For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Let all your things be done with charity.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
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.
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Let all things be done decently and in order.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
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.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.