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1 Corinthians · read by Phil Beach Jr.
171 verses, in order. Only the verses Phil read aloud are shown.
1 Corinthians 1
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Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,Read from NKJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:Read from KJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · Carnal Corinthians
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I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.Read from KJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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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 NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.Read from KJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ."Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?Read from ESV · Forgiven and Crucified
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I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,Read from KJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not remember if I baptized anyone else.Read from KJV · Forgiven and Crucified
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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.Read from KJV · The Word of the Cross
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.Read from KJV · The Kind of Person God Can Use
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For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."Read from NKJV · Stewardship - Your Real Job
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Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?Read from KJV · The Word of the Cross
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For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.Read from KJV · Stewardship - Your Real Job
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but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,Read from KJV · Stewardship - Your Real Job
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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.Read from KJV · Stewardship - Your Real Job
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.Read from NASB1995 · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,Read from KJV · The Kind of Person God Can Use
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It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.Read from KJV · The Word of the Cross
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Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."Read from KJV · The Flesh Life
1 Corinthians 2
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When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.Read from NKJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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so that your faith would not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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Rather, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him."Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone's judgment.Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
1 Corinthians 3
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Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.Read from KJV · The Flesh Life
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I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?Read from KJV · The Flesh Life
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For when one of you says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.Read from KJV · The Trial of Your Faith - 1pet 5_8+1cor 3_13
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I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.Read from KJV · The Trial of Your Faith - 1pet 5_8+1cor 3_13
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He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.Read from KJV · The Temple - the Church, Christ Expressed
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For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.Read from KJV · The Trial of Your Faith - 1pet 5_8+1cor 3_13
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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.Read from KJV · The Temple - the Church, Christ Expressed
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For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · The Trial of Your Faith - 1pet 5_8+1cor 3_13
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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,Read from KJV · The Trial of Your Faith - 1pet 5_8+1cor 3_13
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his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man's work.Read from KJV · The Trial of Your Faith - 1pet 5_8+1cor 3_13
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If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.Read from KJV · The Temple - the Church, Christ Expressed
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If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.Read from KJV · The Temple - the Church, Christ Expressed
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If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.Read from KJV · Defiling the Temple of God
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Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.Read from KJV · Stewardship - Your Real Job
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness."Read from KJV · From the Beginning It Was Not So
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And again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,Read from NKJV · Stewardship - Your Real Job
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and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.Read from ESV · From the Beginning It Was Not So
1 Corinthians 4
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So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.Read from KJV · Tested in the Wilderness I
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Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.Read from KJV · Tested in the Wilderness I
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I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.Read from KJV · Tested in the Wilderness I
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My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
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Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.Read from NASB1995 · Carnal Corinthians
1 Corinthians 5
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It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.Read from KJV · Godly Sorrow - 1 Cor 5+2 Cor 7
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And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?Read from KJV · Godly Sorrow - 1 Cor 5+2 Cor 7
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Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.Read from KJV · The House of God Lies in Ruin - Final Thoughts on Repentance
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When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,Read from NKJV · Godly Sorrow - 1 Cor 5+2 Cor 7
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hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.Read from KJV · The Dangers of Self Deception Part 5 - Evil Association
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Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.Read from KJV · Godly Sorrow - 1 Cor 5+2 Cor 7
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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.Read from KJV · Godly Sorrow - 1 Cor 5+2 Cor 7
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I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.Read from KJV · The Dangers of Self Deception Part 5 - Evil Association
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I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.Read from KJV · Godly Sorrow - 1 Cor 5+2 Cor 7
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What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?Read from KJV · Godly Sorrow - 1 Cor 5+2 Cor 7
1 Corinthians 6
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If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!Read from KJV · Are You a Murderer
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So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?Read from KJV · Are You a Murderer
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Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!Read from NASB1995 · Are You a Murderer
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The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?Read from KJV · Are You a Murderer
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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,Read from KJV · The Holy War Eph 5_23
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nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.Read from KJV · The Captivity of the Righteous Part 8 - Jobs Captivity Turned
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And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.Read from KJV · The Holy War Eph 5_23
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"Everything is permissible for me," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be mastered by anything.Read from NASB1995 · A New Birth
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"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.Read from NASB1995 · A New Birth
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By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.Read from NASB1995 · A New Birth
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Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!Read from KJV · The Holy War Eph 5_23
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Or don't you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."Read from KJV · The Holy War Eph 5_23
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But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.Read from NASB1995 · A New Birth
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Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.Read from KJV · The Holy War Eph 5_23
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Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;Read from KJV · The Holy War Eph 5_23
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you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.Read from NASB1995 · Are You Playing the Fool Part 1
1 Corinthians 7
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those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;Read from KJV · New Wineskins
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and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.Read from KJV · New Wineskins
1 Corinthians 9
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Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?Read from NKJV · Follow Me Pt2
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Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?Read from KJV · Follow Me Pt2
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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 NASB1995 · Thorns That Choke the Word
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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 · How Can to Walk Unless They Be Agreed (Amos 3_3)
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Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.Read from KJV · How Can to Walk Unless They Be Agreed (Amos 3_3)
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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 · How Can to Walk Unless They Be Agreed (Amos 3_3)
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 · The Life of Faith Pt1
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They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.Read from KJV · The Life of Faith Pt1
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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 · Building the House of God - Overcoming Sin in Trials
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.Read from KJV · The Life of Faith Pt1
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These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.Read from KJV · Building the House of God - Overcoming Sin in Trials
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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 ESV · Building the House of God - Overcoming Sin in Trials
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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 · The Life of Faith Pt1
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.Read from KJV · The Life of Faith Pt1
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And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.Read from KJV · The Life of Faith Pt1
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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 · The Life of Faith Pt1
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So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.Read from KJV · The Life of Faith Pt1
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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 · The Life of Faith Pt1
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Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?Read from NASB1995 · Do Nots Against the Holy Spirit
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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.Read from ESV · The Deep Dealings of God Part 28 - Let Us Go on Unto Perfection - Gods Love
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Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—Read from KJV · Follow Me Pt2
1 Corinthians 11
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 · Are You Following Jesus - Part 6 - Man Centered or Christ Centered
1 Corinthians 13
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.Read from KJV · The Deep Dealings of God Pt 23 - Let Us Go on Unto Perfection - God's Love [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 KJV · Qualities That Measure Spiritual Maturity Part 2
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If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.Read from KJV · Qualities That Measure Spiritual Maturity - Part 2
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.Read from KJV · Qualities That Measure Spiritual Maturity - Part 5 - Forgiveness and Contentment
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It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.Read from KJV · Qualities That Measure Spiritual Maturity - Part 5 - Forgiveness and Contentment
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Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.Read from NKJV · The Deep Dealings of God Pt 30 - Let Us Go Unto Perfection - God's Love Bears All Things
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It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Read from NASB1995 · Qualities That Measure Spiritual Maturity - Part 5 - Forgiveness and Contentment
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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 · Call to Sonship - Heb 4_12
1 Corinthians 14
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So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
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and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, "God is truly among you!"Read from KJV · Holy Spirit - Our Revealer
1 Corinthians 15
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For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,Read from NKJV · He Is Risen!
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After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.Read from NKJV · He Is Risen!
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But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.Read from NKJV · He Is Risen!
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In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.Read from KJV · He Is Risen!
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For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.Read from KJV · Immortality - the Lords Coming - a Consummation
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But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.Read from KJV · Immortality - the Lords Coming - a Consummation
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Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.Read from KJV · Immortality - the Lords Coming - a Consummation
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For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.Read from KJV · Immortality - the Lords Coming - a Consummation
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Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good character."Read from KJV · The Captivity of the Righteous Part 8 - Jobs Captivity Turned
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So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being;" the last Adam a life-giving spirit.Read from KJV · He Says the Old Is Better
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The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.Read from KJV · He Says the Old Is Better
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Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—Read from ESV · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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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 ESV · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."Read from NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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"Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?"Read from ESV · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.Read from ESV · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Read from ESV · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
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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 NASB1995 · Empowered by the Holy Spirit Part 4
1 Corinthians 16
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Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.Read from KJV · Quit Ye Like Men