being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by One Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks[gentiles], whether bondmen or free;
and have been all made to drink into One Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand,
I am not of the body; is it not from of the body?
16 And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye,
I am not of the body; is it not from of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?
If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now God placed the members every one of them in the body, as He would.
19 But if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of Thee:
nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 But much more those members of the body,
seeming to be weaker are necessary:
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.
24 For our comely parts have no need: but God has united the body together,
having given more abundant honour to that part which being lacked:
25 that there may be no schism in the body;
but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And thus if one member suffers all the members suffer with it;
or, if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28
And God placed some in the Church, first apostles,
secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles,
then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healings? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?
31 But desire earnestly the better gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.
1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not love, I have become as sounding bronze, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and may know all mysteries, and all knowledge;
and though I have all the faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body that if I shall be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
4 [Love song].
Love is patient, and is kind; love envies not.
Love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
5 does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 rejoices not in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8
Love never fails:
but whether there are prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there are tongues, they shall cease;
whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect may come,
then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant,
I understood as an infant, I thought as an infant:
but when I have become a man,
I have put away things of the infant.
12 For now we see through a mirror in an enigma;
but then face to face:
now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I was known.
13 And now stays faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
2 For he who speaking in a tongue, speaks not to men, but to God:
for no one understands; yet in spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he who prophesying, speaks to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
4 He who speaking in a tongue edifies himself; but he who prophesying edifies the Church.
5 But I wish that ye all spoke in tongues, but rather that ye prophesied:
for greater is he who prophesying than he who speaking in tongues,
except he interprets, that the Church may receive edifying.
6 Now, brethren, if I should come to you speaking in tongues,
what shall I profit you, except I should speak to you either by revelation,
or by knowledge, or by prophecy, or by doctrine?
7 Yet things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp,
except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what being piped or being harped?
8 For if the trumpet should give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for war? Num 10:9
9 So also ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood,
how shall it be known what being spoken? For ye shall be speaking into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the World,
and none of them is without signification.
11 Therefore, if I may know not the power of the voice,
I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he who speaking shall be a barbarian to me.
12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the Church.
13 Therefore, let him that speaking in a tongue, pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I may pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
15 What then is it? I shall pray with the spirit, and also I shall pray with the mind:
I shall sing-psalms with the spirit, and also I shall sing-psalms with the mind.
16 Else, when Thou may bless with the spirit, how shall he who filling the place of the unlearned say,
Amen at Thy thanksgiving, since he has not known what Thou say?
17 For Thou truly give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I give thanks to my God, I speak in tongues more than you all:
19 but in the Church, I wish rather speak five words with my mind,
that I may teach others also, than myriads of words in a tongue.
20
Brethren, become not children in understanding:
but in malice be ye infants, but in understanding be mature.
21 In the Law it has been written,
With men of other tongues and other lips shall I speak to this people; Isa 28:11
and thus they shall not even be willing to hear Me, says the LORD. Isa 28:12
22
Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those believing, but to those unbelievers:
but prophecy is not to those unbelievers, but to those believing.
23 If therefore the whole Church come together in the same place, and all should speak in tongues,
and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, shall they not say that ye are insane?
24 But if all prophesy, and there may come in, an unbeliever,
or an unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is examined by all:
25 and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest;
and so falling down on his face, he shall worship God, and reporting that God indeed is among you.
26 What then is it, brethren? When ye should come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue,
has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.
27 Whether anyone speaks in a tongue,
let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the Church;
and let him speak to himself, and to God.
29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge.
30 But if anything is revealed to another that sitting by, let the first hold his peace.
31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not the author of unrest, but of peace, as in all Churches of the Saints.
34 Let your women be silent in the Churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak:
but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also says the Law.
35 But if they will to learn anything, let them ask their husbands in their house; for it is shameful for women to speak in the Church.
36 Or came the Word of GOD out from you? Or came it only to you?
37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual,
let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the Commandments of the LORD.
38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Therefore, brethren, desire to prophesy, and forbid not to speak in tongues.
40 Let all things be done decently, and in order.
1 And brethren, I declare to you the Gospel: the Gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, in which also ye have stood;
2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which is the Gospel I preached to you, except ye vainly believed.
3 For I delivered to you first of all, that which 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 the third day, according to the Scriptures:
5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.
6 After that He was seen by above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain to this present, but some have fallen asleep.
7 After that He was seen by James; then by all the apostles.
8 And last of all, as an untimely birth, He appeared also to me.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was given 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.
11 Therefore whether it was I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12
But if Christ is preached that has been raised from the dead,
how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then has Christ not been raised;
14 But if Christ has not been raised, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 And indeed we are found false witnesses of God;
because we have testified concerning God that He raised up Christ:
whom He raised not, indeed if the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then has Christ not been raised:
17 But if Christ not has been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If we are in this life only have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiful.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, and became the first-fruit of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be vivified.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruit; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming.
24 Then comes the end, when He should have delivered up the Kingdom to the God and Father;
when He should have put down all rule, and all authority, and power.
25 For He must reign, until He has put all enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy is to be destroyed is the Death.
27 For all things He subjected under His feet.
But when He may say that all things have been subjected,
it is manifest that He is excepted who subjecting all things under Him. Psa 8:6
28 But when all things should be subdued to Him,
then also the Son Himself shall be subjected to Him having made all things subject to Him, that God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do, who being baptized for the dead,
if the dead are not raised at all? Why are they also baptized for the dead?
30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
31 I die daily, yea, by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead are not raised?
We may eat and may drink; for tomorrow we die. Isa 22:13
33 Be not deceived; Evil companionships corrupt good manners.
34 Awake righteously, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.
35 But some man shall say, How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come?
36 Thou fool, that which Thou sow is not vivified except it die:
37 and that which Thou sow, Thou sow not that body that shall be coming,
but bare grain; if it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 but God give it a body, as He would, and to every seed its own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh;
but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of tame animals, another of fishes, and another of fowls.
40 There are also heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies:
but the glory of the heavenly is different, and the glory of the earthly is different.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars;
for one star differs from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption:
43 it is sown in dishonour, 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. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45
So also it has been written,
The first Adam (Man) became a living soul, the last Adam became a vivifying spirit. Gen 2:7
46 But first was not which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is from the Earth, Earthy: the second Man is the Lord from Heaven.
48 As is the Earthy, such are they also that are Earthy: and as is the Heavenly, such are they also that are Heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the Earthy, we shall also bear the image of the Heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither corruption inherit incorruption.
51
Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar; for the shofar shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For it must for this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality.
54 But when this corruptible should have put on incorruption, and this mortal should have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that has been written,
Death has swallowed up in victory. Isa 25:8
55 Death, where is Thy sting?
Hades, where is Thy victory? Hos 13:14
56 The sting of death is the sin; and the power of the sin is the Law.
57 But thanks be to God, who giving us the victory,
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, become ye steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Now concerning the collection that is for the Saints, as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia, so also ye.
2 Upon the First of the Weeks, let every one of you lay by him, treasuring up, whatever he may be prospered, that there may be no collections when I should come.
3 But when I may come, whomsoever ye may approve by your letters, them I shall send to bring your liberality to Jerusalem.
4 But if it is worthy that I should go also, they shall go with me.
5
Now I shall come to you, when I may pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
6 And it may be that I shall abide, or even winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey wherever I may go.
7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I hope to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
8 But I shall tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost[Festival of Weeks].
9 For a door, great and effective, has been opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
10 But if Timothy may come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.
11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come to me: for I look for him with the brethren.
12 As concerning our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the brethren:
and it was surely not his will that he should come now; but he shall come when he should have time.
13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, be ye manly, be strong.
14 Let all your things be done with love.
15
Now I beseech you, brethren, (ye have known the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia,
and that they appointed themselves to the ministry of the Saints).
16 That ye submit yourselves to such, and to every one that working together and labours.
17 I rejoice of the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus:
because your deficiency with me they have fulfilled.
18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
19
The Churches of Asia salute you.
Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with is in their house the Church[Congregation].
20 All the brethren salute you. Salute ye one another with a Holy kiss.
21 The greeting by my hand, Paul.
22 If anyone loves not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, Maran-atha[accursed by our Lord coming].
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen!