Chapter 1
1CO 1:1 Paul,
called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of
God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1CO 1:2 to the church of God which is at
Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ
Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every
place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
their Lord and ours:
1CO 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1CO 1:4 I thank my God always 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 concerning
Christ was confirmed in you,
1CO 1:7 so that you are not lacking in any
gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord
Jesus Christ,
1CO 1:8 who shall also confirm 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 fellowship with His Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord.
1CO 1:10 Now I exhort you, brethren, by the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree,
and there be no divisions among you, but you be made
complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1CO 1:11 For I have been informed concerning
you, my brethren, by Chloe's people, that there are
quarrels among you.
1CO 1:12 Now I mean this, that each one of
you is saying, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos,"
and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ."
1CO 1:13 Has Christ been divided? Paul was
not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized
in the name of Paul?
1CO 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of
you except Crispus and Gaius,
1CO 1:15 that no man should say you were
baptized in my name.
1CO 1:16 Now I did baptize also the household
of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I
baptized any other.
1CO 1:17 For Christ did not send me to
baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness
of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be
made void.
1CO 1:18 For the word of the cross is to
those who are perishing foolishness, 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 cleverness of the
clever I will set aside."
1CO 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the
scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not
God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1CO 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the
world through its wisdom did not come to know God,
God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the
message preached to save those who believe.
1CO 1:22 For indeed Jews ask for signs, and
Greeks search for wisdom;
1CO 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, to
Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness,
1CO 1:24 but to those who are the called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and
the wisdom of God.
1CO 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is
wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger
than men.
1CO 1:26 For consider your calling, brethren,
that there were not many wise according to the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
1CO 1:27 but God has chosen the foolish
things of the world to shame the wise, and God has
chosen the weak things of the world to shame the
things which are strong,
1CO 1:28 and the base things of the world and
the despised, God has chosen, the things that are
not, that He might nullify the things that are,
1CO 1:29 that no man should boast before God.
1CO 1:30 But by His doing you are in Christ
Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and
righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
1CO 1:31 that, just as it is written, "Let
him who boasts, boast in the Lord."
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1CO 2:1 And when
I came to you, brethren, I did not come with
superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to
you the testimony of God.
1CO 2:2 For I determined to know nothing
among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
1CO 2:3 And I was with you in weakness and in
fear and in much trembling.
1CO 2:4 And my message 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 should not rest on
the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
1CO 2:6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those
who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age,
nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
1CO 2:7 but we speak God's wisdom in a
mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined
before the ages to our glory;
1CO 2:8 the wisdom which none of the rulers
of this age has understood; for if they had
understood it, they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory;
1CO 2:9 but just as it is written, "Things
which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And
which have not entered the heart of man, All that
God has prepared for those who love Him."
1CO 2:10 For to us God revealed them through
the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even
the depths of God.
1CO 2:11 For who among men knows the thoughts
of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in
him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except
the Spirit of God.
1CO 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that
we might know the things freely given to us by God,
1CO 2:13 which things we also speak, not in
words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by
the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with
spiritual words.
1CO 2:14 But a natural man does not accept
the things of the Spirit of God; for they are
foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them,
because they are spiritually appraised.
1CO 2:15 But he who is spiritual appraises
all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man.
1CO 2:16 For who has known the mind of the
Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the
mind of Christ.
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1CO 3:1 And I,
brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual
men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ.
1CO 3:2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid
food; for you were not yet able to receive it.
Indeed, even now you are not yet able,
1CO 3:3 for you are still fleshly. For since
there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not
fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
1CO 3:4 For when one says, "I am of Paul,"
and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere
men?
1CO 3:5 What then is Apollos? And what is
Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as
the Lord gave opportunity to each one.
1CO 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God
was causing the growth.
1CO 3:7 So then neither the one who plants
nor the one who waters is anything, but God who
causes the growth.
1CO 3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters
are one; 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 is building upon it. But let
each man be careful how he builds upon it.
1CO 3:11 For no man can lay a foundation
other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.
1CO 3:12 Now if any man builds upon the
foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood,
hay, straw,
1CO 3:13 each man's work will become evident;
for the day will show it, because it is to be
revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test
the quality of each man's work.
1CO 3:14 If any man's work which he has built
upon it remains, he shall receive a reward.
1CO 3:15 If any man's work is burned up, he
shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved,
yet so as through fire.
1CO 3:16 Do you not know that you are a
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in
you?
1CO 3:17 If any man destroys the temple of
God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is
holy, and that is what you are.
1CO 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any
man among you thinks that he is wise in this age,
let him become foolish that he may become wise.
1CO 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is
the one who catches the wise in their craftiness";
1CO 3:20 and again, "The Lord knows the
reasonings of the wise, that they are useless."
1CO 3:21 So then let no one boast in men. For
all things belong to you,
1CO 3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or
the world or life or death or things present or
things to come; all things belong to you,
1CO 3:23 and you belong to Christ; and Christ
belongs to God.
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1CO 4:1 Let a man
regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ, and
stewards of the mysteries of God.
1CO 4:2 In this case, moreover, it is
required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.
1CO 4:3 But to me it is a very small thing
that I should be examined by you, or by any human
court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.
1CO 4:4 For I am conscious of nothing against
myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one
who examines me is the Lord.
1CO 4:5 Therefore do not go on passing
judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord
comes who will both bring to light the things hidden
in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's
hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him
from God.
1CO 4:6 Now these things, brethren, I have
figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your
sakes, that in us you might learn not to exceed what
is written, in order that no one of you might become
arrogant in behalf of one against the other.
1CO 4:7 For who regards you as superior? 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 become kings without
us; and I would indeed that you had become kings so
that we also might reign with you.
1CO 4:9 For, I think, God has exhibited us
apostles last of all, as men condemned to death;
because we have become a spectacle to the world,
both to angels and to men.
1CO 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but
you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are
strong; you are distinguished, but we are without
honor.
1CO 4:11 To this present hour we are both
hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are
roughly treated, and are homeless;
1CO 4:12 and we toil, working with our own
hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are
persecuted, we endure;
1CO 4:13 when we are slandered, we try to
conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world,
the dregs of all things, 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 if you were to have countless
tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many
fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father
through the gospel.
1CO 4:16 I exhort you therefore, be imitators
of me.
1CO 4:17 For this reason I have sent to you
Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the
Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in
Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
1CO 4:18 Now some have become arrogant, as
though I were not coming to you.
1CO 4:19 But I will come to you soon, if the
Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of
those who are arrogant, but their power.
1CO 4:20 For the kingdom of God does not
consist in words, but in power.
1CO 4:21 1 What do you desire? Shall I come
to you with a rod or with love and a spirit of
gentleness?
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1CO 5:1 It is
actually reported that there is immorality among
you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist
even among the Gentiles, that someone has his
father's wife.
1CO 5:2 And you have become arrogant, and
have not mourned instead, in order that the one who
had done this deed might be removed from your midst.
1CO 5:3 For I, on my part, though absent in
body but present in spirit, have already judged him
who has so committed this, as though I were present.
1CO 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when
you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with
the power of our Lord Jesus,
1CO 5:5 I have decided to deliver such a one
to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his
spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1CO 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not
know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of
dough?
1CO 5:7 Clean out the old leaven, that you
may be a new lump, just as you are in fact
unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been
sacrificed.
1CO 5:8 Let us therefore celebrate the feast,
not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice
and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
1CO 5:9 I wrote you in my letter not to
associate with immoral people;
1CO 5:10 I did not at all mean with the
immoral people of this world, or with the covetous
and swindlers, or with idolaters; for then you would
have to go out of the world.
1CO 5:11 But actually, I wrote to you not to
associate with any so-called brother if he should be
an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler - - not even
to eat with such a one.
1CO 5:12 For what have I to do with judging
outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the
church?
1CO 5:13 But those who are outside, God
judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.
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1CO 6:1 Does any
one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor,
dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not
before the saints?
1CO 6:2 Or do you not know that the saints
will judge the world? And if the world is judged by
you, are you not competent to constitute the
smallest law courts?
1CO 6:3 Do you not know that we shall judge
angels? How much more, matters of this life?
1CO 6:4 If then you have law courts dealing
with matters of this life, do you appoint them as
judges who are of no account in the church?
1CO 6:5 I say this to your shame. Is it so,
that there is not among you one wise man who will be
able to decide between his brethren,
1CO 6:6 but brother goes to law with brother,
and that before unbelievers?
1CO 6:7 Actually, then, it is already a
defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one
another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather
be defrauded?
1CO 6:8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong
and defraud, and that your brethren.
1CO 6:9 Or do you not know that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
1CO 6:10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall
inherit the kingdom of God.
1CO 6:11 And 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 profitable. All things are lawful
for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
1CO 6:13 Food is for the stomach, and the
stomach is for food; but God will do away with both
of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for
the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.
1CO 6:14 Now God has not only raised the
Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.
1CO 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are
members of Christ? Shall I then take away the
members of Christ and make them members of a harlot?
May it never be!
1CO 6:16 Or do you not know that the one who
joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For
He says, "The two will become one flesh."
1CO 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the
Lord is one spirit with Him.
1CO 6:18 Flee immorality. Every other sin
that a man commits is outside the body, but the
immoral man sins against his own body.
1CO 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is
a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
have from God, and that you are not your own?
1CO 6:20 For you have been bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your body.
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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 immoralities, let each
man have his own wife, and let each woman have her
own husband.
1CO 7:3 Let the husband fulfill his 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 does; and likewise
also the husband does not have authority over his
own body, but the wife does.
1CO 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by
agreement for a time that you may devote yourselves
to prayer, and come together again lest Satan tempt
you because of your lack of self-control.
1CO 7:6 But this I say by way of concession,
not of command.
1CO 7:7 Yet I wish that all men were even as
I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from
God, one in this manner, and another in that.
1CO 7:8 But I say to the unmarried and to
widows that it is good for them if they remain even
as I.
1CO 7:9 But if they do not have self-control,
let them marry; for it is better to marry than to
burn.
1CO 7:10 But to the married I give
instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife
should not leave her husband
1CO 7:11 (but if she does leave, let her
remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her
husband), and that the husband should not send his
wife away.
1CO 7:12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord,
that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever,
and she consents to live with him, let him not send
her away.
1CO 7:13 And a woman who has an unbelieving
husband, and he consents to live with her, let her
not send her husband away.
1CO 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is
sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving
wife is sanctified through her believing husband;
for otherwise your children are unclean, but now
they are holy.
1CO 7:15 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves,
let him leave; the brother or the sister is not
under bondage in such cases, but God has called us
to peace.
1CO 7:16 For how do you know, O wife, whether
you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O
husband, whether you will save your wife?
1CO 7:17 Only, as the Lord has assigned to
each one, as God has called each, in this manner let
him walk. And thus I direct in all the churches.
1CO 7:18 Was any man called already
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 what matters is the
keeping of the commandments of God.
1CO 7:20 Let each man remain in that
condition in which he was called.
1CO 7:21 Were you called while a slave? Do
not worry about it; but if you are able also to
become free, rather do that.
1CO 7:22 For he who was called in the Lord
while a slave, is the Lord's freedman; likewise he
who was called while free, is Christ's slave.
1CO 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not
become slaves of men.
1CO 7:24 Brethren, let each man remain with
God in that condition in which he was called.
1CO 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no
command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one
who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.
1CO 7:26 I think then that this is good in
view of the present distress, that it is good for a
man to remain as he is.
1CO 7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek
to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not
seek a wife.
1CO 7:28 But if you should marry, you have
not sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she has
not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life,
and I am trying to spare you.
1CO 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time
has been shortened, so 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
though they did not make full use of it; for the
form of this world is passing away.
1CO 7:32 But I want you to be free from
concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the
things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
1CO 7:33 but one who is married is concerned
about the things of the world, how he may please his
wife,
1CO 7:34 and his interests are divided. And
the woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is
concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may
be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is
married is concerned about the things of the world,
how she may please her husband.
1CO 7:35 And this I say for your own benefit;
not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what
is seemly, and to secure undistracted devotion to
the Lord.
1CO 7:36 But if any man thinks that he is
acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if
she should be of full age, and if it must be so, let
him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her
marry.
1CO 7:37 But he who stands firm in his heart,
being under no constraint, but has authority over
his own will, and has decided this in his own heart,
to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.
1CO 7:38 So then both he who gives his own
virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who
does not give her in marriage will do better.
1CO 7:39 A wife is bound as long as her
husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is
free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the
Lord.
1CO 7:40 But in my opinion she is happier if
she remains as she is; and I think that I also have
the Spirit of God.
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1CO 8:1 Now
concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that
we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but
love edifies.
1CO 8:2 If anyone supposes that he knows
anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
1CO 8:3 but if anyone loves God, he is known
by Him.
1CO 8:4 Therefore concerning the eating of
things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no
such thing as an idol in the world, and that there
is no God but one.
1CO 8:5 For even if there are so-called gods
whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are
many gods and many lords,
1CO 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the
Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for
Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all
things, and we exist through Him.
1CO 8:7 However not all men have this
knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol
until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an
idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1CO 8:8 But food will not commend us to God;
we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the
better if we do eat.
1CO 8:9 But take care lest this liberty of
yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
1CO 8:10 For if someone sees you, who have
knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his
conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat
things sacrificed to idols?
1CO 8:11 For through your knowledge he who is
weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ
died.
1CO 8:12 And thus, by sinning against the
brethren 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 never eat meat again, that I
might not cause my brother to stumble.
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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, at
least I am to you; for you are the seal of my
apostleship in the Lord.
1CO 9:3 My defense to those who examine me is
this:
1CO 9:4 Do we not have a right to eat and
drink?
1CO 9:5 Do we not have a right to take along
a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles,
and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
1CO 9:6 Or do only Barnabas and I not have a
right to refrain from working?
1CO 9:7 Who at any time serves as a soldier
at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does
not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and
does not use the milk of the flock?
1CO 9:8 I am not speaking these things
according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the
Law also say these things?
1CO 9:9 For it is written in the Law of
Moses, "You shall not muzzle the ox while he is
threshing." God is not concerned about oxen, is He?
1CO 9:10 Or is He speaking altogether for our
sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the
plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to
thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
1CO 9:11 If we sowed spiritual things in you,
is it too much if we should reap material things
from you?
1CO 9:12 If others share the right over you,
do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this
right, but we endure all things, that we may cause
no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
1CO 9:13 Do you not know that those who
perform sacred services eat the food of the temple,
and those who attend regularly to the altar have
their share with the altar?
1CO 9:14 So also the Lord directed those who
proclaim the gospel to get their living from the
gospel.
1CO 9:15 But I have used none of these
things. And I am not writing these things that it
may be done so in my case; for it would be better
for me to die than have any man make my boast an
empty one.
1CO 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, I have
nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for
woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.
1CO 9:17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have
a reward; but if against my will, I have a
stewardship entrusted to me.
1CO 9:18 What then is my reward? That, when I
preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without
charge, so as not to make full use of my right in
the gospel.
1CO 9:19 For though I am free from all men, I
have made myself a slave to all, that I might win
the more.
1CO 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew,
that I might win Jews; to those who are under the
Law, as under the Law, though not being myself under
the Law, that I might win those who are under the
Law;
1CO 9:21 to those who are without law, as
without law, though not being without the law of God
but under the law of Christ, that I might win those
who are without law.
1CO 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I
might win the weak; I have become all things to all
men, that I may by all means save some.
1CO 9:23 And I do all things for the sake of
the gospel, that I may become a fellow partaker of
it.
1CO 9:24 Do you not know that those who run
in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?
Run in such a way that you may win.
1CO 9:25 And everyone who competes in the
games exercises self-control in all things. They
then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an
imperishable.
1CO 9:26 Therefore I run in such a way, as
not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating
the air;
1CO 9:27 but I buffet my body and make it my
slave, lest possibly, after I have preached to
others, I myself should be disqualified.
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1CO 10:1 For I do
not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our
fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
1CO 10:2 and all were 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 were drinking from a spiritual rock
which followed them; and the rock was Christ.
1CO 10:5 Nevertheless, with most of them God
was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the
wilderness.
1CO 10:6 Now these things happened as
examples for us, that we should not crave evil
things, as they also craved.
1CO 10:7 And do not be idolaters, as some of
them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to
eat and drink, and stood up to play."
1CO 10:8 Nor let us act immorally, as some of
them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
1CO 10:9 Nor let us try the Lord, as some of
them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.
1CO 10:10 Nor grumble, as some of them did,
and were destroyed by the destroyer.
1CO 10:11 Now these things happened to them
as an example, and they were written for our
instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have
come.
1CO 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he
stands take heed lest he fall.
1CO 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but
such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who
will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are
able, but with the temptation will provide the way
of escape also, 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 men; you judge
what I say.
1CO 10:16 Is not the cup of blessing which we
bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the
bread which we break a sharing in the body of
Christ?
1CO 10:17 Since there is one bread, we who
are many are one body; for we all partake of the one
bread.
1CO 10:18 Look at the nation Israel; are not
those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
1CO 10:19 What do I mean then? That a thing
sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is
anything?
1CO 10:20 No, but I say that the things which
the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons,
and not to God; and I do not want you to become
sharers in demons.
1CO 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of
the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
1CO 10:22 Or do we provoke the Lord to
jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?
1CO 10:23 All things are lawful, but not all
things are profitable. All things are lawful, but
not all things edify.
1CO 10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but
that of his neighbor.
1CO 10:25 Eat anything that is sold in the
meat market, without asking questions for
conscience' sake;
1CO 10:26 for the earth is the Lord's, and
all it contains.
1CO 10:27 If one of the unbelievers invites
you, and you wish to go, eat anything that is set
before you, without asking questions for conscience'
sake.
1CO 10:28 But if anyone should say to you,
"This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it,
for the sake of the one who informed you, and for
conscience' sake;
1CO 10:29 I mean not your own conscience, but
the other man's; for why is my freedom judged by
another's conscience?
1CO 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why
am I slandered concerning that for which I give
thanks?
1CO 10:31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1CO 10:32 Give no offense either to Jews or
to Greeks or to the church of God;
1CO 10:33 just as I also please all men in
all things, not seeking my own profit, but the
profit of the many, that they may be saved.
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1CO 11:1 Be
imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
1CO 11:2 Now I praise you because you
remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the
traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
1CO 11:3 But I want you to understand that
Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the
head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
1CO 11:4 Every man who has something on his
head while praying or prophesying, disgraces his
head.
1CO 11:5 But every woman who has her head
uncovered while praying or prophesying, disgraces
her head; for she is one and the same with her whose
head is shaved.
1CO 11:6 For if a woman does not cover her
head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it
is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off
or her head shaved, let her cover her head.
1CO 11:7 For a man ought not to have his head
covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but
the woman is the glory of man.
1CO 11:8 For man does not originate from
woman, but woman from man;
1CO 11:9 for indeed man was not created for
the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.
1CO 11:10 Therefore the woman ought to have a
symbol of authority on her head, because of the
angels.
1CO 11:11 However, in the Lord, neither is
woman independent of man, nor is man independent of
woman.
1CO 11:12 For as the woman originates from
the man, so also the man has his birth through the
woman; and all things originate from God.
1CO 11:13 Judge for yourselves: is it proper
for a woman to pray to God with head uncovered?
1CO 11:14 Does not 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 one is inclined to be
contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the
churches of God.
1CO 11:17 But in giving this instruction, I
do not praise you, because you come together not for
the better but for the worse.
1CO 11:18 For, in the first place, when you
come together as a church, I hear that divisions
exist among you; and in part, I believe it.
1CO 11:19 For there must also be factions
among you, in order that those who are approved may
have become evident among you.
1CO 11:20 Therefore when you meet together,
it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,
1CO 11:21 for in your eating each one takes
his own supper first; and one is hungry and another
is drunk.
1CO 11:22 What! Do you not have houses in
which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church
of God, and shame those who have nothing? What shall
I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not
praise you.
1CO 11:23 For I received from the Lord that
which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus
in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;
1CO 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He
broke it, and said, "This is
My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of
Me."
1CO 11:25 In the same way He took the cup
also, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this,
as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
1CO 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread
and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death
until He comes.
1CO 11:27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or
drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner,
shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the
Lord.
1CO 11:28 But let a man 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 judge
the body rightly.
1CO 11:30 For this reason many among you are
weak and sick, and a number sleep.
1CO 11:31 But if we judged ourselves rightly,
we should not be judged.
1CO 11:32 But when we are judged, we are
disciplined by the Lord in order that we may not be
condemned along with the world.
1CO 11:33 So then, my brethren, when you come
together to eat, wait for one another.
1CO 11:34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at
home, so that you may not come together for
judgment. And the remaining matters I shall arrange
when I come.
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1CO 12:1 Now
concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want
you to be unaware.
1CO 12:2 You know that when you were pagans,
you were led astray to the dumb idols, however you
were led.
1CO 12:3 Therefore I make known to you, that
no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is
accursed"; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord,"
except by the Holy Spirit.
1CO 12:4 Now there are varieties of gifts,
but the same Spirit.
1CO 12:5 And there are varieties of
ministries, and the same Lord.
1CO 12:6 And there are varieties of effects,
but the same God who works all things in all
persons.
1CO 12:7 But to each one is given the
manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1CO 12:8 For to one is given the word of
wisdom through the Spirit, 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 healing by the one Spirit,
1CO 12:10 and to another the effecting of
miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another
the distinguishing of spirits, to another various
kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation
of tongues.
1CO 12:11 But one and the same Spirit works
all these things, distributing to each one
individually just as He wills.
1CO 12:12 For even as the body is one and yet
has many members, and all the members of the body,
though they are many, are one body, so also is
Christ.
1CO 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all
baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks,
whether slaves or free, and we were all made to
drink of one Spirit.
1CO 12:14 For the body is not one member, but
many.
1CO 12:15 If the foot should say, "Because I
am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," it is
not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
1CO 12:16 And if the ear should say, "Because
I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," it is
not for this reason any the less a 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 sense of smell be?
1CO 12:18 But now God has placed the members,
each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
1CO 12:19 And if they were all one member,
where would the body be?
1CO 12:20 But now there are many members, but
one body.
1CO 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand,
"I have no need of you"; or again the head to the
feet, "I have no need of you."
1CO 12:22 On the contrary, it is much truer
that the members of the body which seem to be weaker
are necessary;
1CO 12:23 and those members of the body,
which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow
more abundant honor, and our unseemly members come
to have more abundant seemliness,
1CO 12:24 whereas our seemly members have no
need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving
more abundant honor to that member which lacked,
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 And if one member suffers, all the
members suffer with it; if one member is honored,
all the members rejoice with it.
1CO 12:27 Now you are Christ's body, and
individually members of it.
1CO 12:28 And God has appointed in the
church, first apostles, second prophets, third
teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings,
helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.
1CO 12:29 All are not apostles, are they? All
are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers,
are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they?
1CO 12:30 All do not have gifts of healings,
do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All
do not interpret, do they?
1CO 12:31 But earnestly desire the greater
gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.
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1CO 13:1 If I
speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do
not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal.
1CO 13:2 And 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 And if I give all my possessions to
feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be
burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
1CO 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, and
is not jealous; love does not brag and is not
arrogant,
1CO 13:5 does not act unbecomingly; it does
not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take
into account a wrong suffered,
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 if there are
gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there
are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge,
it will be done away.
1CO 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy
in part;
1CO 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the
partial will be done away.
1CO 13:11 When I was a child, I used to speak
as a child, think as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I did away with 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 shall know fully just as I also have been fully
known.
1CO 13:13 But now abide faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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1CO 14:1 Pursue
love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but
especially that you may prophesy.
1CO 14:2 For one who speaks in a tongue does
not speak to men, but to God; for no one
understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
1CO 14:3 But one who prophesies speaks to men
for edification and exhortation and consolation.
1CO 14:4 One who speaks in a tongue edifies
himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.
1CO 14:5 Now I wish that you all spoke in
tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and
greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in
tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church
may receive edifying.
1CO 14:6 But now, brethren, if I come to you
speaking in tongues, what shall I profit you, unless
I speak to you either by way of revelation or of
knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?
1CO 14:7 Yet even lifeless things, either
flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not
produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be
known what is played on the flute or on the harp?
1CO 14:8 For if the bugle produces an
indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for
battle?
1CO 14:9 So also you, unless you utter by the
tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known
what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the
air.
1CO 14:10 There are, perhaps, a great many
kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is
without meaning.
1CO 14:11 If then I do not know the meaning
of the language, I shall be to the one who speaks a
barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a
barbarian to me.
1CO 14:12 So also you, since you are zealous
of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the
edification of the church.
1CO 14:13 Therefore let one who speaks in a
tongue pray that he may interpret.
1CO 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my
spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
1CO 14:15 What is the outcome then? I shall
pray with the spirit and I shall pray with the mind
also; I shall sing with the spirit and I shall sing
with the mind also.
1CO 14:16 Otherwise if you bless in the
spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of
the ungifted say the "Amen" at your giving of
thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
1CO 14:17 For you are giving thanks well
enough, but the other man is not edified.
1CO 14:18 I thank God, I speak in tongues
more than you all;
1CO 14:19 however, in the church I desire to
speak five words with my mind, that I may instruct
others also, rather than ten thousand words in a
tongue.
1CO 14:20 Brethren, do not be children in
your thinking; yet in evil be babes, but in your
thinking be mature.
1CO 14:21 In the Law it is written, "By men
of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I
will speak to this people, and even so they will not
listen to Me," says the Lord.
1CO 14:22 So then tongues are for a sign, not
to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but
prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers, but to
those who believe.
1CO 14:23 If therefore the whole church
should assemble together and all speak in tongues,
and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not
say that you are mad?
1CO 14:24 But if all prophesy, and an
unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is
convicted by all, he is called to account by all;
1CO 14:25 the secrets of his heart are
disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and
worship God, declaring that God is certainly among
you.
1CO 14:26 What is the outcome then, brethren?
When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a
teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an
interpretation. Let all things be done for
edification.
1CO 14:27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it
should be by two or at the most three, and each 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 And let two or three prophets
speak, and let the others pass judgment.
1CO 14:30 But if a revelation is made to
another who is seated, let the first keep silent.
1CO 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by
one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;
1CO 14:32 and the spirits of prophets are
subject to 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 they are not permitted to speak, but
let them subject themselves, just as the Law also
says.
1CO 14:35 And if they desire to learn
anything, let them ask their own husbands at home;
for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.
1CO 14:36 Was it from you that the word of
God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?
1CO 14:37 If anyone thinks he is a prophet or
spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I
write to you are the Lord's commandment.
1CO 14:38 But if anyone does not recognize
this, he is not recognized.
1CO 14:39 Therefore, my brethren, desire
earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in
tongues.
1CO 14:40 But let all things be done properly
and in an orderly manner.
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1CO 15:1 Now I
make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I
preached to you, which also you received, in which
also you stand,
1CO 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you
hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless
you believed in vain.
1CO 15:3 For I delivered to you as of first
importance what I also received, that Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures,
1CO 15:4 and that He was buried, and 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 more than
five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom
remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;
1CO 15:7 then He appeared to James, then to
all the apostles;
1CO 15:8 and last of all, as it were to one
untimely born, He appeared to me also.
1CO 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles,
who am not fit 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, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but
I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but
the grace of God with me.
1CO 15:11 Whether then it was I or they, so
we preach 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, not even Christ has been raised;
1CO 15:14 and if Christ has not been raised,
then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.
1CO 15:15 Moreover we are even found to be
false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against
God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if
in fact the dead are not raised.
1CO 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, not
even Christ has been raised;
1CO 15:17 and if Christ has not been raised,
your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
1CO 15:18 Then those also who have fallen
asleep in Christ have perished.
1CO 15:19 If we have hoped in Christ in this
life only, we are of all men 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 by a man came death, by a
man also came the resurrection of the dead.
1CO 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in
Christ all shall be made alive.
1CO 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ
the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's
at His coming,
1CO 15:24 then comes the end, when He
delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when
He has 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 has put all things in
subjection under His feet. But when He says, "All
things are put in subjection," it is evident that He
is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.
1CO 15:28 And when all things are subjected
to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected
to the One who subjected all things to Him, that God
may be all in all.
1CO 15:29 Otherwise, what will those 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 are we also in danger every
hour?
1CO 15:31 I protest, brethren, by the
boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our
Lord, I die daily.
1CO 15:32 If from human motives I fought with
wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If
the dead are not raised, 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 as you ought,
and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God.
I speak 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 fool! That which you sow does
not come to life unless it dies;
1CO 15:37 and that which you sow, you do not
sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain,
perhaps of wheat or of something else.
1CO 15:38 But God gives it a body just as He
wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
1CO 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh,
but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of
beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of
fish.
1CO 15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and
earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is
one, and the glory of the earthly is another.
1CO 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and
another glory of the moon, and another glory of the
stars; for star differs from star in glory.
1CO 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the
dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an
imperishable body;
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. If there is a natural body,
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, the spiritual is not
first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
1CO 15:47 The first man is from the earth,
earthy; the second man is from heaven.
1CO 15:48 As is the earthy, so also are those
who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are
those who are heavenly.
1CO 15:49 And just as we have borne the image
of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly.
1CO 15:50 Now I say this, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1CO 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we
shall not all sleep, but we shall 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 imperishable, and
we shall be changed.
1CO 15:53 For this perishable must put on the
imperishable, and this mortal must put on
immortality.
1CO 15:54 But when this perishable will have
put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have
put on immortality, then will come about the saying
that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory.
1CO 15:55 "O death, where is your victory? O
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 brethren, be
steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work
of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain
in the Lord.
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1CO 16:1 Now
concerning the collection for the saints, as I
directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also.
1CO 16:2 On the first day of every week let
each one of you put aside and save, as he may
prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
1CO 16:3 And when I arrive, whomever you may
approve, I shall send them with letters to carry
your gift to Jerusalem;
1CO 16:4 and if it is fitting for me to go
also, they will go with me.
1CO 16:5 But I shall come to you after I go
through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia;
1CO 16:6 and perhaps I shall stay with you,
or even spend the winter, that you may send me on my
way wherever I may go.
1CO 16:7 For I do not wish to see you now
just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for
some time, if the Lord permits.
1CO 16:8 But I shall remain in Ephesus until
Pentecost;
1CO 16:9 for a wide door for effective
service has opened to me, and there are many
adversaries.
1CO 16:10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he
is with you without cause to be afraid; for he is
doing the Lord's work, as I also am.
1CO 16:11 Let no one therefore despise him.
But send him on his way in peace, so that he may
come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.
1CO 16:12 But concerning Apollos our brother,
I encouraged him greatly to come to you with the
brethren; and it was not at all his desire to come
now, but he will come when he has opportunity.
1CO 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the
faith, act like men, be strong.
1CO 16:14 Let all that you do be done in
love.
1CO 16:15 Now I urge you, brethren (you know
the household of Stephanas, that they were the first
fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted
themselves for ministry to the saints),
1CO 16:16 that you also be in subjection to
such men and to everyone who helps in the work and
labors.
1CO 16:17 And I rejoice over the coming of
Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because they
have supplied what was lacking on your part.
1CO 16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit
and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.
1CO 16:19 The churches of Asia greet you.
Aquila and Prisca greet you heartily in the Lord,
with the church that is in their house.
1CO 16:20 All the brethren greet you. Greet
one another with a holy kiss.
1CO 16:21 The greeting is in my own hand - -
Paul.
1CO 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord,
let him be accursed. Maranatha.
1CO 16:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with
you.
1CO 16:24 My love be with you all in Christ
Jesus. Amen.
