The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the CORINTHIANS
The Modern Young's Literal Translation© 2005



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CHAPTER 1

1  Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
2  to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place -- both theirs and ours:
3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
4  I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,
5  that you were enriched in him in every thing, in all discourse and all knowledge,
6  according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,
7  so that you are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8  who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;
9  faithful [is] God, through whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10  And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you may all say the same thing, and there may not be divisions among you, and you may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,
11  for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;
12  and I say this, that each one of you said, `I, indeed, am of Paul' -- `and I of Apollos,' -- `and I of Cephas,' -- `and I of Christ.'
13  Has the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized to the name of Paul;
14  I give thanks to God that I did baptize no one of you, except Crispus and Gaius --
15  that no one may say that I did baptize to my own name;
16  and I did baptize also Stephanas' household -- further, I have not known if I did baptize any other.
17  For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;
18  for the word of the cross is foolishness to those indeed perishing, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,
19  for it has been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will bring to nothing the intelligence of the intelligent;'
20  where [is] the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make the wisdom of this world foolish?
21  for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.
22  Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,
23  also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,
24  and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- 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 see your calling, brethren, that not many [are] wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
27  but God did choose the foolish things of the world, that He may put the wise to shame; and God did choose the weak things of the world that He may put to shame the strong;
28  and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that He may make useless the things that are --
29  that no flesh may glory before Him;
30  and of Him you -- you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,
31  that, according as it has been written, `He who is glorying -- let him glory in the Lord.'


CHAPTER 2

1  And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,
2  for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;
3  and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;
4  and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human 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  And we speak wisdom among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
7  but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,
8  which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory;
9  but, according as it has been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and came not up upon the heart of man, what God did prepare for those loving Him --'
10  but God did reveal [them] through His Spirit to us, for the Spirit does search all things, even the depths of God,
11  for who of men has known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? so also no one has known the things of God, except the Spirit of God.
12  And we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that [is] of God, that we may know the things conferred on us by God,
13  which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, spiritual things comparing with spiritual things,
14  and the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because they are discerned spiritually;
15  and he who is spiritual, does discern indeed all things, and he himself is discerned by no one;
16  for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.


CHAPTER 3

1  And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
2  I fed you with milk, and not with meat, for you were not yet able, but not even now are you able yet,
3  for you are fleshly yet, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not fleshly, and do walk in the manner of men?
4  for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are you not fleshly?
5  Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom you did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
6  I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
7  so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;
8  and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor,
9  for we are fellow-workmen of God; God's tillage, you are God's building.
10  According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid a foundation, and another does build on [it],
11  for no one is able to lay other foundation except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;
12  and if any one does build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --
13  of each the work shall become revealed, for the day shall declare [it], because it is revealed in fire, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;
14  if the work of any one does remain that he built on [it], a wage he shall receive;
15  if the work of any is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
16  have you not known that you are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God does dwell in you?
17  if any one does waste the sanctuary of God, God shall waste him; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which you are.
18  Let no one deceive himself; if any one does seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,
19  for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it has been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'
20  and again, `The Lord does know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'
21  So then, let no one glory 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 about to be -- all are yours,
23  and you [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.


CHAPTER 4

1  Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,
2  and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,
3  and to me it is for a very little thing that I may be judged by you, or by man's day, but I do not judge even myself,
4  for to myself I have been conscious of nothing, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:
5  so, then, judge you nothing before the time, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will reveal the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
6  And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us you may learn not to think above that which has been written, that you may not be puffed up one for one against the other,
7  for who does make you to differ? and what have you, that you did not receive? and if you did also receive, why do you glory as not having received?
8  Already you are having been filled, already you were rich, you did reign apart from us, and I would also you did reign, that we also may reign together with you,
9  for I think that God did set us forth the last apostles -- as appointed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, and messengers, and men;
10  we [are] fools because of Christ, and you wise in Christ; we [are] ailing, and you strong; you glorious, and we dishonored;
11  unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,
12  and labor, working with [our] own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
13  being spoken evil of, we entreat; we did become as filth of the world -- an outcast of all things -- till now.
14  Not [as] putting you to shame do I write these things, but I do admonish as my beloved children,
15  for if you may have a myriad of child-conductors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;
16  I call upon you, for that reason, become you followers of me;
17  because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
18  And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;
19  but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;
20  for the reign of God is not in word, but in power?
21  what do you wish? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?


CHAPTER 5

1  Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one has the wife of the father! --
2  and you are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this work may be removed out of the midst of you,
3  for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so worked this thing:
4  in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -- you being gathered together, also my spirit -- with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5  to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6  Not good [is] your glorying; have you not known that a little leaven does leaven the whole lump?
7  cleanse out, for that reason, the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, according as you are unleavened, for also our Passover was sacrificed for us -- Christ,
8  so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.
9  I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --
10  and certainly not with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing you ought then to go forth out of the world --
11  and now, I did write to you not to keep company with [him], if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- not even to eat together with such a one;
12  for what have I also to judge those without? do you not judge those within?
13  and God does judge those without; and you put away the evil from among yourselves.


CHAPTER 6

1  Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2  have you not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the smaller judgments?
3  have you not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?
4  of the things of life, indeed, then, if you may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- you cause these to sit;
5  I speak unto your shame: so there is not one wise man among you, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!
6  but brother with brother does go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!
7  Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that you have judgments with one another; rather why do you not allow injustice? rather why be you not defrauded?
8  but you -- you do injustice, and you defraud, and these -- brethren!
9  have you not known that the unrighteous shall not inherit the reign of God? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
10  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the reign of God.
11  And certain of you were these! but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12  All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;
13  the meats [are] for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God shall make useless both this and these; and the body [is] not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
14  and God did both raise the Lord , and will raise us up through His power.
15  Have you not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make [them] members of an harlot? let it be not!
16  have you not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- said He -- the two for one flesh.'
17  And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;
18  flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, does sin against his own body.
19  Have you not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God? and you are not your own,
20  for you were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.


CHAPTER 7

1  And concerning the things of which you wrote to me: [it is] good for a man not to touch a woman,
2  and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
3  let the husband render to the wife the due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;
4  the wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
5  Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;
6  and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,
7  for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each has his own gift of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.
8  And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];
9  and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
10  and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:
11  but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband send away a wife.
12  And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother has a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;
13  and a woman who has a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;
14  for the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
15  And, if the unbelieving does separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such [cases], and God has called us in peace;
16  for what, have you known, O wife, whether you shall save the husband? or what, have you known, O husband, whether you shall save the wife?
17  if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord has called each -- so let him walk; and thus do I direct in all the assemblies:
18  being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; was any one called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised;
19  the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.
20  Each in the calling in which he was called -- let him remain in this;
21  a servant -- were you called? be not anxious; but if also you are able to become free -- use [it] rather;
22  for he who [is] in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:
23  you were bought with a price, become not servants of men;
24  each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.
25  And concerning the virgins, I have not a command of the Lord; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:
26  I suppose, for that reason, this to be good because of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man that the matter be thus: --
27  Have you been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; have you been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28  But and if you may marry, you did not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.
29  And this I say, brethren, the time from now on is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;
30  and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;
31  and those using this world, as not using [it] up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.
32  And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;
33  and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.
34  The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
35  And this I say for your own profit: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,
36  and if any one does think [it] to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, let him do what he wills; he does not sin -- let him marry.
37  And he who has stood steadfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and has authority over his own will, and this he has determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- does well;
38  so that both he who is giving in marriage does well, and he who is not giving in marriage does better.
39  A wife has been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;
40  and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.


CHAPTER 8

1  And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love builds up;
2  and if any one does think to know anything, he has not yet known anything according as it is necessary for [him] to know;
3  and if any one does love God, this one has been known by Him.
4  Concerning then the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;
5  for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --
6  yet to us [is] one God, the Father, of whom [are] the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] the all things, and we through Him;
7  but the knowledge [is]not in all men, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, do eat [it] as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8  But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
9  but see, for fear that this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
10  for if any one may see you that have knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,
11  and the brother who is infirm shall perish by your knowledge, because of whom Christ died?
12  and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and striking their weak conscience -- you sin in regard to Christ;
13  for what reason, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that I may not cause my brother to stumble.


CHAPTER 9

1  Am I not an apostle? am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?
2  if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3  My defense to those who examine me in this;
4  have we not authority to eat and to drink?
5  have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6  or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?
7  who does serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who does plant a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? or who does feed a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8  Do I speak these things according to man? or does not also the law say these things?
9  for in the law of Moses it has been written, `you shall not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' does God care for the oxen?
10  or because of us by all means does He say [it]? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading [ought] of his hope to partake in hope.
11  If we did sow to you the spiritual things -- [is it] great if we do reap your fleshly things?
12  if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but we bear all things, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
13  Have you not known that those working about the things of the temple -- do eat of the temple, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?
14  so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: to live of the good news.
15  And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for [it is] good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;
16  for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, is laid upon me for necessity, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;
17  for if I willing do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!
18  What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
19  for being free from all men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain;
20  and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;
21  to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;
22  I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; I have become all things to all men, that by all means I may save some.
23  And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it;
24  have you not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one does receive the prize? so run you, that you may obtain;
25  and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible;
26  I, for that reason, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
27  but I chastise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, for fear that by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.


CHAPTER 10

1  And I do not wish 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 did eat the same spiritual food,
4  and all did drink the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;
5  but God was not well pleased in the most of them, for they were strewn in the wilderness,
6  and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.
7  Neither become you idolaters, as certain of them, as it has been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'
8  neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell twenty-three thousand in one day;
9  neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;
10  neither murmur you, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.
11  And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,
12  so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, for fear that he fall.
13  No temptation has taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear [it].
14  For what reason, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;
15  I speak as to wise men - you judge what I say:
16  The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?
17  because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all do partake of the one bread.
18  See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?
19  what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --
20  [no,] but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.
21  You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons; you are not able to partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons;
22  do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
23  All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but all things do not build up;
24  let no one seek his own -- but each another's.
25  Whatever is sold in the meat-market you eat, not inquiring, because of the conscience,
26  for the earth [is]the Lord's, and its fullness;
27  and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and you wish to go, eat all that is set before you, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;
28  and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who showed [it], and of the conscience, for the earth [is] the Lord's and its fullness:
29  and conscience, I say, not of yourself, but of the other, for why [is it] that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?
30  and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?
31  Whether, then, you eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
32  become offenseless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;
33  as I also do please all in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.


CHAPTER 11

1  You become followers of me, as I also [am] of Christ.
2  And I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and according as I did deliver to you, you keep the deliverances,
3  and I wish you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
4  Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, does dishonor his head,
5  and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, does dishonor her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,
6  for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if [it is] a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;
7  for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
8  for a man is not of a woman, but a woman [is] of a man,
9  for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;
10  because of this the woman ought to have [a token of] authority upon the head, because of the messengers;
11  but neither [is] a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
12  for as the woman [is] of the man, so also the man [is] through the woman, and the all things [are] of God.
13  You judge in your own selves; is it seemly for a woman to pray to God uncovered?
14  does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
15  and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair has been given to her instead of a covering;
16  and if any one does think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.
17  And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but you come together for the worse;
18  for first, indeed, you coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe [it],
19  for it is necessary for sects also to be among you, that those approved may become revealed among you;
20  you, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;
21  for each his own supper does take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;
22  why, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or do you despise the assembly of God, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
23  For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was delivered up, took bread,
24  and having given thanks, He broke, and said, `Take you, eat you, this is my body, that is being broken for you; this do you -- to the remembrance of me.'
25  In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do you, as often as you may drink [it] -- to the remembrance of me;'
26  for as often as you may eat this bread, and may drink this cup, you do show forth the death of the Lord -- till He may come;
27  so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, he shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord:
28  and let a man be proving himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and let him drink of the cup;
29  for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, he does eat and drink judgment to himself -- not discerning the body of the Lord.
30  Because of this, among you many [are] weak and sickly, and many do sleep;
31  for if we were discerning ourselves, we would not be being judged,
32  and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that we may not be condemned with the world;
33  so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, you wait for one another;
34  and if any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you may not come to judgment together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.


CHAPTER 12

1  And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;
2  you have known that you were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as you were led -- being carried away;
3  for what reason, I give you to understand that no one, speaking in the Spirit of God, said Jesus [is] cursed, and no one is able to say Jesus [is] Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.
4  And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;
5  and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;
6  and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.
7  And to each has been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;
8  for through the Spirit a word of wisdom has been given to one, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
9  and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;
10  and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another [various] kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:
11  and the one and the same Spirit does work all these, dividing to each severally as he intended.
12  For, even as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ,
13  for also we all were baptized to one body in one Spirit, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all were made to drink into one Spirit,
14  for also the body is not one member, but many;
15  if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;
16  and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?
17  If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?
18  and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,
19  and if all were one member, where the body?
20  and now, indeed, [are] many members, and one body;
21  and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of you;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'
22  But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,
23  and those that we think to be less honorable of the body, around these we put more abundant honor, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,
24  and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honor,
25  that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,
26  and whether one member does suffer, all the members do suffer with [it], or one member is glorified, all the members do rejoice with [it];
27  and you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28  And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, various kinds of tongues;
29  [are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all powers?
30  have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31  and earnestly desire the better gifts; and yet do I show to you a far excelling way:


CHAPTER 13

1  If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
2  and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
3  and if I give away all my goods to feed others, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
4  The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love does not envy, the love does not brag about itself, is not puffed up,
5  does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil,
6  rejoices not over the unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth;
7  it bears all things, it believes all, it hopes all, it endures all.
8  The love does never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;
9  for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;
10  and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part shall become useless.
11  When I was a babe, I was speaking as a babe, I was thinking as a babe, I was reasoning as a babe, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
12  for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
13  and now there does remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.


CHAPTER 14

1  Pursue the love, and earnestly seek the spiritual things, and rather that you may prophecy,
2  for he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue -- to men he does not speak, but to God, for no one does listen, and in spirit he does speak secrets;
3  and he who is prophesying to men does speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;
4  he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue, does edify himself, and he who is prophesying, does edify an assembly;
5  and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that you may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.
6  And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?
7  yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if they may not give a difference in the sounds, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?
8  for if also a trumpet may give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?
9  so also you, if through the tongue, you may not give speech easily understood -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for you shall be speaking to air.
10  There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,
11  if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;
12  so also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, seek for the building up of the assembly that you may abound;
13  for what reason he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;
14  for if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit does pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.
15  What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;
16  since, if you may bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at your giving of thanks, since he has not known what you do say?
17  for you, indeed, do give thanks well, but the other is not built up!
18  I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --
19  but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an [unknown] tongue.
20  Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but be you babes in the evil, and become you perfect in the understanding;
21  in the law it has been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, said the Lord;'
22  so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy [is] not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,
23  If, for that reason, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?
24  and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,
25  and so the secrets of his heart become revealed, and so having fallen upon [his] face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
26  What then is it, brethren? whenever you may come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation? let all things be for building up;
27  if any one do speak an [unknown] tongue, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;
28  and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
29  And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern,
30  and if to another sitting [anything] may be revealed, let the first be silent;
31  for you are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,
32  and the spiritual gift of prophets are subject to prophets,
33  for God is not [a God] of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
34  Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it has not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law said;
35  and if they wish to learn anything, let them question their own husbands at home, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.
36  From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?
37  if any one does think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that they are commands of the Lord;
38  and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;
39  so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues;
40  let all things be done decently and in order.


CHAPTER 15

1  And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also you did receive, in which also you have stood,
2  through which also you are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if you hold fast, except you did believe in vain,
3  for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,
4  and that He was buried, and that He has risen on the third day, according to the Writings,
5  and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,
6  afterwards He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;
7  afterwards He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8  And last of all -- as to the 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 did persecute the assembly of God,
10  and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that [is] towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly did I labor than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God that [is] with me;
11  whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so you did believe.
12  And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead He has risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?
13  and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither has Christ risen;
14  and if Christ has not risen, then void [is] our preaching, and void also your faith,
15  and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;
16  for if dead persons do not rise, neither has Christ risen,
17  and if Christ has not risen, vain is your faith, you are yet in your sins;
18  then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;
19  if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.
20  And now, Christ has risen out of the dead -- He became the first-fruits of those sleeping,
21  for since through man [is] the death, also through man [is] a rising again of the dead,
22  for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,
23  and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in His presence,
24  then -- the end, when He may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when He may have made all rule useless, and all authority and power --
25  for it is necessary for Him to reign till He may have put all the enemies under His feet --
26  the last enemy is done away -- death;
27  for He did put all things under His feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, [it is] evident that He who did subject the all things to Him is excepted,
28  and when the all things may be subjected to Him, then the Son also Himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to Him the all things, that God may be the all in all.
29  Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?
30  why also do we stand in peril every hour?
31  Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:
32  if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!
33  Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;
34  awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say [it].
35  But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?
36  unwise! you -- what you do sow is not quickened except it may die;
37  and that which you do sow, you do not sow the body that shall be, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,
38  and God does give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.
39  All flesh [is] not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;
40  and [there are] heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one [is] the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;
41  one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star does differ in glory.
42  So also [is] the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;
43  it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44  it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;
45  so also it has been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam [is] for a life-giving spirit,
46  but that which is spiritual [is] not first, but that which [was] natural, afterwards that which [is] spiritual.
47  The first man [is] out of the earth, earthy; the second man [is] the Lord out of heaven;
48  as [is] the earthy, such [are] also the earthy; and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] also the heavenly;
49  and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.
50  And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the reign of God, nor does the corruption inherit the incorruption;
51  behold, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;
52  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:
53  for it is necessary for this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;
54  and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that has been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;
55  where, O Death, your sting? where, O Hades, your victory?'
56  and the sting of the death [is] the sin, and the power of the sin the law;
57  and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;
58  so that, my brethren beloved, become you steadfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labor is not vain in the Lord.


CHAPTER 16

1  And concerning the collection that [is] for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also you -- do you;
2  on every first [day] of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;
3  and whenever I may come, whomsoever you may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favor to Jerusalem;
4  and if it be meet for me also to go, they shall go with me.
5  And I will come unto you, when I pass through Macedonia -- for I do pass through Macedonia --
6  and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that you may send me forward wheresoever I go,
7  for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;
8  and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,
9  for a door has been opened to me -- great and effectual -- and withstanders [are] many.
10  And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for he does work the work of the Lord, even as I,
11  no one, then, may despise him; and send you him forward in peace, that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren;
12  and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all [his] will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.
13  Watch you, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;
14  let all your things be done in love.
15  And I entreat you, brethren, you have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and they did set themselves to the ministration to the saints --
16  that you also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with [us] and laboring;
17  and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because these did fill up the lack of you;
18  for they did refresh my spirit and yours; acknowledge you, for that reason, those who [are] such.
19  Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; Aquilas and Priscilla do salute you much in the Lord, with the assembly in their house;
20  all the brethren do salute you; salute you one another in an holy kiss.
21  The salutation of [me] Paul with my hand;
22  if any one does not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be cursed! The Lord has come!
23  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you;
24  my love [is] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.



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