1 Corinthians
Chapter 1
1:1Paul called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christos, through the will of Theos,and our brother Sosthenes,
1:2To the Church of Theos, who is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christos Jesus, Saints by calling, with all that call on the Name of our Kyrios Jesus Christos in every place, both their Lord,and ours:
1:3Grace be with you,and peace from Theos our Father,and from the Kyrios Jesus Christos.
1:4I thank my Theos always on your behalf for the grace of Theos, who is given you in Jesus Christos,
1:5That in all things you are made rich in him, in all kind of speech,and in all knowledge:
1:6As the testimony of Jesus Christos has been confirmed in you:
1:7So that you are not destitute of any gift:waiting for the appearing of our Kyrios Jesus Christos.
1:8Who shall also confirm you to the end,that you may be blameless, in the day of our Kyrios Jesus Christos.
1:9Theos is faithful, by whom you are called to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christos our Kyrios.
1:10Now I urge you, brethren, by the Name of our Kyrios Jesus Christos,that you all speak one thing,and that there be no dissensions among you:but be knit together in one mind,and in one judgment.
1:11For it has been declared to me, my brethren, of you by them that are of the house of Cloe,that there are contentions among you.
1:12Now this I say,that every one of you says, I am Paul's,and I am Apollos,and I am Cephas,and I am Christos's.
1:13Is Christos divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Either were you baptized into the name of Paul?
1:14I thank Theos,that I baptized none of you,but Crispus,and Gaius,
1:15Lest any should say,that I had baptized into my own name.
1:16I baptized also the household of Stephanas:furthermore know I not, whether I baptized any other.
1:17For Christos sent me not to baptize,but to preach the Gospel, not with wisdom of words,lest the cross of Christos should be made of none effect.
1:18For that preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness:but to us, which are saved, it is the power of Theos.
1:19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and will cast away the understanding of the prudent.
1:20Where is the wise? Where is the Scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not Theos made the wisdom of this world foolishness?
1:21For seeing the world by wisdom knew not Theos in the wisdom of Theos, it pleased Theos by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe:
1:22Seeing also that the Jews ask a sign,and the Grecians seek after wisdom.
1:23But we preach Christos crucified:to the Jews, even a stumbling block,and to the Grecians, foolishness:
1:24But to them which are called, both of the Jews and Grecians, we preach Christos, the power of Theos,and the wisdom of Theos.
1:25For the foolishness of Theos is wiser than men,and the weakness of Theos is stronger than men.
1:26For brethren, you see your calling, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called.
1:27But Theos has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise,and Theos has chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the mighty things,
1:28And vile things of the world and things which are despised, has Theos chosen,and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
1:29That no flesh should rejoice in his presence.
1:30But you are of him in Christos Jesus, who of Theos is made to us wisdom and righteousness,and sanctification,and redemption,
1:31That, according as it is written, He that rejoices, let him rejoice in the Kyrios.
Chapter 2
2:1And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of words, or of wisdom, showing to you the testimony of Theos.
2:2For I esteemed not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christos,and him crucified.
2:3And I was among you in weakness,and in fear,and in much trembling.
2:4Neither stood my word,and my preaching in the enticing speech of man's wisdom,but in plain evidence of the Spirit and of power,
2:5That your faith should not be in the wisdom of men,but in the power of Theos.
2:6And we speak wisdom among them that are perfect:not the wisdom of this world,neither of the princes of this world, which are being brought to nothing.
2:7But we speak the wisdom of Theos in a mystery, even the hid wisdom, which Theos had determined before the world, to our glory.
2:8Which none of the princes of this world has known:for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Kyrios of glory.
2:9But as it is written, The things which eye has not seen,neither ear has heard,neither came into man's heart, are, which Theos has prepared for them that love him.
2:10But Theos has revealed them to us by His Spirit:for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of Theos.
2:11For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of a man, who is in him? Even so the things of Theos knows no man,but the spirit of Theos.
2:12Now we have received not the spirit of the world,but the Spirit, which is of Theos,that we might know the things that are freely given to us of Theos.
2:13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches,but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
2:14But the natural man perceives not the things of the Spirit of Theos:for they are foolishness to him:neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15But he that is spiritual, discerns all things:yet he himself is judged of no man.
2:16For who has known the mind of the Kyrios,that he might instruct him? But we have the mind of Christos.
Chapter 3
3:1And I could not speak to you, brethren, as to spiritual men,but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christos.
3:2I gave you milk to drink,and not meat:for you were not yet able to bear it,neither yet now are you able.
3:3For you are yet carnal:for since there is among you envying,and strife,and divisions, are you not carnal,and walk as men?
3:4For when one says, I am Paul's,and another, I am Apollos, are you not carnal?
3:5Who is Paul then? And who is Apollos,but the ministers by whom you believed,and as the Kyrios gave to every man?
3:6I have planted, Apollos watered,but Theos gave the increase.
3:7So then,neither is he that plants anything,neither he that waters,but Theos that gives the increase.
3:8And he that plants,and he that waters, are one,and every man shall receive his wages, according to his labor.
3:9For we together are God's laborers: you are God's husbandry, and God's building.
3:10According to the grace of Theos given to me, as a skillful master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it: but let every man take heed how he builds upon it.
3:11For other foundation can no man lay, then that which is laid, which is Jesus Christos.
3:12And if any man build on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, timber, hay, or stubble,
3:13Every man's work shall be made manifest:for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by the fire:and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
3:14If any man's work,that he has built upon, abide, he shall receive wages.
3:15If any man's work burn, he shall lose,but he shall be saved himself:nevertheless yet as it were by the fire.
3:16Know you not that you are the Temple of Theos,and that the Spirit of Theos dwells in you?
3:17If any man destroy the Temple of Theos, him shall Theos destroy:for the Temple of Theos is holy, which you are.
3:18Let no man deceive himself:If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him be a fool,that he may be wise.
3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Theos:for it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.
3:20And again, The Kyrios knows that the thoughts of the wise be vain.
3:21Therefore let no man rejoice in men:for all things are yours.
3:22Whether it be Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death:whether they be things present, or things to come, even all are yours,
3:23And you are Christos's, and Christos is God's.
Chapter 4
4:1Let a man so account us, as of the ministers of Christos,and disposers of the secrets of Theos:
4:2And as for the rest, it is required of the disposers,that every man be found faithful.
4:3As touching me, I pass very little to be judged of you, or of man's judgment:no, I judge not my own self.
4:4For I know nothing by myself, yet am I not by it justified: but he that judges me, is the Kyrios.
4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Kyrios come, who will lighten things that are hid in darkness,and make the counsels of the hearts manifest:and then shall every man have praise of Theos.
4:6Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to my own self and Apollos,for your sakes,that you might learn by us,that no man think above that which is written,that one swell not against another for any man's cause.
4:7For who makes you differ? And what have you,that you have not received? If you have received it, why rejoice you, as though you had not received it?
4:8Now you are full:now you are made rich:you reign as kings without us,and would to God you did reign,that we also might reign with you.
4:9For I think that Theos has set forth us the last Apostles, as men appointed to death:for we are made a gasing stock to the world,and to the Angels,and to men.
4:10We are fools for Christos's sake,and you are wise in Christos:we are weak,and you are strong:you are honorable,and we are despised.
4:11To this hour we both hunger,and thirst,and are naked,and are buffeted,and have no certain dwelling place,
4:12And labor, working with our own hands:we are reviled,and yet we bless:we are persecuted,and suffer it.
4:13We are evil spoken of,and we entreat:we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, to this time.
4:14I write not these things to shame you,but as my beloved children I admonish you.
4:15For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christos, yet have you not many fathers:for in Christos Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel.
4:16Therefore, I urge you, be you followers of me.
4:17For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, which is my beloved son,and faithful in the Kyrios, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways in Christos as I teach everywhere in every Church.
4:18Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you.
4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Kyrios will,and will know, not the words of them which are puffed up,but the power.
4:20For the kingdom of Theos is not in word,but in power.
4:21What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love,and in the spirit of meekness?
Chapter 5
5:1It is heard certainly that there is fornication among you:and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles,that one should have his fathers wife.
5:2And you are puffed up and have not rather sorrowed,that he who has done this deed, might be put from among you.
5:3For I verily as absent in body,but present in spirit, have determined already as though I were present,that he that has thus done this thing,
5:4When you are gathered together,and my spirit, in the Name of our Kyrios Jesus Christos,that such one, I say, by the power of our Kyrios Jesus Christos,
5:5Be delivered to Satanas,for the destruction of the flesh,that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Kyrios Jesus.
5:6Your rejoicing is not good:know you not that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump?
5:7Purge out therefore the old leaven,that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened:for Christos our Passover is sacrificed for us.
5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,neither in the leaven of maliciousness and wickedness:but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
5:9I wrote to you in an Epistle,that you should not company together with fornicators,
5:10And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or with extortioners, or with idolaters:for then you must go out of the world.
5:11But now I have written to you,that you company not together:if any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such one eat not.
5:12For what have I to do, to judge them also which are without? Do you not judge them that are within?
5:13But Theos judges them that are without. Put away therefore from among yourselves that wicked man.
Chapter 6
6:1Dare any of you, having business against another, be judged under the unjust,and not under the Saints?
6:2Do you not know,that the Saints shall judge the world? If the world then shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
6:3Know you not that we shall judge the Angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
6:4If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set up them which are least esteemed in the Church.
6:5I speak it to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? No not one,that can judge between his brethren?
6:6But a brother goes to law with a brother,and that under the infidels.
6:7Now therefore there is altogether infirmity in you, in that you go to law one with another:why rather suffer you not wrong? Why rather sustain you not harm?
6:8No, you yourselves do wrong,and do harm,and that to your brethren.
6:9Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of Theos? Be not deceived:neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers,
6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of Theos.
6:11And such were some of you:but you are washed,but you are sanctified,but you are justified in the Name of the Kyrios Jesus,and by the Spirit of our Theos.
6:12All things are lawful to me,but all things are not profitable. I may do all things,but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
6:13Meats are ordained for the belly,and the belly for the meats:but Theos shall destroy both it,and them. Now the body is not for fornication,but for the Kyrios,and the Kyrios for the body.
6:14And Theos has also raised up the Kyrios,and shall raise us up by his power.
6:15Know you not,that your bodies are the members of Christos? Shall I then take the members of Christos,and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.
6:16Do you not know,that he who couples himself with a harlot, is one body? For two, says he, shall be one flesh.
6:17But he that is joined to the Kyrios, is one spirit.
6:18Flee fornication:every sin that a man does, is without the body:but he that commits fornication, sins against his own body.
6:19Know you not,that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, whom you have of Theos? And you are not your own.
6:20For you are bought for a price: therefore glorify Theos in your body, and in your spirit: for they are God's.
7:1Now concerning the things of what you wrote to me, It were good for a man not to touch a woman.
7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife,and let every woman have her own husband.
7:3Let the husband give to the wife due benevolence,and likewise also the wife to the husband.
7:4The wife has not the power of her own body,but the husband:and likewise also the husband has not the power of his own body,but the wife.
7:5Defraud not one another, except it be with consent for a time,that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer,and again come together that Satanas tempt you not for your lack of self-control.
7:6But I speak this by permission, not by commandment.
7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself am:but every man has his proper gift of Theos, one after this manner,and another after that.
7:8Therefore I say to the unmarried,and to the widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I do.
7:9But if they cannot abstain, let them marry:for it is better to marry than to burn.
7:10And to the married I command, not I,but Kyrios, Let not the wife depart from her husband.
7:11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband,and let not the husband put away his wife.
7:12But to the remnant I speak,and not Kyrios, If any brother have a wife, which believes not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.
7:13And the woman who has a husband that believes not, if he be content to dwell with her, let her not forsake him.
7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified to the wife,and the unbelieving wife is sanctified to the husband, else were your children unclean:but now are they holy.
7:15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart:a brother or a sister is not in subjection in such things:but Theos has called us in peace.
7:16For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or what know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
7:17But as Theos has distributed to every man, as the Kyrios has called every one, so let him walk:and so ordain I, in all Churches.
7:18Is any man called being circumcised? Let him not gather his uncircumcision:is any called uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.
7:19Circumcision is nothing,and uncircumcision is nothing,but the keeping of the commandments of Theos.
7:20Let every man abide in the same vocation in which he was called.
7:21Are you called being a servant? Care not for it:but if yet you may be free, use it rather.
7:22For he that is called in the Kyrios, being a servant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise also he that is called being free, is Christos's servant.
7:23You are bought with a price:be not the servants of men.
7:24Brethren, let every man, in which he was called, In it abide with Theos.
7:25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Kyrios:but I give my advice, as one that has obtained mercy of the Kyrios to be faithful.
7:26I suppose then this to be good for the present necessity:I mean that it is good for a man so to be.
7:27Are you bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed:are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
7:28But if you take a wife, you sin not:and if a virgin marry, she sins not:nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh:but I spare you.
7:29And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they who have wives, be as though they had none:
7:30And they that weep, as though they wept not:and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not:and they that buy, as though they possessed not:
7:31And they that use this world, as though they used it not:for the fashion of this world goes away.
7:32And I would have you without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Kyrios, how he may please the Kyrios.
7:33But he that is married, cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
7:34There is difference also between a virgin and a wife:the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Kyrios,that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit:but she that is married, cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
7:35And this I speak for your own commodity, not to tangle you in a snare,but that you follow that, which is honest,and that you may cleave fast to the Kyrios without separation.
7:36But if any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age,and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not:let them be married.
7:37Nevertheless, he that stands firm in his heart,that he has no need,but has power over his own will,and has so decreed in his heart,that he will keep his virgin, he does well.
7:38So then he that gives her to marriage, does well,but he that gives her not to marriage, does better.
7:39The wife is bound by the Law, as long as her husband lives:but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will, only in the Kyrios.
7:40But she is more blessed, if she so abide, in my judgment:and I think that I have also the Spirit of Theos.
Chapter 8
8:1And as touching things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge:knowledge puffs up,but love edifies.
8:2Now, if any man think that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
8:3But if any man love Theos, the same is known of him.
8:4Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world,and that there is none other Theos but one.
8:5For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven, or in earth (as there be many gods,and many lords)
8:6Yet to us there is but one Theos, who is that Father, of whom are all things,and we in him:and one Kyrios Jesus Christos, by whom are all things,and we by him.
8:7But every man has not that knowledge:for many having conscience of the idol, until this hour, eat as a thing sacrificed to the idol,and so their conscience being weak, is defiled.
8:8But meat makes not us acceptable to Theos,for neither if we eat, have we the more:neither if we eat not, have we the less.
8:9But take heed lest by any means this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weak.
8:10For if any man see you which have knowledge, sit at table in the idols temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak, be boldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?
8:11And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish,for whom Christos died.
8:12Now when you sin so against the brethren,and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christos.
8:13Therefore if meat offend my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world stands,that I may not offend my brother.
Chapter 9
9:1Am I not an Apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christos our Kyrios? Are you not my work in the Kyrios?
9:2If I be not an Apostle to other, yet doubtless I am to you:for you are the seal of my Apostleship in the Kyrios.
9:3My defense to them that examine me, is this,
9:4Have we not power to eat and to drink?
9:5Or have we not power to lead about a wife being a sister, as well as the rest of the Apostles,and as the brethren of the Kyrios,and Cephas?
9:6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power not to work?
9:7Who goes a warfare any time at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard,and eats not of the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock,and eats not of the milk of the flock?
9:8Say I these things according to man? Says not the Law the same also?
9:9For it is written in the Law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn:does Theos take care for oxen?
9:10Either says he it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes no doubt it is written,that he who ears, should ear in hope,and that he that threshes in hope, should be partaker of his hope.
9:11If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?
9:12If others with you be partakers of this power, are not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power:but suffer all things,that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christos.
9:13Do you not know,that they who minister about the holy things, eat of the things of the Temple? And they who wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar?
9:14So also has the Kyrios ordained,that they who preach the Gospel, should live of the Gospel.
9:15But I have used none of these things:neither wrote I these things,that it should be so done to me:for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my rejoicing vain.
9:16For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to rejoice of:for necessity is laid upon me,and woe is to me, if I preach not the Gospel.
9:17For if I do it willingly, I have a reward,but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed to me.
9:18What is my reward then? Verily that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christos free,that I abuse not my authority in the Gospel.
9:19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant to all men,that I might win the more.
9:20And to the Jews, I become as a Jew,that I may win the Jews:to them that are under the Law, as though I were under the Law,that I may win them that are under the Law:
9:21To them that are without Law, as though I were without Law, (when I am not without Law as pertaining to Theos,but am in the Law through Christos) that I may win them that are without Law:
9:22To the weak I become as weak,that I may win the weak:I am made all things to all men,that I might by all means save some.
9:23And this I do for the Gospel's sake, that I might be partaker of it with you.
9:24Know you not,that they who run in a race, run all, yet one receives the price? So run that you may obtain.
9:25And every man that proves masteries, abstains from all things:and they do it to obtain a corruptible crown:but we for an uncorruptible.
9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainty:so fight I, not as one that beats the air.
9:27But I beat down my body,and bring it into subjection,lest by any means after that I have preached to other, I myself should be reproved.
Chapter 10
10:1Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant,that all our fathers were under that cloud,and all passed through that sea,
10:2And were all baptized to Moses, in that cloud,and in that sea,
10:3And did all eat the same spiritual meat,
10:4And did all drink the same spiritual drink (for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them:and the Rock was Christos)
10:5But with many of them Theos was not pleased:for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
10:6Now these things are our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
10:7Neither be you idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink,and rose up to play.
10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication,and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
10:9Neither let us tempt Christos, as some of them also tempted him,and were destroyed of serpents.
10:10Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured,and were destroyed of the destroyer.
10:11Now all these things came to them for examples,and were written to admonish us, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
10:12Therefore, let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.
10:13There has no temptation taken you,but such as appertain to man:and Theos is faithful, which will not suffer you to be tempted above that you be able,but will even give the issue with the temptation,that you may be able to bear it.
10:14Therefore my beloved, flee from idolatry.
10:15I speak as to them which have understanding:judge what I say.
10:16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christos? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christos?
10:17For we that are many, are one bread and one body, because we all are partakers of one bread.
10:18Behold Israel, which is after the flesh:are not they who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
10:19What say I then? That the idol is anything? Or that that which is sacrificed to idols, is anything?
10:20No,but that these things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons,and not to Theos:and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons.
10:21You cannot drink the cup of the Kyrios, and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.
10:22Do we provoke the Kyrios to anger? Are we stronger than he?
10:23All things are lawful for me,but all things are not expedient:all things are lawful for me,but all things edify not.
10:24Let no man seek his own,but every man another's wealth.
10:25Whatever is sold in the meat market, eat,and ask no question for conscience sake.
10:26For the earth is the Lord's, and all that is in it.
10:27If any of the unbelieving invites you to a feast,and if you will go, whatever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
10:28But if any man say to you, This is sacrificed to idols, eat it not, because of him that showed it, and for the conscience (for the earth is the Lord's, and all that is in it)
10:29And the conscience, I say, not yours,but of that other:for why should my liberty be condemned of another man's conscience?
10:30For if I through God's benefit be partaker, why am I evil spoken of, for that why I give thanks?
10:31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of Theos.
10:32Give none offense,neither to the Jews, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of Theos:
10:33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit,but the profit of many,that they might be saved.
Chapter 11
11:1Be you followers of me, even as I am of Christos.
11:2Now brethren, I commend you,that you remember all my things,and keep the traditions, as I delivered them to you.
11:3But I will that you know,that Christos is the head of every man:and the man is the woman's head:and Theos is Christos's head.
11:4Every man praying or prophesying having anything on his head, dishonors his head.
11:5But every woman that prays or prophesies bare headed, dishonors her head:for it is even one very thing, as though she were shaven.
11:6Therefore if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn:and if it be shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
11:7For a man ought not to cover his head:for as much as he is the image and glory of Theos:but the woman is the glory of the man.
11:8For the man is not of the woman,but the woman of the man.
11:9For the man was not created for the woman's sake:but the woman for the man's sake.
11:10Therefore ought the woman to have power on her head, because of the Angels.
11:11Nevertheless,neither is the man without the woman,neither the woman without the man in the Kyrios.
11:12For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman:but all things are of Theos.
11:13Judge in yourselves, Is it comely that a woman pray to Theos uncovered?
11:14Does not nature itself teach you,that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him?
11:15But if a woman have long hair, it is a praise to her:for her hair is given her for a covering.
11:16But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom,neither the Churches of Theos.
11:17Now in this that I declare, I praise you not,that you come together, not with profit,but with hurt.
11:18For first of all, when you come together in the Church, I hear that there are dissensions among you:and I believe it to be true in some part.
11:19For there must be heresies even among you,that they who are approved among you, might be known.
11:20When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper.
11:21For every man when they should eat, takes his own supper before,and one is hungry,and another is drunken.
11:22Have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Despise you the Church of Theos,and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
11:23For I have received of the Kyrios that which I also have delivered to you, namely,That the Kyrios Jesus in the night when he was betrayed, took bread:
11:24And when he had given thanks, he broke it,and said, Take, eat:this is my body, which is broken for you:this do you in remembrance of me.
11:25After the same manner also he took the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the New Covenant in my blood: this do as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
11:26For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death till he come.
11:27Therefore, whoever shall eat this bread,and drink the cup of the Kyrios unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Kyrios.
11:28Let every man therefore examine himself,and so let him eat of this bread,and drink of this cup.
11:29For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, because he does not discern the Lord's body.
11:30For this cause many are weak,and sick among you,and many sleep.
11:31For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Kyrios, because we should not be condemned with the world.
11:33Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
11:34And if any man be hungry, let him eat at home,that you come not together to condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.
Chapter 12
12:1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
12:2You know that you were Gentiles,and were carried away to the dumb Idols, as you were led.
12:3Therefore, I declare to you,that no man speaking by the Spirit of Theos calls Jesus execrable:also no man can say that Jesus is the Kyrios,but by the Holy Spirit.
12:4Now there are varieties of gifts,but the same Spirit.
12:5And there are varieties of administrations,but the same Kyrios,
12:6And there are varieties of operations,but Theos is the same which works all in all.
12:7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man, for the profit of all.
12:8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom:and to another the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit:
12:9And to another is given faith by the same Spirit:and to another the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit:
12:10And to another the operations of mighty works: and to another, prophecy: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, varieties of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues.
12:11And all these things works one and the self same Spirit, distributing to every man severally as he will.
12:12For as the body is one,and has many members,and all the members of the body, which is one, though they be many, yet are but one body:even so is Christos.
12:13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews, or Grecians, whether we be bond, or free,and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
12:14For the body also is not one member,but many.
12:15If the foot would say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
12:16And if the ear would say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
12:17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
12:18But now has Theos disposed the members every one of them in the body at his own pleasure.
12:19For if they were all one member, where were the body?
12:20But now are there many members, yet but one body.
12:21And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you:nor the head again to the feet, I have no need of you.
12:22Yes, much rather those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary.
12:23And upon those members of the body, which we think most dishonest, put we more honesty on:and our uncomely parts have more comeliness on.
12:24For our comely parts need it not:but Theos has tempered the body together,and has given the more honor to that part which lacked,
12:25Lest there should be any division in the body:but that the members should have the same care one for another.
12:26Therefore if one member suffer, all suffer with it:if one member be had in honor, all the members rejoice with it.
12:27Now you are the body of Christos,and members for your part.
12:28And Theos has ordained some in the Church:as first Apostles, second Prophets, third teachers, then them that do miracles:after that, the gifts of healing, helpers, governors, diversity of tongues.
12:29Are all Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all teachers?
12:30Are all doers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
12:31But desire you the best gifts,and I will yet show you a more excellent way.
Chapter 13
13:1Though I speak with the tongues of men and Angels,and have not love, I am as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2And though I had the gift of prophecy,and knew all secrets and all knowledge, yes, if I had all faith, so that I could remove mountains and had not love, I were nothing.
13:3And though I feed the poor with all my goods,and though I give my body,that I be burned,and have not love, it profits me nothing.
13:4Love suffers long:it is bountiful:love envies not:love does not boast itself:it is not puffed up:
13:5It does no uncomely thing:it seeks not her own things:it is not provoked to anger:it thinks not evil:
13:6It does not rejoice in unrighteousness,but rejoices in the truth:
13:7It suffers all things:it believes all things:it hopes all things:it endures all things.
13:8Love does never fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.
13:9For we know in part,and we prophecy in part.
13:10But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shall be abolished.
13:11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child:but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:12For now we see through a glass darkly:but then shall we see face to face. Now I know in part:but then shall I know even as I am known.
13:13And now abides faith, hope and love, even these three:but the chief of these is love.
Chapter 14
14:1Follow after love,and covet spiritual gifts,and rather that you may prophecy.
14:2For he that speaks a strange tongue, speaks not to men,but to Theos:for no man hears him:however in the spirit he speaks secret things.
14:3But he that prophesies, speaks to me to edifying,and to exhortation,and to comfort.
14:4He that speaks a strange tongue, edifies himself: but he that prophesies, edifies the Church.
14:5I would that you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies, than he that speaks diverse tongues, except he expound it, that the Church may receive edification.
14:6And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking diverse tongues, what shall I profit you, except I speak to you, either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
14:7Moreover things without life which give a sound, whether it be a pipe or a harp, except they make a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
14:8And also if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to battle?
14:9So likewise you, by the tongue, except you utter words that have signification, how shall it be understood what is spoken? For you shall speak in the air.
14:10There are so many kinds of voices (as it comes to pass) in the world,and none of them is dumb.
14:11Except I know then the power of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian,and he that speaks, shall be a barbarian to me.
14:12Even so, forasmuch as you covet spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the Church.
14:13Therefore, let him that speaks a strange tongue, pray,that he may interpret.
14:14For if I pray in a strange tongue, my spirit prays:but my understanding is without fruit.
14:15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit,but I will pray with the understanding also:I will sing with the spirit,but I will sing with the understanding also.
14:16Else, when you bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the room of the unlearned, say Amen, at your giving of thanks, seeing he knows not what you say?
14:17For you verily give thanks well,but the other is not edified.
14:18I thank my Theos, I speak with tongues more than you all.
14:19Yet had I rather in the Church to speak five words with my understanding,that I might also instruct others, then ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding,but as concerning maliciousness be children,but in understanding be of a ripe age.
14:21In the Law it is written, By men of other tongues,and by other languages will I speak to this people:yet so shall they not hear me, says the Kyrios.
14:22Therefore strange tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe,but to them that believe not:but prophesying serves not for them that believe not,but for them which believe.
14:23If therefore when the whole Church is come together in one,and all speak strange tongues, there come in they that are unlearned, or they who believe not, will they not say,that you are out of your minds?
14:24But if all prophecy,and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is rebuked of all men,and is judged of all,
14:25And so are the secrets of his heart made manifest,and so he will fall down on his face and worship Theos,and say plainly that Theos is in you indeed.
14:26What is to be done then, brethren? When you come together, according as every one of you has a Psalm, or has doctrine, or has a tongue, or has revelation, or has interpretation, let all things be done to edifying.
14:27If any man speak a strange tongue, let it be by two, or at the most, by three,and that by course,and let one interpret.
14:28But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the Church, which speaks languages,and let him speak to himself,and to Theos.
14:29Let the Prophets speak two, or three,and let the other judge.
14:30And if anything be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace.
14:31For you may all prophecy one by one,that all may learn,and all may have comfort.
14:32And the spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets.
14:33For Theos is not the author of confusion,but of peace, as we see in all the Churches of the Saints.
14:34Let your women keep silence in the Churches:for it is not permitted to them to speak:but they ought to be subject, as also the Law says.
14:35And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home:for it is a shame for women to speak in the Church.
14:36Came the word of Theos out from you? Either came it to you only?
14:37If any man think himself to be a Prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge,that the things,that I write to you, are the commandments of the Kyrios.
14:38And if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
14:39Therefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
14:40Let all things be done honestly,and by order.
Chapter 15
15:1Moreover brethren, I declare to you the Gospel, which I proclaimed to you, which you have also received, and in which you continue,
15:2And by what you are saved, if you keep in memory, after what manner I preached it to you, except you have believed in vain.
15:3For first of all, I delivered to you that which I received, how that Christos died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,
15:4And that he was buried,and that he arose the third day, according to the Scriptures,
15:5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve.
15:6After that, he was seen of more than five hundred brethren at once: of what many remain to this present, and some also are asleep.
15:7After that, he was seen of James:then of all the Apostles.
15:8And last of all he was seen also of me, as of one born out of due time.
15:9For I am the least of the Apostles, who am not meet to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of Theos.
15:10But by the grace of Theos, I am that I am:and his grace which is in me, was not in vain:but I labored more abundantly than they all:yet not I,but the grace of Theos who is with me.
15:11Therefore, whether it were I, or they, so we preach,and so have you believed.
15:12Now if it be preached,that Christos is risen from the dead, how say some among you,that there is no resurrection of the dead?
15:13For if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christos not risen:
15:14And if Christos be not risen, then is our preaching vain,and your faith is also vain.
15:15And we are found also false witnesses of Theos:for we have testified of Theos,that he has raised up Christos:whom he has not raised up, if so be the dead be not raised.
15:16For if the dead be not raised, then is Christos not raised.
15:17And if Christos be not raised, your faith is vain:you are yet in your sins.
15:18And so they who are a sleep in Christos, are perished.
15:19If in this life only we have hope in Christos, we are of all men the most miserable.
15:20But now is Christos risen from the dead,and was made the first fruits of them that slept.
15:21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
15:22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christos shall all be made alive,
15:23But every man in his own order:the first fruits is Christos, afterward, they that are of Christos, at his coming shall rise again.
15:24Then shall be the end, when he has delivered up the kingdom to Theos, even the Father, when he has put down all rule,and all authority and power.
15:25For he must reign till he has put all his enemies under his feet.
15:26The last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death.
15:27For he has subjected all things under his feet. (And when he says that all things are subjected to him, it is manifest that he is excepted, who subjected all things under him.)
15:28And when all things shall be subjected to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him whosubjected all things under him,that Theos may be all in all.
15:29Else what shall they do which are baptized for dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for dead?
15:30Why are we also in jeopardy every hour?
15:31By your rejoicing which I have in Christos Jesus our Kyrios, I die daily.
15:32If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what advantages it me, if the dead be not raised up? Let us eat and drink:for Tomorrow we shall die.
15:33Be not deceived:evil speakings corrupt good manners.
15:34Awake to live righteously,and sin not:for some have not the knowledge of Theos, I speak this to your shame.
15:35But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body come they forth?
15:36O fool,that which you sow, is not quickened, except it die.
15:37And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be,but bare grain as it falls, of wheat, or of some other.
15:38But Theos gives it a body at his pleasure, even to every seed his own body,
15:39Not all flesh is the same flesh,but there is one flesh of men,and another flesh of beasts,and another of fish,and another of birds.
15:40There are also heavenly bodies,and earthly bodies:but the glory of the heavenly is one,and the glory of the earthly is another.
15:41There is another glory of the sun,and another glory of the moon,and another glory of the stars:for one star differs from another star in glory.
15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption,and is raised in incorruption.
15:43It is sown in dishonor,and is raised in glory:it is sown in weakness,and is raised in power.
15:44It is sown a natural body,and is raised a spiritual body:there is a natural body,and there is a spiritual body.
15:45As it is also written, The first man Adam was made a living psyche:and the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.
15:46However that was not first which is spiritual:but that which is natural,and afterward that which is spiritual.
15:47The first man is of the earth, earthly:the second man is the Kyrios from heaven.
15:48As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly:and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
15:49And as we have born the image of the earthly, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly.
15:50This I say, brethren,that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of Theos,neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
15:51Behold, I show you a secret thing, We shall not all sleep,but we shall all be changed,
15:52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet:for the trumpet shall blow,and the dead shall be raised up incorruptible,and we shall be changed.
15:53For this corruptible must put on incorruption:and this mortal must put on immortality.
15:54So when this corruptible has put on incorruption,and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up into victory.
15:55O death where is your sting? O Hades where is your victory?
15:56The sting of death is sin:and the strength of sin is the Law.
15:57But thanks be to Theos, who has given us victory through our Kyrios Jesus Christos.
15:58Therefore my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmovable, abundant always in the work of the Kyrios, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Kyrios.
Chapter 16
16:1Concerning the gathering for the Saints, as I have ordained in the Churches of Galatia, so do you also.
16:2Every first day of the week, let every one of you put aside by himself,and lay up as God has prospered him,that then there be no gatherings when I come.
16:3And when I am come, whomever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to bring your liberality to Jerusalem.
16:4And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
16:5Now I will come to you, after I have gone through Macedonia (for I will pass through Macedonia.)
16:6And it may be that I will abide, yes, or winter with you,that you may bring me on my way, wherever I go.
16:7For I will not see you now in my passage,but I trust to abide a while with you, if the Kyrios permit.
16:8And I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost.
16:9For a great door and effectual is opened to me:and there are many adversaries.
16:10Now if Timothy come, see that he be without fear with you:for he works the work of the Kyrios, even as I do.
16:11Let no man therefore despise him:but send him forward in peace,that he may come to me:for I look for him with the brethren.
16:12As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him, to come to you with the brethren:but his mind was not at all to come at this time:however he will come when he shall have convenient time.
16:13Watch:stand fast in the faith:quite you like men,and be strong.
16:14Let all your things be done in love.
16:15Now brethren, I urge you (you know the house of Stephanas,that it is the first fruits of Achaia,and that they have given themselves to minister to the Saints)
16:16That you be obedient even to such,and to all that help with us and labor.
16:17I am glad of the coming of Stephanas,and Fortunatus,and Achaicus:for they have supplied the want of you.
16:18For they have comforted my spirit and yours:acknowledge therefore such men.
16:19The Churches of Asia salute you:Aquila and Priscilla with the Church that is in their house, salute you greatly in the Kyrios.
16:20All the brethren greet you. Greet you one another, with a holy kiss.
16:21The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.
16:22If any man love not the Kyrios Jesus Christos, let him be had in execration maran-atha.
16:23The grace of our Kyrios Jesus Christos be with you.
16:24My love be with you all in Christos Jesus, Amen. The first Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi,and sent by Stephanas,and Fortunatus,and Achaicus,and Timothy.