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4 Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.

² Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.

³ But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you, or by man's day; but neither do I judge my own self.

⁴ For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.

⁵ Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise from God.

⁶ But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.

⁷ For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

⁸ You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

⁹ For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.

¹¹ Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;

¹² And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

¹³ We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.

¹⁴ I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.

¹⁵ For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

¹⁶ Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

¹⁷ For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach everywhere in every church.

¹⁸ As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.

²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

²¹ What will you? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness?

5 It is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife.

² And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed.

³ I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus;

⁵ To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

⁷ Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

⁸ Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.

¹⁰ I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

¹¹ But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

¹² For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?

¹³ For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

6 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?

² Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

³ Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things of this world?

⁴ If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

⁵ I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren?

⁶ But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

⁷ Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

⁸ But you do wrong and defraud, and that to your brethren.

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

¹⁰ Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.

¹¹ And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.

¹² All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

¹³ Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴ Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by his power.

¹⁵ Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

¹⁶ Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit.

¹⁸ Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

¹⁹ Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own?

²⁰ For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.