Bible in 90 Days

15 ¶ We then that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not please ourselves.

² Let each one of us please his neighbour in that which is good, unto edification.

³ For the Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me.

⁴ For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

⁵ ¶ Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be unanimous among yourselves according to Christ Jesus,

⁶ that ye may with one accord and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ ¶ Therefore bear one another, as the Christ also bore us, to the glory of God.

⁸ Now I say that Christ Jesus, was a minister of the circumcision, by the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers;

⁹ but that the Gentiles glorify God by mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name.

¹⁰ And again he says, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and magnify him, all the peoples.

¹² And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles shall wait for salvation.

¹³ ¶ And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ ¶ But I am convinced regarding you, my brethren, that even without my exhortation ye are full of charity, full of all knowledge, so as to be able to admonish one another.

¹⁵ Nevertheless I have written, brethren, in part boldly, as admonishing you by the grace that is given to me of God,

¹⁶ being the minister of Jesus Christ, to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be well pleasing, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ ¶ Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus, with regard to God.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed,

¹⁹ with power of signs and wonders, in virtue of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have filled the entire area with the gospel of the Christ.

²⁰ And in this manner I preached this gospel, not where Christ had been named previously, not to build upon a foundation belonging to another,

²¹ but, as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and those that have not heard shall understand.

²² ¶ For which reason I have even been hindered many times from coming to you.

²³ But now having more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you,

²⁴ when I leave for Spain, I will come unto you; for I trust to see you on my journey and to be taken there by you, if first I may enjoy your company.

²⁵ But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

²⁶ For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem.

²⁷ It has pleased them verily, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they should also minister unto them in carnal things.

²⁸ So that, when I have concluded this and have delivered unto them this fruit, I will come by you unto Spain.

²⁹ For I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of the Christ.

³⁰ ¶ But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the Spirit, that ye help me with prayers to God for me,

³¹ that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judaea and that the offering of my service to the saints in Jerusalem may be accepted,

³² that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and may be refreshed together with you.

³³ Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

16 ¶ I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} which is at Cenchrea,

² that ye receive her in the Lord as a worthy saint, and that ye assist her in whatever thing in which she has need of you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

³ Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus

⁴ (who have for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of the Gentiles);

⁵ likewise greet the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia in Christ.

⁶ Greet Mary, who has laboured much with us.

⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

⁸ Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

⁹ Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

¹⁰ Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who are of Aristobulus’ household.

¹¹ Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those that are of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

¹² Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who laboured much in the Lord.

¹³ Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

¹⁴ Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.

¹⁵ Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

¹⁶ Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of Christ salute you.

¹⁷ ¶ And I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause dissensions and offences outside of the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.

¹⁸ For they that are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by smooth words and blessings deceive the hearts of the simple.

¹⁹ For your obedience is come abroad unto all places. I am glad therefore on your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and innocent concerning evil.

²⁰ And let the God of peace bruise Satan under your feet quickly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

²¹ ¶ Timothy my fellow worker and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

²² I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

²³ Gaius my host, and of the whole congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} salutes you. Erastus, the chamberlain of the city, salutes you, and Quartus, a brother.

²⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, be with you all. Amen.

²⁵ ¶ Now to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed from times eternal

²⁶ but now is made manifest, and by the writings of the prophets, by the commandment of God eternal, declared unto all the Gentiles, that they might hear and obey by faith,

²⁷ to God, only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.

1 ¶ Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

² unto the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God which is at Corinth, to those that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

³ Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you in Christ Jesus,

⁵ that in every thing ye are enriched in him in all word and in all knowledge,

⁶ with which the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,

⁷ so that ye lack nothing in any gift, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁸ who shall also confirm that ye shall remain unimpeachable unto the end, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁰ ¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfect, joined together in the same understanding and in the same perception.

¹¹ For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

¹² In other words, that each one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

¹³ Is the Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

¹⁴ ¶ I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius,

¹⁵ lest any should say that ye were baptized into my name.

¹⁶ And I baptized also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

¹⁷ ¶ For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} of Christ should be made void.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} is foolishness to those that perish, but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.

¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

²⁰ Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the philosopher of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

²¹ For in the wisdom of God, since the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe.

²² For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom,

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, {Gr. Stauroo – hung on a stake} unto the Jews a stumblingblock and unto the Gentiles foolishness;

²⁴ but unto those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

²⁵ For that which is foolish of God is wiser than men, and that which is weak of God is stronger than men.

²⁶ For look upon your vocation, brothers, that ye are not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,

²⁷ but rather God has chosen that which is the foolishness of the world to confound the wise, and God has chosen that which is the weakness of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;

²⁸ and that which is vile of the world and that which is despised God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are,

²⁹ that no flesh should glory in his presence.

³⁰ But of him ye are reborn in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

³¹ that, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

2 ¶ And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with puffed up speech or wisdom to declare unto you the testimony of God.

² For I judged not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

³ And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁵ that your faith should not be founded in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶ ¶ For we speak perfect wisdom of God, and not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age, that come to nought,

⁷ but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,

⁸ which none of the princes of this age knew (for had they known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

⁹ But as it is written, That which eye has not seen nor ear heard neither has entered into the heart of man is that which God has prepared for those that love him.

¹⁰ But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

¹¹ For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

¹² Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that God has given us.

¹³ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but with doctrine of the Holy Spirit, jointly fitting spiritual things by spiritual means.

¹⁴ But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵ But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he is discerned by no one.

¹⁶ For who has known the understanding of the Lord? Who has instructed him? But we have the understanding of Christ.

3 ¶ And I, brothers, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

² I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food, for until now ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

³ For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?

⁴ For while one says, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

⁵ ¶ Who then is Paul? and who is Apollos? but servants by whom ye believed, each one according to that which the Lord gave.

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

⁷ So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that gives the increase.

⁸ Now he that plants and he that waters are one although each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

⁹ For we are labourers together with God; ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let each one see how the building is built.

¹¹ ¶ For no one can lay another foundation than that laid, which is Jesus the Christ.

¹² Now if anyone builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

¹³ the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.

¹⁴ If the work of anyone abides which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

¹⁵ If anyone’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

¹⁶ ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

¹⁷ If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy that one; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

¹⁸ ¶ Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

²⁰ And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

²¹ ¶ Therefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all are yours;

²³ and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

4 ¶ Let us reckon men as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

² Moreover, it is required in stewards that each one be found faithful.

³ But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by man’s judgment; I do not even judge my own self.

⁴ For although I have nothing on my conscience, yet am I not hereby justified, but he that judges me is the Lord.

⁵ Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.

⁶ And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye might not learn above that which is written, lest because of one, some of you become puffed up against others.

⁷ ¶ For who makes thee to judge? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, what dost thou glory of, as if thou hadst not received it?

⁸ Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye reign as kings without us, and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

⁹ For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

¹¹ Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place

¹² and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

¹³ being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

¹⁴ ¶ I do not write these things to shame you, but to warn you, as to my beloved sons.

¹⁵ For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye shall not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

¹⁶ Therefore, I beseech you that ye imitate me.

¹⁷ ¶ For this cause I have sent Timothy unto you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

¹⁸ Now some are puffed up as though I will never come to you.

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know not the words of those who are puffed up, but the virtue.

²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in virtue.

²¹ What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?

5 ¶ It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

² And ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

³ For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, him that has so done this deed.

⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ let such a one be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

⁷ ¶ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ, our passover, is sacrificed for us;

⁸ therefore let us celebrate the feast, not in the old leaven, neither in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ ¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to associate with fornicators,

¹⁰ yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters, for then ye would need to go out of the world.

¹¹ But now I have written unto you not to associate with anyone calling himself a brother if he is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a one do not even eat.

¹² For why shall I judge those that are without? do ye not judge those that are within?

¹³ But those that are without, God shall judge. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

6 ¶ Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go unto judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?

² Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

³ Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more the things that pertain to this life?

⁴ If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set as judges the most humble who are in the congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

⁵ I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?

⁶ But brother goes to judgment against brother, and that before the unbelievers.

⁷ Now therefore there is certainly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather suffer the wrong? why do ye not rather be defrauded?

⁸ But ye do wrong and defraud and do this to your brothers.

⁹ ¶ Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

¹⁰ nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹¹ And such were some of you, but now ye are washed, but now ye are sanctified, but now ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.

¹² ¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

¹³ Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴ And God, who raised up the Lord, will also raise up us by his own power.

¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? In no wise.

¹⁶ What? know ye not that he who is joined to the harlot is one body with her? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

¹⁷ But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Any other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?

²⁰ For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

7 ¶ Now concerning the things of which ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

³ Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

⁴ The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband does not have authority of his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.

⁶ But I speak this by permission, and not by commandment.

⁷ For I would that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one after this manner and another after that.

⁸ I say, therefore, to the unmarried men and widowers, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

⁹ But if they do not have the gift of continence, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

¹⁰ ¶ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from her husband;

¹¹ and if she separates, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife.

¹² But to the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that does not believe, and she consents to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

¹³ And the woman who has a husband that does not believe and if he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

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 holy.

¹⁵ But if the unbelieving spouse separates, let them separate. The brother or the sister is not under slavery in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

¹⁶ For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

¹⁷ ¶ But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let them walk. And so I ordain in all the congregations. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

¹⁸ Is anyone called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of God.

²⁰ Let each abide in the same calling in which he was called.

²¹ Art thou called being a slave? care not for it; but if thou may be made free, use it rather.

²² For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord’s freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s slave.

²³ Ye are bought with a price; do not make yourselves the slaves of men.

²⁴ Each one, brothers, in that state in which he was called, let him abide with God.

²⁵ ¶ Now concerning virgins I have no com­mandment of the Lord, yet I give my advice, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

²⁶ I hold, therefore, this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be thus:

²⁷ Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

²⁸ But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

²⁹ But this I say, brothers, the time is short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;

³⁰ and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;

³¹ and those that use this world, as not using it as their own, for the fashion of this world passes away.

³² But I would have you without worry. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

³³ but he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

³⁴ There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

³⁵ And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is honourable and that ye may attend upon the Lord without impediment.

³⁶ ¶ But if anyone thinks it uncomely regarding his daughter, if she passes the bloom of life, and need so requires, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

³⁷ Nevertheless, he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has liberty regarding his own, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his daughter, does well.

³⁸ So then he that gives her in marriage does well, but he that does not give her in marriage does better.

³⁹ ¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is free and may be married to whom she will, if it is in the Lord.

⁴⁰ But she shall be more blessed if she so abides, after my counsel, and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

8 ¶ Now as concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity edifies.

² And if anyone thinks that they know anything, they know nothing yet as they ought to know.

³ But if anyone loves God, the same is known of him.

⁴ ¶ As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

⁵ For though there are some that are called gods, whether in heaven or in the earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

⁶ but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

⁷ ¶ Howbeit there is not in everyone that knowledge, for some with conscience of the idol unto now, eat it as a thing offered unto an idol, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

⁸ But food does not make us more acceptable unto God; for neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worse.

⁹ But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumblingblock to those that are weak.

¹⁰ For if anyone sees thee who hast this knowledge sit at food in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols?

¹¹ and through thy knowledge the weak brother shall perish, for whom Christ died.

¹² In this manner, therefore, sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

¹³ Therefore, if food makes my brother to fall, I will never eat flesh nor do anything which may cause my brother to fall.

9 ¶ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

² If I am not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

³ ¶ My answer to those that examine me is this,

⁴ Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?

⁵ Do we not have authority to bring with us a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles and as the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

⁶ Do only Barnabas and I not have authority to forbear working?

⁷ Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

⁸ Do I say this only according to men? or does not the law say the same also?

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God take care for oxen?

¹⁰ Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope, and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

¹¹ If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap material things from you?

¹² If others are partakers of this authority over you, why not us? Nevertheless we have not used this authority, but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

¹³ Do ye not know that those who work with sacred things live of the things of the sanctuary? and those who serve at the altar partake of the altar?

¹⁴ Even so the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

¹⁵ ¶ But I have used none of these things, neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me; for it were better for me to die than that anyone should make this my glory void.

¹⁶ For though I preach the gospel, I have no reason to glory, for it is an obligation laid upon me; for woe is me, if I do not preach the gospel!

¹⁷ For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, the stewardship of the gospel is committed unto me.

¹⁸ What reward, then, shall I have? That preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel of the Christ without charge, that I abuse not my authority in the gospel.

¹⁹ ¶ Therefore, though I am free regarding everyone, yet I have made myself slave unto all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰ And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those that are under the law;

²¹ to those that are without law, as without law (being not without law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might gain those that are without law.

²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to everyone, that I might by all means save some.

²³ And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker together of it.

²⁴ ¶ Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain it.

²⁵ And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible one.

²⁶ I therefore so run, not as unto an uncertain thing; so I fight, not as one that beats the air;

²⁷ but I keep my body under, and bring it into subjection, lest preaching to others, I myself should become reprobate.

10 ¶ Moreover, brothers, I would that ye not ignore how our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea

² and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea

³ and did all eat the same spiritual food

⁴ and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was the Christ.

⁵ But with many of them God was not pleased; therefore, they were overthrown in the wilderness.

⁶ ¶ Now these things became types of us, that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted.

⁷ Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.

⁹ Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted and perished by the serpents.

¹⁰ Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and perished by the destroyer.

¹¹ Now all these things happened unto them as types, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

¹² Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

¹³ No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

¹⁴ Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

¹⁵ ¶ I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?

¹⁷ For one loaf of bread means that many are one body, for we are all partakers of that one loaf.

¹⁸ Behold Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices participants of the altar?

¹⁹ What do I say then? that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

²⁰ But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should be participants of demons.

²¹ Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; ye cannot be participants of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

²² Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

²³ ¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own good, but that of the other.

²⁵ Whatever is sold in the market, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake;

²⁶ for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.

²⁷ If any of those that do not believe bid you to a feast, and ye are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you asking no questions for conscience sake.

²⁸ But if anyone says unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, do not eat it for the sake of him that disclosed it and for conscience sake; for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof:

²⁹ conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other, for why should my liberty be judged by another man’s conscience?

³⁰ For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye do, do everything for the glory of God.

³² Be without offense, neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God;

³³ even as I please everyone in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

11 ¶ Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

² Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and retain my instructions the same as I spoke unto you.

³ But I would have you know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours his head.

⁵ But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head, for that is even the same as if she were shaven.

⁶ For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

⁷ For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

⁸ For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

⁹ Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

¹⁰ For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her head: because of the angels.

¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

¹² For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

¹³ Judge in yourselves: is it honest that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

¹⁴ Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man lets his hair grow, it is dishonest?

¹⁵ But if a woman lets her hair grow, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering.

¹⁶ With all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God.

¹⁷ ¶ Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

¹⁸ For first of all, when ye come together in the congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

¹⁹ For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.

²⁰ So that when ye come together in one place, this is not eating the Lord’s supper.

²¹ For in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

²² What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

²³ ¶ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread;

²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.

²⁵ After the same manner also he took the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; do this each time that ye drink, in remembrance of me.

²⁶ For each time that ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye declare the Lord’s death until he comes.

²⁷ Therefore whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

²⁸ But let each man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

²⁹ For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

³⁰ For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

³¹ For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged.

³² But being judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

³³ Therefore, my brothers, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴ And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye not come together unto judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.

12 ¶ Now regarding spiritual things, brothers, I would not have you ignore them.

² Ye know that when ye were Gentiles, ye went, even as ye were led, unto the dumb idols.

³ Therefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema and that no one can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Spirit.

⁴ Now there is dispersal of gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁵ And there is dispersal of ministries, but the same Lord.

⁶ And there is dispersal of operations, but it is the same God who works all in each one.

⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one to profit with.

⁸ For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

⁹ to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

¹⁰ to another, the operation of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, different kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:

¹¹ one and the same Spirit operates all these things, dispersing to each one his own gift as he wills.

¹² ¶ For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also the Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or Greeks, whether we are slaves or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot shall say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁶ And if the ear shall say, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

¹⁸ But now God has set the members each one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.

¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

²⁰ But now they are indeed many members, yet but one body.

²¹ And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

²² For those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary;

²³ and those members of the body which we think to be more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are more indecent have more honesty.

²⁴ For those in us who are more honest need nothing, but God has ordered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that one which lacked,

²⁵ that there should be no contradiction in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

²⁷ ¶ Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.

²⁸ And God did set certain ones in the congregation: {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that faculties, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

²⁹ Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? do all have faculties?

³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

³¹ But earnestly pursue the best gifts, and yet I show unto you a more excellent way.

13 ¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.

² And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity, it profits me nothing.

⁴ ¶ Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up,

⁵ is not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

⁶ rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ ¶ Charity is never lost, but prophecies shall come to an end, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall come to an end.

⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰ But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹² For now we see as through a mirror, in darkness, but then we shall see face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I also am known.

¹³ And now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

14 ¶ Follow after charity and earnestly pursue spiritual gifts, but above all, that ye may prophesy.

² For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God, for no one understands him, even though by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

³ But he that prophesies speaks unto men for edification and exhortation and comfort.

⁴ He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he that prophesies edifies the congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

⁵ I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied, for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} may receive edifying.

⁶ ¶ Now, brothers, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either with revelation or with knowledge or with prophecy or with doctrine?

⁷ And even things without life giving sound, whether flute or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is played or harped?

⁸ For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

⁹ So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue a clear and definite word, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

¹⁰ There are many kinds of distinct voices in the world, and nothing is dumb.

¹¹ Therefore, if I ignore the virtue of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks as a barbarian, and he that speaks shall be a barbarian unto me.

¹² Even so ye, forasmuch as ye desire the things of the Spirit, earnestly pursue excellence unto the edification of the congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

¹³ Therefore, let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

¹⁴ For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

¹⁵ ¶ What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

¹⁶ Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the ignorant say, Amen, at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understands not what thou sayest?

¹⁷ For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

¹⁸ I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all;

¹⁹ yet in the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

²⁰ Brothers, be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children; but in understanding be perfect.

²¹ ¶ In the law it is written, In other tongues and with other lips I will speak unto this people; and yet for all that, they will not hear me, saith the Lord.

²² Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those that believe, but to those that do not believe; but prophecy is not for those that do not believe, but for those who believe.

²³ If, therefore, the whole congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} is come together into one place and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and there come in one that does not believe or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all;

²⁵ for the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed in you.

²⁶ ¶ How is it then, brothers? when ye come together, each one of you has a psalm, has doctrine, has tongues, has revelation, has interpretation. Let all things be done unto edification.

²⁷ If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

²⁸ But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and let him speak to himself and to God.

²⁹ Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge.

³⁰ If any thing is revealed to another that sits by, let the first be silent.

³¹ For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

³² And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

³³ For God is not the God of disorder, but of peace, as in all the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of the saints.

³⁴ ¶ Let your women keep silence in the congregations, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be in subjection, as also saith the law.

³⁵ And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a dishonest thing for women to speak in the congregation. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

³⁶ ¶ What? Did the word of God come out from you? or did it come unto you only?

³⁷ If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

³⁸ But anyone that ignores them shall be ignored.

³⁹ Therefore, brothers, earnestly pursue prophecy and do not forbid to speak with tongues.

⁴⁰ But let all things be done decently and in order.