Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Verse 1
1. Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Sosthenes,[1]
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2. to the church[2] of God that is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus,[3] called saints,[4] along with all those everywhere[5] who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord —yes, theirs and yours:[6]
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3. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.[7]
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4. Concerning you, I always thank my God because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus;
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5. for in Him you were enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,
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6. even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,[8]
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7. so that you lack no spiritual gift as you expectantly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,[9]
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8. who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the Day of our Lord, Jesus Christ.[10]
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9. God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship[11] with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.[12]
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10. Now I appeal to you, brothers, by the name[13] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing[14] and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored[15] to the same mind and to the same purpose.
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11. You see, my brothers, it has been reported to me concerning you, by some from Chloe’s household,[16] that there are contentions among you.
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12. What I mean is that you are individually saying: “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ!”
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13. Has Christ been divided? It was not Paul who was crucified for you, was it? You were not baptized into the name of Paul, were you?
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14. I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
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15. lest anyone should say that I had baptized into my own name.
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16. O yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanus; besides them I do not remember if I baptized anyone else.
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17. Because Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel[17]—not with eloquent ‘wisdom’, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of power.[18]
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18. The message of the cross, you see, is foolishness to those who are being wasted,[19] but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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19. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and confound the shrewdness of the intelligent.”[20]
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20. Where is the wise one? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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21. For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its ‘wisdom’ did not get to know God, it pleased God to save the believing ones through the ‘foolishness’ of what was preached—
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22. since Jews request a sign while Greeks seek after wisdom,
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23. but we proclaim a crucified Christ: an offense to Jews, foolishness to Greeks.[21]
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24. Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,
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25. because the ‘foolishness’ of God is wiser than men, and the ‘weakness’ of God is stronger than men.[22]
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26. Just look at your calling, brothers: not many are wise, not many are powerful, not many are of noble birth, by human standards;
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27. but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame;
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28. and God has chosen the lowly things of the world and the despised things—even the ‘nothings’—that He might nullify the ‘somethings’;
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29. so that no flesh should boast in God’s presence.[23]
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30. It is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God—also righteousness and sanctification and redemption[24]—
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31. so that, as it is written: “He who boasts, let him boast in the LORD.”[25]
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Verse 1
1. So when I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming God’s testimony[1] to you with a ‘superior’ speech or wisdom.
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2. For I determined to ‘know’ nothing while among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
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3. Also, I was with you in weakness, in fear, and with much trembling.
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4. Yes, my message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
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5. so that your faith not be in men’s wisdom, but in God’s power.[2]
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6. However, we do speak wisdom among the mature,[3] albeit not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being set aside;[4]
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7. but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden[5] wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory,
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8. that none of the rulers of this age have understood (because if they had understood, they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory).
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9. However, as it is written: “Things no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no heart of man has imagined, such things has God prepared for those who love Him.”[6]
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10. But to us God has revealed them by His Spirit;[7] because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
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11. Now who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
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12. We have not received the spirit of the world[8] but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God;[9]
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13. which things we also expound, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit,[10] interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people.
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14. Now a soulish[11] man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; indeed, he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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15. But he who is spiritual evaluates everything, while not being himself subject to anyone’s judgment.[12]
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16. For “who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him?”[13] But we have the mind of Christ.[14]
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Verse 1
1. Brothers, I was not able to address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.
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2. I gave you milk and not solid food, because you were not ready yet. Alas, you are still not ready,
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3. because you are still fleshly! For since there is envy, strife and divisions[1] among you, are you not carnal and acting like ordinary people?
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4. For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?
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5. Who then is Paul, who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord has given to each one?
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6. I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow.
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7. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow.[2]
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8. Now he who plants and he who waters are at one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.[3]
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9. Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’.
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10. According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, while another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds;
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11. for no one can lay any foundation other than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.[4]
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12. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
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13. the work of each will become evident; because the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. Yes, the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.
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14. If the work that anyone built endures, he will receive a reward.
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15. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, albeit so as through fire.[5]
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16. Do you (pl) not know that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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17. If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; because God’s temple, which you are, is holy.[6]
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18. Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become ‘foolish’ so that he may become wise.
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19. Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;[7]
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20. and again, “The LORD knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.”[8]
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21. So then, let no one boast in men, for all things are yours:
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22. whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, whether the world or life or death, whether things present or things to come—all are yours,[9]
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23. and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 Verse 1
1. Let a man consider us like this: as Christ’s subordinates and stewards of God’s mysteries.[1]
Chapter 4 Verse 2
2. Moreover, what is required of stewards is that each be found faithful.[2]
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3. So to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court; in fact, I do not even judge myself.
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4. For I am conscious of nothing against myself, although I am not justified by this; it is the Lord who judges me.
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5. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and expose the motives of the hearts.[3] At that time the praise that comes to each will be from God.[4]
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6. I have illustrated these things using myself and Apollos, brothers, for your sakes, so that you may learn from us not to think beyond what is written,[5] that no one of you be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.
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7. Now who is distinguishing you? Or what do you have that you did not receive?[6] So if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
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8. You are already stuffed! You are already rich! You have become ‘kings’ without us! I could wish that you really did reign, so that we might be kings with you too![7]
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9. For I keep thinking that God has displayed us, the apostles, at the end of the line, like men sentenced to death;[8] because we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
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10. We are fools for Christ while you are wise! We are weak but you are strong! You are esteemed, we are despised!
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11. To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty; we are poorly dressed, brutally treated, and wander homeless;
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12. yes, we labor, working with our own hands. Upon being reviled, we bless; upon being persecuted, we endure it;
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13. upon being slandered, we exhort. We have been made as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of whatever, to this moment.[9]
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14. I am not writing these things to shame you; I am admonishing you as my dear children.
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15. Because even if you were to have thousands of tutors in Christ, you would not have many fathers, because I am the one who begot you in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel.
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16. Therefore I am urging you, become my imitators.[10]
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17. That is why I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in Sovereign, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every congregation.
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18. Now some have been puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
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19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power.
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20. Because the Kingdom of God is not in word but in power.[11]
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21. What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a gentle spirit?
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Verse 1
1. It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as not even pagans talk about[1]—that someone has his father’s wife!
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2. And you are puffed up and not even grieved, so as to exclude the one who has done this deed from your fellowship.
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3. For I indeed, as present in spirit[2] though absent in body, have already judged the one who created this situation, as though I were present:
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4. in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,[3] you and my spirit being together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,[4]
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5. we must hand such a one over to Satan for a destruction of the ‘flesh’, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus.[5]
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6. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
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7. Therefore purge out the old leaven, so that you can be a new batch, like you are, without yeast. Especially since Christ our Passover has been sacrificed in our place.[6]
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8. So then let us observe the feast,[7] not with old leaven, nor with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened loaves of sincerity and truth.
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9. I wrote to you in my letter[8] not to associate with fornicators—
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10. not of course the fornicators of this world, or the greedy, or the swindlers, or the idolaters; since then you would have to exit the world!
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11. But now I write you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a brother who is a fornicator, or greedy, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such.[9]
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12. Now just why should it be up to me to judge those who are outside? Will you not judge those who are inside?
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13. Those who are outside God will judge, and you must exclude the wicked one from among you.
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 Verse 1
1. How can anyone of you who has a dispute with another dare to have it judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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2. Do you not know that the saints are to be judging the world?[1] So if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to judge the smallest matters?
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3. Do you not know that we will judge angels?[2] How much more the things of this life![3]
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4. Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint those who are least esteemed in the congregation to judge![4]
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5. I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not a single wise man among you who would be competent to judge between a man and his brother?
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6. Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers!
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7. Actually, the very fact that you have lawsuits among you already represents a defeat for you.[5] Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why not rather accept being cheated?
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8. No, you yourselves do the wronging and cheating, and to brothers!
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9. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God?Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,[6] nor catamites,[7] nor sodomites,
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10. nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely.
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11. And that is what some of you were;[8] but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.[9]
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12. All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
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13. Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them.[10] Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.[11]
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14. Further, God both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by His power.
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15. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Not ever!
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16. Can you not know that the one who joins himself with a prostitute is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “will become one flesh.”[12]
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17. But he who is joined with the Lord is one spirit with Him.
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18. Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man may commit is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.[13]
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19. Do you not know that your[14] bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
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20. Because you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.[15]
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Verse 1
1. Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Chapter 7 Verse 2
2. But because of the fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.[1]
Chapter 7 Verse 3
3. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
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4. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; similarly also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
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5. Do not deprive one another except by mutual consent for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting[2] and to prayer, and come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.[3]
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6. Now I say this[4] as a concession, not as a command
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7. (though I wish that all men were even as I myself; but each has his own gift from God, one like this and one like that).
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8. Yes I say to the unmarried and the widows: it is good for them if they should remain even as I;[5]
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9. but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry; since it is better to marry than to burn.[6]
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10. Now to the married I command (not I but the Lord): a wife is not to be separated from her husband
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11. (but if she does separate herself,[7] let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to divorce his wife.
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12. But to the rest I (not the Lord) say: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.
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13. And a woman who has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.
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14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are consecrated.[8]
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15. But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate—in such cases the brother or the sister is not enslaved, but God has called us to peace.[9]
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16. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?[10]
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17. Otherwise, as God has distributed to each, as the Lord has called each one, so let him live (this is what I command in all the congregations).
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18. Was anyone already circumcised when called? Let him not reverse it.[11] Was anyone uncircumcised when called? Let him not be circumcised.[12]
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19. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, compared to keeping God’s commandments.
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20. Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.
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21. Were you called while a slave? Do not let it bother you, but if you can really become free, do so.
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22. For the one in the Lord who was called while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Similarly, the one who was called while free is Christ’s slave.
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23. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
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24. Brothers, let each one remain with God in the social condition in which he was called.[13]
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25. Now about the virgins I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
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26. I consider therefore that this is good because of the current distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is:
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27. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
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28. However, should you marry, you have not sinned;[14] and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned. Still, such will have trouble in the flesh, and I want to spare you.[15]
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29. Now I say this, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
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30. and those who weep as though not weeping, and those who rejoice as though not rejoicing, and those who buy as though not possessing,
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31. and those who use this world as though not abusing it; because this world’s mode is passing away.[16]
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32. Now I want you to be without anxiety. He who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord: how he will please the Lord.
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33. While he who is married cares about the things of the world: how he will please his wife.[17]
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34. The wife and the virgin are also different. She who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; while she who is married cares about the things of the world: how she will please her husband.
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35. I am saying this for your own profit, not to put a leash on you, but for what is appropriate, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.[18]
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36. Now if anyone thinks he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and thus it should be, let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry.
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37. But he who stands steadfast in his heart, not having necessity, but has control over his own will, and has determined in his heart to preserve his own virginity, does well.
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38. So then, he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.[19]
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39. A woman is bound by law for as long as her husband lives, but if the man should die, she is free to be married to whom she wishes—only in the Lord.
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40. But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have God’s Spirit.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Verse 1
1. Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
Chapter 8 Verse 2
2. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.[1]
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3. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.[2]
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4. Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and no one else is God except the One.
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5. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth (since there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’),
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6. yet for us there is one God, the Father, out of whom are all things and we into Him, and one Sovereign Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him.[3]
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7. However, this knowledge is not in everyone; but some, with consciousness[4] of the idol, still eat it as offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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8. But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better off, nor if we do not eat are we worse off.[5]
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9. But take care lest somehow this ‘right’ of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
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10. For if someone who is weak sees you with your knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?
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11. And so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, will be wasted because of your knowledge.
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12. But when you thus sin against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
Chapter 8 Verse 13
13. So then, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never eat meat again, lest I cause my brother to fall.[6]
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Verse 1
1. Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?[1] Are you not my work in the Lord?
Chapter 9 Verse 2
2. If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you, because you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
Chapter 9 Verse 3
3. My defense to those who are judging me is this:
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4. Do we have no right to eat and drink?
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5. Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers[2] and Cephas?
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6. Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to forego working?
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7. Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink[3] of its milk?
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8. I am not saying these things as a mere man, am I? Does not the Law also say the same?
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9. For it stands written in the Law of Moses: “You shall not muzzle an ox that is threshing.”[4] Is it really about the oxen that God is concerned,[5]
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10. or does He surely say it for our sakes? Yes, it was written for us, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
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11. Since we planted spiritual things in you, is it a big deal if we reap material things from you?
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12. If others have a share in this right from you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but we put up with everything so as not to cause any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
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13. Do you not know that those who minister the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar have a share in the altar?
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14. So also the Lord has instructed those who proclaim the Gospel to live from the Gospel.[6]
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15. Now I have not used any of these rights, nor have I written these things that it should be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void
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16. —I cannot boast because I preach the Gospel, because I am compelled to do so; indeed, woe is me if I do not preach it!
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17. (If I do this of my own volition, I have a reward; but if otherwise, I have been entrusted with a commission.)
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18. So what is my reward? That when I evangelize I may present the Gospel of Christ[7] without charge, so as not to use my rights in the Gospel.[8]
Chapter 9 Verse 19
19. Though being free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, in order that I might win the more:
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20. To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those under law as under law, that I might win those under law;
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21. to those without law as without law (not being without law toward God but under law toward Christ), that I might win those without law;
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22. to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
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23. Now I do this for the sake of the Gospel, so as to become its partner.[9]
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24. Do you not know that in a stadium race all the runners run, but one gets the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
Chapter 9 Verse 25
25. All athletic competitors exercise general self-control—they do it in order to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
Chapter 9 Verse 26
26. So that is how I ‘run’, with a definite goal; that is how I fight, with well-aimed blows.
Chapter 9 Verse 27
27. Yes, I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.[10]
Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Verse 1
1. Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea
Chapter 10 Verse 2
2. —all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea—
Chapter 10 Verse 3
3. and all ate the same spiritual food
Chapter 10 Verse 4
4. and drank the same spiritual drink; because they kept drinking from a spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ.[1]
Chapter 10 Verse 5
5. For all that, God was not pleased with most of them—their carcasses were scattered around the desert![2]
Chapter 10 Verse 6
6. Now these things became examples for us, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
Chapter 10 Verse 7
7. And do not become idolaters, just like some of them; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to amuse themselves.”[3]
Chapter 10 Verse 8
8. And let us not fornicate, just as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand died![4]
Chapter 10 Verse 9
9. Neither let us test the Christ, just as also some of them did—and were destroyed by the snakes![5]
Chapter 10 Verse 10
10. And do not grumble, just as also some of them did—and were executed by the destroyer![6]
Chapter 10 Verse 11
11. Now all these things happened to them as examples and were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends[7] of the ages have come.
Chapter 10 Verse 12
12. So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he does not fall!
Chapter 10 Verse 13
13. No testing[8] has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent,[9] who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.[10]
Chapter 10 Verse 14
14. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry!
Chapter 10 Verse 15
15. I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say.[11]
Chapter 10 Verse 16
16. The cup of blessing that we bless,[12] is it not a sharing of the blood of Christ?[13] The bread that we break, is it not a sharing of the body of Christ?[14]
Chapter 10 Verse 17
17. Since the loaf is one, we, the many, are one body, because we all partake of that single loaf.[15]
Chapter 10 Verse 18
18. Consider the physical Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
Chapter 10 Verse 19
19. So what am I getting at? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?
Chapter 10 Verse 20
20. Rather, that the things pagans sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to become participants with the demons.[16]
Chapter 10 Verse 21
21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.
Chapter 10 Verse 22
22. Are we going to provoke the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Chapter 10 Verse 23
23. All things are ‘permissible’ for me,[17] but not all things are expedient. All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but not all things edify.
Chapter 10 Verse 24
24. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.
Chapter 10 Verse 25
25. Eat whatever is being sold in the meat market, asking no question for the sake of conscience;
Chapter 10 Verse 26
26. since “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”[18]
Chapter 10 Verse 27
27. If some unbeliever invites you and you decide to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
Chapter 10 Verse 28
28. But if anyone says, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of the speaker and of the conscience; since “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”[19]
Chapter 10 Verse 29
29. ‘Conscience’ I say, not your own but that of the other. Do all to the glory of God Now just why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?
Chapter 10 Verse 30
30. If I partake with thanks, why be slandered over something I give thanks for?[20]
Chapter 10 Verse 31
31. Therefore, whether you eat or you drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.[21]
Chapter 10 Verse 32
32. Give no offense, either to Jews or to Greeks or to the Church of God[22]
Chapter 10 Verse 33
33. —even as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.
Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Verse 1
1. Become my imitators, just as I am Christ’s.[1]
Chapter 11 Verse 2
2. Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things and hold the traditions just as I delivered them to you.
Chapter 11 Verse 3
3. But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, while a wife’s head is the man and Christ’s head is God.
Chapter 11 Verse 4
4. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
Chapter 11 Verse 5
5. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her own head—it is one and the same as if it had been shaved.
Chapter 11 Verse 6
6. So if a woman does not cover herself, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.[2]
Chapter 11 Verse 7
7. Indeed, a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God;[3] but woman is the glory of man.[4]
Chapter 11 Verse 8
8. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;
Chapter 11 Verse 9
9. and neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man[5]
Chapter 11 Verse 10
10. —for this reason the woman needs to have authority upon her head, because of the angels[6]—
Chapter 11 Verse 11
11. nevertheless, in the Lord neither is man independent of woman nor woman independent of man.
Chapter 11 Verse 12
12. Because as the woman came from the man, so also the man comes through the woman;[7] but all things are from God.
Chapter 11 Verse 13
13. Judge among yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?
Chapter 11 Verse 14
14. Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
Chapter 11 Verse 15
15. But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, because that hair has been given for a covering.
Chapter 11 Verse 16
16. But if anyone decides to be contentious, neither we nor the congregations of God have any other practice.[8]
Chapter 11 Verse 17
17. Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, since you are not coming together for the better but for the worse.
Chapter 11 Verse 18
18. Because, to begin, I hear that when you come together in an assembly there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.
Chapter 11 Verse 19
19. For there would really need to be factions among you so that the ‘approved’ ones may be recognized among you.[9]
Chapter 11 Verse 20
20. So when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.
Chapter 11 Verse 21
21. Because in eating, each one tries to get his meal first,[10] and one goes hungry while another gets drunk!
Chapter 11 Verse 22
22. Now really, do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise God’s congregation, and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? Indeed not!
Chapter 11 Verse 23
23. For I received from the Lord that which I also transmitted to you: The Lord Jesus, during the night in which He was betrayed, took bread;
Chapter 11 Verse 24
24. and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said: “Take, eat; this is my body that is being broken[11] on your behalf; do this in remembrance of me.”
Chapter 11 Verse 25
25. In the same way, after they had dined, He took the cup, saying: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Chapter 11 Verse 26
26. For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death,[12] until He comes.
Chapter 11 Verse 27
27. So then whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup unworthily[13] will be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
Chapter 11 Verse 28
28. But let a man examine himself, and then let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
Chapter 11 Verse 29
29. Because he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the Lord’s[14] body.
Chapter 11 Verse 30
30. Because of this many among you are weak and sick, and a good many have died.[15]
Chapter 11 Verse 31
31. If we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
Chapter 11 Verse 32
32. But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world.[16]
Chapter 11 Verse 33
33. So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
Chapter 11 Verse 34
34. But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together into judgment. And the rest I will set in order when I come.
Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Verse 1
1. Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
Chapter 12 Verse 2
2. You know that when you were pagans you were always led toward the mute idols,[1] being carried away.
Chapter 12 Verse 3
3. Therefore I inform you that no one speaking by God’s Spirit calls Jesus accursed, and no one can declare Jesus to be Lord[2] except by the Holy Spirit.
Chapter 12 Verse 4
4. Now there are allotments of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit.
Chapter 12 Verse 5
5. And there are allotments of ministries, and the same Lord.
Chapter 12 Verse 6
6. And there are allotments of activities, but the same God is He who works them all, in all.[3]
Chapter 12 Verse 7
7. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the common good.[4]
Chapter 12 Verse 8
8. So to one a word of wisdom is given, by the Spirit; to another a word of knowledge, by the same Spirit;
Chapter 12 Verse 9
9. to a different one faith, by the same Spirit; to another presents of healings,[5] by the same Spirit;
Chapter 12 Verse 10
10. to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernings of spirits;[6] to a different one kinds[7] of languages, to another interpretation of languages.
Chapter 12 Verse 11
11. However, the one and the same Spirit produces all of these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.[8]
Chapter 12 Verse 12
12. Now just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, though being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
Chapter 12 Verse 13
13. For we also were all baptized into one body by one Spirit[9]—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and were all given to drink into one Spirit.[10]
Chapter 12 Verse 14
14. For in fact the body is not one part but many.
Chapter 12 Verse 15
15. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” it would not therefore cease to be of the body.
Chapter 12 Verse 16
16. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” it would not therefore cease to be of the body.
Chapter 12 Verse 17
17. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
Chapter 12 Verse 18
18. But God has really placed the members in the body, each one of them, just as He pleased.[11]
Chapter 12 Verse 19
19. (If the whole were just one member, where would the body be?
Chapter 12 Verse 20
20. But in fact the parts are many but the body one.)[12]
Chapter 12 Verse 21
21. Further, the eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I do not need you.”
Chapter 12 Verse 22
22. Much to the contrary, those members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.
Chapter 12 Verse 23
23. And the parts of the body that we consider to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentables have special modesty,
Chapter 12 Verse 24
24. while our presentables do not need it. Yes, God has blended the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacks it,
Chapter 12 Verse 25
25. so that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another;
Chapter 12 Verse 26
26. and if one member suffers, all the members should suffer along, or if one member is honored, all the members should rejoice along.[13]
Chapter 12 Verse 27
27. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
Chapter 12 Verse 28
28. And those whom God has appointed in the Church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; after that miracles, then[14] presents of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of languages.
Chapter 12 Verse 29
29. All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not miracle workers, are they?
Chapter 12 Verse 30
30. All do not have presents of healings, do they? All do not speak languages, do they? All do not interpret, do they?[15]
Chapter 12 Verse 31
31. But earnestly desire the best gifts.
Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Verse 1
1. And now I show you a most excellent way.[1] 1 If I speak the languages of men, even of angels,[2] but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
Chapter 13 Verse 2
2. And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,[3] but have not love, I am nothing.
Chapter 13 Verse 3
3. Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned,[4] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Chapter 13 Verse 4
4. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud,
Chapter 13 Verse 5
5. is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious;[5]
Chapter 13 Verse 6
6. it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Chapter 13 Verse 7
7. it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all;[6]
Chapter 13 Verse 8
8. love never fails. Love contrasted Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded;
Chapter 13 Verse 9
9. since we know in part and prophesy in part.
Chapter 13 Verse 10
10. But whenever the complete should come, then the ‘in part’ will be done away with.
Chapter 13 Verse 11
11. (When I was a small child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.)
Chapter 13 Verse 12
12. Because now we see blurred images as in a metal mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also am fully known.[7]
Chapter 13 Verse 13
13. For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.[8]
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 Verse 1
1. Pursue love, and desire the spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
Chapter 14 Verse 2
2. Because he who speaks in a ‘language’ is not speaking to people but to God, since no one understands; in spirit he speaks mysteries.
Chapter 14 Verse 3
3. But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to people.[1]
Chapter 14 Verse 4
4. The one speaking in a ‘language’ edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the congregation.
Chapter 14 Verse 5
5. I could wish[2] that you all spoke in ‘languages’, but even more that you might prophesy; because the one prophesying is greater than the one speaking in ‘languages’[3] (unless he interprets),[4] so that the congregation may receive edification.
Chapter 14 Verse 6
6. Now then, brothers, what good will I do you if I come to you speaking in ‘languages’ instead of addressing you with revelation, or with knowledge, or with prophecy, or with teaching?
Chapter 14 Verse 7
7. Take lifeless things like a flute or a harp; if they make no distinction in the notes when they produce sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?
Chapter 14 Verse 8
8. Also a trumpet; if it gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?
Chapter 14 Verse 9
9. So it is with you: if you do not deliver an intelligible message with the ‘language’, how will it be known what is being said? You will just be speaking into the air.
Chapter 14 Verse 10
10. There are probably a great many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without significance.
Chapter 14 Verse 11
11. But if I do not know the force of the sound, I will be a foreigner to the speaker, and he will be a foreigner to me.
Chapter 14 Verse 12
12. And you too: since you are zealous for spiritual things, aim at the edification of the congregation, that you may all grow.
Chapter 14 Verse 13
13. Therefore the one speaking in a ‘language’ should pray that he may interpret.[5]
Chapter 14 Verse 14
14. For if I pray in a ‘language’, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
Chapter 14 Verse 15
15. So what then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will also pray with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, but I will also sing with the mind.
Chapter 14 Verse 16
16. Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the outsider say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
Chapter 14 Verse 17
17. You, of course, give thanks quite well, but the other is not edified.
Chapter 14 Verse 18
18. I thank my God speaking in ‘languages’ more than you all,[6]
Chapter 14 Verse 19
19. but in the congregation I would rather speak five words with my understanding, precisely so as to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a ‘language’.
Chapter 14 Verse 20
20. Brothers, stop thinking like children—well, in malice be ‘infants’, but in thinking be adults.
Chapter 14 Verse 21
21. In the law it stands written: “I will speak to this people in foreign languages and with different ‘lips’, but not even then will they listen to me,”[7] says the LORD.
Chapter 14 Verse 22
22. Therefore the ‘languages’ are for a sign, not to believers but to unbeliveers;[8] while prophesying[9] is not for unbelievers but for believers.
Chapter 14 Verse 23
23. So if the whole congregation comes together and all are speaking in ‘languages’, but outsiders or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are raving?
Chapter 14 Verse 24
24. But if everyone is prophesying, and an unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is reproved by all, he is examined by all.
Chapter 14 Verse 25
25. And thus the secrets of his heart are exposed, and so, falling on his face he will worship God, affirming, “Truly God is among you!”
Chapter 14 Verse 26
26. So what goes on, brothers? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a ‘language’, has a revelation, has an interpretation.[10] Let all things be done for edification.
Chapter 14 Verse 27
27. If anyone speaks in a ‘language’, let it be two—at the most three—and in turn, and let one interpret.[11]
Chapter 14 Verse 28
28. But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church; let him speak to himself and to God.
Chapter 14 Verse 29
29. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others evaluate.[12]
Chapter 14 Verse 30
30. But if another who is sitting by receives a revelation, the first should stop speaking.
Chapter 14 Verse 31
31. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
Chapter 14 Verse 32
32. Yes, spirits of prophets are subordinate to prophets.[13]
Chapter 14 Verse 33
33. Further, God is not a God of disorder but of peace. Wives are not to speak As in all the congregations of the saints,
Chapter 14 Verse 34
34. your wives[14] should keep silent in the assemblies, for they are not permitted to speak, but to be in subordination, as the law also says.
Chapter 14 Verse 35
35. If they want to learn about something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for women to speak in church.[15]
Chapter 14 Verse 36
36. Or was it from you that the Word of God went forth? Or was it only to you that it came?[16]
Chapter 14 Verse 37
37. If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the Lord’s commands.[17]
Chapter 14 Verse 38
38. But if anyone is ignorant, let him remain so.[18]
Chapter 14 Verse 39
39. So then, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in ‘languages’.[19]
Chapter 14 Verse 40
40. Let all things be done properly and in order.
Chapter 15
Chapter 15 Verse 1
1. Now, brothers, I want to add information to the Gospel that I proclaimed to you, that you also received, and in which you stand;
Chapter 15 Verse 2
2. through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word that I proclaimed to you—unless you believed in vain.[1]
Chapter 15 Verse 3
3. Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received:[2] that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
Chapter 15 Verse 4
4. and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
Chapter 15 Verse 5
5. and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve.[3]
Chapter 15 Verse 6
6. After that He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, while some have fallen asleep.[4]
Chapter 15 Verse 7
7. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.
Chapter 15 Verse 8
8. And last of all He was seen by me also, like one born out of season.
Chapter 15 Verse 9
9. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.
Chapter 15 Verse 10
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been in vain; in fact, I have worked harder than all of them—well, not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Chapter 15 Verse 11
11. So whether it was I or they, thus we preached and thus you believed.
Chapter 15 Verse 12
12. Now if Christ is being proclaimed as having been raised from among the dead, how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Chapter 15 Verse 13
13. If there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised.
Chapter 15 Verse 14
14. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty, and so is your faith!
Chapter 15 Verse 15
15. Further, we are even discovered to be false witnesses of God, because we have testified about God that He raised the Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.
Chapter 15 Verse 16
16. For if no dead are raised, neither has Christ been raised.
Chapter 15 Verse 17
17. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
Chapter 15 Verse 18
18. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.
Chapter 15 Verse 19
19. If it is only for this life that we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable.[5]
Chapter 15 Verse 20
20. But indeed, Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Chapter 15 Verse 21
21. For since death came through a man, resurrection of the dead also came through a man.[6]
Chapter 15 Verse 22
22. For as all in Adam are dying, so also all in the Christ will be made alive.[7]
Chapter 15 Verse 23
23. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ at His coming;
Chapter 15 Verse 24
24. then the end,[8] when He hands over the Kingdom to the God and Father, whenever He puts an end to every ruler and all authority and power.
Chapter 15 Verse 25
25. Because it is necessary that He reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet.
Chapter 15 Verse 26
26. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.[9]
Chapter 15 Verse 27
27. For “He has put all things under His feet.”[10] But when it says that all things have been subordinated, it is obvious that He who put all things under Him is excepted.
Chapter 15 Verse 28
28. Now whenever all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subjected to Him who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.
Chapter 15 Verse 29
29. Otherwise, what will they do who are being baptized in place of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, just why are they being baptized in the place of the dead?[11]
Chapter 15 Verse 30
30. And why do we face danger every hour?
Chapter 15 Verse 31
31. I die every day[12]—so I affirm by the boasting about you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Chapter 15 Verse 32
32. If I fought human ‘animals’ in Ephesus,[13] what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”[14]
Chapter 15 Verse 33
33. Stop kidding yourselves: evil associations corrupt good habits.
Chapter 15 Verse 34
34. Sober up righteously, and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.[15]
Chapter 15 Verse 35
35. But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”
Chapter 15 Verse 36
36. Ignorant, what you plant is not brought to life unless it dies.
Chapter 15 Verse 37
37. And what you plant is a bare seed (perhaps of wheat or some one of the others); you do not plant the body that it will become.
Chapter 15 Verse 38
38. But God gives it a body just as He determined, to each of the seeds its own body.
Chapter 15 Verse 39
39. All flesh is not the same flesh: that of humans is one kind, and the flesh of animals is another,[16] that of fish is another, that of birds is yet another.
Chapter 15 Verse 40
40. There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, while that of the earthly is another.
Chapter 15 Verse 41
41. There is one splendor of the sun, another splendor of the moon, and another splendor of the stars; and star differs from star in brightness.
Chapter 15 Verse 42
42. The resurrection of the dead is like that: the body is ‘planted’ in deterioration and it is raised in incorruptibility;
Chapter 15 Verse 43
43. it is ‘planted’ in dishonor and it is raised in glory; it is ‘planted’ in weakness and it is raised in power;
Chapter 15 Verse 44
44. it is ‘planted’ a natural body and it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.[17]
Chapter 15 Verse 45
45. So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being”;[18] the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Chapter 15 Verse 46
46. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
Chapter 15 Verse 47
47. The first man was of the earth, of soil; the second man was the Lord[19] from heaven.
Chapter 15 Verse 48
48. As was the earth-man, just so are the earth-people; and as was the heaven-man, just so are the heaven-people.
Chapter 15 Verse 49
49. And just as we have borne the image of the earth-man, we should also bear the image of the heaven-man.[20]
Chapter 15 Verse 50
50. Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility.
Chapter 15 Verse 51
51. And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed
Chapter 15 Verse 52
52. —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
Chapter 15 Verse 53
53. Because this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.
Chapter 15 Verse 54
54. So whenever this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then this written word will happen: “Death has been swallowed down into victory.”[21]
Chapter 15 Verse 55
55. “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?”[22]
Chapter 15 Verse 56
56. The stinger of death is sin, and the adjunct of sin is the law.
Chapter 15 Verse 57
57. Now thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
Chapter 15 Verse 58
58. So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Chapter 16
Chapter 16 Verse 1
1. Now concerning the collection for the saints, you must do just as I instructed the congregations in Galatia.
Chapter 16 Verse 2
2. On the first day of the week, each of you should set something aside, saving up as he is being prospered, that there be no collections when I come.
Chapter 16 Verse 3
3. And when I arrive, I will send whomever you approve by letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
Chapter 16 Verse 4
4. But should it be fitting that I go as well, they will go with me.[1]
Chapter 16 Verse 5
5. Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia (for I am coming through Macedonia).
Chapter 16 Verse 6
6. And perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even winter, that you may send me on my way, wherever I go.
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7. I do not wish to see you now just in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
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8. So I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost,
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9. because a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
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10. Now if Timothy should come, see to it that he may be with you without fear,[2] because he does the Lord’s work just as I do.
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11. Therefore no one should despise him;[3] but send him on his way in peace, that he may come to me; I am expecting him along with the brothers.[4]
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12. Now about brother Apollos: I repeatedly urged him to go to you with the brothers, but he just did not want to go at this time; he will go whenever he has an opportunity.
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13. Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
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14. Do all you do in love.
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15. Now brothers, you know that the household of Stephanas is the firstfruits of Achaia and that they have really devoted themselves to ministering to the saints,
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16. so I urge you to submit to such people, to all the fellow-workers and laborers.
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17. I am glad about the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus, for what was lacking on your part they have supplied;
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18. for they refreshed my spirit and yours; so give recognition to such men.
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19. The congregations of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the congregation in their house, greet you warmly in the Lord.
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20. All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
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21. I, Paul, personally sign this greeting.[5]
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22. If anyone does not love[6] our Lord Jesus Christ,[7] let him be accursed. The Lord is coming![8]
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23. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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24. My love is with you all in Christ Jesus.Amen.