Quotes from 1 Corinthians

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

2. 3

   Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

3. 4

   When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

4. 5

   Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

5. 6

   O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

6. 7

   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.

7. 8

   Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8. 9

   And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

9. 10

   Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

10. 11

    The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

11. 12

    I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

12. 13

    Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

13. 14

    But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

14. 15

    But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

15. 16

    Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak.

16. 17

    Let all things be done decently and in order.

17. 18

    For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

18. 19

    We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

19. 20

    If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

20. 21

    For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

21. 22

    The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.