Young's Literal Translation

1 Corinthians

16 chapters

Chapters

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came — not in superiority of discourse or wisdom — declaring to you the testimony of God,

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly — as to babes in Christ;

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

Whoredom 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! —

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

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

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

Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord?

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Followers of me become ye, as I also [am] of Christ.

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

And concerning the collection that [is] for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye — do ye;