The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
Chapter 1
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Yeshua Ha Messiah through the will of Adonai, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 unto the assembly of Adonai which is at Corinth, even them that are sanctified in Messiah Yeshua, called to be saints, with all that call upon the Name of our Master Yeshua Ha Messiah in every place, their Master and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from Adonai our Father and the Master Yeshua Messiah.
4 I thank my Father always concerning you, for the grace of Adonai which was given you in Messiah Yeshua;
5 that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all utterance and all knowledge;
6 even as the testimony of Messiah was confirmed in you:
7 so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Master Yeshua Ha Messiah;
8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you be unreproveable in the day of our Master Yeshua Ha Messiah.
9 Adonai is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son Yeshua Ha Messiah our Master.
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, through the Name of our Master Yeshua Messiah, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it has been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them that are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I mean, that each one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Messiah.
13 Is Messiah divided? Was Paul impaled for you? Or were you immersed into the name of Paul?
14 I thank Adonai that I immersed none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;
15 lest any man should say that you were immersed into my name.
16 And I immersed also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.
17 For Messiah sent me not to immerse, but to preach the evangel: not in wisdom of words, lest the stake of Messiah should be made void.
18 For the word of the stake is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of Adonai.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nothing.
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not Adonai made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For seeing that in the wisdom of Adonai the world through its wisdom knew not Adonai, it was Adonai's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.
22 Seeing that Yahudim ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 but we preach Messiah impaled, unto Yahudim a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;
24 but unto them that are called, both Yahudim and Greeks, Messiah the power of Adonai, and the wisdom of Adonai.
25 Because the foolishness of Adonai is wiser than men; and the weakness of Adonai is stronger than men.
26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 but Adonai chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame them that are wise; and Adonai chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;
28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did Adonai choose, yea and the things that are not, that He might bring to nothing the things that are:
29 that no flesh should glory before Adonai.
30 But of Him are you in Messiah Yeshua, who was made unto us wisdom from Adonai, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
31 that, according as it is written, he that glories, let him glory in Adonai.
Chapter 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of Adonai.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Yeshua Ha Messiah, and Him impaled.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of Adonai.
6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
7 but we speak Adonai's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that has been hidden, which Adonai foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:
8 which none of the rulers of this world has known: for had they known it, they would not have impaled the Master of glory:
9 but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things Adonai prepared for them that love Him.
10 But unto us Adonai revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of Adonai.
11 For who among men knows the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the things of Adonai none knows, save the Spirit of Adonai.
12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from Adonai; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of Adonai.
13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Spirit teaches; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.
14 Now the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of Adonai: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.
15 But He that is spiritual judges all things, and He Himself is judged of no man.
16 For who has known the mind of Adonai, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Messiah.
Chapter 3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Messiah.
2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are you able;
3 for you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not carnal, and do you not walk after the manner of men?
4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not men?
5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Ministers through whom you believed; and each as the Master gave to him.
6 I planted, Apollos watered; but Adonai gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but Adonai that gives the increase.
8 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are Adonai's fellow-workers: you are Adonai's husbandry, Adonai's building.
10 According to the grace of Adonai which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another builds thereon. But let each man take heed how he builds thereon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Yeshua Ha Messiah.
12 But if any man builds on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.
16 Know you not that you are a temple of Adonai, and that the Spirit of Adonai dwells in you?
17 If any man destroys the temple of Adonai, him shall Adonai destroy; for the temple of Adonai is holy, and such are you.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Adonai. For it is written, He that takes the wise in their craftiness:
20 and again, Adonai knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.
21 Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
23 and you are Messiah's; and Messiah is Adonai's.
Chapter 4
1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Messiah, and stewards of the mysteries of Adonai.
2 Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.
4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but He that judges me is Adonai.
5 Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Master come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from Adonai.
6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
7 For who makes you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you glory as if you had not received it?
8 Already are you filled, already you are become rich, you have come to reign without us: yea and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For, I think, Adonai has set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to malaks and men.
10 We are fools for Messiah's sake, but you are wise in Messiah; we are weak, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have dishonor.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Messiah, yet have you not many fathers; for in Messiah Yeshua I begat you through the evangel.
16 I beseech you therefore, be you imitators of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in Adonai, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Messiah, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if Adonai will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of Adonai is not in word, but in power.
21 What will you? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Chapter 5
1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.
2 And you are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that has so wrought this thing,
4 in the Name of our Master Yeshua, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Master Yeshua,
5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Master Yeshua.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For our passover also has been sacrificed, even Messiah:
8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;
10 not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world:
11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
12 For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without Adonai judges. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
Chapter 6
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Or know you not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know you not that we shall judge malaks? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
5 I say this to move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,
6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 Nay, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
9 Or know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of Adonai? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of Adonai.
11 And such were some of you: but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the Name of the Master Yeshua Ha Messiah, and in the Spirit of our Adonai.
12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but Adonai shall bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Master; and the Master for the body:
14 and Adonai both raised the Master, and will raise up as through His power.
15 Know you not that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take away the members of Messiah, and make them members of a harlot? Adonai forbid.
16 Or know you not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? For, the twain, says He, shall become one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Master is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
19 Or know you not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from Adonai? And you are not your own;
20 for you were bought with a price: glorify Adonai therefore in your body.
Chapter 7
1 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote: It is good for a man to not touch a woman.
2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud you not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man has his own gift from Adonai, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Master, That the wife depart not from her husband
11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
12 But to the rest say I, not the Master: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
13 And the woman that has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
15 Yet if the unbelieving departs, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but Adonai has called us in peace.
16 For how know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or how know you, O husband, whether you shall save your wife?
17 Only, as Adonai has distributed to each man, as Adonai has called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the assemblies.
18 Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of Adonai.
20 Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.
21 Were you called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if you can become free, use it rather.
22 For he that was called in the Master being a bondservant, is Adonai's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Messiah's bondservant.
23 You were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
24 Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with Adonai.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of Adonai: but I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of Adonai to be trustworthy.
26 I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
27 Are you bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
28 But should you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
30 and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passes away.
32 But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Master, how he may please the Master:
33 but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and is divided.
34 So also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Master, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35 And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that you may attend upon the Master without distraction.
36 But if any man thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he will; he sins not; let them marry.
37 But he that stands stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well.
38 So then both he that gives his own virgin [daughter] in marriage does well; and he that gives her not in marriage shall do better.
39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband lives; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in Adonai.
40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of Adonai.
Chapter 8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 If any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows not yet as he ought to know;
3 but if any man loves Adonai, the same is known by Him.
4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no elohim but one.
5 For though there are many gods, both in heaven and on earth (as there are many gods and many lords)
6 yet to us there is one Adonai [LORD], the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto Him; and one Lord, Yeshua Ha Messiah, through whom are all things, and we through Him.
7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge. Some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
8 But food will not commend us to Adonai: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
10 For if a man see you who have knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
11 For through your knowledge he that is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Messiah died.
12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Messiah.
13 Wherefore, if meat causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I not cause my brother to stumble.
Chapter 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Yeshua our Master? Are not you my work in Adonai?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in Adonai.
3 My defence to them that examine me is this.
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Master, and Cephas?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
7 What soldier ever served at his own charges? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not the fruit thereof? Or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
8 Do I speak these things after the manner of men? Or says not the law also the same?
9 For it is written in the law of Moshe, you shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn. Is it for the oxen that Adonai cares,
10 or says he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that plows ought to plow in hope, and he that threshes, to thresh in hope of partaking.
11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the evangel of Messiah.
13 Know you not that they that minister about sacred things eat of the things of the temple, and they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?
14 Even so did the Master ordain that they that proclaim the evangel should live of the evangel.
15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.
16 For if I preach the evangel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the evangel.
17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward: but if not of my own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.
18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the evangel, I may make the evangel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the evangel.
19 For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 And to the Yahudim I became as a Yahudi, that I might gain Yahudim; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to Adonai, but under law to Messiah, that I might gain them that are without law.
22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23 And I do all things for the evangel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
24 Know you not that they that run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? Even so run; that you may attain.
25 And every man that strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Chapter 10
1 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 and were all immersed unto Moshe in the cloud and in the sea;
3 and did all eat the same spiritual food;
4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual Rock that followed them: and the Rock was Messiah.
5 Howbeit with most of them Adonai was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us make trial of the Master, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
11 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but Adonai is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
14 Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Messiah? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Messiah?
17 Seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
18 Behold Yisrayah after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?
19 What say I then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to Adonai: and I would not that you should have communion with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of Adonai, and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the table of Adonai, and of the table of demons.
22 Or do we provoke Adonai to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
23 All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
24 Let no man seek his own, but each his neighbor's good.
25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,
26 for the earth is Adonai's, and the fulness thereof.
27 If one of them that believe not bids you to a feast, and you are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.
28 But if any man say unto you, This has been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is Adonai's, and the fulness thereof:
29 conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of Adonai.
32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Yahudim, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of Adonai:
33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
Chapter 11
1 Be you imitators of me, even as I also am of Messiah.
2 Now I praise you that you remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Messiah; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Messiah is Adonai.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.
6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.
7 For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of Adonai: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:
9 for the man was not created for the woman; but the woman for the man:
10 for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the malaks.
11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in Adonai.
12 For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of Adonai.
13 Judge you in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto Adonai unveiled?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of Adonai.
17 But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.
20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Master's supper:
21 for in your eating each one takes before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise you the assembly of Adonai, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.
23 For I received of the Master that which also I delivered unto you, that the Master Yeshua in 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: this do in remembrance of Me.
25 In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, 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 Master's death till He come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Master in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Master.
28 But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
29 For he that eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.
30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of Adonai, that we may not be condemned with the world.
33 Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait one for another.
34 If any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that your coming together be not unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order whensoever I come.
Chapter 12
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 You know that when you were Gentiles you were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever you might led.
3 Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of Adonai says, Yeshua is anathema; and no man can say, Yeshua is Master, but in the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Master.
6 And there are diversities of workings, but the same Adonai, who works all things in all.
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.
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, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit;
10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another diverse kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 but all these works the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as He will.
12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Messiah.
13 For in one Spirit were we all immersed into one body, whether Yahudim or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now has Adonai set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased Him.
19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now they are many members, but one body.
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.
22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:
23 and those parts of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;
24 whereas our comely parts have no need: but Adonai tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked;
25 that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Messiah, and severally members thereof.
28 And Adonai has set some in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diverse kinds of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.
Chapter 13
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of malaks, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
5 does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not provoked, takes not account of evil;
6 rejoices not in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13 But now abides faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Chapter 14
1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.
2 For he that speaks in a tongue speaks not unto men, but unto Adonai; for no man understands; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he that prophesies speaks unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.
4 He that speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the assembly.
5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that you should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesies than he that speakes with tongues, except he interpret, that the assembly may receive edifying.
6 But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
9 So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech easy to understand, how shall it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.
11 If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian unto me.
12 So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound unto the edifying of the assembly.
13 Wherefore let him that speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16 Else if you bless with the spirit, how shall he that fills the place of the unlearned say the Amein at your giving of thanks, seeing he knows not what you say?
17 For you verily give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I thank Adonai, I speak with tongues more than you all:
19 howbeit in the assembly I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be you babes, but in mind be men.
21 In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear Me, says Adonai.
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.
23 If therefore the whole assembly be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;
25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship Adonai, declaring that Adonai is among you indeed.
26 What is it then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
27 If any man speaks in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn; and let one interpret:
28 but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the assembly; and let him speak to himself, and to Adonai.
29 And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern.
30 But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.
31 For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;
32 and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;
33 for Adonai is not a Father of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
34 let the women keep silence in the assemblies: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also says the law.
35 And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the assembly.
36 What? Was it from you that the Word of Adonai went forth? Or came it unto you alone?
37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of Adonai.
38 But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
40 But let all things be done decently and in order.
Chapter 15
1 Now I make known unto you brethren, the evangel which I preached unto you, which also you received, wherein also you stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Messiah died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 and that He was buried; and that He has been raised after the third day according to the scriptures;
5 and that He appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;
6 then He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep;
7 then He appeared to James; then to all the apostles;
8 and last of all, as to the child untimely born, He appeared to me also.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Assembly of Adonai.
10 But by the grace of Adonai I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of Adonai which was with me.
11 Whether then it be I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
12 Now if Messiah is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Messiah been raised:
14 and if Messiah has not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
15 Yea, we are found false witnesses of Adonai; because we witnessed of Adonai that He raised up Messiah: whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Messiah been raised:
17 and if Messiah has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Messiah have perished.
19 If we have only hoped in Messiah in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
20 But now has Messiah been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Messiah shall all be made alive.
23 But each in his own order: Messiah the firstfruits; then they that are Messiah's, at His coming.
24 Then comes the end, when He shall deliver up the kingdom to Adonai, even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
25 For He must reign, till he has put all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.
27 For, He put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He said, All things are put in subjection, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject all things unto Him.
28 And when all things have been subjected unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subjected to Him that did subject all things unto Him, that Adonai may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do that are immersed for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they immersed for them?
30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
31 I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Messiah Yeshua our Master, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
33 Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of Adonai: I speak this to move you to shame.
35 But someone will say, How are the dead raised? And with what manner of body do they come?
36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not quickened except it die:
37 and that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;
38 but Adonai gives it a body even as it pleased Him, and to each seed a body of its own.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
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 natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46 Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of Adonai; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, 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 thanks be to Adonai, who gives us the victory through our Master Yeshua Ha Messiah.
58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be you stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Master, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not vain in Adonai.
Chapter 16
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the assemblies of Galatia, so also do you.
2 Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
3 And when I arrive, whomsoever you shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Yahrusalem:
4 and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.
5 But I will come unto you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia; for I pass through Macedonia;
6 but with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter, that you may set me forward on my journey wherever I go.
7 For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with you, if Adonai permit.
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost;
9 for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he works the work of Adonai, as I also do:
11 let no man therefore despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the brethren.
12 But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not all his will to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.
13 Watch you, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
14 Let all that you do be done in love.
15 Now I beseech you, brethren (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),
16 that you also be in subjection unto such, and to everyone that helps in the work and labors.
17 And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they supplied.
18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge you therefore them that are such.
19 The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in Adonai, with the assembly that is in their house.
20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.
21 The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.
22 If any man loves not the Master, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
23 The grace of the Master Yeshua Ha Messiah be with you.
24 My love be with you all in Messiah Yeshua. Amein.
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