9:1Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not *ye* my work in the Lord?

9:2If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in the Lord.

9:3My defence to those who examine me is this:

9:4Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

9:5have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

9:6Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

9:7Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

9:8Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

9:9For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

9:10or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking it.

9:11If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if *we* shall reap your carnal things?

9:12If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.

9:13Do ye not know that they who labour at sacred things eat of the offerings offered in the temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

9:14So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.

9:15But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

9:16For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

9:17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

9:18What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

9:19For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.

9:20And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

9:21to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

9:22I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

9:23And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

9:24Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

9:25But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.

9:26*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

9:27But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

10:1For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

10:2and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

10:3and all ate the same spiritual food,

10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

10:5yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

10:6But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

10:7Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

10:9Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.

10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

10:11Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

10:12So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

10:13No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

10:14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

10:15I speak as to intelligent persons: do *ye* judge what I say.

10:16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of the Christ?

10:17Because we, being many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

10:18See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

10:19What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

10:20But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

10:21Ye cannot drink the Lord's cup, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

10:23All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify.

10:24Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other.

10:25Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

10:26For the earth is the Lord's and its fulness.

10:27But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

10:28But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake;

10:29but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

10:30If *I* partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what *I* give thanks for?

10:31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.

10:32Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

10:33Even as *I* also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

11:1Be my imitators, even as *I* also am of Christ.

11:2Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

11:3But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.

11:4Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, puts his head to shame.

11:5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman.

11:6For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

11:7For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

11:8For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

11:9For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

11:10Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

11:11However, neither is woman without man, nor man without woman, in the Lord.

11:12For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God.

11:13Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

11:14Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

11:15But woman, if she have long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil.

11:16But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

11:17But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

11:18For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it.

11:19For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

11:20When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

11:21For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

11:22Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.

11:23For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

11:24and having given thanks broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.

11:25In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.

11:26For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

11:27So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

11:28But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

11:29For the eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.

11:30On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

11:31But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.

11:32But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

11:33So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

11:34If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.

12:1But concerning spiritual manifestations, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

12:2Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

12:3I give you therefore to know, that no one, speaking in the power of the Spirit of God, says, Curse on Jesus; and no one can say, Lord Jesus, unless in the power of the Holy Spirit.

12:4But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;

12:5and there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord;

12:6and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God who operates all things in all.

12:7But to each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for profit.

12:8For to one, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

12:9and to a different one faith, in the power of the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healing in the power of the same Spirit;

12:10and to another operations of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to a different one kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues.

12:11But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.

12:12For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

12:13For also in the power of one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.

12:14For also the body is not one member but many.

12:15If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

12:16And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

12:17If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?

12:18But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased him.

12:19But if all were one member, where the body?

12:20But now the members are many, and the body one.

12:21The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.

12:22But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

12:23and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

12:24but our comely parts have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to the part that lacked;

12:25that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

12:26And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

12:27Now *ye* are Christ's body, and members in particular.

12:28And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

12:29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all in possession of miraculous powers?

12:30have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

12:31But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.