Bible (King James)/1 Corinthians
Chapter 1
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the willof God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that aresanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all thatin every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,both their's and our's:
3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and fromthe Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of Godwhich is given you by Jesus Christ;
5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance,and in all knowledge;
6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming ofour Lord Jesus Christ:
8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may beblameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship ofhis Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord JesusChrist, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be nodivisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined togetherin the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by themwhich are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentionsamong you.
12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; andI of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were yebaptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus andGaius;
15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, Iknow not whether I baptized any other.
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should bemade of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perishfoolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power ofGod.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, andwill bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputerof this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of thisworld?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knewnot God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching tosave them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews astumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christthe power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and theweakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise menafter the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world toconfound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of theworld to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised,hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring tonought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto uswisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let himglory in the Lord.
Chapter 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellencyof speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony ofGod.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save JesusChrist, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in muchtrembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words ofman's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but inthe power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet notthe wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world,that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hiddenwisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had theyknown it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,neither have entered into the heart of man, the things whichGod hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for theSpirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit ofman which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man,but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but thespirit which is of God; that we might know the things that arefreely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man'swisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparingspiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit ofGod: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he knowthem, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself isjudged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instructhim? But we have the mind of Christ.
Chapter 3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto yewere not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying,and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am ofApollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom yebelieved, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he thatwatereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and everyman shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God'shusbandry, ye are God's building.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as awise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and anotherbuildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeththereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, whichis Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver,precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shalldeclare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fireshall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, heshall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: buthe himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spiritof God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy;for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to bewise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may bewise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For itis written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, thatthey are vain.
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, ordeath, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Chapter 4
1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, andstewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be foundfaithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judgedof you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified:but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come,who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness,and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and thenshall every man have praise of God.
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred tomyself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn inus not to think of men above that which is written, that noone of you be puffed up for one against another.
7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thouthat thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, whydost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kingswithout us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we alsomight reign with you.
9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, asit were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle untothe world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; weare weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we aredespised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, andare naked, and are buffeted, and have no certaindwellingplace;
12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, webless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of theearth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sonsI warn you.
15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yethave ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begottenyou through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is mybeloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring youinto remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teachevery where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and willknow, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but thepower.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love,and in the spirit of meekness?
Chapter 5
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,and such fornication as is not so much as named among theGentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that hethat hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, havejudged already, as though I were present, concerning him thathath so done this deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gatheredtogether, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord JesusChrist,
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of theflesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the LordJesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leavenleaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover issacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neitherwith the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with theunleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company withfornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or withthe covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for thenmust ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if anyman that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, oran idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;with such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? donot ye judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away fromamong yourselves that wicked person.
Chapter 6
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to lawbefore the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and ifthe world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge thesmallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more thingsthat pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life,set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise manamong you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between hisbrethren?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before theunbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because yego to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong?why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdomof God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters,nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves withmankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, norextortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye aresanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the LordJesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are notexpedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not bebrought under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shalldestroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication,but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise upus by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shallI then take the members of Christ, and make them the membersof an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is onebody? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without thebody; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against hisown body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the HolyGhost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are notyour own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in yourbody, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Chapter 7
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is goodfor a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his ownwife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: andlikewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: andlikewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, butthe wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for atime, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; andcome together again, that Satan tempt you not for yourincontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every manhath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, andanother after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good forthem if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is betterto marry than to burn.
10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Letnot the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or bereconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put awayhis wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath awife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him,let him not put her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and ifhe be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and theunbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were yourchildren unclean; but now are they holy.
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or asister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath calledus to peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thyhusband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt savethy wife?
17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hathcalled every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in allchurches.
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not becomeuncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not becircumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, butthe keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thoumayest be made free, use it rather.
22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is theLord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free,is Christ's servant.
23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abidewith God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yetI give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of theLord to be faithful.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the presentdistress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thouloosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virginmarry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall havetrouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they thatrejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, asthough they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for thefashion of this world passeth away.
32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarriedcareth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he mayplease the Lord:
33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of theworld, how he may please his wife.
34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. Theunmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that shemay be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that ismarried careth for the things of the world, how she may pleaseher husband.
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast asnare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye mayattend upon the Lord without distraction.
36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely towardhis virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need sorequire, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let themmarry.
37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having nonecessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath sodecreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he thatgiveth her not in marriage doeth better.
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth;but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married towhom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and Ithink also that I have the Spirit of God.
Chapter 8
1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we allhave knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knowethnothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that areoffered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol isnothing in the world, and that there is none other God butone.
5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven orin earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are allthings, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom areall things, and we by him.
7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for somewith conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thingoffered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak isdefiled.
8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, arewe the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's becomea stumblingblock to them that are weak.
10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat inthe idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which isweak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered toidols;
11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, forwhom Christ died?
12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weakconscience, ye sin against Christ.
13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat noflesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother tooffend.
Chapter 9
1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen JesusChrist our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you:for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well asother apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who plantetha vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or whofeedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the samealso?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzlethe mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God takecare for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, nodoubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow inhope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker ofhis hope.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thingif we shall reap your carnal things?
12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not werather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but sufferall things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things liveof the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altarare partakers with the altar?
14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach thegospel should live of the gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I writtenthese things, that it should be so done unto me: for it werebetter for me to die, than that any man should make myglorying void.
16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of:for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if Ipreach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but ifagainst my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committedunto me.
18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel,I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abusenot my power in the gospel.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myselfservant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain theJews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that Imight gain them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being notwithout law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I mightgain them that are without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I ammade all things to all men, that I might by all means savesome.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partakerthereof with you.
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but onereceiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate inall things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; butwe an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as onethat beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lestthat by any means, when I have preached to others, I myselfshould be a castaway.
Chapter 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant,how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passedthrough the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank ofthat spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock wasChrist.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they wereoverthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we shouldnot lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it iswritten, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up toplay.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed,and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, andwere destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and weredestroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: andthey are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of theworld are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest hefall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common toman: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to betempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptationalso make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion ofthe blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not thecommunion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are allpartakers of that one bread.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of thesacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which isoffered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, theysacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that yeshould have fellowship with devils.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: yecannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table ofdevils.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are notexpedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edifynot.
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking noquestion for conscience sake:
26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye bedisposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking noquestion for conscience sake.
28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice untoidols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for consciencesake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why ismy liberty judged of another man's conscience?
30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of forthat for which I give thanks?
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, doall to the glory of God.
32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles,nor to the church of God:
33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine ownprofit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Chapter 11
1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things,and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man isChrist; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head ofChrist is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,dishonoureth his head.
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her headuncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one asif she were shaven.
6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but ifit be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her becovered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as heis the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory ofthe man.
8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman forthe man.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her headbecause of the angels.
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither thewoman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by thewoman; but all things of God.
13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto Goduncovered?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man havelong hair, it is a shame unto him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for herhair is given her for a covering.
16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,neither the churches of God.
17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that yecome together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hearthat there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which areapproved may be made manifest among you.
20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not toeat the Lord's supper.
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper:and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise yethe church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall Isay to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I deliveredunto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he wasbetrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take,eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do inremembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he hadsupped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood:this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye doshew the Lord's death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cupof the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and bloodof the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of thatbread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth anddrinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and manysleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that weshould not be condemned with the world.
33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarryone for another.
34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come nottogether unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in orderwhen I come.
Chapter 12
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have youignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumbidols, even as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking bythe Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man cansay that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the sameLord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the sameGod which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man toprofit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; toanother the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts ofhealing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; toanother discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds oftongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit,dividing to every man severally as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all themembers of that one body, being many, are one body: so also isChrist.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whetherwe be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and havebeen all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not ofthe body; is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am notof the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If thewhole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in thebody, as it hath pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee:nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to bemore feeble, are necessary:
23 And those members of the body, which we think to be lesshonourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and ouruncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered thebody together, having given more abundant honour to that partwhich lacked.
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that themembers should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it;or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles,secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles,then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities oftongues.
29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are allworkers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? doall interpret?
31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you amore excellent way.
Chapter 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and havenot charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinklingcymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand allmysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, sothat I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I amnothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and thoughI give my body to be burned, and have not charity, itprofiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is noteasily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, theyshall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease;whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is inpart shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as achild, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I putaway childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I amknown.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but thegreatest of these is charity.
Chapter 14
1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but ratherthat ye may prophesy.
2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not untomen, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit inthe spirit he speaketh mysteries.
3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, andexhortation, and comfort.
4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but hethat prophesieth edifieth the church.
5 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that yeprophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he thatspeaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the churchmay receive edifying.
6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, whatshall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either byrevelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or bydoctrine?
7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe orharp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shallit be known what is piped or harped?
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall preparehimself to the battle?
9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to beunderstood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shallspeak into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world,and none of them is without signification.
11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall beunto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shallbe a barbarian unto me.
12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts,seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray thathe may interpret.
14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but myunderstanding is unfruitful.
15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will praywith the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, andI will sing with the understanding also.
16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he thatoccupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving ofthanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is notedified.
18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with myunderstanding, that by my voice I might teach others also,than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malicebe ye children, but in understanding be men.
21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and otherlips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that willthey not hear me, saith the Lord.
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe,but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not forthem that believe not, but for them which believe.
23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place,and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that areunlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not,or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and sofalling down on his face he will worship God, and report thatGod is in you of a truth.
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one ofyou hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath arevelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be doneunto edifying.
27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or atthe most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in thechurch; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let thefirst hold his peace.
31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, andall may be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as inall churches of the saints.
34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is notpermitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to beunder obedience as also saith the law.
35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbandsat home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto youonly?
37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, lethim acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are thecommandments of the Lord.
38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not tospeak with tongues.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
Chapter 15
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which Ipreached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein yestand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what Ipreached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I alsoreceived, how that Christ died for our sins according to thescriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third dayaccording to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren atonce; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, butsome are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out ofdue time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to becalled an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace whichwas bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured moreabundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of Godwhich was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so yebelieved.
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how saysome among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christnot risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, andyour faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we havetestified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised notup, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet inyour sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all menmost miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become thefirstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrectionof the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be madealive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up thekingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put downall rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under hisfeet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saithall things are put under him, it is manifest that he isexcepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall theSon also himself be subject unto him that put all things underhim, that God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, ifthe dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for thedead?
30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus ourLord, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts atEphesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let useat and drink; for to morrow we die.
33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not theknowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and withwhat body do they come?
36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except itdie:
37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body thatshall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of someother grain:
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to everyseed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind offlesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, andanother of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: butthe glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of theterrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth fromanother star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown incorruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown inweakness; 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 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a livingsoul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that whichis natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is theLord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and asis the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall alsobear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inheritthe kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inheritincorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but weshall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raisedincorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortalmust put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, andthis mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall bebrought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowedup in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through ourLord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye knowthat your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Chapter 16
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have givenorder to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by himin store, as God hath prospered him, that there be nogatherings when I come.
3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters,them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia:for I do pass through Macedonia.
6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you,that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry awhile with you, if the Lord permit.
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and thereare many adversaries.
10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you withoutfear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth inpeace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with thebrethren.
12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to comeunto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all tocome at this time; but he will come when he shall haveconvenient time.
13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, bestrong.
14 Let all your things be done with charity.
15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, thatit is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addictedthemselves to the ministry of the saints,)
16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one thathelpeth with us, and laboureth.
17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus andAchaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they havesupplied.
18 For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: thereforeacknowledge ye them that are such.
19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla saluteyou much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holykiss.
21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be AnathemaMaranatha.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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