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1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, called
to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, along with Sosthenes, our brother,
2 To the church
of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
along with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, their Lord and ours:
3 Grace to you
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always concerning you, for the
grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus.
5 For in
everything you were enriched in him, in every kind of speech and all knowledge--
6 just as the
testimony of Christ has been confirmed among you--
7 so that you
are lacking in no spiritual gift, as you expectantly wait for the revelation of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
8 He will also establish
you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
9 God is
faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord.
10 Now I urge you, brothers, by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that you be in agreement with each
other and that there be no divisions among you; and that you be perfectly
united in the same mind and in the same purpose.
11 For it has been reported to me by those who are members of Chloe's
household, concerning you, my brothers, that there are quarrels among you.
12 Now what I
mean is this, that each of you says, "I am a follower of Paul," or
"I am a follower of Apollos," or "I am
a follower of Cephas," or "I am a follower of
Christ."
13 Is Christ
divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God
that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
15 so that no one
can say that you were baptized in my name.
16 I also baptized
the household of Stephanas; besides those, I do not think
I baptized anyone else.
17 For Christ
sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in clever words, so that
the cross of Christ would be emptied of its impact.
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to
those who perish; 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 the shrewdness of the intelligent I will negate."
20 Where is the
wise? Where is the religious scholar? Where is the insightful debater of this age?
Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For since, in
the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, he was
pleased through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
22 For the Jews demand
a sign, and Greeks pursue wisdom,
23 but we preach
Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness;
24 but to those
who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom
of God.
25 For the
foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom; and the
weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
26 Consider your
own calling, brothers, that not many of you were wise when evaluated by human
standards, not many mighty, and not many of noble birth.
27 But God chose what
the world considers foolish to put to shame the wise; and God chose what the
world considers weak, to put to shame the things that are strong.
28 God chose the things
considered low and despised by the world, even the things regarded as nothing,
that he might bring to nothing the things considered to be something,
29 so that no one
would be able to boast before God.
30 And because of
him you are in Christ Jesus, who was made for us wisdom from God, and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
31 so that, just
as it is written,
"Let the one who boasts,
boast in the Lord."
DASV:
1 Corinthians 2
1 When I came to
you, brothers, I did not come with brilliant oratory or esoteric wisdom, when proclaiming
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 in fear, and in much trembling.
4 My speech and
my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of
the Spirit and of power,
5 so that your
faith should not be based on human wisdom but in the power of God.
6 We speak
wisdom among those who are mature, but not a wisdom of
this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are amounting to nothing.
7 But we speak
God's wisdom in a secret mystery, that God predetermined
before the ages for our glory.
8 None of the
rulers of this age understood it, for had they known, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But, as it is
written,
"What no eye has seen,
and no ear heard,
and
no mind has imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him."
10 But God has revealed
them to us through the Spirit. For
the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For what human
being knows a person's thoughts, except the spirit of the person which is in
him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we did not
receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God; so that we may
know the gifts God has freely given us.
13 And we speak
about these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but those which the
Spirit teaches; explaining spiritual matters to those who are spiritual.
14 Now the
natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are discerned spiritually.
15 But the one
who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.
16 "For who has known the mind of the
Lord,
that he should instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 3
1 And I, brothers,
could not speak to you as spiritual, but as fleshly people, as infants in
Christ.
2 I fed you with
milk, not with solid food; for you were not yet ready for it, and even now are still
not ready,
3 for you are still
under the influence of the flesh. For since there is jealousy and quarreling
among you, are you not under the influence of the flesh, and are you not walking
in a manner typical of humans?
4 For when someone
says, "I am a follower of Paul," and another, "I am a follower of
Apollos," are you not merely human?
5 Really, who is
Apollos? Who is Paul? Servants
through whom you believed; just as the Lord assigned to each of us.
6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth.
7 So then the
one who plants is nothing special, nor does the one who waters really matter;
but God who gives the growth.
8 Now the one
who plants and the one who waters are one, but each will receive his own wages
according to the work he has done.
9 For we are
God's coworkers, you are God's garden, God's building.
10 According to
the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a
foundation; and someone else built on it. But each one must be careful how he
builds on it.
11 For no one can
lay a foundation other than that which is already laid,
which is Jesus Christ.
12 But if anyone
builds on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
13 each builder's
work will be revealed, for the Day will clarify it, because it will be revealed
by fire, and the fire will test the kind of work each person has done.
14 If anyone's
work survives, he will receive a reward.
15 If anyone's
work is burned up, he will suffer loss, yet he himself will be saved; but only
as through fire.
16 Do you not know
that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If anyone
destroys the temple of God, God will destroy that one; for the temple of God is
holy, which is what you all are.
18 Do not be
self-deceived. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him
become a "fool," so that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom
of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the
wise in their own cleverness,"
20 and again, "The
Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are futile."
21 So let no one boast
about men. For all things are yours,
22 whether Paul,
or Apollos, or Cephas, or
the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future; everything is
yours,
23 and you are
Christ's; and Christ is God's.
DASV: 1 Corinthians 4
1 This is how
you should think about us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries
of God.
2 Here is what is required of stewards: that they be found
faithful.
3 But with me it
is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by any human court. In
fact, I do not even judge myself.
4 For I am not
conscious of anything against myself; yet just because of that I am not
necessarily acquitted. But it is the Lord
who judges me.
5 So judge
nothing before the time, wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the things hidden in
darkness, and will expose the motives of the heart. Then each one will have the appropriate
commendation from God.
6 Now these
things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos
for your sakes; so that through us you might learn not to go beyond what is
written; so that none of you will be puffed up by comparisons one against another.
7 For what makes
you so special? What do you have that you did not receive? But if you received
it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
8 Already you
are satisfied, already you are rich, you have become kings
without us. I wish that you had in fact
become kings, so that we also might reign with you.
9 For, I think,
God has exhibited us the apostles last of all, as men condemned to death, for
we have become a spectacle to the world, both to humans and angels.
10 We are fools
for Christ's sake, but you are so wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are so strong. You are held up to such honor, but we are
dishonored.
11 Even to this
present hour we are hungry and thirsty, clothed in rags, beaten up and homeless.
12 We labor
working with our own hands. When
insulted, we bless; when persecuted, we endure it;
13 when slandered,
we answer affably, we are made the trash of the earth, the refuse of all
things, even until now.
14 I do not write
these things to shame you, but to correct you as my beloved children.
15 For though you
have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I became your father through
the gospel.
16 So I urge you,
be imitators of me.
17 This is why I
sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful
child in the Lord. He will put you in remembrance of my ways in Christ, even as
I teach them everywhere in every church.
18 Now some of
you have become arrogant, assuming that I was not coming to you.
19 But I will
come to you soon, if the Lord wills; and I will find out not about their
arrogant talk, but their power.
20 For the
kingdom of God is not just talk, but power.
21 What do you
want? Shall I come to you with a disciplinary rod, or with love and a spirit of
gentleness?
DASV:
1 Corinthians 5
1 It is actually
reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality that is
not even practiced among the Gentiles, that someone has sex with his father's
wife.
2 And yet you
are arrogant about it. Should you not have
grieved instead, so that he who did this might be removed from among you?
3 For though I am
absent in body, I am present in spirit; I have already pronounced judgment on the
one who did this.
4 In the name of
our Lord Jesus, when you are gathered together, and I am with you in spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 deliver this
man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that
his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is
not good. Aren't you aware that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
7 Clean out the
old yeast, so that you may be a new batch of dough, as you already are without
yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been
sacrificed.
8 Therefore let
us celebrate the feast, not with old yeast, with the yeast of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you
in my epistle not to associate with people who are sexually immoral--
10 not at all meaning
with the immoral people of this world, or greedy and swindlers
or idolaters, otherwise you would have to depart from this world.
11 But now I am
writing to you not to associate, if anyone who is a brother is sexually immoral,
or greedy, or an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. Don't even eat with someone like that.
12 For what do I have
to do with judging those who are outside? Yet isn't it your responsibility to
judge those who are inside?
13 But those who
are outside God will judge. Remove the wicked person from among you.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 6
1 When any of
you has a legal grievance against someone, does he take it to court before the
unrighteous rather than before the saints?
2 Don't you
realize that the saints will judge the world? Since you will judge the world,
are you incompetent to judge trivial cases?
3 Don't you
realize that we will judge angels? How much more, then,
issues dealing with this life.
4 If then you
have to judge ordinary lawsuits, should you appoint judges from those who have
no standing in the church?
5 I say this to
shame you. Can there not be found among you one wise person who is able to settle
disputes between his brothers?
6 Does one brother
go to court with another brother, and even do it before unbelievers?
7 The fact that
you have lawsuits with one another demonstrates that you are already defeated.
Why not just suffer the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?
8 But beyond
that, you yourselves wrong and cheat, even your own brothers.
9 Don't you
realize that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male
prostitutes, or practicing homosexuals,
10 thieves, greedy,
drunkards, slanderers, or swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And this is
what some of you were. But you were
washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 "All
things are lawful for me," but all things are not beneficial. "All
things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the control of anything.
13 "Food for
the stomach, and the stomach for food," but God will do away with both of
them. But the body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and
the Lord for the body.
14 God both raised
the Lord and will raise up us by his power.
15 Don't you
realize that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I then take the members
of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? Certainly
not.
16 Or don't you know
that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The
two will become one flesh."
17 But whoever is
joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18 Flee sexual
immorality. Every sin that a person does is outside the body; but the one who
commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
19 Don't you realize
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 with a price. Therefore glorify
God in your body.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 7
1 Now concerning
the matters you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual
relations with a woman."
2 But, because
of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have
her own husband.
3 The husband should
fulfill his sexual duties to his wife, and likewise the wife to the husband.
4 The wife does
not have authority over her own body, but the husband does, and likewise the
husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not deprive
one another, except it be by mutual consent for a set time, so that you may
give yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 But I say this
by way of concession, not as a command.
7 Yet I wish
that everyone was just as I am. However each person has their own gift from
God, one after this kind, and another after that.
8 But I say to
the unmarried and to widows: it is good for them to remain even as I am.
9 But if they do
not have self-control, then let them marry. For it is better to marry than to
burn with lust.
10 But to the
married I give this directive--not I, but the Lord--that the wife should not
separate from her husband
11 (but if she does
separate, let her stay unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and
the husband should not divorce his wife.
12 But to the
rest I say--I, not the Lord--if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is
willing to live with him, he should not divorce her.
13 And if a woman
has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, she should not
divorce him.
14 For the
unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife,
and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; otherwise
your children would be unclean; but now they are holy.
15 Yet if the
unbeliever leaves, let him leave; the believing brother or sister is not bound
in such situations for God has called us to live in peace.
16 For how do you
know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband,
whether you will save your wife?
17 Only let each
person walk as the Lord has assigned them, as God has called each one. I give
this guidance in all the churches.
18 Was anyone
called being circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called
while being uncircumcised? He should not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision
is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the
keeping of the commandments of God is what matters.
20 Let each person
remain in that circumstance in which he was called.
21 Were you a
slave when you were called? Do not worry about it. But if you can gain your freedom,
do it.
22 For the one
who was called in the Lord being a slave, is the
Lord's freedman; likewise the one who was called being free, is Christ's slave.
23 You were
bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.
24 Brothers, let
each person, in whatever situation he was called, remain there with God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from
the Lord, but I give my own opinion, as one who has received mercy from the
Lord to be trustworthy.
26 I think that because
of the present crisis, that it is good for a man to stay
as he is.
27 Are you bound
to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife?
Do not seek a wife.
28 But if you decide
to marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin decides to marry, she has not
sinned. Yet those who marry will have trouble in this current situation and I want
to spare you from that.
29 But I tell you
this, brothers, the time is short. From now on both those who have wives will
be as though they had none;
30 those who
weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did
not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess it;
31 and those who
use the world, as though not using it to the full. For the present
pattern of this world is passing away.
32 But I want you
to be free from such cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of
the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
33 But he who is
married is concerned for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
34 and his
allegiances are divided. So also a woman who is unmarried or a virgin is concerned
for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the
things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35 I am saying
this for your own benefit; not to impose a restriction on you, but to promote
order and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.
36 But if anyone
thinks that he behaves improperly toward his fiancé, if she is passing the marriageable
age, and if necessity requires it, let him do what he wants; he has not sinned. Let them marry.
37 But he who
stands firm to the resolve in his heart, and there is no necessity, but has control
of his own passion and has decided to keep her as a virgin, he will do well.
38 So then both
he who marries his fiancé does well; and he who does not marry her does even better.
39 A wife is
bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is free to be
married to whomever she wants; only to someone in the Lord.
40 But she is
happier if she stays as she is, in my opinion--and I also think that I have the
Spirit of God.
DASV: 1
Corinthians 8
1 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that "we all have
knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 If anyone
thinks that he knows something, he does not yet know what he ought to know.
3 But if anyone
loves God, he is known by him.
4 Now concerning
the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol doesn't
exist in the real world," and that "there is no God but one."
5 For though
there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called
gods, and many lords),
6 yet for us
there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we live for him;
and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all
things and through him we live.
7 However not everyone
has this knowledge. But some, even now are so accustom to the idol, that they still
eat food as something sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak,
is defiled.
8 But food will
not bring us closer to God. We are no
worse if we do not eat it, and no better off if we do
eat it.
9 But be careful
so that this freedom of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if someone
who has knowledge sees you eating food in an idol's temple, will not the conscience
of the one who is weak be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols?
11 So by your
knowledge the one who is weak is destroyed, a brother for whose sake Christ
died.
12 So when you sin
against the brothers, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you are
actually sinning against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food
causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause
my brother to stumble.
DASV: 1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you
not my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an
apostle to others, at least I am to you; for you are the guaranteeing seal of my
apostleship in the Lord.
3 This is my
defense to those who examine me.
4 Do we not have
the right to eat and to drink?
5 Do we not have
the right to bring a believing wife along like the rest of the apostles, and
the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or do only
Barnabas and I not have the right to stop working for a living?
7 What soldier
ever served paying his own expenses? Who plants a
vineyard, and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and does not consume
any of its milk?
8 Am I speaking
these things from merely a human perspective? Does the law not say the same
thing?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle
the ox when it treads out the grain." Is God concerned only about oxen?
10 Or is he actually
saying it for our sake? Certainly it was written for our sake, because the one
who plows ought to plow in hope, and the one who threshes, ought to thresh with
hope of getting part of the crop.
11 If we sowed among
you spiritual seed, is it too big a deal if we reap material benefits from you?
12 If others have
the right of support from you, do not we have even more? But we have not used
this right; rather we bear everything that we may not cause any hindrance to
the gospel of Christ.
13 Don't you
realize that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and they who serve at the altar have their share
from the sacrifices offered on the altar?
14 In the same
way the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should receive their
living from the gospel.
15 But I have never
used any of these rights. I am not writing
these things so that it may be done so now in my case. I would rather die than that anyone should deprive
me of my grounds for boasting.
16 Yet if I
preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of; for an obligation has been laid
on me to do this. Woe to me, if I do not
preach the gospel.
17 For if I do
this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not willingly, I am still entrusted
with a stewardship.
18 What then is
my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I offer the gospel free
of charge, so as not to use my full rights in the gospel.
19 For though I am
free from all, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might gain the more
people.
20 To the Jews I
became like a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the law, I
became like one under the law, though I am not actually under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law.
21 To those who are
without law, I became like one without law, although I am not free of God's law,
but under law of Christ, that I might gain those who are without law.
22 To the weak I
became weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I may by all means save some.
23 I do everything
for the gospel's sake, that I may share in its
benefits.
24 Do you not know
that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? So run
to win the prize.
25 Every athlete
in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable
crown; but we for an imperishable one.
26 So I do not run
aimlessly, or box like one merely beating the air,
27 but I discipline
my body, bringing it under control, so that after I have preached to others, I
myself might not be disqualified.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 10
1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,
that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2 and were all
baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
3 All ate the
same spiritual food
4 and all drank
the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual
rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
5 But God was
not pleased with most of them, for their bodies were strewn about in the wilderness.
6 Now these
things were examples for us, so that we would not crave after evil things, as
they did.
7 Do not become
idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written, "The people sat down to
eat and drink, and rose up to play."
8 Let us not commit
sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand
fell.
9 Let us not put
Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
10 Do not
complain, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroying angel.
11 Now these
things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our warning,
on whom the end of the ages has come.
12 So let the one
who thinks that he stands secure, beware that he does not fall.
13 No temptation has
overtaken you except what is common to everyone, but God is faithful, who will
not let you to be tempted beyond what you are able to handle; but will with the
temptation also provide a way of escape, so that you may be able to endure it.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak to you
as wise people; judge for yourselves what I say.
16 Is not the cup
of blessing we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread we
break a sharing in the body of Christ?
17 Because there
is one loaf, though we are many, we are one body, for we are all partake of the
one bread.
18 Look at Israel
after the flesh: Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
19 What am I saying?
Am I implying that something sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol
is anything?
20 No, what I
mean is that what the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to
God; and I do not want you to become partners with demons.
21 You cannot
drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord
and the table of demons.
22 Or are we attempting
to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?
23 "All things are lawful," but not
all things are beneficial. "All things are lawful," but not all things
build up.
24 Let no one
seek their own advantage, but the benefit of others.
25 Eat whatever
is sold in the meat market, without asking questions for the sake of conscience,
26 for "the
earth is the Lord's and its fullness."
27 If an
unbeliever invites you to dinner, and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is
set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
28 But if anyone
says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice to idols," do not
eat it, for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.
29 I did not mean
your conscience but the other person's.
For why should my freedom be criticized by the conscience of someone
else?
30 If I partake
with thankfulness, why should I be criticized for what I give thanks for?
31 So, whether you
eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all for the glory of God.
32 Do not give offense
to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God,
33 just as I try
to please everyone in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but the benefit
of many, so that they may be saved.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 11
1 Be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.
2 Now I praise
you that you remember me in everything, and keep the traditions, just as I handed
them down to you.
3 But I want you
to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of woman is
man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man
praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head.
5 But every
woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head; for
it is one and the same as if she had her head shaved.
6 For if a woman
does not cover her head, let her hair be cut off. But if it is a shame to a woman to have her
hair cut off or shaved, then she should cover her head.
7 For a man should
not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the
woman is the glory of man.
8 For the man did
not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.
9 And the man was
not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
10 For this reason
the woman should have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, in
the Lord the woman is not independent of the man, nor is the man independent of
the woman.
12 For just as
the woman came from the man, so man also comes through the woman; but all
things come from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: is it right for a woman to pray to God with her
head uncovered?
14 Does not even
nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him?
15 But if a woman
has long hair it is her glory, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 But if anyone wants
to be contentious over this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of
God.
17 But in giving you this instruction, I cannot praise
you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
18 First of all,
when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you;
and in part I believe it,
19 for there must
be factions among you, so that those who are genuine may be recognized among
you.
20 When you come together,
it is not really to eat the Lord's supper.
21 For when you
eat, each one goes right ahead with his own supper. One is hungry and another gets drunk.
22 Do you not
have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those
who have nothing? What can I say to you? Should I praise you? On this I will
certainly not praise you.
23 For I received
from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in
which he was betrayed took bread,
24 and when he
had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
25 In the same
way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new
covenant in my blood. Do
this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
26 For as often
as you eat this bread and drink the 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 the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a person
examine himself, and then let him eat the bread and drink the cup.
29 For anyone who
eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment on himself,
if he does not carefully consider Christ's body.
30 For this reason
many among you are weak and sick, and some have even died.
31 But if we would
scrutinize ourselves, we would not be judged.
32 But when we
are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we will not be condemned
with the world.
33 Therefore, my
brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for each other.
34 If anyone is
hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result
in judgment. I will give you instructions about other issues when I come.
DASV: 1
Corinthians 12
1 Now concerning
spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you be uninformed.
2 You know that
when you were pagans you were led away and drawn to speechless idols.
3 Therefore I want
you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Let Jesus be cursed,"
and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are
different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 There are a different kinds of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there are various
results, but the same God, who works all things in everyone.
7 But to each
one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to the benefit of all.
8 For to one is
given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of
knowledge, according to the same Spirit,
9 to another
faith by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings by the one Spirit,
10 and to another
the performing of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discernment
of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation
of tongues.
11 All of these are
energized by the one and the same Spirit, distributing to each person as he decides.
12 For just as the body is one, yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many,
are one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For in one
Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or
free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body
is not composed of only one part, but many.
15 If the foot should
say, "Because I am not the hand, I am not part of the body," it would
not make it any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear
should say, "Because I am not the eye, I am not part of the body," it
would not make it any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole
body were an eye, where would the hearing come from? If the whole body were just
hearing, where would smelling come from?
18 But as it is,
God has put each part in the body just the way he wanted it.
19 And if they
were all one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is there
are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot
say to the hand, "I don't need you." Nor again can the head say to
the feet, "I don't need you."
22 On the
contrary, those parts of the body which seem to be weaker are absolutely necessary.
23 Those parts of
the body that we consider to be less honorable we clothe with greater honor. Our less presentable parts are treated with
greater propriety,
24 whereas our presentable
parts get no special treatment. But God has so constructed the body giving greater honor to that part that
lacked it,
25 that there
should be no division in the body; but that the parts should have the same concern
for one another.
26 If one part
suffers, all the parts suffer with it.
If one part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each of
you is a part of it.
28 God has appointed
in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who do miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administration,
and various kinds of tongues.
29 Are all
apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all performers of miracles?
30 Do all have
the gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31 But earnestly desire
the greater gifts. But beyond that I will show you the most excellent way.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I
am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have prophetic
gifts, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away
all my possessions to the poor, and if I even sacrifice my body, so that I
could boast, yet do not have love, it benefits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not
arrogant.
5 It is not rude,
does not demand its own way, is not easily angered and keeps no record of
wrongs.
6 It does not rejoice
at injustice, but rejoices in the truth.
7 Love bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
all things.
8 Love never
fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are tongues,
they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in
part, and we prophesy in part,
10 but when the perfect
comes, that which is partial will pass away.
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 away childish things.
12 For now we see
in a mirror, dimly; but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but
then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
13 So now these
three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 14
1 Pursue love
and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
2 For the one who
speaks in a tongue speaks not to humans, but to God; for no one understands, since
he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.
3 But one who
prophesies speaks to people to strengthen, encourage, and console them.
4 The one who
speaks in a tongue builds up himself; but the one who prophesies builds up the
church.
5 Now I wish all
of you spoke in tongues, but even more that you might prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the
one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be
built up.
6 But now, brothers,
if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you, unless I speak to
you either some revelation, knowledge, prophecy or teaching?
7 Even lifeless
instruments that produce a sound like a flute or harp, if they do not play
clear notes, how will the song on the flute or harp be recognized?
8 For if the
trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?
9 So it is for
you, unless you speak clear, intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone
know what is being said? You will just be talking into the air.
10 There are
undoubtedly many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without
meaning.
11 If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I am a foreigner
to the one speaking, and the one speaking is a foreigner to me.
12 It is the same
for you too; since you are eager for spiritual gifts, seek to have an abundance
of those that build up the church.
13 So let the one
who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret it.
14 For if I pray
in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
15 What should I
do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind too. I will
sing with the spirit, and I will sing with my mind too.
16 Otherwise if you
bless in the spirit, how can an outsider say the "Amen" to your
thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
17 For you are
certainly giving thanks, but the other people are not built up.
18 I thank God that
I speak in tongues more than all of you.
19 However in the
church I would rather speak five words with my mind that I might instruct
others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brothers, do
not be children in the way you think, but in evil be infants, but in thinking
be mature.
21 In the law it
is written,
"By people of strange
tongues
and by the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this
people;
yet even then they will not listen to me," says the
Lord.
22 Therefore
tongues are a sign, not for those who believe, but for unbelievers. But prophecy is a sign for not unbelievers,
but for those who believe.
23 If, therefore,
the whole church is assembled and everyone speaks in tongues, and someone uninformed
or unbelieving comes in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
24 But if everyone
is prophesying, and someone uninformed or unbelieving comes in, he will be
convicted by all and called to account by all.
25 After the
secrets of his heart are exposed, and so falling on his face he will worship
God, declaring, "God is really among you."
26 What should be done then, brothers? When you come
together, each one has a psalm, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation.
Let all things be done to build up.
27 If anyone
speaks in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, each in their turn;
and someone should interpret.
28 But if there is
no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church; and let him speak only to
himself and to God.
29 Let two or
three prophets speak, then let the others evaluate it.
30 But if a
revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the person who is speaking
should stop talking first.
31 For you all
can prophesy one at a time, so that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
32 The spirits of
the prophets are subject to the prophets' control.
33 For God is not
a God of disorder, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
34 women should keep
silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. But they should be
in submission, just as the law says.
35 And if they want
to learn about something, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is
shameful for a woman to speak in the church.
36 Did the word
of God originate with you? Or did it come to you alone?
37 If anyone
claims to be a prophet or spiritual, he should acknowledge the things that I am
writing to you are the commands of the Lord.
38 But if anyone
does not acknowledge this, he should not be acknowledged.
39 Therefore, my
brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
40 But everything
should be done decently and in order.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 15
1 Now I make
known to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, that you received
and on which you also stand,
2 by which you
are also saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you, unless you
believed in vain.
3 For I
delivered to you what was of primary importance that which I also received:
that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;
4 and that he
was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that he
appeared to Cephas; then to the Twelve.
6 Then he
appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still
alive, but some have fallen asleep.
7 Then he
appeared to James, and after that to all the apostles.
8 Last of all,
as to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me too.
9 For I am the
least of the apostles, unworthy even 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 to me has not been in vain. But I worked harder than all of them, yet not
I, but the grace of God that was with me.
11 Whether then it was I or they, this is what we
proclaim, and it is what you believed.
12 Now if Christ
is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you claim that there is no
resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there
is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.
14 If Christ has
not been raised, then our preaching is worthless, and your faith is worthless
too.
15 Beyond that, we
are found to be false witnesses of God; because we testified that God raised
Christ from the dead when in fact he did not raise him up, if in fact the dead
are not raised.
16 For if the
dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.
17 If Christ has
not been raised, then your faith is worthless and you are still in your sins.
18 Then those who
have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 For if we only
have hope in Christ in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But now has Christ been raised from the dead,
the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since death
came through a man, so though a man came the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam
all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in
his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then at his
coming those who belong to Christ.
24 Then comes the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the
Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must
reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy
to be destroyed is death.
27 For, "He has
put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All
things are put in subjection," it is obvious that this does not include the
one who put all things in subjection to him.
28 When all
things have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the
one who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.
29 Otherwise what
will those who are baptized for the dead do? If the dead are not raised at all,
then why are they baptized for them?
30 Why also would
we put ourselves in danger every hour?
31 Every day I
face death. This is as certain as my boasting in you, brothers, which I make in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 If I fought
with wild beasts at Ephesus, from a human perspective, how did it benefit me?
If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we
die."
33 Do not be
deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."
34 Get sober as
is right and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God--I speak this to
your shame.
35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead
raised? With what kind of body will they come back?"
36 How foolish! What
you sow must die before it comes to life.
37 What you sow is
not the body that will be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other
seed.
38 But God gives
it a body just as he wants it, and to each kind of seed its own body.
39 All flesh is
not the same. There is one kind that is
human flesh, and another flesh for animals, another flesh for birds, and
another for fish.
40 There are also
heavenly bodies as well as earthly bodies.
The glory of the heavenly body is of one type, and that of the earthly
quite another.
41 There is one type
of glory from the sun, and another glory from the moon, and another glory from
the stars; for one star differs from another star in its glory.
42 So it is with the
resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, 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 physical
body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also
a spiritual body.
45 So it is
written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became
a life-giving spirit.
46 However the
spiritual does not come first, but that which is physical; and then the spiritual.
47 The first man was
from the earth, made of dust, the second man is from heaven.
48 As the one is made
from the dust, so too are those who are also made from the dust, and as is the
heavenly one, so too are those who are heavenly.
49 Just as we
have borne the image of the man of dust, so we will also bear the image of the man
of heaven.
50 Now this is
what I am saying, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Now I am telling you a mystery: We will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed,
52 in a moment,
in the blink of an eye, at the last trump. For the trumpet will sound and the
dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For this perishable
must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But when this perishable
puts on imperishability, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that
is written will come to pass, "Death is 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 But thank God,
who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my
beloved brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the
Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not vain.
DASV:
1 Corinthians 16
1 Now concerning
the collection for the saints, you should follow the procedure I outlined for
the churches of Galatia.
2 On the first
day of the week let each one of you put aside and save it, as each has prospered, so that
no collections will need to be made when I come.
3 When I arrive,
I will send whomever you approve with letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
4 If it seems
appropriate for me to go too, they can accompany me.
5 Now I will come to you, when I have passed
through Macedonia, for I intend to travel through Macedonia.
6 But I may stay
with you, or even winter there, so that you may send me on my journey wherever
I go.
7 For I do not want
to see you just in passing; for I hope to stay with you for a while, if the
Lord permits.
8 But I will stay
in Ephesus until Pentecost,
9 for a great
door of opportunity has opened to me, but there are
many adversaries.
10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing
to fear among you; for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am doing too.
11 So let no one
despise him. But send him on his journey in peace, so that he may come to me,
for I am expecting him with the brothers.
12 But regarding our
brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you
with the brothers. He did not want to come now, but he will come as soon as he gets
an opportunity.
13 Be on guard,
stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.
14 Let everything
that you do be done in love.
15 Now I urge
you, brothers--you know that the household of Stephanas
were the first converts of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the
service of the saints--
16 that you submit
to people like them and to everyone who works and labors with them.
17 I was glad
when Stephanas and Fortunatus
and Achaicus arrived for they supplied what was
lacking on your part.
18 For they
refreshed my spirit and yours. So acknowledge
such people.
19 The churches of the province of Asia send you
greetings. Aquila and Prisca, along with the church
that is in their house, send many greetings to you in the Lord.
20 All the brothers
send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21 I, Paul, write
this greeting with my own hand.
22 If anyone does
not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
23 The grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.