1Co 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 1Co 1:2 to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: 1Co 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1Co 1:4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; 1Co 1:5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; 1Co 1:6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 1Co 1:7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1Co 1:8 who will also strengthen you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Co 1:9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. 1Co 1:10 Now I appeal to you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1Co 1:11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you. 1Co 1:12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ." 1Co 1:13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? 1Co 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, 1Co 1:15 so that no one should say that you had been baptized into my own name. 1Co 1:16 (Now I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.) 1Co 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of the Christ would not be made void. 1Co 1:18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1Co 1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will nullify." 1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1Co 1:21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. 1Co 1:22 For Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom, 1Co 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to the non-Jews, 1Co 1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1Co 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than man's, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's. 1Co 1:26 For consider your calling, brothers, that not many were wise from a human perspective, not many mighty, not many of noble birth. 1Co 1:27 But God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise. And God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong. 1Co 1:28 And God chose the lowly of the world, and the despised, what is considered to be nothing, to bring to nothing what is considered to be something, 1Co 1:29 that no flesh might boast before God. 1Co 1:30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 1Co 1:31 so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord." 1Co 2:1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superiority of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God. 1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 1Co 2:3 When I was with you, I was weak and afraid and I shook. 1Co 2:4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 1Co 2:5 that your faith would not rest on human wisdom, but on the power of God. 1Co 2:6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature, but a wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are passing away. 1Co 2:7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God determined in advance before the ages for our glory, 1Co 2:8 which none of the rulers of this age has understood. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 1Co 2:9 But as it is written, No eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things which God has prepared for those who love him. 1Co 2:10 But to us God revealed it through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 1Co 2:11 For what person knows the things of a person except the spirit of the person that is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 1Co 2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 1Co 2:13 And we speak of these things, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 1Co 2:14 Now the natural person does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Co 2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. 1Co 2:16 For, "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Who will instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. 1Co 3:1 And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. 1Co 3:2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready, 1Co 3:3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and living by human standards? 1Co 3:4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not merely human? 1Co 3:5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him. 1Co 3:6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God made it grow. 1Co 3:7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow. 1Co 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 1Co 3:9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. 1Co 3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds on it. 1Co 3:11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1Co 3:12 But if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw; 1Co 3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. 1Co 3:14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 1Co 3:15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. 1Co 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? 1Co 3:17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are. 1Co 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He traps the wise in their craftiness." 1Co 3:20 And again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile." 1Co 3:21 Therefore let no one boast about people. For all things are yours, 1Co 3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, 1Co 3:23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. 1Co 4:1 So a person should consider us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 1Co 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. 1Co 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I do not judge my own self. 1Co 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 1Co 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one will get his praise from God. 1Co 4:6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. 1Co 4:7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? 1Co 4:8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. 1Co 4:9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and people. 1Co 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. 1Co 4:11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 1Co 4:12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. 1Co 4:13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. 1Co 4:14 I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 1Co 4:15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel. 1Co 4:16 I appeal to you therefore, be imitators of me. 1Co 4:17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church. 1Co 4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 1Co 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. 1Co 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 1Co 4:21 What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness? 1Co 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the nations, that one has his father's wife. 1Co 5:2 You are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you. 1Co 5:3 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. 1Co 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 1Co 5:5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 1Co 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? 1Co 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed for us. 1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1Co 5:9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; 1Co 5:10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. 1Co 5:11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a person. 1Co 5:12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are within? 1Co 5:13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked person from among yourselves." 1Co 6:1 If any of you has a dispute against another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous, instead of the saints? 1Co 6:2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 1Co 6:3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 1Co 6:4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who have no standing in the church? 1Co 6:5 I say this to move you to shame. Is not there even one wise person among you who would be able to decide between his brothers? 1Co 6:6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers. 1Co 6:7 Actually, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 1Co 6:8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and cheat, and that against your brothers. 1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor men who have sexual relations with men, 1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 1Co 6:11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. 1Co 6:12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 1Co 6:13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 1Co 6:14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. 1Co 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not. 1Co 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For he says, "The two will become one flesh." 1Co 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 1Co 6:18 Flee sexual immorality. "Every sin that a person does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 1Co 6:20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. 1Co 7:1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 1Co 7:2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 1Co 7:3 Let the husband fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 1Co 7:4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. 1Co 7:5 Do not deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to prayer, and may be together again, that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 1Co 7:6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. 1Co 7:7 Yet I wish that all people were like me. However each one has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. 1Co 7:8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. 1Co 7:9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn. 1Co 7:10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband 1Co 7:11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. 1Co 7:12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. 1Co 7:13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. 1Co 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. 1Co 7:15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called you to peace. 1Co 7:16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 1Co 7:17 Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the churches. 1Co 7:18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 1Co 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1Co 7:20 Let each person stay in that calling in which he was called. 1Co 7:21 Were you called being a slave? Do not let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. 1Co 7:22 For he who was called in the Lord being a slave is the Lord's free person. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's slave. 1Co 7:23 You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of people. 1Co 7:24 Brothers, let each one, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God. 1Co 7:25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. 1Co 7:26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a person to remain as he is. 1Co 7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 1Co 7:28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. 1Co 7:29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, those who have wives should be as though they had none;. 1Co 7:30 and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess; 1Co 7:31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the form of this world is passing away. 1Co 7:32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; 1Co 7:33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, 1Co 7:34 and is divided. And the woman that is unmarried, or a virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the one that is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 1Co 7:35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction. 1Co 7:36 But if anyone thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He does not sin. Let them marry. 1Co 7:37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. 1Co 7:38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage does better. 1Co 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord. 1Co 7:40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit. 1Co 8:1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 1Co 8:2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 1Co 8:3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. 1Co 8:4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. 1Co 8:5 For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;" 1Co 8:6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him. 1Co 8:7 However, not all have this knowledge. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 1Co 8:8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. 1Co 8:9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 1Co 8:10 For if someone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 1Co 8:11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whom the Christ died. 1Co 8:12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 1Co 8:13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble. 1Co 9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 1Co 9:2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of apostle in the Lord. 1Co 9:3 My defense to those who examine me is this. 1Co 9:4 Have we no right to eat and to drink? 1Co 9:5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 1Co 9:6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? 1Co 9:7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not drink from the flock's milk? 1Co 9:8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing? 1Co 9:9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares, 1Co 9:10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having a share. 1Co 9:11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? 1Co 9:12 If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 1Co 9:13 Do you not know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? 1Co 9:14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should live from the gospel. 1Co 9:15 But I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void. 1Co 9:16 For if I proclaim the gospel, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I do not proclaim the gospel. 1Co 9:17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. 1Co 9:18 What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the gospel, I may present the gospel without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the gospel. 1Co 9:19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 1Co 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 1Co 9:21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 1Co 9:22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I may by all means save some. 1Co 9:23 Now I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a joint partaker of it. 1Co 9:24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. 1Co 9:25 Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 1Co 9:26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 1Co 9:27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. 1Co 10:1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 1Co 10:2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 1Co 10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 1Co 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 1Co 10:5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 1Co 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 1Co 10:7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." 1Co 10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 1Co 10:9 Neither let us test the Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. 1Co 10:10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. 1Co 10:11 Now these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 1Co 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he does not fall. 1Co 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1Co 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 1Co 10:15 I speak as to wise people. Judge what I say. 1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a sharing of the body of Christ? 1Co 10:17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. 1Co 10:18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? 1Co 10:19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 1Co 10:20 But I say that the things which pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I do not desire that you would have fellowship with demons. 1Co 10:21 You cannot both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. 1Co 10:22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 1Co 10:23 "All things are lawful," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up. 1Co 10:24 Let no one seek his own, but his neighbor's good. 1Co 10:25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, 1Co 10:26 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness." 1Co 10:27 But if one of those who do not believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. 1Co 10:28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. 1Co 10:29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? 1Co 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks? 1Co 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1Co 10:32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God; 1Co 10:33 even as I also please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. 1Co 11:1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. 1Co 11:3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. 1Co 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. 1Co 11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. 1Co 11:6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. 1Co 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. 1Co 11:8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man; 1Co 11:9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. 1Co 11:10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels. 1Co 11:11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord. 1Co 11:12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God. 1Co 11:13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled? 1Co 11:14 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 1Co 11:15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering. 1Co 11:16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's churches. 1Co 11:17 But in giving you this command, I do not praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. 1Co 11:18 For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it. 1Co 11:19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you. 1Co 11:20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 1Co 11:21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunk. 1Co 11:22 What, do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's church, and put them to shame who do not have? What should I tell you? Should I praise you? In this I do not praise you. 1Co 11:23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. 1Co 11:24 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me." 1Co 11:25 In the same way he also took the cup, after the meal, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." 1Co 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 1Co 11:27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a manner unworthy will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 1Co 11:28 But let a person examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. 1Co 11:29 For he who eats and drinks eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not discern the body. 1Co 11:30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 1Co 11:31 For if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged. 1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. 1Co 11:33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another. 1Co 11:34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come. 1Co 12:1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. 1Co 12:2 You know that when you were unbelievers, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led. 1Co 12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit. 1Co 12:4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 1Co 12:5 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord. 1Co 12:6 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all. 1Co 12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all. 1Co 12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; 1Co 12:9 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the one Spirit; 1Co 12:10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues. 1Co 12:11 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. 1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 1Co 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink of one Spirit. 1Co 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many. 1Co 12:15 If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body. 1Co 12:16 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body. 1Co 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? 1Co 12:18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired. 1Co 12:19 If they were all one member, where would the body be? 1Co 12:20 But now they are many members, but one body. 1Co 12:21 The eye cannot tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you." 1Co 12:22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 1Co 12:23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety; 1Co 12:24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part, 1Co 12:25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 1Co 12:26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 1Co 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. 1Co 12:28 God has set some in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of tongues. 1Co 12:29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? 1Co 12:30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 1Co 12:31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you. 1Co 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding bronze, or a clanging cymbal. 1Co 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 1Co 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 1Co 13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud, 1Co 13:5 does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrongs; 1Co 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 1Co 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1Co 13:8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 1Co 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 1Co 13:10 but when that which is complete has come, that which is partial will be done away with. 1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become an adult, I have put away childish things. 1Co 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. 1Co 13:13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. 1Co 14:1 Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual things, and especially that you may prophesy. 1Co 14:2 For the one who speaks in another language speaks not to people, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. 1Co 14:3 But he who prophesies speaks to people for their encouragement, strengthening, and comfort. 1Co 14:4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 1Co 14:5 Now I would like you all to speak in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy, and he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the church may be built up. 1Co 14:6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? 1Co 14:7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they did not give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? 1Co 14:8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? 1Co 14:9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air. 1Co 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning. 1Co 14:11 If then I do not know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me. 1Co 14:12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the church. 1Co 14:13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret. 1Co 14:14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 1Co 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 1Co 14:16 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not know what you say? 1Co 14:17 For you truly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up. 1Co 14:18 I thank God I speak in tongues more than you all. 1Co 14:19 However in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language. 1Co 14:20 Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. 1Co 14:21 In the law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people; but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord. 1Co 14:22 Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. 1Co 14:23 If therefore the whole church is assembled together and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy? 1Co 14:24 But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. 1Co 14:25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed. 1Co 14:26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up. 1Co 14:27 If anyone speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. 1Co 14:28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church, and let him speak to himself, and to God. 1Co 14:29 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern. 1Co 14:30 But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent. 1Co 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 1Co 14:32 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, 1Co 14:33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, 1Co 14:34 let the women keep silent in the churches, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the Law also says. 1Co 14:35 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the church. 1Co 14:36 What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone? 1Co 14:37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord. 1Co 14:38 But if someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized. 1Co 14:39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. 1Co 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order. 1Co 15:1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, 1Co 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 1Co 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 1Co 15:4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 1Co 15:5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 1Co 15:6 After that he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. 1Co 15:7 After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 1Co 15:8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. 1Co 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 1Co 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1Co 15:11 Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed. 1Co 15:12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 1Co 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised. 1Co 15:14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain. 1Co 15:15 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised. 1Co 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. 1Co 15:17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. 1Co 15:18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 1Co 15:19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied. 1Co 15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 1Co 15:21 For since death came by a man, the resurrection of the dead also came by a man. 1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 1Co 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming. 1Co 15:24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. 1Co 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 1Co 15:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. 1Co 15:27 For, "He put all things under his feet." But when he says "all things" are put under, it is evident that the one who put all things under is the exception. 1Co 15:28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all. 1Co 15:29 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them? 1Co 15:30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? 1Co 15:31 I affirm, brothers, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 1Co 15:32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." 1Co 15:33 Do not be deceived. "Bad company corrupts good morals." 1Co 15:34 Become sober-minded, and do not sin, for some are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame. 1Co 15:35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?" 1Co 15:36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies. 1Co 15:37 That which you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. 1Co 15:38 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. 1Co 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of humans, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. 1Co 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial. 1Co 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. 1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. 1Co 15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 1Co 15:46 However that which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual. 1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is from heaven. 1Co 15:48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1Co 15:49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. 1Co 15:50 Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. 1Co 15:51 Look, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. 1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 1Co 15:54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." 1Co 15:55 "Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?" 1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Co 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1Co 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the churches of Galatia, you do likewise. 1Co 16:2 On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. 1Co 16:3 When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem. 1Co 16:4 If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me. 1Co 16:5 But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia. 1Co 16:6 But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go. 1Co 16:7 For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits. 1Co 16:8 But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, 1Co 16:9 for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. 1Co 16:10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. 1Co 16:11 Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers. 1Co 16:12 Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. 1Co 16:13 Watch. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. 1Co 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love. 1Co 16:15 Now I appeal to you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints), 1Co 16:16 that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors. 1Co 16:17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. 1Co 16:18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that. 1Co 16:19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the church that is in their house. 1Co 16:20 All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 1Co 16:21 This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand. 1Co 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Our Lord, come. 1Co 16:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 1Co 16:24 My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Table of Contents No comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
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