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Corinthians |
1:1: Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, |
1:2: Unto the |
1:3: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God
our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. |
1:4: I thank my God always on your behalf,
for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; |
1:5: That in every thing ye are enriched by
him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; |
1:6: Even as the testimony of Christ was
confirmed in you: |
1:7: So that ye come behind in no gift;
waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: |
1:8: Who shall also confirm you unto the end,
that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
1:9: God is faithful, by whom ye were called
unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. |
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2:1: And I, brethren, when I came to you,
came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the
testimony of God. |
2:2: For I determined not to know any thing
among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. |
2:3: And I was with you in weakness, and in
fear, and in much trembling. |
2:4: And my speech and my preaching was not
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and
of power: |
2:5: That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God. |
2:6: Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that
are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this
world, that come to nought: |
2:7: But we speak the wisdom of God in a
mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our
glory: |
2:8: Which none of the princes of this world
knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. |
2:9: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which
God hath prepared for them that love him. |
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3:1: And I, brethren, could not speak unto
you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. |
3:2: I have fed you with milk, and not with
meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. |
3:3: For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there
is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk
as men? |
3:4: For while one saith, I am of Paul; and
another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? |
3:5: Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos,
but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? |
3:6: I have planted, Apollos watered; but God
gave the increase. |
3:7: So then neither is he that planteth any
thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. |
3:8: Now he that planteth and he that watereth
are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own
labour. |
3:9: For we are labourers together with God:
ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. |
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4:1: Let a man so account of us, as of the
ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. |
4:2: Moreover it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful. |
4:3: But with me it is a very small thing
that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine
own self. |
4:4: For I know nothing by myself; yet am I
not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. |
4:5: Therefore judge nothing before the time,
until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall
every man have praise of God. |
4:6: And these things, brethren, I have in a
figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might
learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of
you be puffed up for one against another. |
4:7: For who maketh thee to differ from
another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst
receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? |
4:8: Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye
have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we
also might reign with you. |
4:9: For I think that God hath set forth us
the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle
unto the world, and to angels, and to men. |
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5:1: It is reported commonly that there is
fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among
the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. |
5:2: And ye are puffed up, and have not
rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from
among you. |
5:3: For I verily, as absent in body, but
present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning
him that hath so done this deed, |
5:4: In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord
Jesus Christ, |
5:5: To deliver such an one unto Satan for
the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the
Lord Jesus. |
5:6: Your glorying is not good. Know ye not
that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? |
5:7: Purge out therefore the old leaven, that
ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is
sacrificed for us: |
5:8: Therefore let us keep the feast, not
with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with
the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. |
5:9: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to
company with fornicators: |
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6:1: Dare any of you, having a matter against
another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? |
6:2: Do ye not know that the saints shall
judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to
judge the smallest matters? |
6:3: Know ye not that we shall judge angels?
how much more things that pertain to this life? |
6:4: If then ye have judgments of things
pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the
church. |
6:5: I speak to your shame. Is it so, that
there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge
between his brethren? |
6:6: But brother goeth to law with brother,
and that before the unbelievers. |
6:7: Now therefore there is utterly a fault
among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take
wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? |
6:8: Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that
your brethren. |
6:9: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall
not inherit the |
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7:1: Now concerning the things whereof ye
wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. |
7:2: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let
every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. |
7:3: Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. |
7:4: The wife hath not power of her own body,
but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own
body, but the wife. |
7:5: Defraud ye not one the other, except it
be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and
prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your
incontinency. |
7:6: But I speak this by permission, and not
of commandment. |
7:7: For I would that all men were even as I
myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and
another after that. |
7:8: I say therefore to the unmarried and
widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. |
7:9: But if they cannot contain, let them
marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. |
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7:37: Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast
in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath
so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. |
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8:1: Now as touching things offered unto
idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity
edifieth. |
8:2: And if any man think that he knoweth any
thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. |
8:3: But if any man love God, the same is
known of him. |
8:4: As concerning therefore the eating of
those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol
is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. |
8:5: For though there be that are called
gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) |
8:6: But to us there is but one God, the
Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom are all things, and we by him. |
8:7: Howbeit there is not in every man that
knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a
thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. |
8:8: But meat commendeth us not to God: for
neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the
worse. |
8:9: But take heed lest by any means this
liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. |
8:10: For if any man see thee which hast
knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him
which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; |
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9:1: Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have
I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? |
9:2: If I be not an apostle unto others, yet
doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. |
9:3: Mine answer to them that do examine me
is this, |
9:4: Have we not power to eat and to drink? |
9:5: Have we not power to lead about a
sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord,
and Cephas? |
9:6: Or I only and Barnabas, have not we
power to forbear working? |
9:7: Who goeth a warfare any time at his own
charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who
feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? |
9:8: Say I these things as a man? or saith
not the law the same also? |
9:9: For it is written in the law of Moses,
Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth
God take care for oxen? |
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10:1: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye
should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all
passed through the sea; |
10:2: And were all baptized unto Moses in the
cloud and in the sea; |
10:3: And did all eat the same spiritual
meat; |
10:4: And did all drink the same spiritual
drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
Rock was Christ. |
10:5: But with many of them God was not well
pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. |
10:6: Now these things were our examples, to
the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. |
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. |
10:8: Neither let us commit fornication, as
some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. |
10:9: Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of
them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. |
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10:13: There hath no temptation taken you but
such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way
to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. |
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11:1: Be ye followers of me, even as I also
am of Christ. |
11:2: Now I praise you, brethren, that ye
remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to
you. |
11:3: But I would have you know, that the
head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the
head of Christ is God. |
11:4: Every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. |
11:5: But every woman that prayeth or
prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even
all one as if she were shaven. |
11:6: For if the woman be not covered, let
her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven,
let her be covered. |
11:7: For a man indeed ought not to cover his
head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the
glory of the man. |
11:8: For the man is not of the woman; but
the woman of the man. |
11:9: Neither was the man created for the
woman; but the woman for the man. |
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12:1: Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brethren, I would not have you ignorant. |
12:2: Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried
away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. |
12:3: Wherefore I give you to understand,
that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no
man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. |
12:4: Now there are diversities of gifts, but
the same Spirit. |
12:5: And there are differences of
administrations, but the same Lord. |
12:6: And there are diversities of
operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. |
12:7: But the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to every man to profit withal. |
12:8: For to one is given by the Spirit the
word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; |
12:9: To another faith by the same Spirit; to
another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; |
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12:13: For by one Spirit are we all baptized
into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free;
and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. |
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13:1: Though I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal. |
13:2: And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. |
13:3: And though I bestow all my goods to
feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity,
it profiteth me nothing. |
13:4: Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
13:5: Doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; |
13:6: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but
rejoiceth in the truth; |
13:7: Beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
13:8: Charity 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. |
13:9: For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part. |
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14:1: Follow after charity, and desire
spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. |
14:2: For he that speaketh in an unknown
tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him;
howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. |
14:3: But he that prophesieth speaketh unto
men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. |
14:4: He that speaketh in an unknown tongue
edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. |
14:5: I would that ye all spake with tongues,
but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he
that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive
edifying. |
14:6: Now, brethren, if I come unto you
speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you
either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? |
14:7: And even things without life giving
sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how
shall it be known what is piped or harped? |
14:8: For if the trumpet give an uncertain
sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? |
14:9: So likewise ye, except ye utter by the
tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for
ye shall speak into the air. |
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14:24: But if all prophesy, and there come in
one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is
judged of all: |
14:25: And thus are the secrets of his heart
made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and
report that God is in you of a truth. |
14:26: How is it then, brethren? when ye come
together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath
a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. |
14:27: If any man speak in an unknown tongue,
let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one
interpret. |
14:28: But if there be no interpreter, let
him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. |
14:29: Let the prophets speak two or three,
and let the other judge. |
14:30: If any thing be revealed to another
that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. |
14:31: For ye may all prophesy one by one, that
all may learn, and all may be comforted. |
14:32: And the spirits of the prophets are
subject to the prophets. |
14:33: For God is not the author of
confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. |
14:34: Let your women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded
to be under obedience, as also saith the law. |
14:35: And if they will learn any thing, let
them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the
church. |
14:36: What? came the word of God out from
you? or came it unto you only? |
14:37: If any man think himself to be a
prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto
you are the commandments of the Lord. |
14:38: But if any man be ignorant, let him be
ignorant. |
14:39: Wherefore, brethren, covet to
prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. |
14:40: Let all things be done decently and in
order. |
15:1: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you
the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and
wherein ye stand; |
15:2: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep
in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. |
15:3: For I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures; |
15:4: And that he was buried, and that he
rose again the third day according to the scriptures: |
15:5: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of
the twelve: |
15:6: After that, he was seen of above five
hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present,
but some are fallen asleep. |
15:7: After that, he was seen of James; then
of all the apostles. |
15:8: And last of all he was seen of me also,
as of one born out of due time. |
15:9: For I am the least of the apostles,
that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of
God. |
15:10: But by the grace of God I am what I
am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured
more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with
me. |
15:11: Therefore whether it were I or they,
so we preach, and so ye believed. |
15:12: Now if Christ be preached that he rose
from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the
dead? |
15:13: But if there be no resurrection of the
dead, then is Christ not risen: |
15:14: And if Christ be not risen, then is
our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. |
15:15: Yea, and we are found false witnesses
of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he
raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. |
15:16: For if the dead rise not, then is not
Christ raised: |
15:17: And if Christ be not raised, your
faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. |
15:18: Then they also which are fallen asleep
in Christ are perished. |
15:19: If in this life only we have hope in
Christ, we are of all men most miserable. |
15:20: But now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the firstfruits of them that slept. |
15:21: For since by man came death, by man
came also the resurrection of the dead. |
15:22: For as in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive. |
15:23: But every man in his own order: Christ
the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. |
15:24: Then cometh the end, when he shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put
down all rule and all authority and power. |
15:25: For he must reign, till he hath put
all enemies under his feet. |
15:26: The last enemy that shall be destroyed
is death. |
15:27: For he hath put all things under his
feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he
is excepted, which did put all things under him. |
15:28: And when all things shall be subdued
unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all
things under him, that God may be all in all. |
15:29: Else what shall they do which are baptized
for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the
dead? |
15:30: And why stand we in jeopardy every
hour? |
15:31: I protest by your rejoicing which I
have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. |
15:32: If after the manner of men I have
fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not?
let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. |
15:33: Be not deceived: evil communications
corrupt good manners. |
15:34: Awake to righteousness, and sin not;
for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. |
15:35: But some man will say, How are the
dead raised up? and with what body do they come? |
15:36: Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it die: |
15:37: And that which thou sowest, thou
sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat,
or of some other grain: |
15:38: But God giveth it a body as it hath
pleased him, and to every seed his own body. |
15:39: All flesh is not the same flesh: but
there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of
fishes, and another of birds. |
15:40: There are also celestial bodies, and
bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of
the terrestrial is another. |
15:41: There is one glory of the sun, and
another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star
differeth from another star in glory. |
15:42: So also is the resurrection of the
dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: |
15:43: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised
in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: |
15:44: It is sown a natural body; it is
raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual
body. |
15:45: And so it is written, The first man
Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. |
15:46: Howbeit that was not first which is
spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. |
15:47: The first man is of the earth, earthy:
the second man is the Lord from heaven. |
15:48: As is the earthy, such are they also
that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly. |
15:49: And as we have borne the image of the
earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. |
15:50: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption. |
15:51: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall
not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, |
15:52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. |
15:53: For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. |
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. |
15:55: O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? |
15:56: The sting of death is sin; and the
strength of sin is the law. |
15:57: But thanks be to God, which giveth us
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
15:58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as
ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. |
16:1: Now concerning the collection for the
saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. |
16:2: Upon the first day of the week let
every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there
be no gatherings when I come. |
16:3: And when I come, whomsoever ye shall
approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto |
16:4: And if it be meet that I go also, they
shall go with me. |
16:5: Now I will come unto you, when I shall
pass through |
16:6: And it may be that I will abide, yea,
and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. |
16:7: For I will not see you now by the way;
but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit. |
16:8: But I will tarry at Ephesus until
Pentecost. |
16:9: For a great door and effectual is
opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. |
16:10: Now if Timotheus come, see that he may
be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do. |
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