Modern Literal Version
[1 Corinthians 1]
1:1 Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sosthenes the brother, 1:2 to the congregation of God which is in Corinth– those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called holy-ones, with all who are calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: 1:3 grace to you* and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4 I am always giving-thanks to my God concerning you*, for the grace of God which was given to you* in Christ Jesus; 1:5 that you* were enriched in him in everything, in all speech and all knowledge; 1:6 just-as the testimony of Christ was steadfast in you*; 1:7 so-that you* are not lacking of any gift*; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1:8 who will also confirm you* to the end, so that you* are irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9 God is faithful, through whom you* were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10 Now brethren, I am encouraging you* through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that* you* all should speak the same thing and there should be no splits among you*; but you* should be perfected together in the same mind and in the same viewpoint. 1:11 For* it has been indicated to me concerning you*, my brethren, by the household of Chloe, that strifes are among you*. 1:12 Now I am saying this, that each one of you* says, I am of Paul! I am of Apollos! I am of Cephas! I am of Christ!
1:13 Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified on your* behalf, was he? Or were you* immersed* into the name of Paul? 1:14 I thank God that I immersed* none of you* except Crispus and Gaius; 1:15 that* no one might say that you* were immersed* into my name. 1:16 And I also immersed* the household of Stephanas; furthermore, I do not know if I immersed* any other. 1:17 For* Christ sent me not to immerse*, but to proclaim the good-news; not in wisdom of words, (that* the cross of Christ might not be made void).
1:18 For* the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing; but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. 1:19 For* it has been written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will reject the understanding of the intelligent.’ {Is. 29:14, Ps. 33:10} 1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish? 1:21 For* since, in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, it delighted God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. 1:22 Since Jews ask for a sign and Greeks seek wisdom; 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, an offense to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks; 1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1:25 Because the foolish things of God are wiser than men, and the weakness of God is mightier than men.
1:26 For* you* see your calling brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble. 1:27 But God chose the foolish things of the world, that* he might shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, that* he might shame the strong; 1:28 and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things that are scorned and the things that are not, in order that he might do-away-with the things that are; 1:29 *that no flesh might boast before God. 1:30 But you* are from him, in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption from God; 1:31 that*, as it has been written, ‘He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.’ {Jer. 9:24}
[1 Corinthians 2]
2:1 And brethren, when I came to you* proclaiming the testimony of God to you*, I did not come according to superiority of speech or of wisdom. 2:2 For* I decided not to know anything among you*, except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 2:3 And I was with you* in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 2:5 in order that your* faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but be in the power of God.
2:6 Now we are speaking wisdom among those who are mature; yet a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being done-away-with; 2:7 but we are speaking God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God predetermined before the ages *for our glory. 2:8 It is this mystery which none of the rulers of this world has known; for* had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory; 2:9 but as it has been written, ‘Things which the eye did not see and the ear did not hear and things which did not enter into the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love* him.’ {Is. 64:4}
2:10 But God revealed them to us through his Spirit; for* the Spirit is searching all things, even the depths of God. 2:11 For* who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? So also, the things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. 2:12 But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the {F} Spirit who is from God; that* we might know the things which were granted to us by God. 2:13 We also speak these things, not in words which human wisdom is teaching, but which the Holy Spirit is teaching; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.
2:14 Now the physical man does not accept the things from the Spirit of God; for* they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually examined. 2:15 But he who is spiritual is examining all things and he himself is examined by no one. 2:16 For* who has known the mind of the Lord, who will lecture him? But we have the mind of Christ.
{Footnotes: 1Cor 2:12 Spirit who OR spirit that (meaning just a simple contrast like ‘things of the world, things from God.’ All punctuation and verse numbering is man-made. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the Appendix. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *for is different from for* is different from for.}
[1 Corinthians 3]
3:1 And brethren, I was not able to speak to you* as to spiritual people, but as to fleshly ones, as to infants in Christ. 3:2 I gave you* milk to drink and not food, for* you* were not able to eat it. Neither are you* able even now, 3:3 for* you* are still fleshly. For* where there is jealousy and strife and dissensions among you*, are you* not fleshly and are you* not walking according to the manner of man?
3:4 For* whenever one says, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are you* not fleshly? 3:5 Therefore, who is Paul? And who is Apollos? But servants through whom you* believed, and each as the Lord gave to him. 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 3:7 So-then neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering; but God who is causing the growth. 3:8 Now the one who is planting and the one who is watering are one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 3:9 For* we are God's fellow workers. You* are God's cultivation, God's building.
3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise expert-builder I have laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But let each one beware how he is building on it. 3:11 For* no one is able to lay another foundation beside what is laid, which is Jesus the Christ. 3:12 But if anyone is building on this foundation with gold, silver, previous stones, wood, grass, straw, 3:13 each one's work will become apparent. For* the day will indicate it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire will prove each one's work of what sort it is. 3:14 If anyone’s work remains which he built upon it, he will receive a reward. 3:15 If the work of anyone will be burned, he will forfeit that work; but he himself will be saved; but so as through fire.
3:16 Do you* not know that you* are a temple of God and the Spirit of God is dwelling in you*? 3:17 If anyone corrupts the temple of God, God will have corruption for him; for* the temple of God is holy and such are you*.
3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise in this world among you*, let him become foolish, in order that he may become wise. 3:19 For* the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For* it has been written, ‘It is he who is grabbing the wise in their craftiness;’ {Job 5:13} 3:20 and again, ‘The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are futile.’ {Ps. 94:11} 3:21 So-then let no one boast in men. For* all things are yours*, 3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things that are present or things future. All things are yours*, 3:23 and you* are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
[1 Corinthians 4]
4:1 So let a man count us as attendants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 4:2 But furthermore, it is required in stewards, that* one should be found faithful. 4:3 But it is at the least concern to me that* I might be judged by you* or by a human judgment day. But I am not even judging myself. 4:4 For* I am conscious of nothing in myself, but I have not been justified by this. But he who is judging me is the Lord. 4:5 So-then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both illuminate the hidden things of darkness and make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise from God will be to each.
4:6 Now brethren, I fashioned these things to myself and Apollos because of you*; in order that you* may learn in us not to have a mind-set to go beyond what has been written; that* no one should be arrogant on behalf of one against the other. 4:7 For* who is making the distinction between you? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it? 4:8 Already you* are satisfied, already you* were enriched, you* have come to reign without us, and yet, I wish-that you* did yet reign, that* we also might reign together with you*. 4:9 For* I think that God has showed us, the apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and men. 4:10 We are foolish because of Christ, but you* are prudent in Christ. We are weak, but you* are strong. You* are glorious but we have dishonor. 4:11 We both hunger and thirst even to this current hour and are naked and are battered and are homeless; 4:12 and we are laboring, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we speak well of them; being persecuted, we are tolerating it; 4:13 being blasphemed, we are encouraging. We have become like the scum of the world, the garbage of all things, even until now.
4:14 I am not writing these things to be embarrassing you*, but I am admonishing you* as my beloved children. 4:15 For* even if you* have ten thousand tutors in Christ, but you* do not have many fathers, for* I fathered you* in Christ Jesus through the good-news. 4:16 Therefore I am encouraging you*, that you* become imitators of me. 4:17 Because of this, I have sent Timothy to you*, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you* of my ways, the ones in Christ, just-as I am teaching everywhere in every congregation. 4:18 Now some are arrogant as though I was not coming to you*. 4:19 But I will come to you* shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the speech of those who are arrogant, but the power. 4:20 For* the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power. 4:21 What do you* wish? Should I come to you* with a rod or with love* and a spirit of meekness?
[1 Corinthians 5]
5:1 Fornication is heard literally to be among you* (and such fornication which is not even named among the Gentiles), that someone has his father's wife. 5:2 And you* are arrogant and did not rather mourn, that* he who had done this work might be taken away out of your* midst. 5:3 For* indeed, as being absent in body, but being present in spirit, I have already judged him thus who has worked this, (as though I were present), 5:4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you* and my spirit are gathered together with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5:5 to give such a one to Satan *for the utter-ruin of the flesh, that* the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
5:6 Your* boasting is not good. Do you* not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch? 5:7 Clean out the old leaven, that* you* may be a new batch, just-as you* are unleavened. For* Christ our Passover has also been sacrificed on our behalf. 5:8 So-then we should celebrate the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
5:9 I have written to you* in my letter not to socialize with fornicators; 5:10 and certainly not meaning with the fornicators of this world or with the greedy and extortioners or with idolaters; otherwise, you* are consequently* obligated to go forth out of the world. 5:11 But now, I have written to you* not to socialize with anyone who is named a brother, if he is either a fornicator or greedy or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner; do not even eat with such a person. 5:12 For* what do I even have to do with judging those who are outside? Do you* not judge those who are inside? 5:13 But God will judge those who are outside and take away the evil man from among yourselves.
[1 Corinthians 6]
6:1 Do any of you* dare, having a matter of strife toward the other, go to court before the unrighteous and not before the holy-ones? 6:2 Or do you* not know that the holy-ones will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you*, are you* unworthy of the smallest courts? 6:3 Do you* not know that we will judge the messengers? How much more the things of everyday life? 6:4 Therefore if you* indeed have courts concerning things of everyday life, why are you* seating those who are scorned in the congregation as judges? 6:5 I am saying this to shame you*. So is there not one wise person among you*? Not even one who will be able to judge between his brethren? 6:6 But brother is going to court with brother and that before unbelievers! 6:7 Therefore, it is indeed already a literal loss among you* that you* have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather just be wronged? 6:8 No, but you* yourselves do wrong and defraud and you* do these things to brethren.
6:9 Or do you* not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor perverts, nor homosexuals, 6:10 nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God. 6:11 And some of you* were these; but you* were bathed, but you* were sanctified, but you* were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.
6:12 All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but I will not be brought under the authority by anything. 6:13 Foods are for the belly and the belly is for foods; but God will do-away-with both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
6:14 Now God both lifted up the Lord and will lift us up through his power. 6:15 Do you* not know that your* bodies are members of Christ? Therefore should I take away the members of Christ and make* them members of a harlot? Let it not happen! 6:16 Therefore do you* not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For* he says, The two will become one flesh. {Gen. 2:24} 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man practices, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins toward his own body. 6:19 Or do you* not know that your* body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you*, whom you* have from God? And you* are not your* own; 6:20 for* you* were bought with a price. Glorify God in your* body and in your spirit which is God’s!
[1 Corinthians 7]
7:1 Now concerning the things of which you* wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman sexually. 7:2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband. 7:3 Let the husband give to the wife her owed benevolence and likewise also the wife to the husband. 7:4 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. 7:5 Do not deprive one another, lest it is from agreement for a season, that* you* may occupy yourselves with fasting and with prayer and you* may come together to the same again, in order that Satan may not tempt you* because of your* shortage of self-control. 7:6 But I am saying this by concession, not by commandment. 7:7 For* I wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each man has his own gift* from God, one so and another thus.
7:8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. 7:9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for* it is better to marry than to be inflamed. 7:10 But I command to the married, (not I, but the Lord), That the wife is not to be separated from her husband 7:11 (but even if she is separated, she should remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband is not to leave his wife.
7:12 But to the rest I say, (not the Lord); if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, let him not leave her. 7:13 And if a wife who has an unbelieving husband and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. 7:14 For* the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Consequently, your* children were unclean; but now they are holy. 7:15 Yet if the unbelieving spouse separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister is not enslaved in such. Now God has called us in peace. 7:16 For* O wife, how do you know if you will save your husband? Or O husband, how do you know if you will save your wife?
7:17 Except as God has divided to each one, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I command in all the congregations. 7:18 Was anyone called being circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Has any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 7:20 Let each one remain in that calling in which he was called. 7:21 Were you called being a bondservant? Let it not be a care to you, but if you are also able to become free use it rather. 7:22 For* he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was called being free, is Christ's bondservant. 7:23 You* were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. 7:24 Brethren, let each one, in what he was called, abide with God in that.
7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my viewpoint, as one who has been shown-mercy by the Lord to be faithful. 7:26 Therefore I suppose this to be* good because of the present necessity that is upon us; that it is good for a man to be like he is. 7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 7:28 But even if you marry, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have affliction in the flesh and I would spare you*.
7:29 But, I say this, brethren, the time is limited, that* henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none; 7:30 and 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 have; 7:31 and those who use this world, as though they did not make full use of it; for* the fashion of this world is passing away.
7:32 But I wish for you* to be carefree. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he will please the Lord; 7:33 but he who is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 7:34 He has been divided. The unmarried woman (also the virgin) is anxious for that which is of the Lord, that* she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she who is married is anxious for the things of the world, how she will please her husband. 7:35 And I say this is advantageous for yourselves*, not that* I may cast a noose upon you*, but *for what is decent and that you* may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.
7:36 But if anyone supposes he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is beyond her prime and thus it ought to happen, let him do what he wills; he is not sinning; let them marry. 7:37 But he who stands, grounded in his heart, having no necessity, but has the authority concerning his own will and he has decided this in his own heart to keep his own virgin, he does well. 7:38 So-then both he who betroths his own virgin does well, and he who does not betroth his own virgin is doing better.
7:39 A wife is bound by law inasmuch time as her husband is living; but if the husband has fallen-asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wills; but only in the Lord. 7:40 But she is fortunate if she remains so, according to my viewpoint and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
[1 Corinthians 8]
8:1 Now concerning idol-sacrifices: we know that all have knowledge. Knowledge is arrogant, but love* builds up. 8:2 But if anyone thinks to have known anything, he has known nothing yet like he ought to know; 8:3 but if anyone loves* God, this one is known by him. 8:4 Therefore concerning the food of idol-sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no other God except one. 8:5 For* if indeed there are so called gods, if in heaven or upon the earth; as there are many such gods and many such lords, 8:6 but to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we are *for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him. 8:7 But that knowledge is not in all people; but some until now, with the consciousness of the idol, eat it like an idol-sacrifice, and their conscience is defiled, being weak. 8:8 But food does not present us to God; for* neither, if we eat, do we abound? Nor, if we do not eat, are we lacking?
8:9 But beware lest this liberty of yours* might become a stumbling block to the weak. 8:10 For* if anyone sees you, (you who has knowledge), reclining at a table in an idol's sanctuary, will not his conscience, being weak, be built up, *that* he might eat idol-sacrifices? 8:11 And the weak brother will perish on account of your knowledge, but Christ died because of him. 8:12 And thus by sinning directly at the brethren and beating their conscience when it is weak, you* are sinning directly at Christ. 8:13 Hence, if food is offending my brother, I should never* eat that meat forever, that* I may not offend my brother.
[1 Corinthians 9]
9:1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you* not my work in the Lord? 9:2 If I am not an apostle to others, but yet I am to you*; for* you* are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
9:3 My defense to those who are examining me is this: 9:4 have we no authority to eat and to drink? 9:5 Have we no authority to lead around a wife, (a sister in the Lord), even as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? 9:6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority not to work? 9:7 Does anyone ever make war while supplying his own rations? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock? 9:8 I am not speaking these things according to human standards. Or is the law not also saying these things? 9:9 For* it has been written in the Law of Moses, ‘You will not muzzle a threshing bull.’ {Deut. 25:4} There is not care only for the bulls with God, is there? 9:10 Or does he certainly say it because of us? For* it was written because of us, that the one who is plowing ought to plow in hope and the one who is threshing ought to thresh in hope to partake of his hope.
9:11 If we sowed spiritual things to you*, is it a great thing if we will reap your* fleshly things? 9:12 If others are partaking of this authority over you*, do we not yet more? But we did not use this authority; but we are forbearing all things, that* we should give no hindrance to the good-news of Christ. 9:13 Do you* not know that those who work at the sacred things, eat from the things of the temple and those who wait-upon the altar have their part with the altar? 9:14 So, the Lord also commanded that those who are proclaiming the good-news, to live out of the good-news. 9:15 But I used none of these things and I do not write these things that* it may become so with me; for* it would be good for me rather to die, than that* anyone should make my boasting void. 9:16 For* if I proclaim the good-news, it is not boasting to me; for* necessity is laid upon me; but woe is to me, if I do not proclaim the good-news. 9:17 For* if I am doing this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if I do so involuntarily, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. 9:18 Then* what is my reward? That*, when I proclaim the good-news of the Christ, I may place the good-news before you* without cost, *that* I may not make full use of my authority in the good-news.
9:19 For* although <F> I was free from all, I enslaved myself to all, in order that I might gain all the more. 9:20 And I became like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I might gain Jews. I became like those under the law to those who are under the law, in order that I might gain those who are under the law. 9:21 I became to those who are lawless, like the lawless, (not being lawless to God, but lawful to Christ), in order that I might gain those who are lawless. 9:22 I became like the weak to those who are weak, in order that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, in order that I may certainly save some. 9:23 And I am doing this because of the good-news, in order that I may become a fellow partner of it.
9:24 Do you* not know that those who run in the stadium, all run, but only one receives the prize? So run that* you* may grab it. 9:25 And everyone who struggles in the race exercises self-control in all things. Therefore they do it in order that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible crown. 9:26 Now-then, I run as so, not with uncertainty. I am combating as so, not just whipping the air; 9:27 but I am buffeting my body and enslaving it; lest somehow after having preached to others, I myself might become unapproved.
{Footnotes: 1Co 9:19 I was a free man from all, I was a bondservant to all,}
[1 Corinthians 10]
10:1 Now brethren, I do not wish you* to be ignorant that our fathers were all under the cloud and all went through the sea; 10:2 and were all immersed* into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink; for* they drank from a spiritual rock following them and the rock was Christ. 10:5 Yet God was not delighted with most of them; for* they were overthrown in the wilderness. 10:6 Now these things became our examples, *that* we should not be desirers of evil things, as they also lusted. 10:7 Neither should you* become idolaters, as some of them were; as it has been written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and rose* up to play.’ {Ex. 32:6} 10:8 Neither should we fornicate, like some of them fornicated and twenty three thousand fell in one day. 10:9 Nor should we test the Christ, just as some of them also tested him and perished by the serpents. 10:10 Nor murmur, like some of them also murmured and perished by the destroyer. 10:11 Now all these things befell them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have arrived. 10:12 So-then he who thinks he stands, let him beware, lest he might fall! 10:13 No temptation has taken you* except common human temptations; but God is faithful, who will not allow you* to be tempted beyond what you* are able to undergo; but with the temptation, he will also make* an outlet.
10:14 Hence, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 10:15 I speak as to prudent men. You* judge what I say. 10:16 The cup of blessing for which we are giving-thanks, is it not a {F} fellowship of the blood of Christ? The bread which we are breaking, is it not a {F} fellowship of the body of Christ? 10:17 Because we, who are many, are one bread, one body; for* we all are partaking from the one bread.
10:18 Beware of Israel, according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partners with the altar? 10:19 Then what do I say? That an idol is anything or that an idol-sacrifice is anything? 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they are sacrificing to demons and not to God and I do not wish you* to become partners with demons.
10:21 You* cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You* cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons. 10:22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? We are not mightier than him, are we?
10:23 All things are legal for me; but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me; but not all things build up. 10:24 Let no one seek his own, but each one seek the good of the other. 10:25 Eat everything that is sold in the meat-markets, judging nothing because of conscience, 10:26 for* the earth is the Lord's and its fullness. 10:27 But if anyone of the unbelieving invites you* to a feast and you* wish to go; eat whatever is placed before you*, judging nothing because of conscience. 10:28 But if anyone says to you*, This has been an idol-sacrifice, do not eat, because of him who disclosed it and because of conscience; for* the earth is the Lord's and its fullness. 10:29 I say, not your conscience, but conscience of the other; for* why is my freedom judged by another conscience? 10:30 If I partake with gratitude, why am I blasphemed on behalf of what I give-thanks? 10:31 Therefore whether you* eat or drink or whatever you* are doing, do all to the glory of God. 10:32 Do not become a stumbling block, either to Jews or to Greeks or to the congregation of God; 10:33 just-as I am also pleasing all people in all things, not seeking what is advantageous for me, but what is advantageous for many, that* they may be saved.
{Footnotes: 1Co 10:16- tradition and some translations used ‘communion’ for the word ‘fellowship’ which is the common translation throughout the rest of the New Covenant.}
[1 Corinthians 11]
11:1 Become imitators of me, just-as I also am of Christ.
11:2 Now I praise you* brethren that you* have remembered me in all things and are holding-onto the traditions, just-as I gave them to you*. 11:3 But I wish you* to know, that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having something on his head, shames his head. 11:5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled shames her head; for* it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. 11:6 For* if a woman is not veiled, let her hair also be sheared; but if it is shameful to a woman to be sheared or shaved, let her be veiled. 11:7 For* a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, being* that he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. 11:8 For* the man is not from the woman; but the woman is from the man; 11:9 for* neither was the man created because of the woman; but the woman because of the man. 11:10 Because of this the woman ought to have a sign of authority upon her head, because of the messengers. 11:11 However, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. 11:12 For* like the woman is from the man, so the man is also through the woman; but all things are from God. 11:13 You* judge in yourselves. Is it suitable that a woman pray to God unveiled? 11:14 Or does not even nature itself teach you*, that, if a man has long-hair, it is a dishonor to him? 11:15 But if a woman has long-hair, it is a glory to her, because her hair is given to her instead of a head dressing. 11:16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.
11:17 But in commanding this, I am not praising you*, because you* are not coming together *for the best but *for the worst. 11:18 For* first of all, when you* come together in the congregation, I am hearing that splits exist in you*, and I believe some part of it. 11:19 For* there must also be sects among you*, that* those who are proven may become apparent among you*. 11:20 Therefore when you* come together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper; 11:21 for* in your* eating each one is taking his own supper before others can, and one is hungry and another is drunken. 11:22 For* do you* not have houses in which to eat and drink in? Or do you* despise the congregation of God and are shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you*? Should I praise you*? I should not praise you* in this.
{Mk 14:22-25 & Mt 26:26-29 & Lk 22:19-20, 1Cor: 11:23-26}
11:23 For* I received from the Lord what I also gave to you*, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was given up took bread; 11:24 and when he had given-thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat. This is my body, which is being broken on behalf of you*. Practice this in my remembrance. 11:25 Likewise* also the cup, after the supper, saying, This cup is the {F} new covenant* in my blood. Practice this in my remembrance whenever you* drink it. 11:26 For* whenever you* eat this bread and drink this cup, you* are proclaiming the Lord's death until whenever he comes.
11:27 So-then whoever unworthily eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord, will be liable to the body and of the blood of the Lord. 11:28 But let a man prove himself and so let him eat from the bread and drink out of the cup. 11:29 For* he who unworthily eats and drinks, is eating and drinking judgment to himself, if he does not discern the body of the Lord.
11:30 Because of this, many among you* are weak and sick and a considerable number fall-asleep. 11:31 For* if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged. 11:32 But being judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that* we may not be condemned with the world. 11:33 So-then my brethren, when you* come together to eat, wait for one another. 11:34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat in his own house; that* you* may not come together *for judgment. And the rest I will set in order whenever I come.
{Footnotes: 1Co 11:25 See Appendix under Covenant.}
[1 Corinthians 12]
12:1 Now brethren, I do not wish you* to be ignorant concerning spiritual gifts. 12:2 You* know that when you* were Gentiles you* were led away to those voiceless idols, as you* might be led now. 12:3 Hence I make known to you*, that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no one can say, Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.
12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts*, but the same Spirit. 12:5 And there are diversities of services and the same Lord. 12:6 And there are diversities of workings, but it is the same God, who is working all things in all. 12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is advantageous: 12:8 for* the word of wisdom is given to one through the Spirit, and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; 12:9 and to another, miraculous faith, in the same Spirit; and to another, gifts* of healing, in the same Spirit; 12:10 and to another, workings of miracles; and to another, prophecy; and to another, the discerning of spirits; to another, varieties of languages; and to another, the translation of foreign languages; 12:11 but the one and the same Spirit is working all these things, sectioning to each one in his own way just-as he wills.
12:12 For* just-as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 12:13 For* also, we were all immersed* into one body, in one Spirit, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, and all were given to drink into one Spirit. 12:14 For* the body is not one member, but many. 12:15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not from the body; by this, is it not from the body? 12:16 And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not from the body; by this, is it not from the body? 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where is the hearing? If the whole body were hearing, where is the sense of smell? 12:18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just-as he willed. 12:19 And if they were all one member, where is the body? 12:20 But now they are indeed many members, but one body. 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you*. 12:22 But much rather, those members of the body that seem to be* weak are necessary; 12:23 and those parts of the body, which we think to be more dishonored, we place even-more honor upon these, and our indecent parts have even-more decency; 12:24 but our decent parts have no need. But God mixed the body together, giving even-more honor to that part which lacks; 12:25 that* no splits should be in the body; but that* the members should have the same anxiety on behalf of one another. 12:26 And if one member is suffering, all the members are suffering with it. If one member is glorified, all the members are rejoicing with it. 12:27 Now you* are the body of Christ and members individually. 12:28 And God has placed some in the congregation, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, thereafter miracles, thereafter gifts* of healing, helps, those who pilot others, those with varieties of languages. 12:29 All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they? 12:30 All do not have gifts* of healing, do they? All do not speak with foreign languages, do they? All do not translate, do they? 12:31 But be zealous for the better gifts*. And I show to you* still a surpassingly-better way.
[1 Corinthians 13]
13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of messengers, but do not have love*, I have become like noisy brass or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and if I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so-then to remove mountains, but if I do not have love*, I am nothing. 13:3 And if I handout all of my possessions and if I give my body that* I will be burned, but if I do not have love*, it profits me nothing. 13:4 Love* is patient and is kind. Love* is not jealous. Love* does not brag, is not arrogant, 13:5 does not behave improperly, does not seek its own, does not irritate, does not reason evil, 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 13:7 Love* forbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 13:8 Love* never* falls short.
But if there are prophesies, they will be done-away; if there are foreign languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done-away.
13:9 But we know in part and we prophesy in part; 13:10 but whenever the finished thing comes, then what is in part will be done-away. 13:11 When I was an infant, I spoke like an infant, I had the mind-set like that of an infant, I reasoned like an infant. Now that I have become a man, I have done-away-with the things of the infant. 13:12 For* now we see in a mirror, dimly; but then face to face. I know now in part; but then I will fully know just-as I was also fully known.
13:13 But these three are remaining now: faith, hope, love*, and the greatest of these is love*.
[1 Corinthians 14]
14:1 Pursue love*; yet be zealous for spiritual gifts, but rather that* you* may prophesy. 14:2 For* he who speaks in a foreign language does not speak to men, but to God; for* no one hears with understanding; but he speaks mysteries in the spirit. 14:3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for building up and encouragement and consolation. 14:4 He who speaks in a foreign language builds himself up; but he who prophesies builds up the congregation. 14:5 Now I wish for all of you* to speak with foreign languages, but more that* you* may prophesy, for* greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with foreign languages, unless he translates, that* the congregation may receive building up.
14:6 But brethren, now if I come to you* speaking with foreign languages, what shall I profit you*, if I do not speak to you* either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophesying or in teaching? 14:7 Even the lifeless things give forth a voice, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 14:8 For* if the trumpet gives an indistinct voice, who will prepare himself *for war? 14:9 So you* also, if you* do not give distinct speech through the foreign language, how shall it be known what is spoken? For* you* will be speaking into the air. 14:10 If the foreign voices in the world are so-great, as it may be, and yet none are unintelligible. 14:11 Therefore if I do not know the power of the voice, I will be a barbarian to him who speaks with it and he who speaks will be a barbarian to me. 14:12 So you* also, since you* are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek in order that you* may abound to the building up of the congregation. 14:13 Hence let him who speaks in a foreign language pray in order that he may translate.
14:14 For* if I pray in a foreign language, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 14:15 Then* what is it? I will pray with the spirit and I will also pray with the mind. I will sing-praise with the spirit and I will also sing-praise with the mind. 14:16 Otherwise if you give-thanks with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unskilled say the amen upon your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying? 14:17 For* you indeed give-thanks well, but the other is not built up. 14:18 I give-thanks to my God, I speak with foreign languages more than you* all. 14:19 But in the congregation, I wish to speak five words through my mind in order that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in a foreign language.
14:20 Brethren, do not become children in your mind-sets, (but be infants in malice), but become mature in your mind-sets. 14:21 It has been written in the law, ‘I will speak to this people in other languages and by other lips, and thus they will not even hear me, says the Lord.’ {Is. 28:11-12} 14:22 So-then foreign languages are *for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. 14:23 Therefore if the whole congregation comes together and if all speak with foreign languages and if unskilled or unbelieving people come in, will they not say that you* are mad? 14:24 But if all prophesy and some unbelieving or unskilled person comes in, he is {F} reproved by all. He is judged by all. 14:25 And thus, the secrets of his heart become apparent, and so he will fall down upon his face and worship God, reporting that God really is among you*.
14:26 Then* what is it, brethren? Whenever you* come together, each one of you* has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a foreign language, has a translation. Let all things be done *for building up. 14:27 If anyone speaks in a foreign language, let it be according to two or three at the most and up individually, and let one translate. 14:28 But if there is no translator, let him be silent in the congregation, and let him speak to himself and to God. 14:29 And let the prophets speak by two or three and let the others discern. 14:30 But if a prophesy is revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent. 14:31 For* you* all can prophesy one by one, that* all may learn and all may be encouraged. 14:32 The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets; 14:33 for* God is not a God of unrest, but of peace.
As in all the congregations of the holy-ones, 14:34 let your* women be silent in the congregations; for* it is not permitted for them to speak; but to be subject, as the law also says. 14:35 And if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands in their own house; for* it is shameful for women to speak in a congregation. 14:36 What? Was it from you* that the word of God went forth? Or did it arrive only *for you*?
14:37 If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him fully know of the things which I write to you*, that they are the commandments from the Lord. 14:38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
14:39 So-then my brethren, be zealous to prophesy and do not forbid people to speak with foreign languages. 14:40 But let all things be done decently and according to some order.
{Footnotes: 1Co 14:24- Or: convicted.}
[1 Corinthians 15]
15:1 Now I make known to you* brethren, the good-news which I proclaimed to you*, which you* also received, in which you* also stand, 15:2 through which you* are also saved, if you* are holding-onto the word which I proclaimed to you*– unless you* vainly believed. 15:3 For* I gave to you*, first of all, what I also received: that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures; 15:4 and that he was buried, and that he has been lifted up on the third day according to the Scriptures.
{1 Cor 15:5-7, Mt 28:16-17, Mk 16:12-13, Lk 24:13-35, 44-49, Jn 20:26-31, Acts 1:3-8}
15:5 And that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve; 15:6 thereafter he appeared to over five hundred brethren at once, out of whom most remain until now, but some have also fallen-asleep; 15:7 thereafter he appeared to James; thereafter to all the apostles; 15:8 and last of all, like to the premature-baby, he appeared also to me. 15:9 For* I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God. 15:10 But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace which was given to me has not become empty; but I labored even-more than they all did; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 15:11 Then* whether it is I, or it is they, so we preach and so you* believed.
15:12 Now if Christ is preached that he has been lifted up from the dead, how do some among you* say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been lifted up; 15:14 and if Christ has not been lifted up, consequently, our preaching is empty, your* faith is also empty. 15:15 Now, we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God in saying that he lifted up Christ; whom consequently, he did not lift up, if indeed the dead are not lifted up. 15:16 For* if the dead are not lifted up, not even Christ has been lifted up; 15:17 and if Christ has not been lifted up, your* faith is futile. You* are still in your* sins. 15:18 Consequently, also they who have fallen-asleep in Christ have perished. 15:19 If we have hoped in Christ, only in this life, we become the most pitiful of all men.
15:20 But now Christ has been lifted up from the dead, he became the first-fruits of those who have fallen-asleep. 15:21 For* since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. 15:22 For* as all die in Adam, so all will also be given-life in Christ. 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; thereafter those who are Christ's at his presence. 15:24 Thereafter is the end, whenever he gives up the kingdom to the God and Father; whenever he does-away-with all rule and all authority and power. 15:25 For* he must reign, until whenever he has placed all his enemies under his feet. {Ps. 110:1} 15:26 The last enemy done-away-with is death. 15:27 For* he has made all things subject under his feet. {Ps 8:6} But whenever he says, All things are made subject, it is evident that it is all things outside, who did subject all things to him. 15:28 And whenever all things have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who did subject all things to him, that* God may be all in all.
15:29 Otherwise what will they do who are immersed* on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not literally lifted up, why then are they immersed* on behalf of the dead? 15:30 Why are we also in peril every hour? 15:31 I die daily by your* boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. 15:32 If I quarreled with beasts in Ephesus according to the manner of man, what does it profit me? If the dead are not lifted up, ‘We should eat and drink, for* tomorrow we die.’ {Is. 22:13} 15:33 Do not be misled: evil associations corrupt virtuous {F} morals. 15:34 Be righteously sober and do not sin; for* some have ignorance of God. I say this to shame you*.
15:35 But someone will say, How are the dead lifted up? And with what manner of body do they come? 15:36 You foolish one, what you yourself sow is not given-life if it does not die; 15:37 and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will become, but a naked kernel, it may be of wheat or anyone of the rest of the grains; 15:38 but God gives it a body just-as it pleased him and to each seed a body of its own.
15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one flesh of men and another flesh of animals and another flesh of birds and another of fish.
15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one and the glory of the earthly is another. 15:41 There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; for* one star carries more-value in glory than that of another star.
15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. If it is sown in corruption; it is lifted up in incorruption. 15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is lifted up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is lifted up in power. 15:44 It is sown a physical body; it is lifted up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 15:45 So also it has been written, ‘The first man Adam became a living soul.’ {Gen. 2:7} The last Adam is giving-life *for our spirit. 15:46 But the spiritual was not first, but the physical, and thereafter the spiritual. 15:47 The first man is out of the earth, the terrestrial; the second man, the Lord, is out of heaven. 15:48 Such-as is the terrestrial, such are those also who are terrestrial and such-as is the heavenly, such also are those who are heavenly. 15:49 And as we did wear the image of the terrestrial, we should also wear the image of the heavenly. 15:50 Now brethren, I say this, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
15:51 Behold, I tell you* a mystery: we will not all fall-asleep, but we will all be changed, 15:52 in the briefest moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for* the last trumpet will sound and the dead will be lifted up incorruptible and we will be changed. 15:53 For* it is essential this corruptible body to be clothed with incorruption and this mortal to be clothed with immortality. 15:54 But whenever this corruptible body has been clothed with incorruption and whenever this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then the saying that has been written will happen, Death is swallowed up in victory. {Isa 25:8} 15:55 O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 15:57 but gratitude to God, who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 15:58 So-then my beloved brethren, become grounded, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your* labor is not empty in the Lord.
{Footnotes: 1Co 15:33- OR customs OR habits. (Inward & outward)}
[1 Corinthians 16]
16:1 Now concerning the collection which is *for the holy-ones, as I commanded to the congregations of Galatia, so should you* also do. 16:2 {F} Every first day of the week, let each one of you* place aside, storing up whatever he prospers in, that* whenever I come, no collections may be happening then. 16:3 And whenever I come, I will send them, (whomever you* approve), with letters to carry your* favor to Jerusalem; 16:4 and if it is also worthy for me to travel there; they will travel with me. 16:5 But I will come to you*, whenever I have gone through Macedonia; for* I do intend to go through Macedonia. 16:6 And it may be that I will remain or even winter with you*, that* you* may send me onward wherever I go. 16:7 For* I do not wish to see you* now on the way; but I am hoping to remain with you* some time, if the Lord permits. 16:8 But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost; 16:9 for* a great and effective door is opened to me and many lay in opposition to me.
16:10 Now if Timothy comes, beware, that* he may be with you* without fear; for* he is working the work of the Lord, as even I do. 16:11 Therefore do not let anyone scorn him. But send him onward in peace, that* he may come to me; for* I am waiting for him with the brethren. 16:12 But concerning Apollos the brother, I encouraged him much that* he should come to you* with the brethren and it was certainly not his will that* he should come now; but he will come whenever he has an opportunity.
16:13 You* watch, stand-firm in the faith, be manly, be powerful. 16:14 Let all that you* do be done in love*.
16:15 Now I encourage you* brethren, (you* know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia and that they have appointed themselves to serve the holy-ones), 16:16 that* you* may also be subject to such ones and to everyone who is working together with us and laboring. 16:17 And I rejoice upon the presence of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they fulfilled this lack of yours*. 16:18 For* they gave-rest to my spirit and yours*; therefore you* recognize them as such ones.
16:19 The congregations of Asia greet you*. Aquila and Priscilla greet you* much in the Lord, with the congregation that is in their house. 16:20 All the brethren greet you*. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
16:21 The greeting from me Paul with my own hand. 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Lord, come! Lord, come! 16:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you*. 16:24 My love* be with you* all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
{Footnotes: 1Co 16:1-3- Acts 24:17; Romans 15:27; 2 Corinthians 8, 9; Gal 2:10. 1Co 16:2- Greek: According to one of the. An idiom in Greek.}
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