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哥林多前書 – 1. Korinttolaisille kiinaksi

1 Corinthians Chapter 1 1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2. To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, and to all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. 3. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4. I always thank my God for you for the grace of God which was bestowed upon you in Christ Jesus, 5. because in him you were enriched in every way with all speech and knowledge, 6. just as my testimony about Christ was established in you, 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8. He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9. God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 10. I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there should be no divisions among you, but that you should be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion. 11. For it has been reported to me about you brothers by those of Chloe’s household, saying that there are divisions among you. 12. What I mean is that each of you says, “I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Pharisees, and I of Christ.” 13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14. I thank God that I baptized no one of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15. lest anyone say, “You were baptized in my name.” 16. I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I cannot remember whether I baptized anyone else. 17. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, so that the cross of Christ would not be made of no effect. 18. For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19. As it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will bring to nothing the understanding of the discerning.” 20. Where the wise is, where the scribe is, where the lawyer of this age is, has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21. For since the world in its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the folly of preaching to save those who believe. 22. For Jews demand a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom. 23. But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24. But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26. For you see your calling, brothers and sisters, not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, 27. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, God has chosen the weak in the world to shame the strong. 28. God has chosen the base and despised things in the world, ​​even the things that are not, ​​in order to bring to naught the things that are. 29. So that no flesh should boast in his presence. 30. But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who is made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. 31. As it is written, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” Chapter 2 1. Brothers, when I came to you, I did not come with high words or great wisdom to declare to you the mystery of God. 2. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3. I was with you in weakness and fear and with much trembling. 4. My speech and my proclamation were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 5. So that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men but on the power of God. 6. Yet we also speak wisdom among those who are perfect, but not of this world or of the rulers of this world who are about to perish. 7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, which has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages for our glory. 8. This wisdom no one of the rulers of this world knew; for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9. As it is written, “What eye has not seen, ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for his people.” ‘ 10. Only God has revealed them to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11. For who knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God. 13. And these things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual words. 14. But the natural man does not receive the thoughts of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15. A spiritual man can see through all things, but no one can see through him. 16. Who has known the mind of the Lord to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. Chapter 3 1. Brothers, I could not speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to carnal people, as to infants in Christ. 2. I fed you with milk and not with solid food. You were not able to eat then, and you are still not able now. 3. You are still carnal. For since there are jealousies and divisions among you, are you not carnal and acting like mere men? 4. Some say, “I am of Paul,” and others, “I am of Apollos.” Are you not mere men? 5. Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are ministers, leading you to believe, as the Lord has given to each of them. 6. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither the one who plants is anything, nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who gives the growth. 8. The one who plants and the one who waters are all alike, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 10. According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise master builder I laid the foundation, and someone else builds on it. But each one should take care how he builds on it. 11. For no one can lay other foundation than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13. Each one’s work will be revealed, for the Day will bring it to light; it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test each one’s work, the quality of his work. 14. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will be disgraced; but he himself will be saved, but only as if he had passed through fire. 16. Don’t you know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17. If anyone desecrates the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that temple you are. 18. Let no one deceive himself, for the temple of God is holy. If any of you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19. For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God, as it is written, “The Lord catches the wise in their own deceptions.” 20. And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21. So let no one boast about human beings, for all things are yours. 22. Whether Paul or Apollos or Philemon or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours. 23. And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. Chapter 4 1. A man ought to so consider us, as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2. What is required of a steward is that he be found faithful. 3. I care very little whether I am judged by you or by any human being; I do not even judge myself. 4. Although I do not think I am wrong, I am not justified by this. It is the Lord who judges me. 5. Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and expose the counsels of the hearts. Then everyone will receive praise from God. 6. For your sake, brothers, I have compared myself and Apollos to these things, so that you may follow our example and not go beyond what is written in the Scriptures, so that you will not be puffed up and esteem one over another. 7. Who makes you different from others? What do you have that you did not receive? If you have received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? 8. You are already full, you have become rich, you have reigned without us. I wish you did reign so that we could also reign with you. 9. I think that God has put us apostles last, like those sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels. 10. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised. 11. And to this day we are hungry and thirsty, naked, beaten, and have no fixed place to stay. 12. We also work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless. When we are persecuted, we endure it. 13. When we are slandered, we exhort. Even to this day, we are considered the scum of the world, the offal of all things. 14. I am not writing this to shame you, but as a warning to you, as my beloved children. 15. For though you may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 16. Therefore I implore you to imitate me. 17. For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, which I teach everywhere in every church. 18. Some are puffed up with the idea that I will not come to you. 19. But I will come to you soon, if the Lord permits. And I want to know, not the words of those who are puffed up, but their power. 20. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of words, but of power. 21. What do you want? Do you want me to come to you with a rod, or with kindness and a gentle spirit? Chapter 5 1. It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you, such as is not even found among the Gentiles: a man has taken his stepmother. 2. But you are puffed up, and have not mourned to put out the man who has done this from among you. 3. I am absent in body, but present in spirit, as though I were present with you, and have judged the man who did this deed, 4. even when you are gathered together, and I am present in spirit, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5. to hand such a man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6. This boasting of yours is not good, for don’t you know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7. Therefore, you must purify the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you are unleavened, because our Passover lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. 8. Therefore let us keep this feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9. For I wrote to you in my letter, saying, “Do not associate with sexually immoral people.” 10. This does not mean all sexually immoral people in this world, or the greedy, swindlers, or idolaters. If that were the case, you would have to leave the world. 11. But now I write to you, “Do not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother, and he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with him.” 12. For what is it to me to judge those outside the church? Don’t you judge those within the church? 13. As for those outside, God judges them. So you should put out the wicked man from among you. Chapter 6 1. If any of you have a matter against another, how dare you go to the unrighteous and not to the saints? 2. Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3. Don’t you know that we will judge angels, how much more the matters of this life? 4. So then, if you have matters to judge in this life, do you set them to judge those who are despised by the church? 5. I say this to your shame. Is there no wise man among you who can judge between his brothers? 6. You are actually suing one another, and you are doing it before unbelievers. 7. You are already doing a great wrong by suing one another. Why are you unwilling to be wronged? Why are you unwilling to be wronged? 8. You are the ones who oppress and wrong others, especially your brothers. 9. Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor immature men, nor homosexuals, 10. nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11. And such were some of you. But now you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 12. All things are lawful for me, but not all are beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be under the control of anything. 13. Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God will destroy both. The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14. And God, who has raised the Lord up, will also raise us by his power. 15. Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? By no means! 16. Don’t you know that whoever joins himself to a prostitute becomes one with her? For the Lord says, “The two will become one.” ‘ 17. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. 18. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own? 20. For you were bought at a price. So glorify God in your body. Chapter 7 1. Concerning the matter about which you wrote, I say that it is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. 2. But to avoid sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3. Let the husband treat his wife with due respect, and likewise let the wife treat her husband with due respect. 4. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Neither does the husband have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5. Husbands and wives must not defraud one another, except by mutual consent, for a time, so that they may devote themselves to prayer; and then again, so that Satan may not tempt you out of your lack of self-control. 6. I say this as a permission, not a command. 7. I want all people to be as I am, but each has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way. 8. I say to the unmarried and widows, “It is good if they remain as I am.” 9. But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. It is better to marry than to burn with lust. 10. But to the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord), “a wife must not leave her husband.” 11. If a woman has left her husband, she must not remarry, or she must reconcile with her husband. And the husband must not divorce his wife. 12. To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13. If a wife has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would not be clean, but now they are. 15. But if the unbeliever wants to leave, let him go. No brother or sister should be restrained in such a matter. God has called us to peace. 16. How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? And, husband, how do you know, whether you will save your wife? 17. Let each one live as the Lord has assigned to him, as God has called him. This is what I command in all the churches. 18. If someone was called in circumcision, let him not abolish circumcision. And if someone was called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised. 19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of God’s commandments is what counts. 20. Let each one remain in the state in which he was called. 21. Were you called as a slave? Do not let that trouble you. If you can be free, then better still. 22. For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Those who were called as free men are slaves of Christ. 23. You were bought with a price; do not be slaves of men. 24. Brothers, each of you should remain in the same state with God in which you were called. 25. As for virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give you my opinion, since I have been spared by the Lord to be faithful. 26. Because of the hardships of the present time, I think it is better for a man to remain content. 27. If you have a wife, do not ask for a divorce; if you do not have a wife, do not ask for one. 28. If you marry, you do not sin; and if a virgin marries, she does not sin. However, these people will suffer in the flesh, but I want you to be spared from suffering. 29. I say to you, brothers, the time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as if they had none. 30. Those who weep, as if they did not weep; those who rejoice, as if they did not rejoice; those who buy, as if they had nothing. 31. Those who use the things of this world, as if they did not use them, for the present age of this world is passing away. 32. I want you to be free from anxiety. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he can please the Lord. 33. A married man is anxious about the things of this world, how he can please his wife. 34. There is a difference between women and virgins. An unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; while a married woman is anxious about the things of this world, how she can please her husband. 35. I say this for your benefit, not to imprison you, but to enable you to do what is right, so that you may serve the Lord with all your heart, without distraction. 36. If a man thinks that he has treated his daughter improperly, and she has reached the age and the time is right, he may do what he sees fit, and he will not sin, and let them marry. 37. But if a man is determined in his heart and has no compulsion, and he is left to his own decision, and he has decided in his heart that he will not marry his daughter, then he may do so. 38. So it is good to marry your daughter, but it is even better not to marry her. 39. A wife is bound to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wants, but only in the Lord. 40. But in my opinion, it is more blessed to remain celibate. I also thought that I was moved by the Spirit of God. Chapter 8 1. Concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. But knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2. If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not know as he ought to know. 3. If anyone loves God, he is known by God. 4. Concerning eating things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5. Even though there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many gods and many lords, 6. Yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things come and we belong; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come and we through him. 7. But not all have this knowledge. Some, until now, because they are accustomed to idols, think that what they eat is food sacrificed to idols. Since their conscience is weak, they are also defiled. 8. In fact, food cannot make us worthy of God, for we are no harm if we do not eat, and no gain if we eat. 9. But be careful that this freedom of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10. If someone sees you, who have knowledge, sitting at the table of an idol, will not his conscience, if weak, be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols? 11. Therefore, your weak brother, for whom Christ died, has also been perished because of your knowledge. 12. In this way, when you sin against your brothers and wound their weak consciences, you sin against Christ. 13. Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble. Chapter 9 1. Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2. If I am not an apostle to others, I am still an apostle to you, because you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3. This is my defense to those who questioned me. 4. Do we not have the right to eat and drink from the gospel? 5. Do we not have the right to take believing sisters as wives and take them with us, just as the rest of the apostles, the brothers of the Lord and the law do? 6. Do only I and Barnabas have no right not to work? 7. Who serves as a soldier and provides his own bread? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink its milk? 8. Am I saying this from a human point of view? Doesn’t the law say the same thing? 9. For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the mouth of an ox while it is treading out grain.” Is it the ox that God is concerned about? 10. Is it not all for our sakes? It is clearly for our sakes. For the plowman must plow in hope, and the thresher must thresh in hope of receiving food. 11. If we sow spiritual things among you, is it a big deal if we reap material things from you? 12. If others have this right in you, how much more should we? But we have not used it, but we endure everything so that the gospel of Christ would not be hindered. 13. Don’t you know that those who work in holy things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in its offerings? 14. In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel. 15. But I have not used any of this right. I am not writing this so that you will do this to me, because I would rather die than have my boasting be emptied. 16. For I have nothing to boast about in preaching the gospel, because I was forced to do so. If I did not preach the gospel, I would be in trouble. 17. If I do this of my own accord, I have a reward. 18. What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may receive it free of charge, so that I do not use up my authority to preach the gospel. 19. Although I am free and of no one, I have made myself a servant to everyone, that I might win more. 20. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win the Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law, although I am not under the law, in order to win those under the law. 21. To those without the law I became as one without the law, although I am not without the law of God but under the law of Christ, in order to win those without the law. 22. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 23. All I do I do for the sake of the gospel, that I might share with others in its benefits. 24. Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? So run in such a way that you may win it. 25. Everyone who competes in the competition exercises self-control in all things. They do it to get a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. 26. So I run, not with an uncertain mind; I fight, not with the air. 27. I discipline my body and bring it into subjection. lest, after I have preached the gospel to others, I myself should be cut off. Chapter 10 1. I do not want you to be ignorant, my brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. 2. They were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3. And they all ate the same spiritual food. 4. And they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them; and that rock was Christ. 5. But most of them were men whom God did not like, and therefore they fell in the wilderness. 6. Now these things were a warning to us, that we should not be greedy for evil, as they were greedy. 7. And not worship idols, as some of them worshiped. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” ‘ 8. Let us not commit adultery, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. 9. And do not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were killed by serpents. 10. And do not murmur, as some of them did and were killed by the perpetrator. 11. All these things happened to them as a warning, and they were written down as a warning for us, on whom the ends of the world have come. 12. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13. No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. But God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also provide a way of escape when you are tempted, so that you can endure it. 14. My beloved brothers, flee from idolatry. 15. I speak to people of understanding; you must examine my words. 16. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? 17. We are many, but we are one loaf and one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. 18. Look at the Israelites, who are carnal. Are they not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19. What do I say? Is it that what is offered to idols is of any value? Or that idols are of any value? 20. But I say that what the pagans sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat the Lord’s table and the table of demons. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to anger? Are we more powerful than he is? 23. All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things build up. 24. Let no one seek his own benefit but the benefit of others. 25. Eat whatever is sold in the market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26. For the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. 27. If an unbeliever invites you to a feast, and you are willing to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 28. If anyone says to you, “This is a sacrifice,” then do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29. I am talking about conscience, not yours, but his. Why should my freedom be judged by someone else’s conscience? 30. If I eat with thanksgiving, why am I slandered for the things I give thanks for? 31. So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. 32. Do not cause any offense to anyone, whether Jews or Greeks or the church of God. 33. Just as I try to please everyone in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of many, so that they may be saved. Chapter 11 1. You should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. 2 I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the things I delivered to you. 3. I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and the head of Christ is God. 4. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. 5. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is the same as having her hair shaved off. 6. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. But if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or shaved off, she should cover her head. 7. For a man ought not to cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God, but a woman is the glory of man. 8. For man was not made from woman in the beginning, but woman from man. 9. And man was not created for woman, but woman from man. Woman was created for man. 10. Therefore, because woman is an angel, she should have a sign of authority on her head. 11. Yet in the Lord neither woman is independent of man, nor man independent of woman. 12. For as woman is from man, so also man is from woman. But all things are from God. 13. Judge for yourselves whether it is proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered. 14. Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a shame for him? 15. But for a woman to have long hair is a glory, for it is given to her as a covering for the head. 16. But if anyone wishes to dispute this, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God. 17. The words I now command you are not a compliment to you. For when you come together you do not gain, but rather lose. 18. First, I have heard that when you come together you have divisions among yourselves. And I partly believe this. 19. For there must be factions among you, so that those who are experienced may be made evident. 20. When you come together, it is not really the eating of the Lord’s Supper. 21. For when you come together, each one takes his own meal first, so that one may be hungry and another drunk. 22. Do you have no homes when you want to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who do not have it? What shall I say to you? Should I praise you for this? I do not. 23. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24. And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is given for you. This do in remembrance of me.” 25. In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 27. Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. 28. So let each person examine himself before he eats this bread and drinks this cup. 29. For whoever eats and drinks without discerning the Lord’s body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30. For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and not a few die. 31. If we had discerned ourselves, we would not be judged. 32. But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, so that we will not be condemned with the world. 33. Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34. If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home first, so that you will not come together to bring condemnation upon yourselves. The rest I will arrange when I come. Chapter 12 1. Concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. 2. You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led astray to serve dumb idols. 3. So I tell you that no one who is moved by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit. 4. There are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5. There are differences of ministry, but the same Lord. 6. There are differences of operations, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7. To each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8. To one is given words of wisdom by the Spirit, and to another words of knowledge by the same Spirit. 9. To another is given faith by the same Spirit. To another the gift of healing is given by the one Spirit. 10. To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11. All these are worked by one Spirit, distributing them to each one as He wills. 12. Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members, though many, are one body, so is Christ also. 13. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we all drank of the one Spirit. 14. For the body is not one member but many. 15. If the foot says, “I am not a hand, therefore I am not of the body,” He cannot therefore no longer belong to the body. 16. But if the ear says, “I am not an eye, therefore I do not belong to the body,” neither can he therefore no longer belong to the body. 17. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the smell be? 18. But now God has arranged the members, each of them, in the body, just as he pleased. 19. If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20. But now there are many members, but the body is one. 21. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor can the head say to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22. Not only that, but the members of the body that are considered weak are indispensable. 23. And those members of the body that we consider unworthy we give more worthy things to them, and those that are unattractive we give more attractive things to them. 24. Our attractive members do not need to be adorned. But God has joined the body together, giving double honor to the member that has lacked. 25. So that there should be no divisions in the body, but that the members should have regard for one another. 26. If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27. You are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member. 28. God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who work miracles, then those who have gifts for healing, those who help, those who have authority, those who speak in tongues. 29. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? 30. Are all those who have gifts for healing? Do all speak in tongues? Are all interpreters of tongues? 31. But earnestly desire the greater gift, and I will now show you a more excellent way. Chapter 13 1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am like a resounding bellows or a clanging gong. 2. If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3. If I give all I have to the poor and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not boast. It is not arrogant. 5. It does not act in a rude way or seek its own gain. 6. Not quick to anger. Do not think ill of others. 7. Do not rejoice in injustice. Only rejoice in the truth. 8. Love never fails. Prophecy will come to an end. Tongues will cease. Knowledge will come to an end. 9. We know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10. But when that which is perfect comes, the part will come to an end. 11. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I put childish things behind me. 12. For now we see in a mirror, dimly. [The original text is unclear and is like a guess] Then we will be face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I am fully known. 13. Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Chapter 14 1. Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially prophesy. 2. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, for no one can understand him. Yet in his spirit he speaks mysteries. 3. But he who prophesies speaks to men to edify, comfort, and encourage. 4. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 5. I wish you all spoke in tongues, but I wish you all prophesied even more. For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in a tongue, unless he interprets it so that the church may be edified. 6. Brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I explain to you something, whether revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? 7. Even if the sounds of lifeless things, whether flutes or harps, are not differentiated, how can we know what is being played? 8. If the trumpet sounds without an accurate sound, who can prepare for the battle? 9. So it is with you, unless your tongue speaks intelligible words, how can you know what is being said? You are speaking into the air. 10. There may be many voices in the world, but not one of them is without meaning. 11. If I do not understand the meaning of the voice, the one who speaks will consider me a foreigner, and I will consider him a foreigner. 12. So it is with you. Since you are eager for spiritual gifts, ask for more gifts for the edification of the church. 13. Therefore, those who speak in tongues should pray for interpretation. 14. If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is not effective. 15. What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with my understanding. 16. Otherwise, if you bless in the spirit, how can those who are not fluent in tongues say Amen when you give thanks, since they do not understand your words? 17. Your thanksgiving is good, but it cannot edify others. 18. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you, 19. But in the church it is better to speak five words with your understanding to teach others than ten thousand words in a tongue. 20. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking; however, in evil, be infants; in your thinking, be adults. 21. In the law it is written, “With the tongues of the Gentiles and with the lips of the Gentiles I will speak to this people; yet they will not obey me, says the Lord.” 22. So then speaking in tongues is not a testimony for believers, but for unbelievers; and prophesying is not a testimony for unbelievers, but for believers. 23. So, when the whole church is gathered together and everyone speaks in tongues, and someone who does not understand a tongue or an unbeliever comes in, will they not say that you are crazy? 24. If all are prophesying, and an unbeliever or someone who is not fluent in a tongue comes in, he will be warned and judged by all. 25. The hidden thoughts of his heart will be revealed, and he will fall on his face and worship God, saying, “God is truly among you.” 26. What about it then, brothers? When you come together, each one may have a psalm, a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for the purpose of building up others. 27. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let it be two or at most three, and let them speak in turns, and let someone interpret. 28. If there is no one to interpret, let him keep silent in the church and speak only to himself and to God. 29. Let two or three prophesy, and the rest should weigh the matter carefully. 30. If a revelation comes to someone sitting nearby, the first speaker should keep silent. 31. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all can learn and all can be encouraged. 32. For the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33. For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. 34. Let women keep silent in the churches, as in the churches of the saints, for they are not allowed to speak, but they must be in submission, as the law says. 35. If they want to learn anything, they should ask their husbands at home. For it is a disgrace for women to speak in the church. 36. Did the word of God originate from you? Or did it come only to you? 37. If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that what I write to you is the command of the Lord. 38. If anyone does not know, let him not know. 39. Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. 40. All things must be done decently and in order. Chapter 15 1. Now, brothers, I declare to you the gospel that I preached to you, which you also received and in which you stand. 2. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold fast the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3. For I passed on to you first of all what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. That he was buried, and that he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures. 5. He appeared to Pharisee, then to the Twelve. 6. After that he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at the same time, of whom most are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. 7. After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8. Last of all he appeared to me also, as one born before his time. 9. For I am the least of the apostles, and do not deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by God’s grace I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain, for I worked harder than all of them. Now it was not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11. Whether it was me or all the apostles, this is what we preach, and you also believed. 12. Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13. If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. 14. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is also in vain. 15. And we are found to be false witnesses of God, for we bear witness that God raised Christ; and if in fact the dead do not rise, then God did not raise Christ either. 16. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ has not been raised either. 17. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is in vain; you are still in your sins. 18. Even those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19. If we have hope in Christ only in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20. But Christ has now been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21. For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. 22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive. 23. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who are Christ’s at his coming. 24. Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, having destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25. For he must reign until God has put all his enemies under his feet. 26. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27. For the Scripture says, “God has put all things under his feet.” But since it says that all things have been put under him, it is evident that the One who put all things under him is not included. 28. When all things have been put under him, then will the Son himself also be put under him who put all things under him, so that God may be over all things and be Lord of all. 29. Otherwise, what will become of those who are baptized for the dead? If the dead never rise, why are they baptized for them? 30. And why do we risk every moment? 31. Brothers, I declare with all my might in Christ Jesus our Lord, concerning your boasting mouth, that I die every day. 32. What good would it have been for me if I had fought with wild beasts in Ephesus as a common man? If the dead do not rise, we eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. 33. Do not be deceived, for intemperate associations corrupt good character. 34. Awake and do good, and do not sin, for some do not know God. I say this to shame you. 35. Or someone will ask, “How do the dead rise? With what body do they come?” 36. You foolish man! What you sow cannot come to life unless it dies. 37. And what you sow is not the body that is to come, but a grain, of wheat or some other grain. 38. But God gives it a body as he wishes, and gives each grain its own body. 39. All flesh is different, but the body is different. There is one kind of man, another kind of beast, another kind of bird, and another kind of fish. 40. There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies, but the glory of the celestial bodies is one, and the glory of the terrestrial bodies is another. 41. The sun has its own glory, the moon has its own glory, and the stars have their own glory; and there is a difference in glory from one star to another. 42. So also is the resurrection of the dead: it is sown perishable, it is raised imperishable. 43. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45. And thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46. But the spiritual is not first, but the flesh, and then the spiritual. 47. The first man is from the earth, that is, earthy; the second man is from heaven. 48. As the earthy one was, so are those who are earthy; and as the heavenly one is, so are those who are heavenly. 49. And just as we have borne the image of the earthy one, so we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one. 50. But I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither can the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51. Behold, I show you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54. When this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? 56. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57. Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58. Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Chapter 16 1. Now concerning the collection for the saints, just as I gave orders to the churches in Galatia, so you also should do. 2. On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a sum according to his income, so that it will not be needed when I come. 3. When I come, write to me, whom you recommend, and I will send them to take your collection to Jerusalem. 4. If I also must go, they can go with me. 5. I am about to pass through Macedonia, and when I have passed, I will come to you. 6. I will stay with you for a while, or even spend the winter there. You can see me off wherever I go. 7. I do not want to pass by and see you now. I hope to stay with you for a while, if the Lord permits. 8. But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost. 9. Because a great and effective door has been opened to me, and there are many opponents. 10. If Timothy comes, take care that he has no fear with you, for he works hard for the Lord, just as I do. 11. Therefore let no one despise him, but send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me, for I have a hope that he will come with the brothers. 12. As for our brother Apollos, I urged him to come to you with the brothers. But he was not willing to go at this time. He would go when he had the opportunity. 13. So be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14. Let all that you do be done with love. 15. Brothers, you know that the household of Stephanas is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. 16. I urge you to submit to such men and to all who work with you. 17. I was glad to see that Stephen and Fortunatus and Achaicus were here, because they made up for what you did not do to me. 18. They cheered my heart and yours. Let such men be honored. 19. The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla send you many greetings in the Lord, and so do the church which is in their house. 20. All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 21. I, Paul, send you my greetings in my own hand. 22. If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be cursed. The Lord will come. 23. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 24. My love in Christ Jesus be with you all. Amen.