Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

For I passed on to you as most important what I also received:

that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.

Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it.

If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,
I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.

Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when He was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread,

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God’s glory.

For whenever someone says, “I’m with Paul,” and another, “I’m with Apollos,” are you not unspiritual people?

I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

But as it is written:

What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.

Listen! I am telling you a mystery:

We will not all fall asleep,
but we will all be changed,

I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

Now I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.

Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.

Now concerning what comes from the Spirit: brothers, I do not want you to be unaware.

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

So the body is not one part but many.

To God’s church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea,

Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

yet for us there is one God, the Father.
All things are from Him,
and we exist for Him.
And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.
All things are through Him,
and we exist through Him.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated?

For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
Now I know in part,
but then I will know fully,
as I am fully known.

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but should be submissive, as the law also says.

Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.

For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.

Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial:

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

Love never ends.
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

The cup of blessing that we give thanks for, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

For if someone sees you, the one who has this knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?

that by Him you were enriched in everything—in all speech and all knowledge.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.

Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

As in all the churches of the saints,

Now about the collection for the saints: You should do the same as I instructed the Galatian churches.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

Paul, called as an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Sosthenes our brother:

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised.

Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and above all that you may prophesy.

And God has placed these in the church:

first apostles, second prophets,
third teachers, next miracles,
then gifts of healing, helping,
managing, various kinds of languages.

Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?

And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Now I praise you because you always remember me and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.

About food offered to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

In this way, the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you,

On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he prospers, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.

Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man, be strong.

What then is the conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a revelation, another language, or an interpretation. All things must be done for edification.

For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe’s household, that there is rivalry among you.

So, whoever thinks he stands must be careful not to fall.

Therefore I am informing you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.

If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Therefore don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy way will be guilty of sin against the body and blood of the Lord.

For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

I am pleased to have Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus present, because these men have made up for your absence.

but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her as a covering.

Is Christ divided? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in Paul’s name?

gave thanks, broke it, and said, “This is My body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”

I command the married—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave her husband.

Instead, you act unjustly and cheat—and you do this to believers!

What I am saying is this: Each of you says, “I’m with Paul,” or “I’m with Apollos,” or “I’m with Cephas,” or “I’m with Christ.”

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.

But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband—and a husband is not to leave his wife.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in what is offered on the altar?

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread.

Then the weak person, the brother for whom Christ died, is ruined by your knowledge.

For the unbelieving husband is set apart for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart for God by the husband. Otherwise your children would be corrupt, but now they are set apart for God.

If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?

However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.

Otherwise, if you praise with the spirit, how will the uninformed person say “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?

I did, in fact, baptize the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t know if I baptized anyone else.

Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.

I am speaking as to wise people. Judge for yourselves what I say.

Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not leave her husband.

Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.

so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.

And if they were all the same part, where would the body be?

Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore recognize such people.

But now God has placed each one of the parts in one body just as He wanted.

You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us—and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother to fall.

Now there are many parts, yet one body.

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.

But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves.

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

so that your faith might not be based on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.

when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

For you, wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Or you, husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside?

Were you called while a slave? It should not be a concern to you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.

But even more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

Brothers, each person should remain with God in whatever situation he was called.

I thank God that I speak in other languages more than all of you;

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

But our presentable parts have no need of clothing. Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable,

so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law—though I myself am not under the law—to win those under the law.

Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter, but keeping God’s commands does.

Each person should remain in the life situation in which he was called.

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Therefore, when you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s Supper.

If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,

in order that, as it is written: The one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.

Do all have gifts of healing?
Do all speak in other languages?
Do all interpret?

God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

I wish that all people were just like me. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this way and another in that way.

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.

A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.

Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!

Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?

It is written in the law:

I will speak to these people
by people of other languages
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to Me,

says the Lord.

The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, along with the church that meets in their home.

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.

Nor should we complain as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.

for the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it.

each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake,

If I partake with thanks, why am I slandered because of something I give thanks for?

Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

I say the following as a concession, not as a command.

And those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have a better presentation.

If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

It follows that speaking in other languages is intended as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers. But prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

so that no one can boast in His presence.

and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

but when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus,

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

If one of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions of conscience.

Therefore, if the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in other languages and people who are uninformed or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

Are all apostles? Are all prophets?
Are all teachers? Do all do miracles?

But if someone says to you, “This is food offered to an idol,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake.

Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.

For though I am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present.

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate.

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.

There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—

Now some are inflated with pride, as though I were not coming to you.

to another, faith by the same Spirit,
to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

Let us not test Christ as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes.

But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent.

And there are different activities, but the same God activates each gift in each person.

They all ate the same spiritual food,

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.

Or do Barnabas and I alone have no right to refrain from working?

But if all are prophesying and some unbeliever or uninformed person comes in, he is convicted by all and is judged by all.

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.

My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.

Now I do all this because of the gospel, so I may become a partner in its benefits.

If any person speaks in another language, there should be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and someone must interpret.

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000 words in another language.

My defense to those who examine me is this:

For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.

However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are meaningless.

The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.

If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.

But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk but the power of those who are inflated with pride.

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

And the prophets’ spirits are under the control of the prophets,

Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?

But if there is no interpreter, that person should keep silent in the church and speak to himself and to God.

So no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours—

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged.

But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?

This is why a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

I always thank my God for you because of God’s grace given to you in Christ Jesus,

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

Don’t you know that we will judge angels—not to mention ordinary matters?

In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, and man is not independent of woman.

For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.

For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

For He must reign until He puts all His enemies under His feet.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ!