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First Corinthians. First Corinthians one one Paul called by the

will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus

and our brother sostens to the Church of God, that

is in Corinth to those sanctified in Christ Jesus called

to be saints, together with all those who in every

place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

both their Lord and ours. Grace to you and peace

from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I

give thanks to My God always for you, because of

the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

that in every way you were enriched in Him in

all speech and all knowledge, even as the testimony about

Christ was confirmed among you, so that you are not

lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the

revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you

to the end guiltless in the day of our Lord

Jesus Christ. God is faithful by whom you were called

into the fellowship of His son Jesus Christ, our Lord.

I appeal to you brothers, by the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that

there be no divisions among you, but that you be

united in the same mind and the same judgment. For

it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that

there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean

is that each one of you says, I follow Paul,

or I follow a Polas, or I follow Sephus, or

I follow Christ? Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you?

Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I

thank God that I baptize none of you except Christmus

and Gaius, so that no one may say that you

were baptized in my name. I did baptize also the

household of Stephanus. Beyond that, I do not know whether

I baptized anyone else, for Christ did not send me

to baptize, but to preach the Gospel, and not with

words of eloquent wisdom, lest the Cross of Christ be

emptied of its power. For the word of the Cross

is folly to those who are perishing, but to us

who are being saved, it is the power of God.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of

the wise and the discernment of the discerning. I will

form Where is the one who is wise? Where is

the scribe, where is the debater of his age? Has

not God made foolish the wisdom of the world, For

since in the wisdom of God, the world did not

know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly

of what we preach to save those who believe.

For Jews demand signs, and Greeks seek wisdom. But we

preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly

to gentile. But to those who are called both Jews

and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom

of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man,

and the weakness of God is stronger than man man.

For consider your calling, brothers. Not many of you are

wise according to worldly standards. Not many were powerful, not

many were of noble birth. But God chose what is

foolish in the world to shame the wise. God chose

what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

God chose what is low and despised in the world,

even things that are not to bring to nothing, things

that are so that no human being might boast in

the presence of God. And because of Him you are

in Christ, Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,

righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written,

let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.

First Corinthians two. And I, when I came to you, brothers,

did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God

with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know

nothing among you accept Jesus Christ and him crucified. And

that was with you in weakness, and in fear and

much trembling. And my speech and my message were not

in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the

spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest

in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Yet among the.

Mature we do in part wisdom, although it is not

a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of

this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we

impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God

decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the

rulers of this age understood this, for if they had,

they would not have crucified them, Lord of Glory.

But as it is written, what.

No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart

of man imagined what God has prepared for those who

love him.

These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.

For the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of

that person, which is in him. So also no one

comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world,

but the Spirit who is from God, that we might

understand the things freely given us by God. And we

impart this in words not taught by human wisdom, but

taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who

are spiritual.

The natural person does not accept the things of the

Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and

he is not able to understand them, because they are

spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is

himself to be judged by no one.

For who has understood the mind of the Lord so

as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

First Corinthians three. But I, brothers, could not address you

as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as

infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food.

For you are not ready for it. And even now

you are not yet ready, for you are still of

the flesh. For a while there is jealousy and strife

among you. Are you not of the flesh and behaving

only in a human way? For when one says I

follow Paul and another I follow Apoluse, are you not

being merely human? What? Then, is all? What is Paul

servants through whom you believed as the Lord assigned to each.

I planted, Apolus watered, but God gave the growth. So

neither he who plants nor he who waters, is anything

but only God who gives the growth.

He who plants and he who waters are one, and

each will receive his wages according to his labor. For

we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's.

Building, according to the grace of God given to me.

Like a skilled master builder. I laid a foundation, and

someone else is building upon it. Let each one take

care how he builds upon it, For no one can

lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which

is Jesus Christ. Now, if anyone builds on the foundation

with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay straw, each one's

work will become manifest, for the day will disclose it

because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire

will test what sort of work each one has done.

If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives,

he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up,

he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved.

But only as through fire. Do you not know that

you are God's temple, and that God's spirit dwells in you.

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For

God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks

that he is wise in this age, let him become

a fool that he may become wise, For the wisdom of.

This world is folly.

With God, Lord is written he catches the wise and

their craftiness. And again the Lord knows the thoughts of

the wise, that they are feutile.

So let no one both in men, for all things

are yours, whether Paul or Apollus or Cephis, or the

world or life or death, or the present or the future,

all are yours. And you are Christ's. And Christ is

God's first Corinthians four.

This is how one should regard us as servants of Christ,

and stewards are the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is

required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

But with me, it is a very small thing that

I should be judged by you or by any human court.

In fact, I do not even judge myself, for I

am not aware of anything against myself. But I am

not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore,

do not pronounce judgment before the time. Before the Lord comes,

who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness,

and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each

one will receive his commendation from God. I have applied

all these things to myself and Apolus for your benefit, brothers,

that you may learn by us not to go beyond

what is written, that none of you may be puffed

up in favor of one against another, For who sees

anything different in you? What do you have that you

did not receive? If then you received it, why do

you boast as if you did not receive it? Already

you have all you want. Already you have become rich

without us. You have become kings, and would that you

did reign so that we might share the rule with you.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as

last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we

have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and

to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, But you

are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong.

You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

To the present hour, we hunger and thirst.

We are poorly.

Dressed, and buffeted and homeless, and we labor working with

our own hands. When reviled, we bless. When persecuted, we endure,

When slandered, we entreat. We have become and are still

like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

I do not write these things to make you ashamed,

but to admonish you, as my beloved children, For though

you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have

many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus

through the Gospel. I urge you then be imitators of me.

That is why I sent you, Timothy, my beloved and

faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my

ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

But I will come to you soon if the Lord wills,

and I will find out not the talk of these

arrogant people, but their power, For the Kingdom of God

does not consist in talk, but in power. What do

you wish, shall I come to you with a rod

or with love in a spirit of gentleness? First Corinthians five.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you,

and of a kind that is not tolerated even among PAGs.

For a man has his father's wife, and you are arrogant.

Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has

done this be removed from among you. For though absent

in body, I am present in spirit, and as if present,

I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did

such a thing. When you are assembled in the name

of the Lord Jesus, and my spirit is present, with

the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver

this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,

so that his spirit may be saved in the day

of the Lord.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that

a little eleven leavens the whole lump, cleans out the

old leaven, that you may be a new lump as

you really are on leavened for Christ our passover lamb

has been sacrificed.

Let us therefore celebrate the festival not with the old leaven,

the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened

bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote to you in

my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people, not

at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or

the greedy and swindlers or idolators. Since then you would

need to go out of the world. But now I

am writing to you not to associate with anyone who

bears the name of brother, if he is guilty of

sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolator, reviler, drunkard,

or swindler, not even to eat with such a one.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is

it not those inside the church whom you are to judge.

God judges those outside, purge the evil person from among you.

First Corinthians six, when one of you has a grievance

against another, does he dare go to law before the

unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know

that the saints will judge the world. And if the

world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent

to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we

are to judge angels? How much more then matters pertaining

to this life? So if you have such cases, why

do you lay them before those who have no standing

in the church? I say this to your shame. Can

it be that there is no one among you wise

enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother

goes to law against brother, And that before unbelievers to

have lawsuits at all with one another is already a

defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not

rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud even

your own brothers? Or do you not know that the

unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not

be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy,

nor drunkards, nor revilers nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom

of God, and such were some of you. But you

were washed, you were sanctified, You were justified in the

name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit

of our God. All things are lawful for me, but

not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me,

but I will not be enslaved by anything. Food is

meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food, and

God will destroy both one and the other. Body is

not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and

the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord

and will also raise us up by His power. Do

you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?

Shall I then take the members of Christ and make

the members of a prostitute? Never? Or do you not

know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes

one body with her, For as it is written, the

two will become one flesh. But he who is joined

to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from

sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside

the body. But the sexually immoral person sins against his

own body. Or do you not know that your body

is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom

you have from God. You are not your own, for

you were bought with a price. So glorify God in

your body. First Corinthians seven. Now, concerning the matters about

which you wrote, it is good for a man not

to have sexual relations with a woman. But because of

the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his

own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband

should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise

the wife to her husband. For the wife does not

have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise,

the husband does not have authority over his own body,

but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except

perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may

devote yourselves to prayer, but then come together again, so

that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack

of self control. Now, as a concession, not a command,

I say this, I wish that all were as I

myself am, But each has his own gift from God,

one of one kind and one of another. To the

unmarried and the widows, I say that it is good

for them to remain single as I am, But if

they cannot exercise self control, they should marry. Her, for

it is better to marry than to burn with passion

to the married. I give this charge, not I, but

the Lord. The wife should not separate from her husband,

but if she does, she should remain unmarried, or else

be reconciled to her husband. And the husband should not

divorce his wife. To the rest, I say I, not

the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who

is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him,

he should not divorce her. If any woman has a

husband who is an und and he consents to live

with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving

husband is made holy because of his wife, and the

unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise

your children would be unclean. But as it is, they

are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it

be so. In such cases, the brother or sister is

not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how

do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband,

Or how do you know husband, whether you will save

your wife. Only let each person lead the life that

the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God

has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised,

let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision.

Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised, let

him not seek circumcision. For neither circumcision and counts for anything,

nor uncircumcision. But keeping the commandments of God, each one

should remain in the condition in which he was called.

Were you a slave when called, Do not be concerned

about it. But if you can gain your freedom, avail

yourself of the opportunity. For he who was called in

the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise,

he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.

You were bought with a price, Do not become slaves

of men. So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called there,

let him remain with God. Now concerning the betrothed, I

have no command from the Lord, but I give my

judgment as one who, by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

I think that in view of the present distress, it

is good for a person to remain as he is.

Are you bound to a wife, Do not seek to

be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not

seek a wife. But if you do marry, you have

not sinned. And if a betrothed woman marries, she has

not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles.

And I would spare you that this is what I mean, Brothers,

The appointed time has grown very short from now on.

Let those who have wives live as though they had none,

and those who mourn as though they were not mourning,

and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing,

and those who buy as though they had no goods,

and those who deal with the world as though they

had no dealings with it. For the present form of

this world is passing away. I want you to be

free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the

things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But

the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to

please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the

unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of

the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit,

But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how

to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit,

not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote

good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly

toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong and it

has to be, let him do as he wishes. Let

them marry. It is no sin. But whoever is firmly

established in his heart, being under no necessity, but having

his desire under control, and has determined this in his

heart to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and

he who refrains from marriage will do even better. A

wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives,

but if her husband dies, she is free to be

married to whom she wishes only in the Lord. Yet

in my judgment, she is happier if she remains as

she is. And I think that I too have the

spirit of God. First Corinthians eight.

Now, concerning food offered to idols, we know that all

of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love

builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something he

does not yet know as he ought to know. But

if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols,

we know that an idol has no real existence, and

that there is no God but one. For although there

may be so called god gods in heaven or on earth,

as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet

for us there is one God, the Father, from whom

are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord,

Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom

we exist.

However, not all possess this knowledge, but some, through former

association with idols, eat food is really offered to an idol,

and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. Food will not

commend us to God. We are no worse off if

we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

But take care that this right of yours does not

somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if

anyone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple,

will he not be encouraged if his conscience is weak

to eat food offered to idols, And so by your knowledge,

this weak person is destroyed the brother for whom Christ died. Thus,

sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it

is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes

my brother stumble. I will never eat meat lest I

make my brother stumble first Corinthians nine. Am I not free?

Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus

our Lord? Are not you my workmanship and the Lord?

If to others I am not an apostle, at least

I am to you, for you are the seal of

my apostleship and the Lord. This is my defense to

those who would examine me. Do we not have the

right to eat and drink? Do we not have the

right to take along a believing wife, as do the

other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephis?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no

right to refrain from working for a living, Who serves

as a soldier at his own expense, who plants a

vineyard without eating any of its fruit, or who tends

a flock without getting some of the milk? Do I

say these things on human authority? Does not the law

say the same?

For it is written in law of Moses you shall

not mussle an ox when it treads out the grain?

Is it for Oxen that God is concerned? Does he

not speak entirely for our sake. It was written for

our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope, and

the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it

too much if we reap material things from you? If

others share this rightful claim on you, do not we

even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right,

but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in

the way of the Gospel of Christ. Do you not

know that those who are employed in the temple service

get their food from the temple, and those who serve

at the altars share in the sacrificial offerings in the

same way. The Lord commanded that those who proclaim the

Gospel should get their living by the Gospel. But I

have made no use of any of these rights, Nor

am I writing these things to secure any such provision.

For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me

of my ground for boasting. For if I preach the Gospel,

that gives me no ground for boasting, for necessity is

laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not

preach the Gospel. For if I do this of my own,

will I have a reward. But if not of my

own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship. What

then is my reward, that in my preaching I may

present the Gospel free of charge, so as not to

make full use of my right in the Gospel. For

though I am free from all, I have made myself

a servant to all, that I might win more of them.

To the Jews, I became as a Jew in order

to win Jews to those under the law. I became

as one under the law, though not being myself under

the law, that I might win those under the law.

To those outside the law. I became as one outside

the law, not being outside the law of God, but

under the law of Christ, that I might win those

outside the law. To the weak. I became weak that

I might win the week. I have become all things

to all people, that by all means I might save some.

I do it all for the sake of the Gospel,

that I may share with them in its blessings.

Do you not know that in erase all the runners run,

but only one receives prize. So run that you may

obtain it. Every athlete exercises self control in all things.

They do it to receive a perishable reef. But we

are imperishable.

So I do not run aimlessly. I do not box

as one beating the air. But I discipline my body

and keep it under control, unless after preaching to others,

I myself should be disqualified. First Corinthians ten, For I

want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all

under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and

all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in

the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and

all drank the same spiritual drink, For they drank from

the spiritual l that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless,

with most of them, God was not pleased, for they

were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things took place as examples for us that

we might not desire evil as they did. Do not

be idolaters. If some of them were, as it is written,

the people sat down to eat and drink and rose

up to play. We must not indulge in sexual immorality,

as some of them did, and twenty three thousand fell

in a single day. We must not put Christ to

the test as some of them did, and were destroyed

by serpents, nor grumble as some of them did. And

we're destroyed by the destroyer.

Now these things happened to them as an example, but

they were written down for our instruction, on whom the

end of the ages has come. Therefore, let anyone who

thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No

temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.

God is faithful, and he will not let you be

tempted beyond your ability. But with the temptation he will

also provide the way of escape that you may be

able to endure it. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

I speak as to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what

I say. The cup of blessing that we bless, is

it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The

bread that we break, is it not a participation in

the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we

who are many, are one body, for we all partake

of the one bread. Consider, the people of Israel are

not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar.

What do I imply, then, that food offered to idols

is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I

imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and

not to God. I do not want you to be

participants with demons. You cannot drink the of the Lord

and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the

table of the Lord and the table of demons.

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger

than he? All things are lawful, but not all things

are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things

build up. Let no one seek his own good but

the good of his neighbor. Eat whatever is sold in

the meat market, without raising any question on the ground

of conscience. For the earth is the Lord's and the

fullness thereof.

If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner, and

you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before

you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

But if someone says to you, this has been offered

in sacrifice, then do not eat it. For the sake

of the one who informed you, and for the sake

of conscience. I do not mean your conscience, but his.

For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?

If I partake with the fulness why am I denounced

because of that for which I give thanks. So whether

you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all

to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews,

or to Greeks, or to the Church of God. Just

as I try to please everyone. In everything, I do,

not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that

they may be saved. First, Corinthians eleven, be imitators of me,

as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because

you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even

as I deliver them to you. But I want you

to understand that the head of every man is Christ,

the head of a wife is her husband, and the

head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or

prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every

wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors

her head, since it is the same as if her

head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover

her head, then she should cut her hair short. But

since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off

her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.

For a man ought not to cover his head since

He is the image and glory of God. But woman

is the glory of Man. For man was not made

from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created

for woman, but woman for man.

That is why a wife ought to have a symbol

of authority on her head, because of the angels. Nevertheless,

in the Lord, woman is not independent of man, nor

man of woman. For as woman was made from man,

some man is now born of woman, and all things

are from God.

Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a wife to

pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not nature

itself teach you that if a man wears long hair,

it is a disgrace for him. But if a woman

has long hair, it is her glory, for her hair

is given to her for a covering. If anyone is

inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor

do the churches of God. But in the following instructions,

I do not commend you, because when you come together,

it is not for the better, but for the worse.

For in the first place, when you come together as

a church, I hear that there are divisions among you,

and I believe it in part, for there must be

factions among you, in order that those who are genuine

among you may be recognized when you come together. It

is not the Lord's supper that you eat. For in eating,

each one goes ahead with his own meal, one goes hungry,

another gets drunk. What do you not have houses to

eat and drink in? Or do you despise the Church

of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall

I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No?

I will not, For I received from the Lord what

I also delivered to you. That the Lord Jesus, on

the night when he was betrayed, took bread, and when

he had given thanks, he broke it and said, this

is my body, which is for you. Do this in

remembrance of me. In the same way, also he took

the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new

covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you

drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as

you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim

the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever therefore eats the

bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an

unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood

of the Lord. Let a person examine himself then, and

so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body

eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many

of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined,

so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

So, then, my brothers, when you come together to eat,

wait for one another. If anyone is hungry, let him

eat at home, so that when you come together it

will not be for judgment about the other things. I

will give directions when I come first Corinthians twelve. Now,

concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to

be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, you

were led astray to mute idols. However you were led. Therefore,

I want you to understand that no one speaking in

the spirit of God ever says Jesus is accursed, and

no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the

Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the

same spirit and There are varieties of service, but the

same Lord. And there are varieties of activities, but it

is the same God who empowers them all. In everyone,

to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for

the common good. For to one is given through the

spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance

of knowledge according to the same spirit to another. Faith

by the same spirit to another. Gifts of healing by

the one spirit to another, the working of miracles to another,

prophecy to another, the ability to distinguish between spirits to another,

various kinds of tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues.

All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit,

who apportions to each one individually as he wills or

just as the body is one and has many members,

and all the members of the body, though many, are

one body, so it is with Christ, For in one

spirit we were all baptized into one body. Jews are Greeks,

slaves are free, and all were made to drink of

one spirit.

For the body does not consist of one member, but

of many. If the foot should say, because I am

not a hand, I do not belong to the body,

that would not make it any less a part of

the body. And if the ear should say, because I

am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,

that would not make it any less a part of

the body. If the whole body they were an eye,

where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole

body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body,

each one of them as he chose. If all were

a single member, where would the body be? As it is?

There are many parts yet one body. The eye cannot

say to the hand, I have no need of you,

nor again the head to the feet, I have no

need of you.

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem

to be weaker are indispensable. And on those parts of

the body that we think less honorable we bestow the

greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

which our more presentable parts do not require. But God

has so composed the body, given greater honor to the

part that lacked it, that there may be no division

in the body, but that the members may have the

same care for one another.

If one member suffers, all suffer together. If one member

is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the Body

of Christ, and individually members of it. And God has

appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers,

Then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various

kinds of tongues. Are all apostles, are all prophets. Are

all teachers? Do all work miracles, do all possessed gifts

of healing, Do all speak with tongues, do all interpret,

But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show

you a still more excellent way. First Corinthians thirteen. If

I and the tongues of men and of angels, but

have not love, I am a noisy gong or a

clanging symbol. And if I have prophetic powers and understand

all mysteries and all knowledge, And if I have all

faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love,

I am nothing. If I give away all I have,

and if I deliver up my body to be burned,

but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient

and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is

not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its

own way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does

not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love

bears all things, believes all things, hopes, all things endures

all things. Love never end. As for prophecies, they will

pass away. As for tongues they will cease. As for knowledge,

it will pass away. For we know in part, and

we prophesy in part. But when the perfect comes, the

partial will pass away. When I was a child, I

spoke like a child. I thought like a child, I

reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I

gave up childish ways. For now we see in a

mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know

in part. Then I shall know fully, even as I

have been fully known. So now, faith, hope, and love

abide these three. But the greatest of these is love.

First Corinthians fourteen.

Pursue love and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that

you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue

speaks not to men but to God, for no one

understands him, but he utters mysteries in the spirit.

On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people,

for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who

speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one

who prophesies builds up the church. Now, I want you

all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy.

The one who prophesies is greater than the one who

speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church

may be built up. Now, brothers, if I come to

you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless

I bring you some revelation or knowledge, or prophecy or teaching.

If even lifeless instruments such as the flute or the

harp do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know

what is plained? And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound,

who will get ready for battle? So with yourselves, If

with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible,

how will anyone know what is said? For you will

be speaking into the air. There are doubtless many different

languages in the world, and none is without meaning. But

if I do not know the meaning of the language,

I will be a foreigner to the speaker, and the

speaker a foreigner to me. So with yourselves. Since you

are eager for manifestations of the spirit, strive to excel

in building up the church. Therefore, one who speaks in

a tongue should pray for the power to interpret. For

if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but

my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do. I

will pray with my spirits, but I will pray with

my mind. Also, I will sing praise with my spirit,

but I will sing with my mind also. Otherwise, if

you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in

the position of an outsider say amen to your thanksgiving

when he does not know what you are saying. For

you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other

person is not being built up. I thank God that

I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless,

in church, I would rather speak five words with my

mind in order to instruct others than ten thousand words

in a tongue.

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking, be infants

and evil that in your thinking be mature. And the

law it is written by people of strange tongues and

by the lips of foreigners. While I speak to these people,

and even then they will not listen to me, he

says the law.

Thus, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers,

while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

If therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak

in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not

say that you are out of your minds. But if

all prophesy and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is

convicted by all. He is called to account by all.

The secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so falling

on his face, he will worship God and declare that

God is really among you.

What, then, brothers, when you come together, each one has

a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue.

Or an interpretation.

Let all things be done for building up.

If any speak in a tongue, let there be only

two or at most three, and each in turn, and

let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret,

let each of them keep silent in church and speak

to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak,

and let the others weigh what is said. If a

revelation is made to another sitting there, Let the first

be silent, for you can all prophesy one by one,

so that all may learn and all be encouraged. And

the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets, for God

is not a god of confusion, but of peace. As

in all the churches of the saints. The women should

keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted

to speak, but should be in submission. As the law

also says, if there is anything they desire to learn,

let them ask their husbands at home, For it is

shameful for a woman to speak in church. Or was

it from you that the word of God came? Or

are you the only ones it has reached. If anyone

thinks that he is a prophet or spiritual, he should

acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are

a command of the Lord. If anyone does not recognize this,

he is not recognized.

So, my brothers earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not

forbid speaking in tongues. But all things should be done

decently and in order.

First Corinthians fifteen. Now I would remind you, brothers of

the gospel I preach to you, which you received in

which you stand and by which you are being saved,

if you hold fast to the word I preach to you,

unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you,

as of first importance what I also received, That Christ

died for our sins in a ordance with the scriptures,

that he was buried, that he was raised on the

third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he

appeared to Sephis, then to the twelve. Then he appeared

to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most

of whom are still alive, though some had fallen asleep.

Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

last of all as to one untimely born. He appeared

also to me. For I am the least of the apostles,

unworthy to be called an apostles, because I persecuted the

Church of God. But by the grace of God I

am what I am, and His grace toward me was

not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than

any of them, though it was not I but the

grace of God that is with me, Whether then it

was I or they. So we preach, and so you believed.

Now if Christ is proclaimed is raised from the dead,

how can some of you say that there is no

resurrection of the dead. But if there is no resurrection

of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching

is in vain, and your faith is in vain. We

are even found to be misrepresenting God because we testified

about God that he raised.

Christ, whom he did not raise.

If it is true that the dead are not raised,

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ

has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised,

your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins.

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If in Christ we have hope in this life only

we are of all people most to be pitied.

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead,

the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For

as by a man came death by a man has

come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in

Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be

made alive. But each in his own order. Christ the

first fruits. Then it is coming those who belong to Christ.

Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to

God the Father, after destroying every rule and every authority

and power. For he must reign until he has put

all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to

be destroyed is death. For God has put all things

in subjection under his feet. But when it says all

things are put in subjection, it is plain that he

is accepted who put all things in subjection under him.

When all things are subjected to him, then the son

himself will also be subjected to him who put all

things in subjection under him, that God may be all

in all. Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized

on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not

raised at all? Why are people baptized on their behalf?

Why are we in danger? Every hour? I protest, brothers,

by my pride in You, which I have in Christ Jesus,

our Lord. I die every day. What do I gain

if humanly speaking? I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If

the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink,

for tomorrow we die. Do not be deceived bad company,

ruins good morals. Wake up from your drunken stupor as

is right, and do not go on sinning, for some

have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But someone will ask, how are the dead raised? With

what kind of body do they come? You, foolish person.

What you sew does not come to life unless it dies.

And what you sow is not the body that is

to be, but a bear, colonel, for perhaps of wheat

or of some other grain. But God gives it a

body as he is chosen. And to each kind of

seed its own body.

For not all flesh is the same. But there is

one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds,

and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies.

But the glory of the heavenly is of one kind,

and the glory of the earthly is of another. There

is one glory of the sun, and another glory of

the moon, and another glory of the stars. For star

differs from star in glory. So it is with the

resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable. What

is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor it

is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it

is raised in power. It is sown a natural body,

it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a

natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it

is written, the first man Adam became a living being.

The last atom became a life giving spirit.

But it is not the spiritual that is first, but

the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was

from the earth, a man of dust. The second man

is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so

also are those who are of the dust, And as

is the Man of heaven, so also are those who

are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image

of the Man of dust, we shall also bear the

image of the Man of heaven.

I tell you this, brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit

the Kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold,

I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep,

but we shall all be changed in a moment, in

the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet, For

the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable,

and we shall be changed.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and

this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable

puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality,

then shall come to pass the saying that it's written,

death is swallowed up in victory, Oh death, Where is

your victory, Oh death.

Where is your sting? The sting of death is sin,

and the power of sin is the law. But thanks

be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord,

Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always

abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in

the Lord your labor is not in vain. First Corinthians sixteen.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed

the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.

On the first day of every week. Each of you

is to put something aside and store it up as

he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting

when I come. And when I arrive, I will send

those from you a credit by letter to carry your

gift to Jerusalem. If it seems advisable that I should go, also,

they will accompany me. I will visit you after passing

through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia, and

perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter,

so that you may help me on my journey wherever

I go, for I do not want to see you

now just in passing. I hope to spend some time

with you if the Lord permits. But I will stay

in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective

work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease

among you, for he is doing the work of the

Lord as I am. So let no one despise him.

Help him on his way in peace, that he may

return to me, For I am expecting him with the brothers. Now.

Concerning our brother Apollus, I strongly urged him to visit

you with the other brothers, but it was not at

all his will to come. Now, he will come when

he has opportunity. Be watchful, stand firm in the faith,

act like men, be strong. Let all that you do

be done in love. Now I urge you, brothers. You

know that the household of Stephanus were the first converts

in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the

service of the saints. Be subject to such as these

and to every fellow worker and laborer. I rejoice at

the coming of Stephanus and Fortunatus and Achaicus. Because they

have made up for your absence. For the they refreshed

my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men.

The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquala and Chrisca,

together with the church in their house, send you hearty

greetings in the Lord. All the brothers send you greetings.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

I Paul write this greeting with my own hand. If

anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be

accursed Our Lord. Come the grace of the Lord. Jesus

be with you. My love be with you all in

Christ Jesus Amen.