Wesley Version
1755 by John Wesley
1Co 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God,
1Co 1:2 and Sosthenes a brother, To the church of God, which is in Corinth, to them that are sanctified through Christ Jesus, called and holy, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:
1Co 1:3 Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Christ Jesus:
1Co 1:5 That in every thing ye are inriched through him,
1Co 1:6 in all utterance and in all knowledge, As the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you:
1Co 1:7 So that ye are wanting in no good gift,
1Co 1:8 waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who will also confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Co 1:10 Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together, in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1Co 1:11 For it hath been declared to me of you, my brethren, by them of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1Co 1:12 Now this I say, every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.
1Co 1:13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you?
1Co 1:14 Or were ye baptized into the name of Paul? I thank God, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius:
1Co 1:15 Lest any should say, that I had baptized in my own name.
1Co 1:16 I baptized also the family of Stephanas.
1Co 1:17 I know not that I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; but not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
1Co 1:18 For the doctrine of the cross is indeed to them that perish foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.
1Co 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and abolish the understanding of the prudent.
1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Co 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1Co 1:22 For whereas the Jews demand signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom, We preach Christ crucified,
1Co 1:23 to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness:
1Co 1:24 But to them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1Co 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1Co 1:26 Behold your calling brethren: that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:
1Co 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to shame the wise, and the weak things of the world, to shame the things that are mighty:
1Co 1:28 And the base things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen; yea, things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are; That no flesh may glory before him.
1Co 1:29 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who is made by God unto us wisdom,
1Co 1:30 and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31 That as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1Co 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.
1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
1Co 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
1Co 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but with the demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
1Co 2:5 That your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1Co 2:6 Yet we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: but not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery,
1Co 2:7 which God ordained before the world for our glory;
1Co 2:8 Which none of the rulers of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor hath ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.
1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? So the things of God also knoweth no one, but the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, explaining spiritual things by spiritual words.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But the spiritual man discerneth all things, while he himself is discerned by no man.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1Co 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
1Co 3:2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nor are ye now able.
1Co 3:3 For ye are still carnal: for while there is among you emulation, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?
1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul,
1Co 3:5 and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1Co 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1Co 3:8 But he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and every one shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.
1Co 3:9 For we are fellow-labourers of God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1Co 3:10 According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise master-builder I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed how he buildeth thereon.
1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay, than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ: And if any one build on this foundation, gold, silver, costly stones;
1Co 3:12 wood, hay, stubble, Every one's work shall be made manifest;
1Co 3:13 for the day shall declare it: for it is revealed by fire; yea the fire shall try every one's work, of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 If any one's work which he hath built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any one's work shall be burnt, he shall suffer loss, but himself shall be saved, yet so as through the fire.
1Co 3:16 Know ye not, that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17 If any man destroy the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1Co 3:18 Let none deceive himself: if any one among you thinketh himself to be wise, let him become a fool in this world, that he may become wise.
1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; as it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1Co 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
1Co 3:21 Therefore let none glory in men; for all things are yours:
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas; or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come,
1Co 3:23 all are yours, And ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
1Co 4:1 Let a man so account us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1Co 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
1Co 4:3 But it is a very small thing with me, to be judged by you or by any man's judgment; yea, I judge not myself.
1Co 4:4 For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
1Co 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every one have praise from God.
1Co 4:6 These things, brethren, I have by a figure transferred to myself and Apollos, for your sakes; that ye may learn in us, not to think of men above what is here written, that ye may not be puffed up for one above another.
1Co 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou hast received it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?
1Co 4:8 Now ye are full: now ye are rich: ye have reigned as kings without us. And I would ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1Co 4:9 For I think God hath set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
1Co 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake; but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak; but ye are strong: ye are honourable; but we are despised.
1Co 4:11 Even to this present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain abode, And labour, working with our own hands:
1Co 4:12 being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1Co 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and off-scouring of all things to this day.
1Co 4:14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
1Co 4:15 For if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1Co 4:16 I beseech you therefore, be ye followers of me.
1Co 4:17 For this cause I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
1Co 4:18 Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.
1Co 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord permit, and will know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.
1Co 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.
1Co 4:21 What will ye? That I come to you with a rod? or in love, and the spirit of meekness?
1Co 5:1 It is commonly reported, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not even named among the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.
1Co 5:2 And are ye puffed up? Have ye not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed, might be taken from among you?
1Co 5:3 For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already,
1Co 5:4 as if I were present, judged him who hath so done this, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit,
1Co 5:5 with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good: know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover is slain for us, even Christ:
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast; not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and malignity, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Co 5:9 I wrote to you in an epistle, Not to converse with lewd persons.
1Co 5:10 But not altogether with the lewd persons of this world, or the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters, for then ye must go out of the world.
1Co 5:11 But I have now written unto you, if any who is named a brother, be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to converse with such an one, no, not to eat with him.
1Co 5:12 For what have I to do, to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?
1Co 5:13 (But them that are without God will judge:) And ye will take away from among yourselves that wicked person.
1Co 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, refer it to the unjust, and not to the saints?
1Co 6:2 Know ye not, that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co 6:3 Know ye not, that we shall judge angels?
1Co 6:4 How much more things pertaining to this life? If then ye have any controversies of things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no esteem in the church?
1Co 6:5 I speak to your shame. What, is there not so much as one wise man among you, that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
1Co 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and this before the infidels.
1Co 6:7 Indeed even this is altogether a fault among you, that ye have contests with each other. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong?
1Co 6:8 Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, even your brethren.
1Co 6:9 Know ye not, that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate,
1Co 6:10 nor sodomites, Nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor revilers, nor the rapacious shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1Co 6:12 All things are lawful for me; but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
1Co 6:13 Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1Co 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
1Co 6:15 Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?
1Co 6:16 God forbid. Know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? For they two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1Co 6:17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
1Co 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
1Co 6:19 Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?
1Co 6:20 And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.
1Co 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me, It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.
1Co 7:2 Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.
1Co 7:3 Let the husband render the debt to the wife; and in like manner the wife also to the husband.
1Co 7:4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband also hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
1Co 7:5 Withdraw not from each other, unless it be by consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to prayer, and may come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.
1Co 7:6 But I say this by way of advice, not by way of precept. For I would that all men were even as myself:
1Co 7:7 but every one hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, another after that.
1Co 7:8 But to the unmarried and the widows I say, It is good for them, if they remain even as I.
1Co 7:9 But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
1Co 7:10 The married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.
1Co 7:11 But if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband.
1Co 7:12 And let not the husband put away his wife. To the rest speak I, not the Lord. If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
1Co 7:13 And the wife, who hath an unbelieving husband, that consenteth to live with her, let her not put him away.
1Co 7:14 For the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified by the wife; and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified by the husband. Else were your children unclean; but now they are holy.
1Co 7:15 But if the unbeliever will depart, let him depart: a brother or a sister is not inslaved in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
1Co 7:16 For how knowest thou, O wife, but thou mayst save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou mayst save thy wife?
1Co 7:17 But as God hath distributed to every one, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk.
1Co 7:18 And thus I ordain in all the churches. Is any one called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any one called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
1Co 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God.
1Co 7:20 Let every one in the calling wherein he is called, therein abide.
1Co 7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou canst be made free, use it rather.
1Co 7:22 For he that is called by the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman; and in like manner, he that is called being free, is the servant of Christ.
1Co 7:23 Ye are bought with a price; do not become the servants of men.
1Co 7:24 Brethren, let every one wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
1Co 7:25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one who hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
1Co 7:26 I apprehend therefore, that this is good for the present distress, that it is good for a man to continue as he is.
1Co 7:27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
1Co 7:28 Yet if thou dost marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.
1Co 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that even they that have wives, be as if they had none: And they that weep, as if they wept not;
1Co 7:30 and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not;
1Co 7:31 and they that buy, as if they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passeth away: Now I would have you without carefulness.
1Co 7:32 The unmarried man careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
1Co 7:33 But the married careth for the things of the world , how he may please his wife.
1Co 7:34 There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit: but the married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
1Co 7:35 And this I say for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but that ye may decently wait upon the Lord without distraction.
1Co 7:36 But if any think that he acteth indecently toward his virgin, if she be above age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1Co 7:37 Nevertheless, he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power over his own will, and hath determined this in his heart to keep his virgin, doth well.
1Co 7:38 So then he also that giveth in marriage, doth well; but he that giveth not in marriage, doth better.
1Co 7:39 The wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to marry whom she will; only in the Lord.
1Co 7:40 But she is happier, if she continue as she is, in my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
1Co 8:1 Now as to things sacrified to idols, we know: for all of us have knowledge.
1Co 8:2 Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. And if any one think he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
1Co 8:3 But if any one love God, he is known by him. I say, as to the eating of things sacrificed to idols,
1Co 8:4 we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
1Co 8:5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods and many lords) Yet to us there is but one God,
1Co 8:6 the Father from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
1Co 8:7 But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some do even until now, with consciousness of the idol, eat it as sacrificed to the idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1Co 8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God; for neither if we eat, are we the better, nor if we eat not, are we the worse.
1Co 8:9 But take heed, lest by any means this your liberty become a stumbling-block to the weak.
1Co 8:10 For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at meat in an idol-temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be encouraged to eat of the things sacrificed to the idol?
1Co 8:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died.
1Co 8:12 But when ye sin thus against your brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
1Co 8:13 Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
1Co 9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?
1Co 9:2 Are not ye my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle to others, yet I am to you; for ye are the seal of my apostleship.
1Co 9:3 My answer to them who examine me is this.
1Co 9:4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
1Co 9:5 Have we not power to lead about with us a sister, a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Peter?
1Co 9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?
1Co 9:7 Who ever warreth at his own charge? Who planteth a vineyard, and doth not eat of its fruit? Or who feedeth a flock, and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?
1Co 9:8 Do I speak these things as a man? Doth not the law also speak the same?
1Co 9:9 For it is written, in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn? Doth God take care for oxen?
1Co 9:10 Or speaketh he chiefly for our sakes? surely for our sakes it was written: for he who ploweth, ought to plow in hope; and he that thresheth in hope, ought to be a partaker of his hope.
1Co 9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?
1Co 9:12 If others partake of this power over you, do not we rather? Yet we have not used this power: but we suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
1Co 9:13 Know ye not, that they who are employed about holy things, are fed out of the temple? And they who wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar.
1Co 9:14 So also hath the Lord ordained, that they who preach the gospel, should live of the gospel.
1Co 9:15 But I have used none of these things; nor have I written thus, that it might be done so unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make this my glorying void.
1Co 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for a necessity lieth upon me, and wo is me, if I preach not the gospel.
1Co 9:17 If indeed I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, yet a dispensation is intrusted to me.
1Co 9:18 What then is my reward? that when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
1Co 9:19 For though I am free from all men, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.
1Co 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law:
1Co 9:21 To them that are without the law, as without the law, (being not without the law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain them that are without the law.
1Co 9:22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that by all means I might save some.
1Co 9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker thereof with you.
1Co 9:24 Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.
1Co 9:25 And every one that contendeth, is temperate in all things: and they indeed, to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1Co 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.
1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should become a reprobate.
1Co 10:1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud,
1Co 10:2 and all passed through the sea, And were all baptized unto Moses,
1Co 10:3 in the cloud and in the sea, And all ate the same spiritual meat,
1Co 10:4 And all drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank out of the spiritual rock which followed them; and that rock was Christ) Yet, with the most of them, God was not well-pleased;
1Co 10:5 for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1Co 10:6 Now these things were for our example, that we might not desire evil things, as they desired.
1Co 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
1Co 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1Co 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.
1Co 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened to them for examples, and they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.
1Co 10:12 Therefore let him that standeth, take heed, lest he fall.
1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above your ability, but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1Co 10:14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
1Co 10:15 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?
1Co 10:16 The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
1Co 10:17 For we, being many, are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of the one bread.
1Co 10:18 Consider Israel after the flesh. Are not they who eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?
1Co 10:19 What say I then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is any thing? or that an idol is any thing?
1Co 10:20 But that what the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. Now I would not that ye should be partakers with devils.
1Co 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and the table of devils.
1Co 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
1Co 10:23 All things are lawful for me; but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me; but all things edify not.
1Co 10:24 Let no one seek his own, but every one another's welfare.
1Co 10:25 Whatever is sold in the shambles eat, asking no questions for conscience sake.
1Co 10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
1Co 10:27 And if any of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake.
1Co 10:28 But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol, eat not, for his sake that shewed thee, and for conscience sake.
1Co 10:29 Conscience I say, not thy own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?
1Co 10:30 For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?
1Co 10:31 Therefore whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1Co 10:32 Give no offence either to the Jews, or to the Gentiles, or to the church of God:
1Co 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many that they may be saved.
1Co 11:1 Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the orders, as I delivered them to you.
1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of the woman is the man, and the head of every man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God.
1Co 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
1Co 11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head; for it is the same as if she were shaved.
1Co 11:6 Therefore if a woman is not covered, let her also be shaved: but if it be shameful, for a woman to have her hair shaved off, or cut short, let her be covered.
1Co 11:7 A man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
1Co 11:8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
1Co 11:9 Neither was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the sake of the man.
1Co 11:10 For this cause also the woman ought to have a veil upon her head, because of the angels.
1Co 11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1Co 11:12 And as the woman was of the man, so also the man is by the woman; but all things are of God.
1Co 11:13 Judge of yourselves: is it decent for a woman to pray to God uncovered?
1Co 11:14 Doth not nature itself teach you, that for a man to have long hair, is a disgrace to him?
1Co 11:15 Whereas for a woman to have long hair, is a glory to her; for her hair was given her instead of a veil.
1Co 11:16 But if any one be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
1Co 11:17 But in this which I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
1Co 11:18 For first, when ye come together in the church, I hear there are schisms among you, (and I partly believe it.
1Co 11:19 For there must be heresies also among you, that the approved among you may be manifest).
1Co 11:20 Therefore when ye come together into one place, it is not eating the Lord's supper.
1Co 11:21 For in eating every one taketh before another his own supper, and one is hungry, another drinks largely.
1Co 11:22 What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this?
1Co 11:23 I praise you not. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the night in which he was betrayed,
1Co 11:24 took bread, And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25 In like manner also he took the cup after he had supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: do this as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:26 Therefore as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye shew forth the Lord's death, till he come.
1Co 11:27 So that whosoever shall eat the bread and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1Co 11:28 Therefore let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.
1Co 11:30 For this cause many are sick and weak among you, and many sleep.
1Co 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
1Co 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another.
1Co 11:34 And if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.
1Co 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1Co 12:2 Ye know that when ye were heathens, ye were carried away after dumb idols, as ye were led.
1Co 12:3 Therefore I give you to know, that as no one speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed; so no one can say, Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
1Co 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Co 12:5 And there are diversities of administrations, but the same Lord:
1Co 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all.
1Co 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each, to profit withal.
1Co 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit, the word of wisdom; to another by the same Spirit, the word of knowledge;
1Co 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:10 to another the gift of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.
1Co 12:11 But one and the same Spirit worketh all these, dividing to every one severally as he willeth.
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and yet hath many members, but all the members of the body, many as they are, are one body, so is Christ.
1Co 12:13 For we are all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether we are Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or freemen; and we have all drank of one Spirit.
1Co 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot should say,
1Co 12:15 Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:16 And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1Co 12:18 But now hath God set the members, every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1Co 12:19 And if all were one member, where were the body?
1Co 12:20 Whereas now there are indeed many members, yet but one body.
1Co 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1Co 12:22 Yea, the members of the body, which appear to be weaker, are much more necessary.
1Co 12:23 And those which we think to be the less honourable parts of the body, these we surround with more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
1Co 12:24 For our comely parts have no need; but God hath tempered the body together, giving more abundant honour to that which lacked:
1Co 12:25 That there might be no schism in the body, but that the members might have the same care for each other:
1Co 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members might suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members might rejoice with it.
1Co 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in part.
1Co 12:28 And God hath set in the church, first, apostles, secondly, prophets, thirdly, teachers: afterward miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, different kinds of tongues.
1Co 12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all miraculous powers?
1Co 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? But covet earnestly the best gifts.
1Co 12:31 And yet I shew unto you a more excellent way.
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
1Co 13:4 Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up:
1Co 13:5 Doth not behave indecently, seeketh not her own, is not provoked, thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6 Rejoiceth not at iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth:
1Co 13:7 Covereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1Co 13:8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1Co 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Co 13:10 And when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall vanish away.
1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I talked as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1Co 13:12 And now we see by means of a glass obscurely; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as also I am known.
1Co 13:13 And now abide these three, faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.
1Co 14:1 Follow after love: and desire spiritual gifts; but especially that ye may prophesy.
1Co 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God; for no one understandeth him, though by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries:
1Co 14:3 Whereas he that prophesieth, speaketh to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
1Co 14:4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue, edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.
1Co 14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for he that prophesieth, is greater than he that speaketh with tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edification.
1Co 14:6 Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you, either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecy, or by doctrine?
1Co 14:7 So inanimate things which give a sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
1Co 14:8 And if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
1Co 14:9 So likewise unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye will speak to the air.
1Co 14:10 Let there be ever so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them without signification:
1Co 14:11 Yet if I know not the meaning of the language, I shall be a barbarian to him that speaketh, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian to me.
1Co 14:12 So ye also, seeing ye desire spiritual gifts, seek to abound in them, to the edifying of the church.
1Co 14:13 Therefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue, pray that he may interpret.
1Co 14:14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my Spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1Co 14:15 What then is my duty? 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.
1Co 14:16 Otherwise if thou givest thanks with the Spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of a private person, say Amen to thy thanksgiving, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
1Co 14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well; yet the other is not edified.
1Co 14:18 I thank God, that I speak with tongues more than you all.
1Co 14:19 Yet in the congregation I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
1Co 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: in wickedness be ye as infants, but in understanding be ye grown men.
1Co 14:21 It is written in the law, In foreign tongues and with foreign lips will I speak to this people; and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.
1Co 14:22 So that tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; whereas prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for believers.
1Co 14:23 Yet if the whole church be met together, and all speak with unknown tongues, and there come in ignorant persons or unbelievers, will they not say, that ye are mad?
1Co 14:24 Whereas if all prophesy, and there come in an unbeliever, or an ignorant person, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all:
1Co 14:25 The secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is among you of a truth.
1Co 14:26 What a thing is it, brethren, that when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation?
1Co 14:27 Let all things be done to edification. If any one speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or three at most, and that by course, and let one interpret.
1Co 14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church, and let him speak to himself and to God.
1Co 14:29 Let two or three of the prophets speak, and let the rest judge. But if any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by,
1Co 14:30 let the first be silent.
1Co 14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
1Co 14:32 For the Spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
1Co 14:34 Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also saith.
1Co 14:35 And if they desire to learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is indecent for a woman to speak in the assembly.
1Co 14:36 Did the word of God come out from you? or did it come to you alone?
1Co 14:37 If any one think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you, are the commandments of the Lord.
1Co 14:38 But if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
1Co 14:39 Therefore, brethren, covet to prophesy; yet forbid not to speak with tongues.
1Co 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
1Co 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, and wherein ye stand:
1Co 15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye retain what I preached to you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1Co 15:3 For I delivered to you first, that which I also received, That Christ died for our sins,
1Co 15:4 according to the scriptures, And that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.
1Co 15:5 Afterwards he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once,
1Co 15:6 of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.
1Co 15:7 After this he was seen by James, then by all the apostles.
1Co 15:8 Last of all he was seen by me also, as an untimely birth.
1Co 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1Co 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain, but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
1Co 15:11 Whether therefore I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
1Co 15:12 But if Christ is preached, that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1Co 15:13 For if there be no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ raised.
1Co 15:14 And if Christ be not raised, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
1Co 15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified from God, that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise, if the dead rise not.
1Co 15:16 For if the dead rise not, neither is Christ raised:
1Co 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are still in your sins.
1Co 15:18 Then also they who sleep in Christ are perished.
1Co 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are more miserable than all men.
1Co 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, the first-fruit of them that slept.
1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
1Co 15:22 For as through Adam all die, even so through Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every one in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, afterward they who are Christ's, at his coming.
1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that is destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet.
1Co 15:27 But when he saith, All things are put under him, it is manifest that he who did put all things under him is excepted.
1Co 15:28 But when all things shall be put under him, then shall the Son himself also be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1Co 15:29 Else what shall they do, who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?
1Co 15:30 Why are we also in danger every hour? I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
1Co 15:31 If after the manner of men,
1Co 15:32 I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
1Co 15:33 Be not deceived. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
1Co 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
1Co 15:35 But some one will say, How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come?
1Co 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die,
1Co 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat, or of any other corn:
1Co 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to each of the seeds, its own body.
1Co 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, another of birds.
1Co 15:40 There are also heavenly, and there are earthly bodies: but the glory of the heavenly is one, and that of the earthly another.
1Co 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: and one star differeth from another star in glory.
1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
1Co 15:44 It is sown an animal body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam is a quickening Spirit.
1Co 15:46 Yet the spiritual body was not first, but the animal; afterward the spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man was from the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48 As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy, and as was the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Co 15:50 But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory; The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:56 But thanks be to God,
1Co 15:57 who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
1Co 16:1 Concerning the collection for the saints, as I have ordered the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.
1Co 16:2 On the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store according as he hath been prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.
1Co 16:3 And when I am come, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters, to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
1Co 16:4 And if it be proper, that I also should go, they shall go with me.
1Co 16:5 Now I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia,
1Co 16:6 (for I pass through Macedonia) And perhaps I may stay, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me forward on my journey, whithersoever I go.
1Co 16:7 For I will not see you now in my way; but hope to stay some time with you, if the Lord permit.
1Co 16:8 But I will stay at Ephesus till Pentecost.
1Co 16:9 For a great and effectual door is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
1Co 16:10 But if Timotheus come, see that he be with you without fear; for he laboureth in the work of the Lord, even as I.
1Co 16:11 Therefore let no man despise him, but conduct him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I look for him with the brethren.
1Co 16:12 As to our brother Apollos, I besought him much, to come to you with the brethren; yet he was by no means willing to come now; but he will come, when it shall be convenient.
1Co 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, acquit yourselves like men; be strong.
1Co 16:14 Let all your affairs be done in love.
1Co 16:15 And I beseech you, brethren, as ye know the houshold of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serve the saints,
1Co 16:16 That ye also submit to such, and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.
1Co 16:17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for they have supplied what was wanting on your part.
1Co 16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours; such therefore acknowledge.
1Co 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the church that is in their house, salute you much in the Lord.
1Co 16:20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with an holy kiss.
1Co 16:21 The Salutation of me Paul with my own hand.
1Co 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema: Maran-atha.
1Co 16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1Co 16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.
