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1 Corinthians · read by Ron Bailey
88 verses, in order. Only the verses Ron 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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session One - Part 2
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I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Four - Part 1
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My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?Read from ESV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,Read from ESV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 1
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 2
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 2
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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 2
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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 2
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I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.Read from NASB1995 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 2
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 2
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 2
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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"For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
1 Corinthians 3
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Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Two - Part 3
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I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
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and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.Read from ESV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 3
1 Corinthians 4
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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 KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 2
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Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 1
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 1
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Therefore I urge you to imitate me.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 1
1 Corinthians 5
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Five - Part 2
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Five - Part 2
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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 KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Five - Part 2
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Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?Read from ESV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Five - Part 2
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Five - Part 2
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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 1
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Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 1
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Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!Read from NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 1
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 1
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I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 1
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Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!Read from NASB1995 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 1
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 1
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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 · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 2
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 3
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you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Six - Part 3
1 Corinthians 7
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Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Seven - Part 3
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Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Seven - Part 3
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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 NKJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Four - Part 1
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A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Seven - Part 1
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In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Seven - Part 1
1 Corinthians 8
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Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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 · If Any Man stand..
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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 · If Any Man stand..
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.Read from KJV · If Any Man stand..
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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 · If Any Man stand..
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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 · If Any Man stand..
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.Read from KJV · If Any Man stand..
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And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.Read from KJV · If Any Man stand..
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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 · If Any Man stand..
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So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.Read from KJV · If Any Man stand..
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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 · If Any Man stand..
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"Everything is permissible," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible," but not everything is edifying.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 11
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If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.Read from KJV · Church Live Re-Visited: Session Three - Part 1
1 Corinthians 14
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But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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It is the same with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, strive to excel in gifts that build up the church.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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Therefore, the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other one is not edified.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13
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Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.Read from NKJV · Church Life Revisited- 1 Corinthians 13