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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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11 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the

will of God and Sosthenes our brother .

12 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth to them that are

sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints with all that in

every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both

theirs and ours .

13 Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the

Lord Jesus Christ .

14 I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God

which is given you by Jesus Christ .

15 That in every thing ye are enriched by him in all utterance

and in all knowledge .

16 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you .

17 So that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of

our Lord Jesus Christ .

18 Who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be

blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ .

19 God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship

of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord .

110 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 .

111 For it hath been declared unto me of you my brethren by

them which are of the house of Chloe that there are contentions

among you .

112 Now this I say that every one of you saith I am of Paul and

I of Apollos and I of Cephas and I of Christ .

113 Is Christ divided was Paul crucified for you or were ye

baptized in the name of Paul .

114 I thank God that I baptized none of you but Crispus and

Gaius .

115 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name .

116 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas besides I

know not whether I baptized any other .

117 For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel

not with wisdom of words lest the cross of Christ should be made

of none effect .

118 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish

foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God .

119 For it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and

will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent .

120 Where is the wise where is the scribe where is the disputer

of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world

121 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom

knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to

save them that believe .

122 For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after

wisdom .

123 But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a

stumblingblock and unto the Greeks foolishness .

124 But unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ

the power of God and the wisdom of God .

125 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the

weakness of God is stronger than men .

126 For ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men

after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called .

127 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to

confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the

world to confound the things which are mighty .

128 And base things of the world and things which are despised

hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought

things that are .

129 That no flesh should glory in his presence .

130 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto

us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption .

131 That according as it is written He that glorieth let him

glory in the Lord .

* 21 And I brethren when I came to you came not with excellency

of speech or of wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God .

22 For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus

Christ and him crucified .

23 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much

trembling .

24 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words

of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power .

25 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in

the power of God .

26 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not

the wisdom of this world nor of the princes of this world that

come to nought .

27 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery even the hidden

wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory .

28 Which none of the princes of this world knew for had they

known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory .

29 But as it is written Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither

have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath

prepared for them that love him .

210 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit for the

Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God .

211 For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of

man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but

the Spirit of God .

212 Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the

spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are

freely given to us of God .

213 Which things also we speak not in the words which man's

wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing

spiritual things with spiritual .

214 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit

of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know

them because they are spiritually discerned .

215 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he himself

is judged of no man .

216 For who hath known the mind of the Lord that he may

instruct him But we have the mind of Christ .

* 31 And I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual

but as unto carnal even as unto babes in Christ .

32 I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye

were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able .

33 For ye are yet carnal for whereas there is among you envying

and strife and divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men .

34 For while one saith I am of Paul and another I am of Apollos

are ye not carnal .

35 Who then is Paul and who is Apollos but ministers by whom ye

believed even as the Lord gave to every man .

36 I have planted Apollos watered but God gave the increase .

37 So then neither is he that planteth any thing neither he

that watereth but God that giveth the increase .

38 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one and every

man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour .

39 For we are labourers together with God ye are God's

husbandry ye are God's building .

310 According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a

wise masterbuilder I have laid the foundation and another

buildeth thereon But let every man take heed how he buildeth

thereupon .

311 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which

is Jesus Christ .

312 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold silver

precious stones wood hay stubble .

313 Every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall

declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire

shall try every man's work of what sort it is .

314 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon he

shall receive a reward .

315 If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer loss but

he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire .

316 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the

Spirit of God dwelleth in you .

317 If any man defile the temple of God him shall God destroy

for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are .

318 Let no man deceive himself If any man among you seemeth to

be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise .

319 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God For it

is written He taketh the wise in their own craftiness .

320 And again The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that

they are vain .

321 Therefore let no man glory in men For all things are yours .

322 Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or

death or things present or things to come all are yours .

323 And ye are Christ's and Christ is God's .

* 41 Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ

and stewards of the mysteries of God .

42 Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found

faithful .

43 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged

of you or of man's judgment yea I judge not mine own self .

44 For I know nothing by myself yet am I not hereby justified

but he that judgeth me is the Lord .

45 Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come

who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and

will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall

every man have praise of God .

46 And these things brethren I have in a figure transferred to

myself and to Apollos for your sakes that ye might learn in us

not to think of men above that which is written that no one of

you be puffed up for one against another .

47 For who maketh thee to differ from another and what hast

thou that thou didst not receive now if thou didst receive it

why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it .

48 Now ye are full now ye are rich ye have reigned as kings

without us and I would to God ye did reign that we also might

reign with you .

49 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last as

it were appointed to death for we are made a spectacle unto the

world and to angels and to men .

410 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

411 Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and

are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace .

412 And labour working with our own hands being reviled we

bless being persecuted we suffer it .

413 Being defamed we entreat we are made as the filth of the

world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day .

414 I write not these things to shame you but as my beloved

sons I warn you .

415 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ yet

have ye not many fathers for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you

through the gospel .

416 Wherefore I beseech you be ye followers of me .

417 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus who is my

beloved son and faithful in the Lord who shall bring you into

remembrance of my ways which be in Christ as I teach every where

in every church .

418 Now some are puffed up as though I would not come to you .

419 But I will come to you shortly if the Lord will and will

know not the speech of them which are puffed up but the power .

420 For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power .

421 What will ye shall I come unto you with a rod or in love

and in the spirit of meekness .

* 51 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among

you and such fornication as is not so much as named among the

Gentiles that one should have his father's wife .

52 And ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned that he

that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you .

53 For I verily as absent in body but present in spirit have

judged already as though I were present concerning him that hath

so done this deed .

54 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when ye are gathered

together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ .

55 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the

flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus .

56 Your glorying is not good Know ye not that a little leaven

leaveneth the whole lump .

57 Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump

as ye are unleavened For even Christ our passover is sacrificed

for us .

58 Therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven neither

with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened

bread of sincerity and truth .

59 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with

fornicators .

510 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or

with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then

must ye needs go out of the world .

511 But now I have written unto you not to keep company if any

man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an

idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such

an one no not to eat .

512 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without

do not ye judge them that are within .

513 But them that are without God judgeth Therefore put away

from among yourselves that wicked person .

* 61 Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law

before the unjust and not before the saints .

62 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world and if

the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the

smallest matters .

63 Know ye not that we shall judge angels how much more things

that pertain to this life .

64 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life

set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church .

65 I speak to your shame Is it so that there is not a wise man

among you no not one that shall be able to judge between his

brethren .

66 But brother goeth to law with brother and that before the

unbelievers .

67 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye

go to law one with another Why do ye not rather take wrong why

do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded .

68 Nay ye do wrong and defraud and that your brethren .

69 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the

kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters

nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with

mankind .

610 Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor

extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God .

611 And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are

sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus

and by the Spirit of our God .

612 All things are lawful unto me but all things are not

expedient all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought

under the power of any .

613 Meats for the belly and the belly for meats but God shall

destroy both it and them Now the body is not for fornication but

for the Lord and the Lord for the body .

614 And God hath both raised up the Lord and will also raise up

us by his own power .

615 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ

shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the

members of an harlot God forbid .

616 What know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is

one body for two saith he shall be one flesh .

617 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit .

618 Flee fornication Every sin that a man doeth is without the

body but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own

body .

619 What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy

Ghost which is in you which ye have of God and ye are not your

own .

620 For ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in

your body and in your spirit which are God's .

* 71 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me It is

good for a man not to touch a woman .

72 Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own

wife and let every woman have her own husband .

73 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence and

likewise also the wife unto the husband .

74 The wife hath not power of her own body but the husband and

likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body but the

wife .

75 Defraud ye not one the other except it be with consent for a

time that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come

together again that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency .

76 But I speak this by permission and not of commandment .

77 For I would that all men were even as I myself But every man

hath his proper gift of God one after this manner and another

after that .

78 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows It is good for

them if they abide even as I .

79 But if they cannot contain let them marry for it is better

to marry than to burn .

710 And unto the married I command yet not I but the Lord Let

not the wife depart from her husband .

711 But and if she depart let her remain unmarried or be

reconciled to her husband and let not the husband put away his

wife .

712 But to the rest speak I not the Lord If any brother hath a

wife that believeth not and she be pleased to dwell with him let

him not put her away .

713 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not and

if he be pleased to dwell with her let her not leave him .

714 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife and

the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your

children unclean but now are they holy .

715 But if the unbelieving depart let him depart A brother or a

sister is not under bondage in such cases but God hath called us

to peace .

716 For what knowest thou O wife whether thou shalt save thy

husband or how knowest thou O man whether thou shalt save thy

wife .

717 But as God hath distributed to every man as the Lord hath

called every one so let him walk And so ordain I in all churches

718 Is any man called being circumcised let him not become

uncircumcised Is any called in uncircumcision let him not be

circumcised .

719 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but

the keeping of the commandments of God .

720 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was

called .

721 Art thou called being a servant care not for it but if thou

mayest be made free use it rather .

722 For he that is called in the Lord being a servant is the

Lord's freeman likewise also he that is called being free is

Christ's servant .

723 Ye are bought with a price be not ye the servants of men .

724 Brethren let every man wherein he is called therein abide

with God .

725 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord

yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy of the

Lord to be faithful .

726 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present

distress I say that it is good for a man so to be .

727 Art thou bound unto a wife seek not to be loosed Art thou

loosed from a wife seek not a wife .

728 But and if thou marry thou hast not sinned and if a virgin

marry she hath not sinned Nevertheless such shall have trouble

in the flesh but I spare you .

729 But this I say brethren the time is short it remaineth that

both they that have wives be as though they had none .

730 And they that weep as though they wept not and they that

rejoice as though they rejoiced not and they that buy as though

they possessed not .

731 And they that use this world as not abusing it for the

fashion of this world passeth away .

732 But I would have you without carefulness He that is

unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord how he

may please the Lord .

733 But he that is married careth for the things that are of

the world how he may please his wife .

734 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin The

unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord that she may

be holy both in body and in spirit but she that is married

careth for the things of the world how she may please her

husband .

735 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 .

736 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely

toward his virgin if she pass the flower of her age and need so

require let him do what he will he sinneth not let them marry .

737 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart having

no necessity but hath power over his own will and hath so

decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin doeth well .

738 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well but he

that giveth her not in marriage doeth better .

739 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth

but if her husband be dead she is at liberty to be married to

whom she will only in the Lord .

740 But she is happier if she so abide after my judgment and I

think also that I have the Spirit of God .

* 81 Now as touching things offered unto idols we know that we

all have knowledge Knowledge puffeth up but charity edifieth .

82 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing he knoweth

nothing yet as he ought to know .

83 But if any man love God the same is known of him .

84 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are

offered in sacrifice unto idols we know that an idol is nothing

in the world and that there is none other God but one .

85 For though there be that are called gods whether in heaven

or in earth (as there be gods many and lords many .

86 But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all

things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all

things and we by him .

87 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for some

with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing

offered unto an idol and their conscience being weak is defiled .

88 But meat commendeth us not to God for neither if we eat are

we the better neither if we eat not are we the worse .

89 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become

a stumblingblock to them that are weak .

810 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in

the idol's temple shall not the conscience of him which is weak

be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols .

811 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for

whom Christ died .

812 But when ye sin so against the brethren and wound their

weak conscience ye sin against Christ .

813 Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend I will eat no

flesh while the world standeth lest I make my brother to offend .

* 91 Am I not an apostle am I not free have I not seen Jesus

Christ our Lord are not ye my work in the Lord .

92 If I be not an apostle unto others yet doubtless I am to you

for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord .

93 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this .

94 Have we not power to eat and to drink .

95 Have we not power to lead about a sister a wife as well as

other apostles and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas .

96 Or I only and Barnabas have not we power to forbear working .

97 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges who planteth

a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof or who feedeth a

flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock .

98 Say I these things as a man or saith not the law the same

also .

99 For it is written in the law of Moses Thou shalt not muzzle

the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn Doth God take

care for oxen .

910 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes For our sakes no

doubt this is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope

and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his

hope .

911 If we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great

thing if we shall reap your carnal things .

912 If others be partakers of this power over you are not we

rather Nevertheless we have not used this power but suffer all

things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ .

913 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things

live of the things of the temple and they which wait at the

altar are partakers with the altar .

914 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the

gospel should live of the gospel .

915 But I have used none of these things neither have I written

these things that it should be so done unto me for it were

better for me to die than that any man should make my glorying

void .

916 For though I preach the gospel I have nothing to glory of

for necessity is laid upon me yea woe is unto me if I preach not

the gospel .

917 For if I do this thing willingly I have a reward but if

against my will a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto

me .

918 What is my reward then Verily that when I preach the gospel

I may make the gospel of Christ without charge that I abuse not

my power in the gospel .

919 For though I be free from all men yet have I made myself

servant unto all that I might gain the more .

920 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the

Jews to them that are under the law as under the law that I

might gain them that are under the law .

921 To them that are without law as without law (being not

without law to God but under the law to Christ that I might gain

them that are without law .

922 To the weak became I as weak that I might gain the weak I

am made all things to all men that I might by all means save

some .

923 And this I do for the gospel's sake that I might be

partaker thereof with you .

924 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all but one

receiveth the prize So run that ye may obtain .

925 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in

all things Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we

an incorruptible .

926 I therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one

that beateth the air .

927 But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest

that by any means when I have preached to others I myself should

be a castaway .

* 101 Moreover brethren I would not that ye should be ignorant

how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed

through the sea .

102 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the

sea .

103 And did all eat the same spiritual meat .

104 And did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank

of that spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was

Christ .

105 But with many of them God was not well pleased for they

were overthrown in the wilderness .

106 Now these things were our examples to the intent we should

not lust after evil things as they also lusted .

107 Neither be ye idolaters as were some of them as it is

written The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play

108 Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed

and fell in one day three and twenty thousand .

109 Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted

and were destroyed of serpents .

1010 Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were

destroyed of the destroyer .

1011 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples and

they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the

world are come .

1012 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest

he fall .

1013 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common

to man but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted

above that ye are able but will with the temptation also make a

way to escape that ye may be able to bear it .

1014 Wherefore my dearly beloved flee from idolatry .

1015 I speak as to wise men judge ye what I say .

1016 The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion

of the blood of Christ The bread which we break is it not the

communion of the body of Christ .

1017 For we being many are one bread and one body for we are

all partakers of that one bread .

1018 Behold Israel after the flesh are not they which eat of

the sacrifices partakers of the altar .

1019 What say I then that the idol is any thing or that which

is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing .

1020 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice

they sacrifice to devils and not to God and I would not that ye

should have fellowship with devils .

1021 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils

ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of

devils .

1022 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy are we stronger than he

1023 All things are lawful for me but all things are not

expedient all things are lawful for me but all things edify not .

1024 Let no man seek his own but every man another's wealth .

1025 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles that eat asking no

question for conscience sake .

1026 For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof .

1027 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast and ye

be disposed to go whatsoever is set before you eat asking no

question for conscience sake .

1028 But if any man say unto you This is offered in sacrifice

unto idols eat not for his sake that shewed it and for

conscience sake for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness

thereof .

1029 Conscience I say not thine own but of the other for why is

my liberty judged of another man's conscience .

1030 For if I by grace be a partaker why am I evil spoken of

for that for which I give thanks .

1031 Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do

all to the glory of God .

1032 Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles

nor to the church of God .

1033 Even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine

own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved .

* 111 Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ .

112 Now I praise you brethren that ye remember me in all things

and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you .

113 But I would have you know that the head of every man is

Christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of

Christ is God .

114 Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered

dishonoureth his head .

115 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head

uncovered dishonoureth her head for that is even all one as if

she were shaven .

116 For if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn but

if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven let her be

covered .

117 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head forasmuch as

he is the image and glory of God but the woman is the glory of

the man .

118 For the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man .

119 Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for

the man .

1110 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head

because of the angels .

1111 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman neither

the woman without the man in the Lord .

1112 For as the woman is of the man even so is the man also by

the woman but all things of God .

1113 Judge in yourselves is it comely that a woman pray unto

God uncovered .

1114 Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have

long hair it is a shame unto him .

1115 But if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her for her

hair is given her for a covering .

1116 But if any man seem to be contentious we have no such

custom neither the churches of God .

1117 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not that

ye come together not for the better but for the worse .

1118 For first of all when ye come together in the church I

hear that there be divisions among you and I partly believe it .

1119 For there must be also heresies among you that they which

are approved may be made manifest among you .

1120 When ye come together therefore into one place this is not

to eat the Lord's supper .

1121 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper

and one is hungry and another is drunken .

1122 What have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise

ye the church of God and shame them that have not What shall I

say to you shall I praise you in this I praise you not .

1123 For I have received of the Lord that which also I

delivered unto you That the Lord Jesus the same night in which

he was betrayed took bread .

1124 And when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat

this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance

of me .

1125 After the same manner also he took the cup when he had

supped saying This cup is the new testament in my blood this do

ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me .

1126 For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do

shew the Lord's death till he come .

1127 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this

cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood

of the Lord .

1128 But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that

bread and drink of that cup .

1129 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and

drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lord's body .

1130 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many

sleep .

1131 For if we would judge ourselves we should not be judged .

1132 But when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that

we should not be condemned with the world .

1133 Wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eat tarry

one for another .

1134 And if any man hunger let him eat at home that ye come not

together unto condemnation And the rest will I set in order when

I come .

* 121 Now concerning spiritual gifts brethren I would not have

you ignorant .

122 Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb

idols even as ye were led .

123 Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by

the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed and that no man can say

that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost .

124 Now there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit .

125 And there are differences of administrations but the same

Lord .

126 And there are diversities of operations but it is the same

God which worketh all in all .

127 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man

to profit withal .

128 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom to

another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit .

129 To another faith by the same Spirit to another the gifts of

healing by the same Spirit .

1210 To another the working of miracles to another prophecy to

another discerning of spirits to another divers kinds of tongues

to another the interpretation of tongues .

1211 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit

dividing to every man severally as he will .

1212 For as the body is one and hath many members and all the

members of that one body being many are one body so also is

Christ .

1213 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body

whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and

have been all made to drink into one Spirit .

1214 For the body is not one member but many .

1215 If the foot shall say Because I am not the hand I am not

of the body is it therefore not of the body .

1216 And if the ear shall say Because I am not the eye I am not

of the body is it therefore not of the body .

1217 If the whole body were an eye where were the hearing If

the whole were hearing where were the smelling .

1218 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the

body as it hath pleased him .

1219 And if they were all one member where were the body .

1220 But now are they many members yet but one body .

1221 And the eye cannot say unto the hand I have no need of

thee nor again the head to the feet I have no need of you .

1222 Nay much more those members of the body which seem to be

more feeble are necessary .

1223 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 .

1224 For our comely parts have no need but God hath tempered

the body together having given more abundant honour to that part

which lacked .

1225 That there should be no schism in the body but that the

members should have the same care one for another .

1226 And whether one member suffer all the members suffer with

it or one member be honoured all the members rejoice with it .

1227 Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular .

1228 And God hath set some in the church first apostles

secondarily prophets thirdly teachers after that miracles then

gifts of healings helps governments diversities of tongues .

1229 Are all apostles are all prophets are all teachers are all

workers of miracles .

1230 Have all the gifts of healing do all speak with tongues do

all interpret .

1231 But covet earnestly the best gifts and yet shew I unto you

a more excellent way .

* 131 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and

have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling

cymbal .

132 And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all

mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that

I could remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing .

133 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and

though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it

profiteth me nothing .

134 Charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth not

charity vaunteth not itself is not puffed up .

135 Doth not behave itself unseemly seeketh not her own is not

easily provoked thinketh no evil .

136 Rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth .

137 Beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things

endureth all things .

138 Charity never faileth but whether there be prophecies they

shall fail whether there be tongues they shall cease whether

there be knowledge it shall vanish away .

139 For we know in part and we prophesy in part .

1310 But when that which is perfect is come then that which is

in part shall be done away .

1311 When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a

child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away

childish things .

1312 For now we see through a glass darkly but then face to

face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am

known .

1313 And now abideth faith hope charity these three but the

greatest of these is charity .

* 141 Follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts but

rather that ye may prophesy .

142 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto

men but unto God for no man understandeth him howbeit in the

spirit he speaketh mysteries .

143 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification

and exhortation and comfort .

144 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself but

he that prophesieth edifieth the church .

145 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye

prophesied for greater is he that prophesieth than he that

speaketh with tongues except he interpret that the church may

receive edifying .

146 Now brethren if I come unto you speaking with tongues what

shall I profit you except I shall speak to you either by

revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying or by doctrine .

147 And even things without life giving sound whether pipe or

harp except they give a distinction in the sounds how shall it

be known what is piped or harped .

148 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall

prepare himself to the battle .

149 So likewise ye except ye utter by the tongue words easy to

be understood how shall it be known what is spoken for ye shall

speak into the air .

1410 There are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world

and none of them is without signification .

1411 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice I shall

be unto him that speaketh a barbarian and he that speaketh shall

be a barbarian unto me .

1412 Even so ye forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts

seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church .

1413 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray

that he may interpret .

1414 For if I pray in an unknown tongue my spirit prayeth but

my understanding is unfruitful .

1415 What is it then I will pray with the spirit and I will

pray with the understanding also I will sing with the spirit and

I will sing with the understanding also .

1416 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit how shall he

that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving

of thanks seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest .

1417 For thou verily givest thanks well but the other is not

edified .

1418 I thank my God I speak with tongues more than ye all .

1419 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my

understanding that by my voice I might teach others also than

ten thousand words in an unknown tongue .

1420 Brethren be not children in understanding howbeit in

malice be ye children but in understanding be men .

1421 In the law it is written With men of other tongues and

other lips will I speak unto this people and yet for all that

will they not hear me saith the Lord .

1422 Wherefore tongues are for a sign not to them that believe

but to them that believe not but prophesying serveth not for

them that believe not but for them which believe .

1423 If therefore the whole church be come together into one

place and all speak with tongues and there come in those that

are unlearned or unbelievers will they not say that ye are mad .

1424 But if all prophesy and there come in one that believeth

not or one unlearned he is convinced of all he is judged of all .

1425 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest and so

falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God

is in you of a truth .

1426 How is it then brethren when ye come together every one of

you hath a psalm hath a doctrine hath a tongue hath a revelation

hath an interpretation Let all things be done unto edifying .

1427 If any man speak in an unknown tongue let it be by two or

at the most by three and that by course and let one interpret .

1428 But if there be no interpreter let him keep silence in the

church and let him speak to himself and to God .

1429 Let the prophets speak two or three and let the other

judge .

1430 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let

the first hold his peace .

1431 For ye may all prophesy one by one that all may learn and

all may be comforted .

1432 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the

prophets .

1433 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace as in

all churches of the saints .

1434 Let your women keep silence in the churches for it is not

permitted unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under

obedience as also saith the law .

1435 And if they will learn any thing let them ask their

husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the

church .

1436 What came the word of God out from you or came it unto you

only .

1437 If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual let

him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the

commandments of the Lord .

1438 But if any man be ignorant let him be ignorant .

1439 Wherefore brethren covet to prophesy and forbid not to

speak with tongues .

1440 Let all things be done decently and in order .

* 151 Moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I

preached unto you which also ye have received and wherein ye

stand .

152 By which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what I

preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain .

153 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also

received how that Christ died for our sins according to the

scriptures .

154 And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day

according to the scriptures .

155 And that he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve .

156 After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at

once of whom the greater part remain unto this present but some

are fallen asleep .

157 After that he was seen of James then of all the apostles .

158 And last of all he was seen of me also as of one born out

of due time .

159 For I am the least of the apostles that am not meet to be

called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God .

1510 But by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which

was bestowed upon me was not in vain but I laboured more

abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which

was with me .

1511 Therefore whether it were I or they so we preach and so ye

believed .

1512 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead how

say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead .

1513 But if there be no resurrection of the dead then is Christ

not risen .

1514 And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and

your faith is also vain .

1515 Yea and we are found false witnesses of God because we

have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised

not up if so be that the dead rise not .

1516 For if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised .

1517 And if Christ be not raised your faith is vain ye are yet

in your sins .

1518 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are

perished .

1519 If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all

men most miserable .

1520 But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the

firstfruits of them that slept .

1521 For since by man came death by man came also the

resurrection of the dead .

1522 For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made

alive .

1523 But every man in his own order Christ the firstfruits

afterward they that are Christ's at his coming .

1524 Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the

kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all

rule and all authority and power .

1525 For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his

feet .

1526 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death .

1527 For he hath put all things under his feet But when he

saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is

excepted which did put all things under him .

1528 And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall

the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things

under him that God may be all in all .

1529 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if

the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead

1530 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour .

1531 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus

our Lord I die daily .

1532 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at

Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not let us eat

and drink for to morrow we die .

1533 Be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners .

1534 Awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the

knowledge of God I speak this to your shame .

1535 But some man will say How are the dead raised up and with

what body do they come .

1536 Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickened except

it die .

1537 And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that

shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other

grain .

1538 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to

every seed his own body .

1539 All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kind of

flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and

another of birds .

1540 There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial but

the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the

terrestrial is another .

1541 There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the

moon and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from

another star in glory .

1542 So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in

corruption it is raised in incorruption .

1543 It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown

in weakness it is raised in power .

1544 It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body

There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body .

1545 And so it is written The first man Adam was made a living

soul the last Adam was made a quickening spirit .

1546 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual but that

which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual .

1547 The first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the

Lord from heaven .

1548 As is the earthy such are they also that are earthy and as

is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly .

1549 And as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also

bear the image of the heavenly .

1550 Now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot

inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit

incorruption .

1551 Behold I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep but we

shall all be changed .

1552 In a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump

for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised

incorruptible and we shall be changed .

1553 For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this

mortal must put on immortality .

1554 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption

and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be

brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up

in victory .

1555 O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory .

1556 The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the

law .

1557 But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through

our Lord Jesus Christ .

1558 Therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable

always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know

that your labour is not in vain in the Lord .

* 161 Now concerning the collection for the saints as I have

given order to the churches of Galatia even so do ye .

162 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by

him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no

gatherings when I come .

163 And when I come whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters

them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem .

164 And if it be meet that I go also they shall go with me .

165 Now I will come unto you when I shall pass through

Macedonia for I do pass through Macedonia .

166 And it may be that I will abide yea and winter with you

that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go .

167 For I will not see you now by the way but I trust to tarry

a while with you if the Lord permit .

168 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost .

169 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me and there

are many adversaries .

1610 Now if Timotheus come see that he may be with you without

fear for he worketh the work of the Lord as I also do .

1611 Let no man therefore despise him but conduct him forth in

peace that he may come unto me for I look for him with the

brethren .

1612 As touching our brother Apollos I greatly desired him to

come unto you with the brethren but his will was not at all to

come at this time but he will come when he shall have convenient

time .

1613 Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be

strong .

1614 Let all your things be done with charity .

1615 I beseech you brethren ye know the house of Stephanas that

it is the firstfruits of Achaia and that they have addicted

themselves to the ministry of the saints .

1616 That ye submit yourselves unto such and to every one that

helpeth with us and laboureth .

1617 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and

Achaicus for that which was lacking on your part they have

supplied .

1618 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours therefore

acknowledge ye them that are such .

1619 The churches of Asia salute you Aquila and Priscilla

salute you much in the Lord with the church that is in their

house .

1620 All the brethren greet you Greet ye one another with an

holy kiss .

1621 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand .

1622 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be

Anathema Maran-atha .

1623 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you .

1624 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus Amen .