1 Corinthians

To the church of God being in Corinth, having been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those in every place calling on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, theirs and ours:

I thank my God always concerning you⁺ for the grace of God having been given to you⁺ in Christ Jesus,

that in everything you⁺ were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you⁺,

so as for you⁺ not to be lacking in [any] gift, eagerly awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who also will confirm you⁺ until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Faithful [is] God, by whom you⁺ were called into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

For it was revealed to me concerning you⁺, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you⁺.

Now I say this, that each of you⁺ says, “I am indeed of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.”

Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you⁺? Or were you⁺ baptized into the name of Paul?

I thank God that I baptized none of you⁺ except Crispus and Gaius,

so that no one can say that you⁺ were baptized into my name.

Now also I baptized the household of Stephanas; as to the rest, I do not know if I baptized any other.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in wisdom of word, so that the cross of the Christ should not be made void.

Where [is] the wise [man]? Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the debater of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since in the wisdom of God the world through wisdom did not know God, God was well pleased through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

Since also Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

we, however, preach Christ having been crucified, a stumbling block indeed to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

but to those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God stronger than men.

For consider your⁺ calling, brothers, that not many [were] wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

But out of Him you⁺ are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

so that, as it has been written: “The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord.”

For I decided not to know anything among you⁺ except Jesus Christ and Him having been crucified.

And my speech and my preaching [were] not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

so that your⁺ faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery having been hidden away, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it has been written: “What no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and has not gone up upon the heart of man—as much as God prepared for those loving Him.”

For God revealed [it] to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

For who of men knows the [things] of the man except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? So also, no one has known the [things] of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, so that we may know the [things] having been graciously given to us by God,

which also we speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but in [those] taught of the Spirit, expressing spiritual things by spiritual [means].

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

But the spiritual [man] judges all things, but he himself is judged by no one.

For “who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

I gave you⁺ milk to drink, not food, for you⁺ were not yet able. But now you⁺ are still not able,

for you⁺ are still fleshly. For where jealousy and strife [are] among you⁺, are you⁺ not fleshly and walking according to man?

For when one may say, “I am indeed of Paul,” and another, “I of Apollos,” are you⁺ not men?

Who then is Apollos? And who is Paul? Servants through whom you⁺ believed, even as the Lord gave to each.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth.

So neither the one planting nor the one watering is anything, but [only] God, the One giving growth.

For we are God’s fellow workers; you⁺ are God’s field, God’s building.

For no one is able to lay another foundation besides the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If the work of anyone that he built up will remain, he will receive a reward.

Do you⁺ not know that you⁺ are God’s temple, and the Spirit of God dwells in you⁺?

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours⁺,

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or [things] present or [things] about to be—all [are] yours⁺,

and you⁺ [are] of Christ, and Christ [is] of God.

So let a man reckon us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Here, henceforth, it is required in the stewards that one should be found faithful.

So then do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall have come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the purposes of hearts; and then the praise will come to each from God.

Now I have applied these things, brothers, to myself and Apollos on account of you⁺, so that in us you⁺ may learn, “Not beyond what has been written,” so that not one [of] you⁺ may be puffed up over one against the other.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if also you did receive [it], why do you boast as not having received [it]?

We [are] fools on account of Christ, but you⁺ [are] wise in Christ; we [are] weak, but you⁺ [are] strong; you⁺ [are] glorious, but we [are] without honor.

and we toil, working with [our] own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we bear [it];

being slandered, we entreat. We became as the scum of the world, the refuse of all, until now.

I do not write these things shaming you⁺, but admonishing [you] as my beloved children.

For although you⁺ may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you⁺ through the gospel.

Therefore I exhort you⁺, become imitators of me.

Because of this, I sent to you⁺ Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you⁺ of my ways that [are] in Christ Jesus, as I teach everywhere in every church.

Sexual immorality is actually heard [of] among you⁺, and sexual immorality such as [is] not even among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father.

And you⁺ are puffed up! And did you not rather mourn, so that the one having done this work might be removed out of your⁺ midst?

For I indeed, being absent in body but being present in spirit, have already judged the one having thus carried this out, as being present,

in the name our Lord Jesus, [in] your⁺ having been gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus,

to deliver up such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Your⁺ boasting [is] not good. Do you⁺ not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Cleanse out the old leaven, so that you⁺ may be a new lump, as you⁺ are, unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed,

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, not with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and of truth.

I wrote to you⁺ in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral [people],

not altogether with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the coveters and swindlers, or idolaters—since then you⁺ would need to go out from the world.

But now I wrote to you⁺ not to associate with anyone being named a brother if he may be sexually immoral or a coveter, or an idolater or a reviler, or a drunkard or a swindler—with such a one not even to eat.

For what [is it] to me to judge those outside? Do you⁺ not judge those inside?

But God judges those outside. “Expel the wicked one from among yourselves.”

Dare any one of you⁺, having a matter against the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

Or do you⁺ not know that saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you⁺, are you⁺ unworthy of the least of cases?

Do you⁺ not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of life?

I speak to you⁺ for shame. Thus is there no one wise among you⁺ who will be able to discern in the midst of his brother?

But brother goes to be judged against brother, and this before unbelievers!

Therefore indeed, it is already altogether a defeat for you⁺ that you⁺ have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

But you⁺ do wrong and defraud, and this to brothers!

Or do you⁺ not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

nor thieves, nor coveters, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

And some [of] you⁺ were these. But you⁺ were washed, but you⁺ were sanctified, but you⁺ were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Do you⁺ not know that your⁺ bodies are members of Christ? Having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make [them] members of a prostitute? Never may it be!

Or do you⁺ not know that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will be into one flesh.”

But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Flee the sexual immorality. Every sin, whatever a man might do, is outside the body, but the one committing sexual immorality sins against [his] own body.

Or do you⁺ not know that your⁺ body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you⁺, whom you⁺ have from God? And you⁺ are not your own,

for you⁺ were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your⁺ body.

Now concerning the [things] of which you⁺ wrote: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.

But because of the sexual immorality, let each man have his [own] wife, and let each woman have [her] own husband.

Let the husband render the duty to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

The wife does not have authority over [her] own body, but the husband; and likewise also, the husband does not have authority over [his] own body, but the wife.

Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you⁺ might be at leisure for prayer, and may be together the same again, so that Satan may not tempt you⁺ through your⁺ lack of self-control.

Now I say this by way of concession, not by way of command.

Yet I wish all men to be even like myself. But each has his own gift from God; indeed the one thus, but the one thus.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: [It is] good for them if they should remain as even I [am].

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Now to the rest I say (I, not the Lord): If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to dwell with him, let him not send her away.

And if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not send away the husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother. Otherwise, then your⁺ children are unclean; but now they are holy.

But if the unbeliever separates himself, let him separate himself. The brother or the sister is not bound in such [cases]. But God has called you⁺ in peace.

Nevertheless, as the Lord apportioned to each, as God has called each, thus let him walk. And thus I direct in all the churches.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping of the commandments of God.

Each in the calling in which he has been called—in this let him remain.

Were you called [while] a slave? Let it not be a care to you; but if also you have power to become free, rather use [it].

For the one having been called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord’s freedman; likewise the one having been called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

You⁺ were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

Each in that in which he was called, brothers—in this let him remain with God.

But if also you shall have married, you did not sin; and if the virgin shall have married, she did not sin. But such will have tribulation in the flesh, and I am sparing you⁺.

and is divided. And the unmarried woman and virgin is concerned for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but the one being married is concerned for the things of the world, how she should please the husband.

Now I say this for your⁺ own profit, not so that I might place upon you⁺ a restraint, but for what [is] seemly and devoted to the Lord, without distraction.

But if anyone supposes [himself] to be acting unbecomingly to his virgin, if she is beyond youth, and it ought to be so, let him do what he wills; he does not sin; let them marry.

But he who has stood steadfast in his heart, not having necessity but having authority over [his] own will, and has judged this in [his] own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.

So then also, the one marrying [his] own virgin does well, and the one not marrying will do better.

A wife has been bound for as long a time [as] her husband may live; but if the husband shall have died, she is free to be married to whom she wants, only in the Lord.

Therefore concerning the eating of the [things] sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world and that [there is] no God except one.

For even if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—just as there are many gods and many lords—

yet to us [there is] one God the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] all things, and we through Him.

But food will not commend us to God; neither if we should eat do we fall short, nor if we should not eat do we excel.

For the one being weak is destroyed by your knowledge—the brother for whom Christ died.

And thus sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience, [it] being weak, you⁺ sin against Christ.

Or do only I and Barnabas have no authority to work?

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

Do I not speak these things according to man, or does the law not also say these things?

For in the law of Moses it has been written: “You shall not muzzle an ox treading out grain.” Is there care for the oxen with God?

Or does He speak because of us entirely? For it was written because of us, because in hope the one plowing ought to plow, and the one threshing—in hope to partake.

If we sowed spiritual things among you⁺, [is it] too much if we will reap fleshly things from you⁺?

If others partake of the authority over you⁺, [should] we not more? But we did not use this authority. But we bear all things, so that we should not give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Do you⁺ not know that those working [in] the temple eat the [things] of the temple, [and] those attending at the altar partake in the altar?

So also, the Lord directed those proclaiming the gospel to live from the gospel.

But I have not used [any] of these. And neither did I write these things so that it should be thus with me; for [it is] good for me rather to die than that anyone will make void my boasting.

For being free from all, I myself became a slave to all, so that I might gain the more.

And I became to the Jews as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law (myself not being under the law), so that I might gain those under the law;

to those without the law, as without the law (not being without the law of God, but within the law of Christ), so that I might gain those without the law.

To the weak I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all, so that by all means I might save some.

Do you⁺ not know that those running in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run thus, so that you⁺ might obtain [it].

For I do not want you⁺ to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.

And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

and all ate the same spiritual food,

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking from the spiritual rock accompanying [them], and the rock was Christ.

But God was not well pleased in most of them, for they were strewn in the wilderness.

Now these things became types of us, for us not to be desirers of evil things, as those also desired.

And do not become idolaters, as some of them, just as it has been written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.”

And we should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

And we should not test Christ, as some of them tested, and were destroyed by serpents.

And do not grumble, as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Now these things happened to those [as] types and were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages have come.

Therefore the one thinking to stand, let him observe, lest he fall.

No temptation has overtaken you⁺ except [what is] human. And faithful [is] God, who will not allow you⁺ to be tempted beyond what you⁺ are able, but He will also provide with the temptation the escape, to be able to bear up under [it].

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

I speak as to sensible ones; judge for yourselves what I say.

The cup of blessing that we bless, is [it] not a fellowship of the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is [it] not a fellowship of the body of Christ?

Because [there is] one loaf, we the many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

Consider Israel according to flesh: Are not those eating the sacrifices fellow sharers of the altar?

Then what do I say? That what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

[No], but that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not want you⁺ to be fellow sharers with demons.

You⁺ are not able to drink a cup of the Lord and a cup of demons. You⁺ are not able to partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Eat everything being sold in the meat market, inquiring nothing because of conscience,

If any of the unbelieving ones invites you⁺, and you⁺ want to go, eat everything being set before you⁺, inquiring nothing because of conscience.

But if anyone should say to you⁺, “This is offered to an idol,” do not eat [it], because of the one having informed [you], and conscience—

and I do not say your own conscience, but that of the other; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

Therefore whether you⁺ eat or drink or whatever you⁺ do, do all things to the glory of God.

Judge in yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

Does not even nature itself teach you⁺ that indeed if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

Now in this instructing, I do not praise [you], because not for the better, but for the worse, do you⁺ come together.

For first indeed, [on] your⁺ coming together in an assembly, I hear there to be divisions among you⁺, and in part I believe it.

For also it is necessary for there to be factions among you⁺, so that also the ones approved should become evident among you⁺.

Therefore, [on] your⁺ coming together in the same [place], it is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

For in eating, each takes first [his] own supper. And indeed this one is hungry, but that one is drunk.

What! Have you⁺ no houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you⁺ despise the church of God and put to shame those not having? What shall I say to you⁺? Shall I praise you⁺? In this I do not praise [you]!

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you⁺, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which He was delivered up, took bread,

and having given thanks, He broke [it] and said, “This is My body, which [is] for you⁺; do this to the remembrance of Me.”

Likewise also the cup after having supped, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you⁺ may drink [it], to the remembrance of Me.”

For as often as you⁺ may eat this bread and may drink the cup, you⁺ proclaim the death of the Lord until He should come.

Therefore, whoever may eat the bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and thus let him eat of the bread, and let him drink of the cup.

For the one eating and drinking, not discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Because of this, many [are] weak and sick among you⁺, and many are fallen asleep.

For if we were discerning of ourselves, we would not be being judged.

But being judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we should not be condemned with the world.

So then, my brothers, [in] coming together in order to eat, wait for one another.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you⁺ may not come together for judgment; and I will prescribe the other things as soon as I shall come.

Therefore I make known to you⁺ that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, “Jesus [is] accursed,” and no one is able to say, “Jesus [is] Lord,” except in the Holy Spirit.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

and there are varieties of services, and the same Lord;

and there are varieties of workings, but the same God who is working all things in all.

Now to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for the common profiting.

and to a different one faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing in the one Spirit,

For just as the body is one, and it has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also [is] Christ.

For also in one Spirit we all were baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

For also the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” not on account of this is it not of the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” not on account of this is it not of the body.

If the whole body [were] an eye, where [is] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [is] the sense of smell?

But now God placed the members, each one of them in the body, as He wanted.

And if all were one member, where [is] the body?

But now indeed, [there are] many members, but one body.

Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you⁺.”

But much more, the members of the body seeming to be weaker are essential,

and those of the body we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor. And our unseemly [parts] have more abundant decorum,

but our seemly [parts] have no need. But God composed the body, having given more abundant honor to the [parts] lacking [it],

so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have the same concern for one another.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with [it]; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with [it].

Now you⁺ are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

And some indeed God placed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helping, administrating, various kinds of tongues.

[Are] all apostles? [Are] all prophets? [Are] all teachers? Do all [work] miracles?

If I should speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And if I should have prophecy and should understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I should give away all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that I may boast, but have not love, I am profited nothing.

Love is patient, it is kind; love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not puffed up.

It does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek its own [things], it is not provoked, it keeps no reckoning of evil.

It does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but it rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

For now we see through a glass in obscurity, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

But now, brothers, if I should come to you⁺ speaking in tongues, what will I profit you⁺, unless I should speak to you⁺ either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

So also you⁺, unless you⁺ give intelligible speech through the tongue, how will it be known what [is] being spoken? For you⁺ will be speaking into the air.

Therefore unless I know the power of the voice, I will be a barbarian to the one speaking, and the one speaking, a barbarian to me.

So also you⁺, since you⁺ are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek for the edification of the church, so that you⁺ may abound.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, but I will also pray with the mind. I will sing praise with the spirit, but I will also sing praise with the mind.

Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will the one filling up the place of the uninstructed say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you say?

For indeed, you give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

But if all prophesy and some unbeliever or uninstructed one should come in, he is convicted by all, he is examined by all,

[and] the secrets of his heart become manifest. And thus having fallen upon [his] face, he will worship God, declaring that “God is really among you⁺!”

What then is it, brothers? When you⁺ may come together, each has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

If anyone speaks in a tongue, [be] by two, or [at] the most three, and [each] in turn; and let one interpret.

But if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church, and let him speak to himself and to God.

For you⁺ are all able to prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted.

And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

For He is not the God of disorder, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

If anyone thinks to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things I write to you⁺ are commands of the Lord.

But let all things be done properly and according to order.

For I delivered to you⁺ as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised out from the dead, how do some among you⁺ say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, then also our preaching [is] void, and your⁺ faith [is] void.

Then also we are found false witnesses of God, because we have witnessed concerning God that He raised Christ, whom He has not raised if then the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, your⁺ faith is futile; you⁺ are still in your⁺ sins.

Then also those having fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If only in this life we are having hope in Christ, we are more to be pitied than all men.

But now Christ has been raised out from the dead, the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep.

For since death [is] through a man, also through a man [is] the resurrection of the dead.

For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive—

but each in [his] own order: Christ the firstfruit, then those of Christ at His coming,

then the end, when He shall deliver the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He shall have made null all rule and all authority and power.

For it is necessary for Him to reign until He shall have put all the enemies under His feet.

The last enemy to be made null [is] death.

For “He has subjected all things under His feet.” But when it may be said that all things have been subjected, [it is] evident that the One having subjected all things to Him [is] excepted.

Now when all things shall be subjected to Him, then also the Son Himself will be subjected to the One having subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they also baptized for them?

Do not be led astray: “Bad companionships corrupt good morals.”

So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility;

it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual.

So also it has been written: “The first man Adam became into a living soul;” the last Adam into a life-giving spirit.

But the spiritual [was] not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.

And as we bore the image of the one made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenly one.

Behold, I speak to you⁺ a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

For it is necessary for this, the corruptible to put on incorruptibility, and this, the mortal to put on immortality.

Now when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then the word having been written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

“Where, O death, [is] your victory? Where, O death, [is] your sting?”

Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin [is] the law.

But thanks [be] to God, the One giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your⁺ labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Now concerning the collection that [is] for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so also you⁺ are to do.

Every first of the week, let each one of you⁺ put aside, treasuring up whatever he may be prospered in, so that when I might come, then there should be no collections.

If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Maranatha!