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1Corinthians
New Testament from Aramaic
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 1
1 ¶ PAUL, called to be an apostle
of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother
Sosthenes,
2 To the church of God which is at
Corinth, the invited and holy ones who are sanctified by
Jesus Christ, and to all of them in every place who invoke
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace be to you and peace from
God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always on your
behalf, for the grace of God that has been given to you by
Jesus Christ;
5 For in everything you are
enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge;
6 Because the testimony of Christ
has been confirmed in you,
7 And you do not lack any of his
gifts but wait for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
8 Who will also strengthen you to
the end, so that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
9 God, by whom you have been called
to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our LORD, is
trustworthy.
10 ¶ Now I beseech you, my
brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to be of one
accord, and let there be no divisions among you but be
perfectly united in one mind and in one thought.
11 For I have been informed about
you, my brethren, by the household of Chloe that there are
disputes among you.
12 Now this I say because there are
some among you who say, I am a follower of Paul; and some
who say, I am a follower of Apollos; and some who say, I am
a follower of Kepa; and some who say, I am a follower of
Christ.
13 Why? Is Christ divided? or was
Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of
Paul?
14 ¶ I confess to my God that I
have baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius;
15 So no man can say that I have
baptized in my own name.
16 And I baptized also the
household of Stephanas. I do not know whether I have
baptized any one else.
17 ¶ For Christ did not send me to
baptize but to preach the gospel; and not to rely on the
wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be in vain.
18 For the preaching of the cross
to those who have gone astray is foolishness; but to us who
are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will
destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will do away with the
understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the
scribe? where is the learned of this world? Has not God made
foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 Because all the wisdom which God
had given was not sufficient for the world to know God, it
pleased God to save those who believe by the simple gospel.
22 For the Jews demand signs and
the Arameans seek after wisdom;
23 But we preach Christ crucified,
which is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to
the Arameans;
24 But for those who are called,
both Jews and Arameans, Christ is the power of God and the
wisdom of God;
25 Because the foolishness of God
is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than
men.
26 For consider also your own
calling, my brethren, not many among you are wise in terms
of worldly things and not many among you are mighty and not
many among you belong to the nobility.
27 But God has chosen the foolish
ones of the world to put the wise to shame; and God has
chosen the weak ones of the world to embarrass the mighty;
28 And he has chosen those of
humble families in the world, and the lowly and those who
are insignificant, in order to belittle those who consider
themselves important,
29 So that no man should boast in
his presence.
30 But you also belong to God
through Jesus Christ who, from God, is wisdom and
righteousness and sanctification and salvation to all of us.
31 As it is written, He who
glories, let him glory in the Lord.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 11
1 ¶ TAKE example by me, even as I
also follow Christ.
2 Now I praise you, my brethren,
that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances
as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know that
the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife is
her husband; 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
she is equal to her whose head is shaven.
6 For if a woman does not cover her
head, let her also cut off her hair; but if it be a shame
for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her cover her head.
7 For a man indeed ought not cover
his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the
woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man was not created from
the woman; but the woman was created from the man.
9 Neither was the man created for
the woman; but the woman for the man.
10 For this reason the woman ought
to be modest and cover her head as a mark of respect to the
angels.
11 Nevertheless, in our Lord there
is no preference between man and woman, neither between
woman and man.
12 For as the woman is of the man,
even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13 Judge for yourselves; is it
comely for a woman to pray to God with uncovered head?
14 Does not even nature itself
teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to
him?
15 But if a woman have long hair,
it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a
covering.
16 But if any man dispute these
things, we have no precedent, neither has the church of God.
17 ¶ Now I give you these commands,
not to praise you, for you have not made progress but have
become worse.
18 First of all, when you gather in
the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I
partly believe it.
19 For controversies are bound to
be among you, that those who are approved may be made
manifest among you.
20 When you gather together
therefore, you do not eat and drink as is appropriate on the
day of our Lord.
21 But some men eat their supper
before others; and so it happens that one is hungry and
another is drunken.
22 Why? Have you not houses to eat
and drink in? Or do you not respect the church of God, and
want to shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to
you? Shall I praise you? No, for this, I cannot praise you.
23 ¶ For I myself received from our
Lord that which I also delivered to you, That our Lord Jesus
on that very night in which he was betrayed took bread;
24 And when he had given thanks, he
broke it and said, Take, eat; this is my body, which is
broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.
25 Likewise after supper, he gave
also the cup and said, This cup is the new testament in my
blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of
me.
26 For whenever you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you commemorate our Lord’s death until
his coming.
27 Therefore whosoever shall eat of
the Lord’s bread and drink of his cup unworthily shall be
guilty of the blood and body of the Lord.
28 For this reason, let a man
examine himself and eat of this bread and drink of this cup.
29 For he who eats and drinks
unworthily eats and drinks to his condemnation; for he does
not discern the Lord’s body.
30 This is the reason many are sick
and weak among you, and many are dying.
31 For if we would judge ourselves,
we would not be judged.
32 But when we are judged by our
Lord, we are simply chastened, so that we may not be
condemned with the world.
33 Hereafter, my brethren, when you
come together to eat, wait for one another.
34 And if any man hunger, let him
eat at home so that you may not come together unto
condemnation. As to the rest of the things I will instruct
you when I come.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 12
1 ¶ NOW concerning spiritual gifts,
my brethren, I want to remind you
2 That once you were pagans, and
without exception you were carried away by dumb idols.
3 Therefore I want you to
understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls
Jesus accursed; and that no man can say that Jesus is the
Lord but by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are diversities of
gifts, but there is only one Spirit.
5 And there are diversities of
ministries, but there is only one Lord.
6 And there are diversities of
powers, but it is the one God who works all things in all
men.
7 But the manifestation of the
Spirit is given to every, man as help to him.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit
the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit.
9 To another faith by the same
Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of
miracles; to another prophecy; to another the means to
distinguish the true Spirit; to another different languages;
to another the interpretation of languages.
11 But all of these gifts are
wrought by that one and the same Spirit, dividing to every
one severally as he will.
12 ¶ For as the body is one and has
many members, and all the members of the body, even though
many, are one body, so also is Christ.
13 For all of us are baptized by
one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Arameans, whether
bond or free; and we have all received through the one
Spirit.
14 The body is not one member, but
many.
15 For if the foot should say,
Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; is
it therefore not a member of the body?
16 And if the ear should say,
Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; is it
therefore not a member of the body?
17 If the whole body were eyes,
where would hearing be? And if the whole were hearing, where
would smelling be?
18 But now God has set every member
in the body, as it has pleased him.
19 If they were all one member,
where would the body be?
20 But now they are many members,
yet but one body.
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 But rather those members of the
body which are considered to be delicate are necessary.
23 And on those members of the body
which we think to be less honorable we bestow more abundant
honor; and the parts that are uncomely we dress with greater
care;
24 For our comely parts have no
need for attention. But God has so tempered the body
together, and has given greater honor to the member which is
inferior,
25 That there may be no discord in
the body, but that they may care one for another, all
members should be equal.
26 So when one member is in pain,
all the members suffer with it; and if one member is
honored, all the members will glory with it.
27 ¶ Now you are the body of Christ
and members in your respective places.
28 For God has set in his church,
first apostles; after them, prophets; then teachers, then
performers of miracles, then those who have the gift of
healing, helpers, leaders, and speakers in diverse
languages.
29 Are all apostles? Are all
prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing?
Do all speak in diverse tongues? Or do all interpret?
31 But if you are searching for the
greater gifts, I will show you a more excellent way.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 13
1 ¶ THOUGH I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels, and have not love in my heart, I am
become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
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 love in my heart, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,
and have not love in my heart, I gain nothing.
4 ¶ Love is long-suffering and
kind; love does not envy; love does not make a vain display
of itself, and does not boast,
5 Does not behave itself unseemly,
seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
6 Rejoices not over iniquity, but
rejoices in the truth;
7 Bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 ¶ Love never fails; but whether
there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be
tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it
shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part and we
prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect
is come, then that which is imperfect shall come to an end.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a
child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but
when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a mirror,
darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 14
1 ¶ FOLLOW after love, and desire
spiritual gifts, above all that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in an unknown
tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no man understands
what he says; however through the Spirit he speaks
mysteries.
3 But he who prophesies speaks to
men for edification, encouragement, and comfort.
4 He who speaks in an unknown
tongue edifies himself; but he who prophesies edifies the
church.
5 I would that you all spoke
various tongues, but I would rather that you prophesied; for
he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks various
tongues, unless he interprets; however, if he interprets, he
edifies the church.
6 ¶ Now, my brethren, if I should
come to you and speak in diverse tongues, what would I
profit you, except I speak to you either by means of
revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying or by teaching?
7 For even when things without life
give sound, whether flute or harp, except they make a
distinction between one tone and another, how shall it be
known what is sung or played?
8 For if the trumpet give an
uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
9 Even so you, except you utter by
the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be
known what you say? You shall speak as into the air.
10 For, behold, there are many
kinds of languages in the world, yet none of them without
expression.
11 So if I do not understand the
utterance, I shall be as a barbarian to the speaker, and the
speaker shall be as a barbarian to me.
12 Likewise you, since you are
zealous of spiritual gifts for the edification of the
church, seek that you may excel in these gifts.
13 Thus he who speaks in an unknown
tongue prays that he may interpret it.
14 For if I pray in an unknown
tongue, my spirit prays, but my knowledge is fruitless.
15 ¶ What then shall I do? I will
pray with my spirit and I will pray with my understanding
also; I will sing with my spirit and I will sing with my
understanding also.
16 Otherwise, if you say a blessing
with the spirit, how can one who occupies the place of the
unlearned say Amen to your thanksgiving, since he does not
understand what you say?
17 For indeed you bless well, but
your fellow man is not enlightened.
18 I thank God that I speak with
tongues more than you all;
19 But in the church I had rather
speak five words with my understanding, so that I might
teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown
tongue.
20 My brethren, be not like infants
in your intelligence; only to evil things be like innocent
children, but in your understanding be mature.
21 ¶ In the law it is written, With
a foreign speech and in another tongue I will speak to this
people; yet for all that, they will not listen to me, says
the Lord.
22 Thus, the gift of languages is
instituted as a sign, not for believers, but for
unbelievers; but prophesying is meant, not for those who do
not believe, but for those who believe.
23 If therefore the whole church
assembles together and all speak in different tongues and
there enter unlearned people or unbelievers, will they not
say, They are fanatical?
24 But if all prophesy, and an
unlearned man or an unbeliever enter, he will be convinced
by all, and he will be set right by all.
25 Thus the secrets of his heart
will be revealed, and then he will fall on his face, and he
will worship God and say, Truly God is among you.
26 ¶ Therefore I say to you, my
brethren, when you gather together, whoever among you has a
psalm to sing, has a doctrine, has a revelation, has the
gift of tongues, or the gift of interpretation, let
everything be done for edification.
27 And if any man should speak in
an unknown tongue, let two or at most three speak, and speak
one by one; and let one interpret.
28 But if there is no one to
interpret, let him who speaks in an unknown tongue keep
silence in the church; and let him speak to himself and to
God.
29 Let the prophets speak two or
three in turn, and let the others discern what is said.
30 And if anything is revealed to
another who is seated, let the first speaker hold his peace.
31 For you may all prophesy one by
one, so that every one may learn and every one be comforted.
32 For the spirits of the prophets
are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not a God of
confusion but of peace, and he is in all churches of the
saints.
34 ¶ Let your women keep silent in
the church for they have no permission to speak; but they
are to be under obedience as is said in the law.
35 And if they wish to learn
anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a
shame for women to speak in the church.
36 ¶ What? Did the word of God come
from you? Or did it come for you only?
37 If any one among you thinks he
is a prophet or that he is inspired by the Spirit, let him
acknowledge that these things that I write to you are the
commandments of our Lord.
38 But if any man be ignorant, let
him be ignorant.
39 Therefore, my brethren, desire
earnestly to prophesy, and do not prohibit speaking in
unknown tongues.
40 Let all things be done decently
and in order.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 15
1 ¶ MOREOVER, my brethren, I
declare to you the gospel which I preached to you and which
you have accepted and for which you have stood firm,
2 By which also you are saved if
you keep in remembrance that very word which I have preached
to you, and if your conversion has not been in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of
all that which I had also received, that Christ died for our
sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that
he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures;
5 And that he appeared to Kepa,
then to the twelve;
6 After that, he appeared to more
than five hundred brethren at once, of whom a great many are
still living though some are dead.
7 And after that, he appeared to
James; then to all the apostles.
8 And last of all he appeared to me
also, ignorant and imperfectly trained as I was.
9 For I am the least of the
apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am
what I am; and his grace that is in me has not been in vain;
for I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but
God’s grace that is within me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or
they, so we preached and so you believed.
12 ¶ Now if it is preached that
Christ rose from the dead, how can some say among you that
there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 And if there is no resurrection
of the dead, then Christ also has not risen;
14 And if Christ is not risen, then
is our preaching in vain and your faith is also in vain;
15 And we are also found false
witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he
raised up Christ when he had not raised him.
16 For if the dead rise not, then
neither did Christ rise;
17 And if Christ did not rise, your
belief is in vain and you are yet in your sins.
18 And also, then those who have
died in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we have
hope in Christ, then we are of all men most miserable.
20 ¶ But now we know Christ is
risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of those who
have died.
21 For since by man came death, by
man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order:
Christ the first-fruits; afterward those who belong to
Christ at his coming.
24 Then will come 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.
25 For he must reign till he has
put all enemies under his feet.
26 And the last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under
his feet. But when he said all things are put under him, it
is clear that he who put all things under him is excepted.
28 And when all things shall be
subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject
to him who put all things under him, so that God may be all
in all.
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 the dead?
30 And why do we continue to stand
in danger every hour?
31 I affirm by your pride, my
brethren, which I have in our Lord Jesus Christ, I die
daily.
32 If, after the manner of men, I
were thrown to wild beasts at Ephesus, what good would come
to me, if the dead rise not? If such is the case, let us eat
and drink for tomorrow we die.
33 Do not be deceived: evil
communications corrupt good manners.
34 Awake your hearts to
righteousness and sin not; for some have not the knowledge
of God. I say this to your shame.
35 ¶ But some of you will say, How
are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?
36 O, you foolish man! The seed
which you sow does not sprout unless it dies.
37 And what you sow is not the body
that shall be, but the bare grain; it may chance to be of
wheat or barley or some other seed.
38 But God gives it a body as it
has pleased him, and to every seed, its own natural body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh;
but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of
beasts, another of birds, and another of fish.
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.
41 There is one glory of the sun
and another glory of the moon and another glory of the
stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of
the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in
incorruption:
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. There is a natural body and there
is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first
man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a
quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit, that was not first
which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward
that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth,
earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they
also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image
of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, my brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 ¶ Behold, I tell you a mystery:
We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed,
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.
53 For this corruptible must put on
incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.
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.
55 O death, where is your sting? O
Sheol, where is your victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who has
given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 ¶ Therefore, my beloved
brethren, be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the
work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is
not in vain in the Lord.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 16
1 ¶ NOW concerning the collection
for the saints: as I have given order to the churches of
Galatia, likewise do you also.
2 On the first day of every week,
let each of you put aside and keep in his house whatever he
can afford, so that there may be no collections when I come.
3 And when I come, whomever you may
select, I will send with a letter, to carry your gracious
gift to Jerusalem.
4 And if it is right that I go
also, they shall go with me.
5 ¶ I will come to you when I pass
through Macedonia; for I do pass through Macedonia.
6 And perhaps I will remain some
time with you or pass the winter with you, so that you may
escort me wherever I go.
7 For I do not want to see you now
just as a wayfarer; because I trust to tarry for a time with
you, if my Lord permit me.
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until
Pentecost.
9 For a great door, full of
opportunities, is opened to me, and adversaries are many.
10 ¶ Now if Timotheus comes, see
that he may be with you without fear; for he is engaged in
the Lord’s work, just as I am.
11 Let no man therefore despise
him; but escort him in peace, that he may come to me; for I
wait for him with the brethren.
12 My brethren, as for Apollos, I
have often begged him to visit you with the brethren;
probably it was not intended that he should come to you; but
he will come to you when he has an opportunity.
13 ¶ Watch, stand firm in the
faith, be valiant, be strong.
14 Let all your deeds be done with
love.
15 I beseech you, my brethren,
concerning the household of Stephanas, for you know that
they were the first converts from Achaia and that they have
devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,
16 That you may listen to all those
who are as they are and to every one who labors with us and
is of help.
17 I am glad of the coming of
Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for that which was
lacking on your part, they have supplied.
18 For they have refreshed my
spirit as well as yours; therefore recognize them who are
similar.
19 ¶ All the churches of Asia Minor
salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in our
Lord, with the congregation that meets in their house.
20 All the brethren greet you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21 This salutation is from me,
Paul, in my own handwriting.
22 Whoever does not love our Lord
Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Maranetha, that is to say
our Lord has come.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you.
24 My love be with you all in
Christ Jesus. Amen.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 2
1 ¶ AND I, my brethren, when I came
to you, did not come with excellency of speech, nor did I
preach to you with learning the mystery of God.
2 For I did not pretend to know
anything among you except Jesus Christ, and even him
crucified.
3 And I was with you with much
reverence for God and in trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching
were not with enticing words of wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power,
5 So that your faith might not rest
in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 ¶ Howbeit we do discuss wisdom
with those who have comprehension, yet not the wisdom of
this world nor of the rulers of this world who pass away;
7 But we discuss the wisdom of God
shown in a mysterious way, and it is hidden, but God
ordained it before the world for our glory.
8 This none of the rulers of the
world knew; for had they known it, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, The eye has
not seen and the ear has not heard and the heart of man has
not conceived the things which God has prepared for those
who love him.
10 But God has revealed them to us
by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the
depths of God.
11 For what man knows the mind of
man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no one
knows the mind of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received not the
spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, that
we may understand the gifts that are given to us by God.
13 For the things which we discuss
are not dependent on the knowledge of words and man’s
wisdom, but on the teaching of the Spirit; thus explaining
spiritual things to the spiritually minded.
14 For the material man rejects
spiritual things; they are foolishness to him; neither can
he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But the spiritual man discerns
every thing, and yet no man can discern him.
16 For who knows the mind of the
Lord that he may teach it? But we have the mind of Christ.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 3
1 ¶ SO I, my brethren, could not
converse with you as with spiritual men, but as with worldly
men and even as with little children in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not
with meat; for hitherto you were unable to eat it, and even
now you are not ready for it;
3 Because you are still worldly;
for as long as there is among you envying and strife and
divisions, are you not worldly and still following the
material things?
4 For while one says, I am a
follower of Paul; and another, I am a follower of Apollos;
are you not worldly?
5 ¶ Who then is Paul and who is
Apollos, but ministers through whom you were converted; each
one is gifted according as the Lord gave to him.
6 I have planted, Apollos watered;
but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither he who plants,
nor he who waters deserves the credit; but God who gives the
increase.
8 Thus the planter and the waterer
are equal; and each one shall receive his own wages
according to his own labor.
9 For we work together with God;
you are God’s work and God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God
which is given to me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid
the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let every
man be careful how he builds thereon.
11 ¶ For other foundation can no
man lay than that which is already laid, which is Jesus
Christ.
12 Now if any man build on this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
stubble;
13 Every man’s work shall be
plainly seen; for the light of day shall expose it, because
it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every
man’s work and show of what sort it is.
14 And the builder whose work
survives shall receive his reward.
15 And the one whose work shall be
burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be
rescued, even as one who has been saved from the fire.
16 ¶ Do you not know that you are
the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 And whoever defiles the temple
of God, God will destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and
that temple is you.
18 ¶ Let no man deceive himself.
Whoever among you thinks he is wise in this world, let him
consider himself a fool so that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness before God. For it is written, He catches the
wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knows that
the thoughts of the wise are vain.
21 ¶ Therefore, let no man boast
about men. For all things are yours,
22 Whether Paul or Apollos or Kepa
or the world or life or death or things present or things to
come; all things are yours;
23 And you are Christ’s and Christ
is God’s.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 4
1 ¶ THIS is the way you should
consider us: as the servants of Christ and stewards of the
mysteries of God.
2 Henceforth it is required of
stewards that every one of them must be faithful.
3 But as for me, it is of little
importance that I am judged by you or by any one else,
because I do not judge myself.
4 For I know nothing of which I am
guilty; yet I may not be right in this, for my judge is the
Lord.
5 Therefore do not judge before the
time, until the Lord comes and brings to light the hidden
things of darkness and reveals the thoughts of the hearts;
then shall every man have praise from God.
6 These things, my brethren,
concerning myself and Apollos I have pictured for your
sakes, that in our example you may learn not to think beyond
that which is written, and let no one exalt himself over his
fellow man on account of any man.
7 ¶ For who has examined you? And
what do you have which was not given to you? And if you did
receive it, then why do you boast as if you had not received
it?
8 For a long time you have been
full and enriched, and you have waxed strong without our
counsel. And I would to God you were as kings, so that we
also might reign with you.
9 For I think God has placed us,
the apostles, last as if we were condemned to death; for we
have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to
men.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake,
but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong;
you are praised, but we are despised.
11 Even to this very hour we both
hunger and thirst, and are naked and mistreated and have no
permanent home;
12 And labor, working with our own
hands; being cursed we bless, being persecuted, we endure;
13 Being reviled, we intreat; we
are looked upon as the refuse of the world, and we are the
revilement of every man to this day.
14 ¶ I do not write these things to
make you feel ashamed, but to advise you as beloved
children.
15 For though you have ten thousand
instructors in Christ, yet you will have not many fathers;
for in Jesus Christ I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 I beseech you, therefore, to
follow me.
17 ¶ This is why I have sent
Timotheus to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the
Lord, who shall remind you of my manner of life in Christ,
just as I teach in all the churches.
18 There are some among you who are
puffed up, thinking I am unwilling to come to you.
19 But I will come to you very
soon, if the Lord wills, and then I shall find out not the
words of these men who exalt themselves, but their power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in
the word, but in power.
21 Now what do you desire? Shall I
come to you with a rod or with love and in the spirit of
meekness?
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 5
1 ¶ IT is reported that immorality
is common among you, and such immorality as is not known
among pagans, that even a son should take his father’s wife.
2 But instead of boasting as you
have done, rather had you sat down mourning that he who has
done this deed might have been removed from among you.
3 For while I am far away from you
in body, yet I am near you in spirit, and I have already
judged, as though I were present, him who has done this
deed.
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ gather together, and I will be with you in spirit and
with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 So that you shall deliver this
man to Satan for the destruction of his body, in order that
the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you
not know that a little leaven will leaven the whole lump?
7 ¶ Clean out therefore the old
leaven, so that you may be a new lump, just as you are
unleavened. For our passover is Christ, who was sacrificed
for our sake.
8 Therefore let us celebrate the
festival, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven
of evil and bitterness, but with the leaven of purity and
sanctity.
9 ¶ I wrote to you in an epistle
not to associate with immoral persons.
10 I do not mean that you should
separate completely from all the immoral people of this
world or from the fraudulent and extortioners or from
idolaters; otherwise you would be obliged to leave this
world.
11 Now what I have written to you
is this: you are not to associate with any person who is
known as a brother and yet is immoral or fraudulent or an
idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with
such a person you must not break bread.
12 For what business have I to
judge those who are outside the church? But you may judge
those who are within the church.
13 God will judge the outsiders.
Therefore, put away from among yourselves those wicked
persons.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 6
1 ¶ WOULD any of you, having a
lawsuit against his brother, venture to go to trial before
the wicked rather than before the saints?
2 Do you not know that the saints
shall judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by
you, are you not worthy to judge small affairs?
3 Do you not know that we are to
judge angels? How much more then should we judge those who
belong to this world?
4 You have worldly affairs to be
settled, and yet you have put men of bad reputation in the
church on the judgment seat.
5 I say this to you to make you
feel ashamed. Is it so, that there is not a single wise man
among you who could settle a dispute between brother and
brother?
6 But brother goes to court against
brother, and at that before unbelievers.
7 Now, therefore, you are already
at fault because you go to court one with another. Why not
rather suffer wrong? Why not rather let yourselves be
defrauded?
8 No, you yourselves do wrong, and
defraud even your brethren.
9 ¶ Do you not know that the wicked
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not misled; neither
the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor the corrupt nor
men who lie with males
10 Nor extortioners nor thieves nor
drunkards nor railers nor defrauders shall inherit the
kingdom of God.
11 And some of these evils were to
be found in some of you, but you have been cleansed and have
been sanctified and made righteous in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.
12 ¶ All things are lawful for me,
but all things are not advisable; indeed all things are
lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of
any.
13 Food is for the stomach, and the
stomach for food; but God will do away with both of them.
Now the body is not meant for fornication, but for our Lord;
and our Lord for the body.
14 And as God has raised our Lord,
so he will raise us also by his own power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies
are the members of Christ? How then can one take a member of
Christ and make it the member of a harlot? Far be it.
16 Or do you not know that he who
joins his body to a harlot is one body with her? For it is
said, The two shall become one body.
17 But he who unites himself with
our Lord becomes one with him in spirit.
18 Keep away from fornication.
Every sin that a man commits is outside his body; but he who
commits adultery sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that dwells within
you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?
20 For you have been bought with a
price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your
spirit, because they belong to God.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 7
1 ¶ NOW concerning the things which
you wrote to me. It is proper for a husband not to have
intimacy with his wife at times.
2 Nevertheless, because of the
danger of immorality, let every man hold to his own wife,
and let every woman hold to her own husband.
3 Let the husband give to his wife
the love which he owes her; and likewise also the wife to
her husband.
4 The wife has no authority over
her own body, but her husband; and likewise also the husband
has no authority over his own body, but his wife.
5 Therefore do not deprive one
another except when both of you consent to do so, especially
at the time when you devote yourselves to fasting and
prayer; and then come together again, so that Satan may not
temp. t you because of your physical passion.
6 But I say this only to weak
persons, for it is not part of the law.
7 For I would that all men were
like myself in purity. But every man has his proper gift
from God, one after this manner and another after that.
8 I say this to those who have no
wives and to widows: It is better for them to be as I am;
9 But if they cannot endure it, let
them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with
passion.
10 ¶ But those who have wives, I
command (yet not I but my Lord), Let not the wife be
separated from her husband;
11 But if she separate, let her
remain single, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not
the husband desert his wife.
12 But to the rest, I say this, not
my Lord: If any brother has a wife who is not a convert, and
she wishes to live with him, let him not leave her.
13 And the woman who has a husband
who is not a convert but is content to live with her, let
her not leave him.
14 For the husband who is not a
convert is sanctified through the wife who is a convert, and
the wife who is not a convert is sanctified through the
husband who is a convert; otherwise, their children would be
impure, but in such cases they are pure.
15 But if the one who is not a
convert wishes to separate, let him separate. In such cases,
a convert man or woman is free; for God has called us to
live in peace.
16 For how do you know, O wife,
that you shall save your husband? Or how do you know, O
husband, that you shall save your wife?
17 ¶ But every man, according as
the Lord has distributed to him, and every man, as God has
called him, so let him walk. And this I command also for all
the churches.
18 If a man was circumcised when he
was called, let him not adhere to the party of
uncircumcision. And if he was uncircumcised, when he was
called, let him not be circumcised.
19 For circumcision is nothing, and
uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the Lord’s
commandments is everything.
20 Let every man remain in the
station of life in which he is called.
21 If you were a slave when you
were called, do not feel concerned about it; but even though
you can be made free, choose rather to serve.
22 For he who is called by our
Lord, being a slave, is God’s free man; likewise he who is
called, being a freeman is also Christ’s servant.
23 You have been bought with a
price; you must not therefore become slaves of men.
24 My brethren, let every man in
whatever station of life he was called, remain therein,
serving God.
25 ¶ Now concerning virginity, I
have no command from God; yet I give my advice as one who
has been favored by God to be trustworthy.
26 And I suppose that this is good
for the present necessity, therefore I say, It is better for
a man to remain as he is.
27 If you are married, do not seek
divorce. If you are divorced from a wife, do not seek a
wife.
28 But if you marry, you do not
sin; and if a virgin marry, she does not sin. Nevertheless
such shall have trouble in the flesh; but I would spare you.
29 But this I do say, my brethren:
The time is short; let those who have wives be as though
they had none;
30 And those who weep, as though
they had not wept; and those who rejoice, as though they had
not rejoiced; and those who buy, as though they did not
possess anything;
31 And those who make use of this
world should not abuse it, for the fashion of this world is
passing away.
32 Therefore I would that you were
free from worldly cares. For he who is unmarried is
concerned in the things of his Master, so as to please his
Master.
33 And he who is married is
concerned with worldly things, in order to please his wife.
34 So there is a difference between
a married woman and a virgin. She who is unmarried is
concerned about the welfare of her Lord, and to be pure both
in body and spirit; but she who is married is concerned with
worldly things, in order to please her husband.
35 I am saying this for your own
benefit; I am not trying to snare or put a yoke on you, but
I exhort you to be perfect before the Lord, and faithful
without distraction.
36 ¶ If any man thinks that he is
shamed by the behavior of his virgin daughter because she
has passed the marriage age and he has not given her in
marriage and that he should give her, let him do what he
will and he does not sin. Let her be married.
37 If he has sincerely decided and
is not forced by circumstances, but has determined and
decreed in his heart to keep his virgin daughter single, he
does well.
38 So then he who gives his virgin
daughter in marriage does well; and he who does not give his
virgin daughter in marriage does even better.
39 ¶ A wife is bound by the law as
long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is
free to marry whom she pleases, but only in our Lord.
40 But, in my opinion, she is
happier to remain as she is. And I think also that I have
the Spirit of God.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 8
1 ¶ NOW concerning sacrifices
offered to idols: We know well that we all have knowledge;
knowledge makes for pride, but love ennobles.
2 And if any man thinks that, of
himself, he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet as he
ought to know it.
3 But if any man loves God, the
same is known of him.
4 ¶ As concerning the eating of
food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in
the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5 For though there are those that
are called gods, whether in heaven or earth, just as there
are many gods and many lords,
6 To us there is one God, the
Father, from whom comes every thing and by whom we live; and
one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by
him.
7 ¶ Howbeit there is not in every
man that knowledge; for some with clear conscience eat that
which has been offered idols as a sacrifice; and their
conscience being weak is defiled.
8 But meat does not bring us closer
to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither
if we do not eat, are we the worse.
9 But be careful lest this liberty
of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if any one should see you,
who has knowledge, at table in the temple of idols, shall
not the conscience of him who is weak encourage him to eat
that which is sacrificed to idols?
11 So the one who is weak and for
whom Christ died will be lost through your indifference.
12 And if you offend your brothers,
and so influence their weak conscience, you also offend
Christ.
13 Therefore if meat causes my
brother to stumble, I will eat no meat, so that I may not
cause my brother to offend.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 9
1 ¶ AM I not a free man? Am I not
an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you
not my work in my Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others,
yet to you I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship.
3 ¶ So my answer to those who
criticize me is this:
4 Have we not the right to eat and
to drink?
5 And have we not the right to
travel with a Christian wife, just as the rest of the
apostles do, and as the brothers of our Lord, and as Kepa?
6 I and Barnabas, have not we the
right to live without working?
7 What officer commands an army at
his own expense? or who plants a vineyard and does not eat
of its fruits? or who feeds sheep, and does not eat of the
produce of his flock?
8 I say these things as a man.
Behold the law says them also.
9 For it is written in the law of
Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the
wheat. Why? Is God concerned only for the ox?
10 No. It is known that he said it
for our sakes and it was written for our sakes because the
ploughman must plough in hope, and he who threshes, threshes
in hope of the crop.
11 Now if we have sown among you
spiritual things, is it too much that we should reap
material things from you?
12 If others have this authority
over you, have we not the greater right? Nevertheless we
have not used this authority; but we have endured all things
so that we would not hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Do you not know that those who
work in the holy place are maintained out of the temple? And
those who minister at the altar share the offerings with the
altar?
14 Even so has our Lord commanded
that those who preach his gospel should live by his gospel.
15 ¶ But I have used none of these
privileges; neither have I written these things that it
should be so done to me; for it were better for me to die,
than that any man should declare my empty pride.
16 For though I preach the gospel,
I have nothing to glory of; for I am under obligation; yea,
woe to me if I preach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this thing
willingly, I have my reward; but if against my will, it is
like a stewardship intrusted to me.
18 What then is my wage? This is
it. When I preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, I do it
without thought of recompense, and I have not abused the
power given to me in the gospel.
19 ¶ Because I am free from all
these things, I have served all men that I may gain many.
20 So with the Jews I became as a
Jew, that I might win the Jews; and with those who are under
the law, I became as one who is under the law, that I might
win those who are under the law.
21 To those who are without law, I
became like one who is without law, though I am not lawless
before God because I am under the law of Christ, that I
might win them who are without law.
22 With the weak I became as weak,
that I might win the weak. I became everything to every man,
that I might by all means save everyone.
23 And this I do for the gospel’s
sake, that I might be partaker of it.
24 ¶ Do you not know that the
runners in a race all run, but only one is victorious? So
you must run that you may obtain victory.
25 And every man who battles in the
contest frees his mind from every thing else. And yet they
run to win a garland which is perishable; but we to win one
which is everlasting.
26 I therefore so run, not for
something that is uncertain; and I so fight, not as one who
beats the air;
27 But I conquer and subdue my body
so that, by no chance, when I have preached to others, will
I despise myself.
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- 1Corinthians Chapter 10
1 ¶ MOREOVER, brethren, I want you
to know that our fathers were all under the cloud and all
passed through the sea;
2 And all were baptized by Moses,
both in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And all ate the same spiritual
food;
4 And all drank the same spiritual
drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed
them; and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not
well pleased; for they were smitten in the wilderness.
6 ¶ But they became an example to
us, so that we should not covet evil things as they did
covet.
7 Neither should we become
idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The
people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to quarrel.
8 Neither should we commit
adultery, as some of them committed; for in one day
twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
9 Neither should we tempt Christ,
as some of them tempted; for they were destroyed by snakes.
10 Neither should you murmur, as
some of them murmured; for they were destroyed by the hand
of the destroyer.
11 Now all of these things which
happened to them are an example for us; and they are written
for our admonition, for the fulfillment of the ages has come
in our time.
12 Therefore, let him who thinks he
can stand, take heed so that he may not fall.
13 No other temptation has
overtaken you but that which is common to man; but God is
faithful; he will not suffer you to be tempted beyond your
endurance; but will make a way for you to escape your
temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
14 Therefore, my beloved, keep away
from idolatry.
15 ¶ I speak as to wise men; you
are able to judge what I say.
16 The cup of thanksgiving which we
bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The
bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of
Christ?
17 For just as the loaf of bread is
one, so we are all one body; for we are all partakers of
that one bread.
18 Behold Israel whose observance
is after the flesh; do not those who eat the sacrifices
become partakers of the altar?
19 What do I say then? That the
idol is anything, or that the sacrifice to idols is
anything? No.
20 But what the pagans sacrifice,
they sacrifice to devils and not to God; and I would not
have you in fellowship with devils.
21 You cannot drink the cup of our
Lord and the cup of devils; you cannot be partakers of the
table of our Lord and of the table of devils.
22 Are we trying to provoke our
Lord to anger? Are we stronger than he?
23 ¶ Everything is lawful for me,
but not everything is expedient; everything is lawful for
me, but everything does not edify.
24 But let no man seek for himself
alone, but let every man seek for his neighbor also.
25 Anything for sale in the market
place you can eat without question for conscience sake;
26 For the earth is the Lord’s and
the fulness thereof.
27 If any pagan man should invite
you, and you wish to go, whatever is set before you eat
without question for conscience sake.
28 But if any man say to you, This
meat has been offered as a sacrifice, then do not eat it for
the sake of him who told you and for conscience sake.
29 But the conscience of which I
speak is not yours, but the conscience of him who told you;
for why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience?
30 For if I by grace am made
worthy, why should I be reproached for that for which I give
thanks?
31 Whether therefore you eat or
drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Give no offence, neither to the
Jews nor to the Arameans nor to the church of God;
33 Just as I please all men in all
things, not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that
they may be saved.
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