1 Corinthians

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1:2	To God’sthe church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord — both their Lord and ours.
1:4	I always thank my God for you because of God’sthe grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,
1:5	that by Him you were enriched in everything—him in every way, in all speech and all knowledge.
1:9	God is faithful; you were called by Himhim into fellowship with Hishis Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10	Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.
1:11	For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers and sisters, by members of Chloe’s householdpeople, that there is rivalry among you.
1:12	What I am saying is this: EachOne of you says, “I’m withbelong to Paul,” or “I’m withbelong to Apollos,” or “I’m withbelong to Cephas,” or “I’m withbelong to Christ.”
1:13	Is Christ divided? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in Paul’s name?
1:16	I did, in fact, baptize the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t knowrecall if I baptized anyone else.
1:17	For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelizepreach the gospel — not with clevereloquent wordswisdom, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.
1:18	For the messageword of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’sthe power of God to us who are being saved.
1:19	For it is written:, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understandingintelligence of the expertsintelligent.
1:20	Where is the philosopherone who is wise? Where is the scholarteacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?
1:21	For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of thewhat messageis preached.
1:24	Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’sthe power andof God’s and the wisdom of God,
1:26	Brothers and sisters, consider your calling: Not many arewere wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.
1:28	God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world  — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,
1:29	so that no one canmay boast in Hishis presence.
1:30	ButIt it is from Himhim that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God-given wisdom for us — our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, —
1:31	in order that, as it is written: TheLet the one who boasts, must boast in the Lord.
2:1	When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the testimonymystery of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.
2:2	For I didn’tdecided think it was a good idea to know anythingnothing among you except Jesus Christ and Himhim crucified.
2:4	My speech and my proclamationpreaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a powerful demonstration byof the Spirit’s power,
2:5	so that your faith might not be based on men’shuman wisdom but on God’s power.
2:6	HoweverWe do, wehowever, do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
2:8	None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, forbecause if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2:9	But as it is written:, What no eye didhas notseen, seeno and ear didhas not hearheard, and whatno neverhuman enteredheart thehas humanconceived mind— God has prepared thisthese things for those who love Himhim.
2:10	Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, forsince the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
2:11	For who amongknows mena knowsperson’s the thoughts of a man except thehis spirit ofwithin the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
2:14	But the unbelieverperson without the Spirit does not welcomereceive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
2:15	The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.
2:16	For who has known the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct Himhim? But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1	BrothersFor my part, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.
3:2	I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, becausesince you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,
3:3	because you are still fleshlyworldly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshlyworldly and livingbehaving like unbelieversmere humans?
3:4	For whenever someone says, “I’m withbelong to Paul,” and another, “I’m withbelong to Apollos,” are you not unspiritualacting peoplelike mere humans?
3:5	What then is Apollos? AndWhat what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.
3:7	So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
3:8	Now thehe onewho plantingplants and thehe onewho wateringwaters are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
3:10	According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one mustis to be careful how he builds on it.
3:11	For no one can lay any foundation other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.
3:12	If anyone builds on thatthe foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
3:13	each one’s work will become obvious,. forFor the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.
3:15	If anyone’s work is burned up, ithe will beexperience lostloss, but he himself will be saved;  yet— itbut willonly beas like an escape through fire.
3:16	Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuarytemple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
3:17	If anyone destroys God’s sanctuarytemple, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuarytemple is holy, and that is what you are.
3:18	NoLet no one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, helet musthim become foolisha fool so that he can become wise.
3:19	For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written:, He catches the wise in their craftiness;
3:20	and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are meaninglessfutile.
3:21	So let no one should boast in human leaders, for everything is yours  —
3:22	whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come  — everything is yours,
4:1	A person should considerthink of us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’sthe mysteries of God.
4:2	In this regard, it is expectedrequired ofthat managers that each one of them be found faithful.
4:3	It is of little importance to me that I should be evaluatedjudged by you or by any human court. In fact, I don’t even evaluatejudge myself.
4:4	For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified by this. TheIt Oneis the Lord who evaluatesjudges me is the Lord.
4:5	ThereforeSo don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.
4:6	Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflatedarrogant, withfavoring pride in favor of one person over another.
4:8	You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us — and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!
4:9	For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, andboth to angels and to menpeople.
4:13	when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’sscum garbageof the earth, like the dirt everyone’s scrapesgarbage. off their sandals.
4:15	For you canmay have 10,000countless instructors in Christ, but you candon’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
4:17	This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful sonchild in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
4:18	Now some are inflated with pridearrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
4:19	But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will knowfind out not the talk, but the power of those who are inflated with pridearrogant.
5:1	It is widelyactually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles  — a man is livingsleeping with his father’s wife.
5:2	And you are inflatedarrogant! withShouldn’t pride,you insteadbe of filled with grief soand thatremove hefrom whoyour hascongregation committedthe thisone actwho mightdid bethis? removed from your congregation.
5:3	ForEven though I am absent in the body, butI am present in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already decidedpronounced aboutjudgment on the one who has donebeen thisdoing thingsuch asa though I were presentthing.
5:4	When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with myyou in spirit, and with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5:5	turnhand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Dayday of the Lord.
5:6	Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeastleaven permeatesleavens the whole batch of dough?
5:7	Clean out the old yeastleaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch., Youas are indeed unleavened,you forare. For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.
5:8	Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeastleaven or with the yeastleaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
5:11	But nowactually, I amwrote writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believerbrother whoor sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
5:13	But God judges outsiders. PutRemove away the evil person from among yourselvesyou.
6:1	If any of you has a legal dispute against another, dohow dare you daretake goit to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
6:2	Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallesttrivial cases?
6:3	Don’t you know that we will judge angels —not tohow mentionmuch ordinarymore matters of this life?
6:4	So if you have casessuch pertaining to this lifematters, do you selectappoint as your judges those who have no standing in the church to judge?
6:5	I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between hisfellow brothersbelievers?
6:6	Instead, believerbrother goes to court against believerbrother, and that before unbelievers!
6:7	ThereforeAs it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moraldefeat failure for you. Why not rather putbe up with injusticewronged? Why not rather be cheated?
6:8	Instead, you actyourselves unjustlydo wrong and cheat — and you do this to believersbrothers and sisters!
6:9	Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyonemales practicingwho homosexualityhave sex with males,
6:12	“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpfulbeneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be broughtmastered underby the control of anything.
6:13	“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” butand God will do away with both of them. TheHowever, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
6:14	God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by Hishis power.
6:17	But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Himhim.
6:18	RunFlee from sexual immorality! “Every other sin a person cancommits commit is outside the body.”, Onbut the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
6:19	Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuarytemple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
6:20	for you were bought at a price. ThereforeSo glorify God inwith your body.
7:1	Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
7:2	But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.
7:3	A husband should fulfill his marital responsibilityduty to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.
7:5	Do not deprive one another sexually— except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
7:6	I say thethis following as a concession, not as a command.
7:7	I wish that all people were justas likeI meam. But each has his own gift from God, one person inhas this waygift, and another inhas that. way.
7:9	But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, forsince it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
7:10	To the married I give this command  the— married—not I, but the Lord — a wife is not to leave her husband.
7:11	But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband — and a husband is not to leavedivorce his wife.
7:12	But I (not the Lord) say to the rest: If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not leavedivorce her.
7:13	Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not leavedivorce her husband.
7:14	For the unbelieving husband is setmade apartholy for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is setmade apartholy for God by the husband. Otherwise your children would be corruptunclean, but nowas it is they are set apart for Godholy.
7:16	For youWife, wife,for howall do you know, whether you willmight save your husband?. Or youHusband, husband,for howall do you know, whether you willmight save your wife?.
7:17	However,Let each one must live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches.
7:19	Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter,. butKeeping keeping God’s commands doesis what matters.
7:20	EachLet personeach shouldof you remain in the life situation in which he was called.
7:21	Were you called while a slave? ItDon’t shouldlet notit be a concern to you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.
7:23	You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of menpeople.
7:24	Brothers and sisters, each person shouldis to remain with God in whateverthe situation in which he was called.
7:25	AboutNow about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthyfaithful.
7:26	ThereforeBecause I consider this to be good because of the present distress:, ItI think that it is finegood for a man to remain as he is.
7:27	Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosedreleased. Are you loosedreleased from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
7:29	AndThis is what I say thismean, brothers and sisters: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,
7:30	those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they diddidn’t notown possessanything,
7:32	I want you to be without concerns. AnThe unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord — how he may please the Lord.
7:33	But athe married man is concerned about the things of the world — how he may please his wife —
7:34	and his interests are divided. AnThe unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But athe married woman is concerned about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.
7:35	Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but becauseto ofpromote what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.
7:36	ButIf if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward histhe virgin he is engaged to, if she is pastgetting marriageablebeyond the usual age for marriage, and sohe itfeels musthe be,should marry — he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.
7:37	But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep her as his own virginfiancée, will do well.
7:38	So, then, he who marries his virginfiancée does well, but he who does not marry will do better.
7:39	A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants — only in the Lord.
8:1	AboutNow about food offeredsacrificed to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge inflatespuffs with prideup, but love builds up.
8:3	But if anyone loves God, he is known by Himhim.
8:4	About eating food offeredsacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”
8:5	For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth — as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—” —
8:6	yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from Himhim, and we exist for Himhim. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through Himhim, and we exist through Himhim.
8:7	However, not everyone has this knowledge. InSome fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offeredsacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8:8	Food will not makebring us acceptableclose to God. We are not inferiorworse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.
8:10	For if someone sees you, the one who has this knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?
8:11	ThenSo the weak person, the brother or sister for whom Christ died, is ruined by your knowledge.
8:12	Now when you sin like this against the brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.
8:13	Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother or sister to fall.
9:2	If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, forbecause you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
9:5	Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christianbelieving wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?
9:6	Or do only Barnabas and I alone have no right to refrain from working?
9:7	Who everserves goesas toa warsoldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?
9:9	For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned withabout oxen?
9:10	Or isnIsn’t Hehe really saying it for usour sake? Yes, this is written for usour sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should dothresh so in hope of sharing the crop.
9:12	If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more? HoweverNevertheless, we have not made use of this right; instead, we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
9:15	ButFor my part I have used none of these rights, andnor I have notI written thisthese tothings makethat itthey happenmay thatbe wayapplied forin memy case. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!
9:16	For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because anI obligationam iscompelled placedto onpreach  me.— Andand woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
9:17	For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardshipcommission.
9:18	What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authorityrights in the gospel.
9:19	Although I am a free manfrom all and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.
9:20	To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law — though I myself am not under the law  — to win those under the law.
9:21	To those who are without thatthe law, like one without the law — though I am not being without God’s law but withinunder the law of Christ’s law— to win those without the law.
9:23	Now I do all this because of the gospel, so that I may becomeshare a partner in itsthe benefitsblessings.
9:25	Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However,They they do it to receive a perishable crown that will fade away, but we aan imperishable crown that will never fade away.
9:26	ThereforeSo I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
10:1	Now I do not want you to knowbe unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathersancestors were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea,
10:4	and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from athe spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.
10:5	ButNevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, forsince they were struck down in the wilderness.
10:6	Now these things becametook place as examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.
10:7	Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to playparty.
10:8	Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000twenty-three thousand people fell deaddied.
10:10	NorAnd shoulddon’t wegrumble complain as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer.
10:11	NowThese these things happened to them as examples, and they were written asfor aour warning to usinstruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
10:13	No temptation has overtakencome upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful,; andhe He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation Hehe will also provide athe way ofout escape so that you aremay be able to bear it.
10:14	ThereforeSo then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
10:15	I am speaking as to wisesensible people. Judge for yourselves what I sayam saying.
10:16	The cup of blessing that we give thanks forbless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?
10:17	Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, forsince all of us share thatthe one bread.
10:18	LookConsider at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in what is offered on the altar?
10:19	What am I saying then? That food offeredsacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
10:20	No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to participatebe participants with demons!
10:22	Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than Hehe?
10:23	“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is helpfulbeneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.
10:24	No one shouldis to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.
10:25	Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, askingwithout noraising questions for conscience’the sake of conscience,
10:26	forsince the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it.
10:27	If oneany of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.
10:28	But if someone says to you, “This is food offeredfrom toa an idolsacrifice,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for conscience’the sake of conscience.
10:30	If I partake with thanksthanksgiving, why am I slanderedcriticized because of something for which I give thanks? for?
10:31	ThereforeSo, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God’sthe glory of God.
10:32	Give no offense to the Jews or the Greeks or the church of God,
10:33	just as I also try to please alleveryone people in all thingseverything, not seeking my own profitbenefit, but the profitbenefit of many, so that they may be saved.
11:2	Now I praise you because you always remember me in everything and keephold fast to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.
11:5	ButEvery every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since that is one and the same as having her head shaved.
11:6	SoFor if a woman doesn’st cover her head, isshe notshould covered,have her hair should be cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, shelet shouldher head be covered.
11:7	A man, in fact, should not cover his head, because he is God’sthe image and glory of God. So too, but woman is man’sthe glory of man.
11:9	AndNeither man was notman created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man.
11:16	ButIf if anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.
11:17	Now in giving thethis following instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.
11:19	There mustIndeed, indeed,it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
11:20	Therefore,When when you come together, then, it is not really to eat the Lord’s Supper.
11:21	For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!
11:22	Don’t you have houseshomes in which to eat and drink in? Or do you lookdespise down on the church of God and embarrasshumiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you forin this matter!
11:23	For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when Hehe was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread,
11:24	gaveand when he had given thanks, broke it, and said, “This is Mymy body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Meme.”
11:25	In the same way, afteralso supperhe He also took the cup, after supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant establishedin bymy My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Meme.”
11:26	For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until Hehe comes.
11:27	ThereforeSo, then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy waymanner will be guilty of sin against the body and blood of the Lord.
11:28	SoLet a manperson should examine himself; in this way helet shouldhim eat the bread and drink from the cup.
11:31	If we were properly evaluatingjudging ourselves, we would not be judged,
11:32	but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world.
11:33	Therefore, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, waitwelcome for one another.
11:34	If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. And I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.
12:1	Now concerning whatspiritual comesgifts: frombrothers theand Spirit: brotherssisters, I do not want you to be unaware.
12:2	You know that when you were pagans, you used to be enticed and led offastray toby themute idols that could not speak.
12:3	Therefore I amwant informing you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
12:6	And there are different activities, but the same God activatesworks eachall giftof them in each person.
12:7	A demonstrationmanifestation of the Spirit is given to each person tofor producethe whatcommon isgood: beneficial:
12:10	to another, the performing of miracles, to another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another, different kinds of languagestongues, to another, interpretation of languagestongues.
12:11	ButOne one and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as Hehe wills.
12:12	For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body — so also is Christ.
12:13	For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and we were all madegiven one Spirit to drink of one Spirit.
12:14	SoIndeed, the body is not one part but many.
12:15	If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” init spiteis ofnot thisfor itthat stillreason belongsany toless a part of the body.
12:16	And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” init spiteis ofnot thisfor itthat stillreason belongsany toless a part of the body.
12:18	But nowas it is, God has placedarranged each one of the parts in onethe body just as Hehe wanted.
12:20	NowAs it is, there are many parts, yetbut one body.
12:21	SoThe the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”
12:22	ButOn eventhe morecontrary, those parts of the body that seemare to be weaker are necessaryindispensable.
12:23	And those parts of the body that we thinkconsider to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentableunrespectable parts haveare atreated betterwith presentation.greater respect,
12:24	Butwhich our presentablerespectable parts havedo nonot need of clothing. Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable,
12:28	And God has placedappointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, managingleading, various kinds of languagestongues.
12:30	Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in other languagestongues? Do all interpret?
13:1	If I speak human or angelic languagestongues but do not have love, I am a soundingnoisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
13:3	And if I donategive away all my goods to feed the poorpossessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
13:4	Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceitedarrogant,
13:5	doesis not act improperlyrude, is not selfishself-seeking, is not provokedirritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs.
13:8	Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for languagestongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
13:9	For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.,
13:10	Butbut when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.
13:12	For now we see indistinctly,only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known.
13:13	Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But— but the greatest of these is love.
14:1	Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and aboveespecially all that you may prophesy.
14:2	For the person who speaks in anothera languagetongue is not speaking to menpeople but to God, since no one understands him; however, he speaks mysteries in the Spirit.
14:3	ButOn the other hand, the person who prophesies speaks to people for edificationtheir strengthening, encouragement, and consolation.
14:4	The person who speaks in anothera languagetongue builds himself up, but hethe one who prophesies builds up the church.
14:5	I wish all of you spoke in other languagestongues, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in languagestongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.
14:6	ButSo now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in other languagestongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you with a revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
14:7	Even inanimatelifeless thingsinstruments that produce sounds — whether flute or harp  — if they don’t make a distinction in the notes, how will what is played on the flute or harp be recognized?
14:8	In fact, if the trumpetbugle makes an unclear sound, who will prepare for battle?
14:10	There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, andnone allis havewithout meaning.
14:12	So also you — since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.
14:13	Therefore the person who speaks in anothera languagetongue should pray that he can interpret.
14:14	For if I pray in anothera languagetongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
14:15	What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing praise with the spirit, and I will also sing praise with my understanding.
14:16	Otherwise, if you praise with the spirit, how will the uninformedoutsider person say “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?
14:18	I thank God that I speak in othertongues languages more than all of you;
14:19	yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000ten thousand words in anothera languagetongue.
14:20	Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
14:21	It is written in the law:, I will speak to thesethis people by people of other languagestongues and by the lips of foreigners, and even then, they will not listen to Meme, says the Lord.
14:22	ItSpeaking follows that speaking in othertongues, languagesthen, is intended as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers., Butwhile prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
14:23	ThereforeIf, iftherefore, the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in othertongues languages and people who are uninformedoutsiders or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
14:24	But if all are prophesying and some unbeliever or uninformedoutsider person comes in, he is convicted by all and is judgedcalled to account by all.
14:26	What then, isbrothers theand conclusion, brotherssisters? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalmhymn, a teaching, a revelation, anothera languagetongue, or an interpretation. AllEverything thingsis mustto be done for edificationbuilding up.
14:27	If anyanyone person speaks in anothera languagetongue, there shouldare to be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and let someone must interpret.
14:28	But if there is no interpreter, that person shouldis to keep silent in the church and speak to himself and to God.
14:32	And the prophets’ spirits are undersubject theto control of the prophets,
14:34	the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but shouldare beto submissivesubmit themselves, as the law also says.
14:35	AndIf if they want to learn something, theylet shouldthem ask their own husbands at home, forsince it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.
14:36	DidOr did the word of God originate from you, or did it come to you only?
14:38	ButIf if anyone ignores this, he will be ignored.
14:39	ThereforeSo then, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in other languagestongues.
14:40	But everything mustis to be done decently and in order.
15:1	Now brothers, I want to clarifymake clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I proclaimedpreached to you;, which you received, iton andwhich you have taken your stand on it.
15:2	Youand by which you are alsobeing saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimedpreached to you — unless you believed forin no purposevain.
15:4	that Hehe was buried, that Hehe was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
15:5	and that Hehe appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.
15:6	Then Hehe appeared to over 500five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep.
15:7	Then Hehe appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
15:8	Last of all, as to one abnormallyborn bornat the wrong time, Hehe also appeared to me.
15:9	For I am the least of the apostles, unworthynot worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
15:10	But by God’sthe grace of God I am what I am, and Hishis grace toward me was not ineffectivein vain. HoweverOn the contrary, I worked moreharder than any of them, yet not I, but God’sthe grace of God that was with me.
15:11	ThereforeWhether, whetherthen, it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.
15:13	ButIf if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has not been raised;
15:14	and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is withoutin foundationvain, and so is your faith.
15:15	In additionMoreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified wrongly about God that Hehe raised up Christ — whom Hehe did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised.
15:16	For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has not been raised.
15:18	ThereforeThose, thosethen, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
15:20	But nowas it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
15:22	For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
15:23	But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at Hishis coming, those who belong to Christ.
15:24	Then comes the end, when Hehe hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when Hehe abolishes all rule and all authority and power.
15:25	For Hehe must reign until Hehe puts all Hishis enemies under Hishis feet.
15:27	For God has put everything under Hishis feet. ButNow when it says “everything” is put under Himhim, it is obvious that Hehe who puts everything under Himhim is the exception.
15:28	AndWhen when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himselfhimself will also be subject to the Oneone who subjected everything to Himhim, so that God may be all in all.
15:31	I affirmface bydeath theevery prideday, inas yousurely thatas I havemay boast about you, brothers and sisters, in Christ Jesus our Lord:. I die every day!
15:32	If I fought wild animalsbeasts in Ephesus withas onlya humanmere hopeman, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
15:34	Come to your senses and stop sinning,; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.
15:35	But someone will sayask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”
15:36	FoolishYou onefool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
15:37	And as for what you sow — you are not sowing the futurebody bodythat will be, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.
15:38	But God gives it a body as Hehe wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.
15:41	There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; forin fact, one star differs from another star in splendor.
15:45	So it is written:, The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spiritspirit.
15:47	The first man was from the earth, anda mademan of dust; the second man is from heaven.
15:48	Like the man made of dust, so are those who are made of the dust; like the heavenlyman manof heaven, so are those who are heavenlyof heaven.
15:49	And just as we have borne the image of the man made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenlyman manof heaven.
15:50	Brothers,What I tellam yousaying, brothers and sisters, is this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, andnor can corruption cannot inherit incorruption.
15:51	Listen!, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
15:52	in a moment, in the blinktwinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
15:53	For this corruptible body must be clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality.
15:54	When this corruptible body is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: Death has been swallowed up in victory.
15:55	Death Where, wheredeath, is your victory? DeathWhere, wheredeath, is your sting?
15:56	NowThe the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
15:58	Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowingbecause you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
16:1	Now about the collection for the saints: YouDo should do the same as I instructed the Galatian churches.
16:2	On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he prospersis prospering, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.
16:3	When I arrive, I will send with letters those you recommend to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.
16:4	If it is suitable for me to go as well, they canwill travel with me.
16:5	I will come to you after I pass through Macedonia  — for I will be traveling through Macedonia —
16:7	I don’t want to see you now just in passing, forsince I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.
16:9	because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me  — yet many oppose me.
16:10	If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear fromwhile with you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.
16:11	Therefore,So let no one should look down on him. Send him on his way in peace so that he can come to me, forbecause I am expecting him with the brothers.
16:12	AboutNow about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but he was not at all willing to come now. However, he will come when he has an opportunity.
16:13	Be alert, stand firm in the faith, actbe like a mancourageous, be strong.
16:14	YourDo everyeverything actionin must be done with love.
16:15	Brothers and sisters, you know the household of Stephanas: They are the firstfruits of Achaia and have devoted themselves to serving the saints. I urge you
16:17	I am pleaseddelighted to have Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus present, because these men have made up for your absence.
16:19	The churches of Asia greetsend you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greetsend you greetings warmly in the Lord, along with the church that meets in their home.
16:20	All the brothers greetand sisters send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
16:21	This greeting is in my own hand  — Paul.
16:22	If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. MaranaOur tha that is, Lord, come!