A man should  ¹account us  ²in this way, as  ³servants of Christ and  ⁴stewards of the mysteries of God.

 ¹Here, furthermore, it is sought in stewards that one be found faithful.

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be  ¹examined by you or by  ²man's day; rather I do not even examine myself.

For I am conscious of nothing against myself; but I am not justified in this, but He who examines me is the Lord.

So then do not  ¹judge anything  ²before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then there will be praise to each from God.

Now  ¹these things, brothers, I have  ²transferred in figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us the matter of not going beyond  ³what has been written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one, against the other.

For  ¹who distinguishes you? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though not having received it?

 ¹Already you are filled; already you have become rich; you have reigned without us. And I would have it indeed that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For, I think, God has set forth us the apostles  ¹last of all as  ²doomed to death, because we have become a  ³spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

We are  ¹fools because of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ; we are  ²weak, but you are strong; you are  ³glorious, but we are dishonored.

Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and buffeted and wander without a home;

And we labor, working with our own hands. Reviled we bless; persecuted we endure;

 ¹Defamed we  ²exhort. We have become as the  ³offscouring of the world, the scum of all things, until now.

It is not to shame you that I write these things but to admonish you as my beloved children.

For though you have ten thousand  ¹guides in Christ, yet you do not have many  ²fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

I  ¹exhort you therefore, Become imitators of me.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my  ¹ways which are in Christ, even as I teach  ²everywhere in every church.

Now some have become puffed up as though I were not coming to you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will ascertain not the speech of those who are puffed up but the power.

For the  ¹kingdom of God is not in speech but in power.

What do you want? Should I come to you with a  ¹rod or in love and a  ²spirit of meekness?

It is actually reported that there is  ¹fornication among you, and such fornication that does not even occur among the Gentiles, that someone has his  ²stepmother.

And you are puffed up? And have you not rather mourned, that the one who has done this deed might be  ¹removed from your midst?

For I, on my part, though being absent in the body but present  ¹in the spirit, have already judged, as if being present, him who has thus done this,

 ¹In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you and  ²my spirit have been assembled, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

 ¹To deliver such a one to Satan for the  ²destruction of his  ³flesh,  ⁴that his spirit may be saved in the  ⁵day of the Lord.

Your  ¹boasting is not good. Do you not know that a  ²little  ³leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out the old leaven that you may be a  ¹new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our  ²Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed.

So then let us keep the  ¹feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in my letter not to  ¹mingle with fornicators,

But not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.

But now I have written to you not to mingle with anyone who is called a brother, if he is a  ¹fornicator or a covetous man or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or a rapacious man, with such a one not even to eat.

For what have I to do with judging those who are outside the church? Do you not judge those who are within the church?

But those who are outside, God will judge.  ¹Remove the evil man from among yourselves.

Does any one of you who has a  ¹case against another dare to be judged before the  ²unrighteous and not before the saints?

Or do you not know that the saints will  ¹judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the  ²smallest  ³judgments?

Do you not know that we will  ¹judge angels, not to mention things of this life?

If then you hold judgments over things of this life, do you seat as judges  ¹those who are of no account in the church?

I say this to your shame. So there is no one wise among you, who will be able to discern between his brothers?

But brother  ¹goes to court with brother, and this before unbelievers.

Already then it is altogether a  ¹defeat to you that you have  ²lawsuits with one another. Why not  ³rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

But you wrong and defraud, and this your brothers.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not  ¹inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

Nor thieves nor the covetous, not drunkards, not revilers, not the rapacious will inherit the kingdom of God.

And these things were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were  ¹justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

 ¹All things are  ²lawful to me, but not all things are  ³profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be  ⁴brought under the power of anything.

 ¹Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both it and them. But the  ²body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And God has both raised up the Lord and will  ¹raise us up through His power.

Do you not know that your bodies are  ¹members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute?  ²Absolutely not!

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For He says, “The two shall be one flesh.”

But he who is  ¹joined to the Lord is  ²one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every  ¹sin which a man may do is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the  ¹Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For you have been bought with a  ¹price. So then  ²glorify God in your body.