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## Korintim Alef

### Chapter 1

1Sha'ul, called to be an shaliach of Yeshua Mashiach through the will of Elohim, and our brother Sosthenes, 2to the assembly of Elohim which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Mashiach Yeshua, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Adonai Yeshua Mashiach in every place, both theirs and ours: 3Grace to you and peace from Elohim our Father and Adonai Yeshua Mashiach. 4I always thank my Elohim concerning you for the grace of Elohim which was given you in Mashiach Yeshua, 5that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge— 6even as the testimony of Mashiach was confirmed in you— 7so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Adonai Yeshua Mashiach, 8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Adonai Yeshua Mashiach. 9Elohim is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Yeshua Mashiach our Adonai. 10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Adonai, Yeshua Mashiach, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions amongst you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgement. 11For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions amongst you. 12Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Sha'ul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Kefa,” and, “I follow Mashiach.” 13Is Mashiach divided? Was Sha'ul crucified for you? Or were you immersed into the name of Sha'ul? 14I thank Elohim that I immersed none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15so that no one should say that I had immersed you into my own name. 16(I also immersed the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I immersed any other.) 17For Mashiach sent me not to immerse, but to preach the Besorah—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Mashiach wouldn’t be made void. 18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of Elohim. 19For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.” 20Where is the wise? Where is the HaSofer? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t Elohim made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For seeing that in the wisdom of Elohim, the world through its wisdom didn’t know Elohim, it was Elohim’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. 22For Yehudim ask for signs, Yevanim seek after wisdom, 23but we preach Mashiach crucified, a stumbling block to Yehudim and foolishness to Yevanim, 24but to those who are called, both Yehudim and Yevanim, Mashiach is the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim; 25because the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men, and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men. 26For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; 27but Elohim chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. Elohim chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. 28Elohim chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, 29that no flesh should boast before Elohim. 30Because of him, you are in Mashiach Yeshua, who was made to us wisdom from Elohim, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 31that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in Adonai.”

### Chapter 2

1When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of Elohim. 2For I determined not to know anything amongst you except Yeshua Mashiach and him crucified. 3I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Ruach and of power, 5that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of Elohim. 6We speak wisdom, however, amongst those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. 7But we speak Elohim’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which Elohim foreordained before the worlds for our glory, 8which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified Adonai of glory. 9But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these Elohim has prepared for those who love him.” 10But to us, Elohim revealed them through the Ruach. For the Ruach searches all things, yes, the deep things of Elohim. 11For who amongst men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of Elohim except Elohim’s Ruach. 12But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Ruach which is from Elohim, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by Elohim. 13We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Ruach HaKodesh teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of Elohim’s Ruach, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. 16“For who has known the mind of Adonai that he should instruct him?” But we have Mashiach’s mind.

### Chapter 3

1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Mashiach. 2I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, 3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions amongst you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men? 4For when one says, “I follow Sha'ul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly? 5Who then is Apollos, and who is Sha'ul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as Adonai gave to him? 6I planted. Apollos watered. But Elohim gave the increase. 7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but Elohim who gives the increase. 8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9For we are Elohim’s fellow workers. You are Elohim’s farming, Elohim’s building. 10According to the grace of Elohim which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. 11For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Yeshua Mashiach. 12But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. 14If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 15If any man’s work is burnt, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. 16Don’t you know that you are Elohim’s Beit HaMikdash and that Elohim’s Ruach lives in you? 17If anyone destroys Elohim’s Beit HaMikdash, Elohim will destroy him; for Elohim’s Beit HaMikdash is kodesh, which you are. 18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise amongst you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Elohim. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.” 20And again, “Adonai knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.” 21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 22whether Sha'ul, or Apollos, or Kefa, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, 23and you are Mashiach’s, and Mashiach is Elohim’s.

### Chapter 4

1So let a man think of us as Mashiach’s servants and stewards of Elohim’s mysteries. 2Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self. 4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is Adonai. 5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until Adonai comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from Elohim. 6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. 7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? 8You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you! 9For I think that Elohim has displayed us, the shlichim, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to malakim and men. 10We are fools for Mashiach’s sake, but you are wise in Mashiach. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honour, but we have dishonour. 11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. 13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now. 14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Mashiach, you don’t have many fathers. For in Mashiach Yeshua, I became your father through the Besorah. 16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. 17Because of this I have sent Timotheus to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in Adonai, who will remind you of my ways which are in Mashiach, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly. 18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 19But I will come to you shortly, if Adonai is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. 20For Elohim’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power. 21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

### Chapter 5

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality amongst you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named amongst the Goyim, that one has his father’s wife. 2You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from amongst you. 3For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. 4In the name of our Adonai Yeshua Mashiach, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Adonai Yeshua Mashiach, 5you are to deliver such a one to HaSatan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of Adonai Yeshua. 6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? 7Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Mashiach, our Pesach, has been sacrificed in our place. 8Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; 10yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. 11But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person. 12For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within? 13But those who are outside, Elohim judges. “Put away the wicked man from amongst yourselves.”

### Chapter 6

1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3Don’t you know that we will judge malakim? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? 5I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man amongst you who would be able to decide between his brothers? 6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 7Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers. 9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit Elohim’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit Elohim’s Kingdom. 11Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of Adonai Yeshua, and in the Ruach of our Elohim. 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 anything. 13“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but Elohim will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for Adonai, and Adonai for the body. 14Now Elohim raised up Adonai, and will also raise us up by his power. 15Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Mashiach? Shall I then take the members of Mashiach and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.” 17But he who is joined to Adonai is one spirit. 18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or don’t you know that your body is a Beit HaMikdash of the Ruach HaKodesh who is in you, whom you have from Elohim? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are Elohim’s.

### Chapter 7

1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband. 4The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that HaSatan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6But this I say by way of concession, not of mitzvah. 7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from Elohim, one of this kind, and another of that kind. 8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. 9But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion. 10But to the married I command—not I, but Adonai—that the wife not leave her husband 11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. 12But to the rest I—not Adonai—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. 13The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are kodesh. 15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but Elohim has called us in peace. 16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 17Only, as Adonai has distributed to each man, as Elohim has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. 18Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping Elohim’s mitzvot. 20Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. 21Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. 22For he who was called in Adonai being a bondservant is Adonai’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Mashiach’s bondservant. 23You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men. 24Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with Elohim. 25Now concerning virgins, I have no mitzvah from Adonai, but I give my judgement as one who has obtained mercy from Adonai to be trustworthy. 26Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is. 27Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. 28But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. 29But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; 30and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess; 31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away. 32But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of Adonai, how he may please Adonai; 33but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 34There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of Adonai, that she may be kodesh both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. 35This I say for your own benefit, not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to Adonai without distraction. 36But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately towards his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. 37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well. 38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better. 39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in Adonai. 40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgement, and I think that I also have Elohim’s Ruach.

### Chapter 8

1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know. 3But anyone who loves Elohim is known by him. 4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other Elohim but one. 5For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 6yet to us there is one Elohim, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Adonai, Yeshua Mashiach, through whom are all things, and we live through him. 7However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8But food will not commend us to Elohim. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better. 9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s Beit HaMikdash, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Mashiach died. 12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Mashiach. 13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

### Chapter 9

1Am I not free? Am I not an shaliach? Haven’t I seen Yeshua Mashiach, our Adonai? Aren’t you my work in Adonai? 2If to others I am not an shaliach, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in Adonai. 3My defence to those who examine me is this: 4Have we no right to eat and to drink? 5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the shlichim, and the brothers of Adonai, and Kefa? 6Or have only Bar-Naba and I no right to not work? 7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk? 8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing? 9For it is written in the law of Moshe, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that Elohim cares, 10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who ploughs ought to plough in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. 11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? 12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Besorah of Mashiach. 13Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the Beit HaMikdash, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? 14Even so Adonai ordained that those who proclaim the Besorah should live from the Besorah. 15But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void. 16For if I preach the Besorah, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Besorah. 17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. 18What then is my reward? That when I preach the Besorah, I may present the Besorah of Mashiach without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Besorah. 19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 20To the Yehudim I became as a Yehudi, that I might gain Yehudim; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law towards Elohim, but under law towards Mashiach), that I might win those who are without law. 22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23Now I do this for the sake of the Besorah, that I may be a joint partaker of it. 24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win. 25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, 27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

### Chapter 10

1Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2and were all immersed into Moshe in the cloud and in the sea; 3and all ate the same spiritual food; 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Mashiach. 5However with most of them, Elohim was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 8Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 9Let’s not test Mashiach, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. 10Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. 11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. 13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. Elohim is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. 16The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Mashiach? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Mashiach? 17Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. 18Consider Yisrael according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? 19What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20But I say that the things which the Goyim sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to Elohim, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons. 21You can’t both drink the cup of Adonai and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of Adonai and of the table of demons. 22Or do we provoke Adonai to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 23“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. 24Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbour’s good. 25Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, 26for “the earth is Adonai’s, and its fullness.” 27But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. 28But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is Adonai’s, with all its fullness.” 29Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? 30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for? 31Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the kavod of Elohim. 32Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Yehudim, to Yevanim, or to the assembly of Elohim; 33even 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

1Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Mashiach. 2Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. 3But I would have you know that the head of every man is Mashiach, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Mashiach is Elohim. 4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonours his head. 5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonours her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. 6For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered. 7For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and kavod of Elohim, but the woman is the glory of the man. 8For man is not from woman, but woman from man; 9for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man. 10For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the malakim. 11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in Adonai. 12For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from Elohim. 13Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to Elohim unveiled? 14Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonour to him? 15But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering. 16But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do Elohim’s assemblies. 17But in giving you this command I don’t praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist amongst you, and I partly believe it. 19For there also must be factions amongst you, that those who are approved may be revealed amongst you. 20When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not Adonai’s supper that you eat. 21For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken. 22What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise Elohim’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you. 23For I received from Adonai that which also I delivered to you, that Adonai Yeshua on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. 24When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.” 25In the same way he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the Brit Chadashah in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.” 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim Adonai’s death until he comes. 27Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks Adonai’s cup in a way unworthy of Adonai will be guilty of the body and the blood of Adonai. 28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgement to himself if he doesn’t discern Adonai’s body. 30For this cause many amongst you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 31For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged. 32But when we are judged, we are disciplined by Adonai, that we may not be condemned with the world. 33Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgement. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

### Chapter 12

1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. 2You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led. 3Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by Elohim’s Ruach says, “Yeshua is accursed.” No one can say, “Yeshua is Adonai,” but by the Ruach HaKodesh. 4Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Ruach. 5There are various kinds of service, and the same Adonai. 6There are various kinds of workings, but the same Elohim who works all things in all. 7But to each one is given the manifestation of the Ruach for the profit of all. 8For to one is given through the Ruach the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Ruach, 9to another faith by the same Ruach, and to another gifts of healings by the same Ruach, 10and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages. 11But the one and the same Ruach produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. 12For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Mashiach. 13For in one Ruach we were all immersed into one body, whether Yehudim or Yevanim, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Ruach. 14For the body is not one member, but many. 15If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body. 16If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? 18But now Elohim has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired. 19If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20But now they are many members, but one body. 21The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.” 22No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23Those parts of the body which we think to be less honourable, on those we bestow more abundant honour; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant modesty, 24while our presentable parts have no such need. But Elohim composed the body together, giving more abundant honour to the inferior part, 25that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 27Now you are the body of Mashiach, and members individually. 28Elohim has set some in the assembly: first shlichim, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages. 29Are all shlichim? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? 30Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret? 31But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

### Chapter 13

1If I speak with the languages of men and of malakim, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2If 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 don’t have love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. 13But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

### Chapter 14

1Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 2For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to Elohim, for no one understands, but in the Ruach he speaks mysteries. 3But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation. 4He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. 5Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but even more that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up. 6But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? 7Even lifeless things that make a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? 8For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? 9So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air. 10There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning. 11If then I don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me. 12So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly. 13Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret. 14For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15What should I do? 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. 16Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say? 17For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up. 18I thank my Elohim, I speak with other languages more than you all. 19However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language. 20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. 21In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says Adonai.” 22Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. 23If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy? 24But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. 25And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship Elohim, declaring that Elohim is amongst you indeed. 26What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up. 27If any man speaks in another language, let there be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret. 28But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to Elohim. 29Let two or three of the prophets speak, and let the others discern. 30But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent. 31For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be exhorted. 32The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, 33for Elohim is not a Elohim of confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. 34Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says, 35if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.” 36What!? Was it from you that the word of Elohim went out? Or did it come to you alone? 37If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognise the things which I write to you, that they are the mitzvah of Adonai. 38But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. 39Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages. 40Let all things be done decently and in order.

### Chapter 15

1Now I declare to you, brothers, the Besorah which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, 2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Mashiach died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Kefa, then to the twelve. 6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to Yaakov, then to all the shlichim, 8and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. 9For I am the least of the shlichim, who is not worthy to be called an shaliach, because I persecuted the assembly of Elohim. 10But by the grace of Elohim I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of Elohim which was with me. 11Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. 12Now if Mashiach is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some amongst you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Mashiach been raised. 14If Mashiach has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain. 15Yes, we are also found false witnesses of Elohim, because we testified about Elohim that he raised up Mashiach, whom he didn’t raise up if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Mashiach been raised. 17If Mashiach has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. 18Then they also who are fallen asleep in Mashiach have perished. 19If we have only hoped in Mashiach in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. 20But now Mashiach has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep. 21For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. 22For as in Adam all die, so also in Mashiach all will be made alive. 23But each in his own order: Mashiach the first fruits, then those who are Mashiach’s at his coming. 24Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to Elohim the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. 25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy that will be abolished is death. 27For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. 28When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that Elohim may be all in all. 29Or else what will they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they immersed for the dead? 30Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? 31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Mashiach Yeshua our Adonai, I die daily. 32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” 34Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of Elohim. I say this to your shame. 35But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?” 36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. 38But Elohim gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. 39All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. 40There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial. 41There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. 42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body. 45So also it is written, “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46However, that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual. 47The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is Adonai from heaven. 48As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly. 50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit Elohim’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable. 51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to Elohim, who gives us the victory through our Adonai Yeshua Mashiach. 58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in Adonai’s work, because you know that your labour is not in vain in Adonai.

### Chapter 16

1Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. 2On the first day of every week, let each one of you save as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come. 3When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem. 4If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me. 5I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia. 6But with you it may be that I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go. 7For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if Adonai permits. 8But I will stay at Ephesus until Chag HaShavuot, 9for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. 10Now if Timotheus comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of Adonai, as I also do. 11Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers. 12Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity. 13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! 14Let all that you do be done in love. 15Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints— 16that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labours. 17I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. 18For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that. 19The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in Adonai, together with the assembly that is in their house. 20All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a kodesh kiss. 21This greeting is by me, Sha'ul, with my own hand. 22If any man doesn’t love Adonai Yeshua Mashiach, let him be cursed. Come, Adonai! 23The grace of Adonai Yeshua Mashiach be with you. 24My love to all of you in Mashiach Yeshua. Amen.

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