5:1Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

5:2and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

5:3for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

5:4in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -- ye being gathered together, also my spirit -- with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:5to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

5:7cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,

5:8so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

5:9I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --

5:10and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world --

5:11and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

5:12for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?

5:13and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

6:1Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

6:2have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

6:3have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

6:4of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

6:5unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

6:6but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

6:7Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

6:8but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

6:9have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

6:11And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

6:13the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

6:14and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

6:15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not!

6:16have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

6:17And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

6:18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

6:19Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

6:20for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

7:1And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

7:2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

7:3to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

7:4the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

7:5Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

7:6and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

7:7for I wish all men to be even as I myself am; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

7:8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;

7:9and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

7:10and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

7:11but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

7:12And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

7:13and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

7:14for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

7:15And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such cases, and in peace hath God called us;

7:16for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

7:17if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

7:18being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;

7:19the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

7:20Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;

7:21a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use it rather;

7:22for he who is in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

7:23with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

7:24each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

7:25And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

7:26I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --

7:27Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

7:28But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

7:29And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

7:30and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;

7:31and those using this world, as not using it up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

7:32And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

7:33and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

7:34The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

7:35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

7:36and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

7:37And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;

7:38so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

7:39A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

7:40and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

8:1And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

8:2and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth him to know;

8:3and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

8:4Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

8:5for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many --

8:6yet to us is one God, the Father, of whom are the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are the all things, and we through Him;

8:7but not in all men is the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat it, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8:8But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

8:9but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

8:10for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

8:11and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

8:12and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;

8:13wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.