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1 Corinthians · read by George Verwer
77 verses, in order. Only the verses George read aloud are shown.
1 Corinthians 1
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I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.Read from NKJV · Spiritual Leadership in the Book of Acts
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?Read from ESV · How Disunity Comes - Peshawar 17.3.85
1 Corinthians 4
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For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.Read from KJV · Reality & Paul 1
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We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.Read from KJV · (The Book of Acts) Session 10
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To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.Read from KJV · Power for the Christian Life
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We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;Read from KJV · Power for the Christian Life
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when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.Read from KJV · Reality & Paul 1
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I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.Read from KJV · 6 Blessings + 6 Barriers
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Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.Read from KJV · (The Book of Acts) Session 10
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Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.Read from KJV · Power for the Christian Life
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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.Read from KJV · (The Book of Acts) Session 10
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.Read from NKJV · Singapore Ilm 23.1.1996
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Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?Read from KJV · Reality & Paul 1
1 Corinthians 7
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The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.Read from KJV · Fiery Darts of Immorality
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The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Our Weapons Faith - Part 1
1 Corinthians 9
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Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?Read from NASB1995 · The Labourer Is Worthy of His Hire
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Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn't the Law say the same thing?Read from NASB1995 · The Labourer Is Worthy of His Hire
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For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it about oxen that God is concerned?Read from NASB1995 · The Labourer Is Worthy of His Hire
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Isn't He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.Read from NASB1995 · The Labourer Is Worthy of His Hire
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If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?Read from NASB1995 · The Labourer Is Worthy of His Hire
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If others have this right to your support, shouldn't we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.Read from KJV · Tent Making 1 Cor 9
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Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?Read from NASB1995 · The Labourer Is Worthy of His Hire
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In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.Read from KJV · Tent Making 1 Cor 9
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But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.Read from KJV · Tent Making 1 Cor 9
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Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!Read from KJV · Tent Making 1 Cor 9
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Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) the Pull of the Flesh - Part 1
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To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) the Pull of the Flesh - Part 1
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To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.Read from KJV · Pull of the Flesh 1 Cor 9
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To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) the Pull of the Flesh - Part 1
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I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) the Pull of the Flesh - Part 1
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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.Read from KJV · Thoughts in the Book of Judges
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Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.Read from KJV · Survivalship
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Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.Read from KJV · Thoughts in the Book of Judges
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No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.Read from KJV · In God's Race (Keswick Convention)
1 Corinthians 10
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I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.Read from KJV · False Motives
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They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.Read from KJV · Perils of the Victorious Life
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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.Read from KJV · Perils of the Victorious Life
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) the Pull of the Flesh - Part 2
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These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.Read from KJV · Perils of the Victorious Life
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Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry."Read from KJV · False Motives
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We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.Read from KJV · Perils of the Victorious Life
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) the Pull of the Flesh - Part 2
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And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.Read from KJV · Perils of the Victorious Life
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Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.Read from KJV · Perils of the Victorious Life
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So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) the Pull of the Flesh - Part 2
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No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.Read from KJV · Resisting Temptation
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I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.Read from KJV · Perils of the Victorious Life
1 Corinthians 12
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The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.Read from NKJV · Remember the Work of the Lord
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For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.Read from NASB1995 · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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If they were all one part, where would the body be?Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you." Nor can the head say to the feet, "I do not need you."Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.Read from KJV · Remember the Work of the Lord
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Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?Read from KJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
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But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.Read from NKJV · (Om Orientation) Action - Part 2
1 Corinthians 13
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If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.Read from NKJV · Spiritual Balance
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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Read from KJV · Spiritual Balance
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When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.Read from NKJV · Spiritual Balance
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Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.Read from KJV · Spiritual Balance
1 Corinthians 15
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Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—Read from KJV · Ingemar Emker - Called Home
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in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.Read from KJV · Ingemar Emker - Called Home
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For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.Read from NKJV · Ingemar Emker - Called Home
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.Read from NKJV · Ingemar Emker - Called Home
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But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Read from ESV · Ingemar Emker - Called Home
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Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.Read from KJV · Ingemar Emker - Called Home