God is to be trusted.
(1 Corinthians 1:8, Good News Bible)
The message about Christ’s death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved, it is God’s power.
(1 Corinthians 1:18, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God has shown that this world’s wisdom is foolishness!
(1 Corinthians 1:20, Good News Bible)
In his wisdom God made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom.
(1 Corinthians 1:21)
Jews ask for miracles, and Greeks want something that sounds wise. But we preach that Christ was nailed to a cross. Most Jews have problems with this, and most Gentiles think it is foolish.
(1 Corinthians 1:22-23, Contemporary English Version)
Jews want miracles for proof, and Greeks look for wisdom. As for us, we proclaim Christ on the cross, a message that is offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles.
(1 Corinthians 1:22-23, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
What seems to be God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and what seems to be God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
(1 Corinthians 1:25, Good News Bible)
Even when God is foolish, he is wiser than everyone else, and even when God is weak, he is stronger than everyone else.
(1 Corinthians 1:25, Contemporary English Version)
God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful. He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.
(1 Corinthians 1:27-28, Good News Bible)
God chose the foolish things of this world to put the wise to shame. He chose the weak things of this world to put the powerful to shame.
What the world thinks is worthless, useless, and nothing at all is what God has used to destroy what the world consider important.
(1 Corinthians 1:27-28, Contemporary English Version)
Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God’s power.
(1 Corinthians 2:5, Good News Bible)
Only God’s Spirit knows all about God.
(1 Corinthians 2:11)
God`s Spirit is the only one who knows what is in God`s mind. But God has given us his Spirit. That`s why we don`t think the same way that the people of this world think.
(1 Corinthians 2:11-12, Contemporary English Version)
No one can really know what anyone else is thinking, or what he is really like, except that person himself. And no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
(1 Corinthians 2:11, Living Bible)
The spiritual man tries all things - he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things.
(1 Corinthians 2:15)
When there is jealousy among you, and you quarrel with one another, doesn’t this prove that you are men of this world, living by this world’s standards?
(1 Corinthians 3:3, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The one who plants and the one who waters really do not matter. It is God who matters, for he makes the plant grow.
(1 Corinthians 3:7, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
We are partners working together for God, and you are God’s field.
(1 Corinthians 3:9)
Surely you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s spirit lives in you! So if anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.
(1 Corinthians 3:16, Good News Bible)
God’s temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.
(1 Corinthians 3:17)
If anyone among you thinks that he is a wise man by this world’s standards, he should become a fool, in order to be really wise. For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God’s sight.
(1 Corinthians 3:18-19, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
No one should boast about what human beings can do.
(1 Corinthians 3:21, Good News Bible)
You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
(1 Corinthians 3:23, Good News Bible)
The one thing required of the man in charge is that he be faithful to his master
(1 Corinthians 4:2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
My conscience I clear, but that does not prove that I am really innocent.
(1 Corinthians 4:4, Good News Bible)
None of you should be proud of one person and despise another. Who made you superior to others?
(1 Corinthians 4:6-7, Good News Bible)
What have you that was not given to you?
(1 Corinthians 4:7)
When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; when we are insulted, we answer back with kind words.
(1 Corinthians 4:12-13, Good News Bible)
The Kingdom of God consists of and is based on not talk but power - moral power and excellence of soul.
(1 Corinthians 4:20)
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of words, but of power.
(1 Corinthians 4:20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God`s kingdom isn`t just a lot of words. It is power.
(1 Corinthians 4:20, Contemporary English Version)
It is not right for you to be proud!
(1 Corinthians 5:6, Good News Bible)
Stop being proud!
(1 Corinthians 5:6, Contemporary English Version)
You would have to leave this world to get away from everyone who is immoral.
(1 Corinthians 5:10, Contemporary English Version)
The wicked will not possess God’s kingdom.
(1 Corinthians 6:9, Good News Bible)
People who are immoral, or worship idols, or are adulterers, or homosexual perverts, or who rob, or are greedy, or are drunkards, or who slander others, ort are lawbreakers - none of these will receive God’s Kingdom.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
I am not going to let anything make me its slave.
(1 Corinthians 6:12, Good News Bible)
Not everything is good for us. So I refuse to let anything have power over me.
(1 Corinthians 6:12, Contemporary English Version)
The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord.
(1 Corinthians 6:13, Good News Bible)
We are not supposed to do indecent things with our bodies. We are to use them for the Lord who is in charge of our bodies.
(1 Corinthians 6:13, Contemporary English Version)
A man’s body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.
(1 Corinthians 6:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
He who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.
(1 Corinthians 6:17, Good News Bible)
Anyone who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit with him.
(1 Corinthians 6:17, Contemporary English Version)
You do not belong to yourselves but to God; he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God’s glory.
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You are no longer your own. God paid a great price for you. So use your body to honor God.
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Contemporary English Version)
Your husband or wife who isn`t a follower is made holy by having you as a mate.
(1 Corinthians 7:14, Contemporary English Version)
God has called you to live in peace.
(1 Corinthians 7:15)
I tell the people to stay as they were when the Lord Jesus chose them and God called them to be his own. … So don`t try to change what you were when God chose you. … Stay what you were when God chose you.
(1 Corinthians 7:17, 20, 24, Contemporary English Version)
Being circumcised or not means nothing. What matters is to obey God’s commandments. Every man should remain as he was when he accepted God’s call. Were you a slave when God called you? Well, never mind, but if you do have a chance to become a free man, use it. For a slave who has been called by the Lord is the Lord’s free man; in the same way a free man who has been called by Christ is his slave. God bought you for a price; so do not become men’s slaves.
(1 Corinthians 7:19-23, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
The world as we know it is now passing away.
(1 Corinthians 7:31, Contemporary English Version)
I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best.
(1 Corinthians 7:35, Living Bible)
Love builds up.
(1 Corinthians 8:1, Good News Bible)
Knowledge makes us proud of ourselves, while love makes us helpful to others.
(1 Corinthians 8:1, Contemporary English Version)
The person who loves God is known by him.
(1 Corinthians 8:3, Good News Bible)
The person who truly loves God is the person who is open to God`s knowledge.
(1 Corinthians 8:3, Living Bible)
An idol stands for something that does not really exist.
(1 Corinthians 8:4)
We know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God.
(1 Corinthians 8:4, Contemporary English Version)
There is for us only one God, the Father, who is the Creator of all things.
(1 Corinthians 8:6, Good News Bible)
Food, however, will not ring us any closer to God.
(1 Corinthians 8:8, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Be careful … not to let your freedom of action maker those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.
(1 Corinthians 8:9, Good News Bible)
You will be sinning against Christ by sinning against your brothers.
(1 Corinthians 8:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
It is a sin against Christ to sin against your brother by encouraging him to do something he thinks is wrong.
(1 Corinthians 8:12, Living Bible)
The Lord has ordered that those who preach the gospel should get their living form it.
(1 Corinthians 9:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
No man is going to make my reason for boasting void!
(1 Corinthians 9:15, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
I become all things to all men, that I may save some of them by whatever means are possible.
(1 Corinthians 9:22, Good News Bible)
God is faithful to His Word and to His compassionate nature, and He can be trusted not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure.
(1 Corinthians 10:13)
God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your power to resist; but at the time you are tempted he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.
(1 Corinthians 10:13, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
What is sacrificed on pagan altars is offered to demons, not to God.
(1 Corinthians 10:20, Good News Bible)
No one should be looking out for his own interests, but for the interests of others.
(1 Corinthians 10:24)
Why should it be that my freedom is judged by another person’s conscience?
(1 Corinthians 10:29, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
Do all things for God’s glory.
(1 Corinthians 10:31, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
Do not lead others into sin by your mode of life.
(1 Corinthians 10:32)
Whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for God’s glory. Live in such a way as to cause no trouble either to Jews, or Gentiles, or to the church of God. Just do as I do: I try to please everyone in all that I do, with no thought of my own good, but for the good of all, so they might be saved.
(1 Corinthians 10:31-33, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Imitate me, then, just as I imitate Christ.
(1 Corinthians 10:33, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Christ is supreme over every man, the husband is supreme over his wife, and God is supreme over Christ.
(1 Corinthians 11:3, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
As far as the Lord is concerned, men and women need each other.
(1 Corinthians 11:11, Contemporary English Version)
No doubt there must be divisions among you so that the ones who are in the right may be clearly seen.
(1 Corinthians 11:19, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to everyone for all services. Each one is given some proof of the Spirit’s presence for the good of all.
(1 Corinthians 12:6-7, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Christ is like a single body, which has many parts.
(1 Corinthians 12:12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
There is absolute necessity for the parts of the body that are considered the more weak.
(1 Corinthians 12:22)
In fact, we cannot get along without the parts of the body that seem to be the weakest.
(1 Corinthians 12:22, Contemporary English Version)
God put our bodies together in such a way that even the parts that seem the least important are valuable.
(1 Corinthians 12:24, Contemporary English Version)
God himself has put our bodies together rin such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that lack it.
(1 Corinthians 12:24, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.
(1 Corinthians 12:26, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Together you are the body of Christ.
(1 Corinthians 12:27, Contemporary English Version)
Set your hearts, then, on the more important gifts.
(1 Corinthians 12:31, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If I have no love, I am nothing.
(1 Corinthians 13:2)
I would be nothing,
unless I loved others.
(1 Corinthians 13:2, Contemporary English Version)
I may have all the faith needed to move mountains - but if I have not love, I am nothing.
(1 Corinthians 13:2, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Love is patient and kind.
(1 Corinthians 13:4)
Love is kind and patient,
Never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude.
Love isn`t selfish or quick tempered.
It doesn`t keep a record of wrongs that others do.
Love rejoices in the truth,
but not in evil.
Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful and trusting.
Love never fails!
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Contemporary English Version)
Our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
(1 Corinthians 13;9-10, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
When what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
(1 Corinthians 13:10, Good News Bible)
What is perfect will someday appear,
and what isn`t perfect will then disappear.
(1 Corinthians 13:10, Contemporary English Version)
When I was a child, my speech, feeling, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like the dim image in a mirror.
(1 Corinthians 13:11-12, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Love should be your guide.
(1 Corinthians 14:1, Contemporary English Version)
It is love, then, that you should strive for. Set you hearts on spiritual gifts.
(1 Corinthians 14:1, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray also with my mind.
(1 Corinthians 14:15, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If no one can understand what you are talking about, you will only be talking to the wind.
(1 Corinthians 14:9, Contemporary English Version)
If you really want spiritual gifts, choose the ones that will be most helpful to the church.
(1 Corinthians 14:12, Contemporary English Version)
Be grown up in your thinking.
(1 Corinthians 14:20)
Stop thinking like children. Think like mature people and be as innocent as tiny babies.
(1 Corinthians 14:20, Contemporary English Version)
Do not be like children in your thinking, brothers; be children so far as evil is concerned, but be mature in your thinking.
(1 Corinthians 14:20, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
All of you may proclaim God’s message.
(1 Corinthians 14:31)
God has not called us to be disorderly, but peaceful.
(1 Corinthians 14:33, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
God is not a god of disorder but of peace.
(1 Corinthians 14:33)
God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace.
(1 Corinthians 14:33, Good News Bible)
God wants everything to be done peacefully and in order.
(1 Corinthians 14:33, Contemporary English Version)
Set your heart on proclaiming God’s message.
(1 Corinthians 14:39)
Do everything properly and in order.
(1 Corinthians 14:40, Contemporary English Version)
Everything must be done in a proper and orderly way.
(1 Corinthians 14:40, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it.
(1 Corinthians 15:2, Good News Bible)
By God’s grace I am what I am.
(1 Corinthians 15:10)
Our message is that Christ has been raised from death.
(1 Corinthians 15:12, Good News Bible)
If Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach, and you have nothing to believe.
(1 Corinthians 15:14, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in our sins.
(1 Corinthians 15:17, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
If our hope in Christ is good for this life only, and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.
(1 Corinthians 15:19, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Just as death came by means of a man, in the same way the rising from death comes by means of a man.
(1 Corinthians 15:21)
Just as we will die because of Adam, we will be raised to life because of Christ. Adam brought death to all of us, and Christ will bring life to all of us.
(1 Corinthians 15:21-22, Contemporary English Version)
Bad friends will destroy you.
(1 Corinthians 15:33, Contemporary English Version)
Come back to your right senses and stop your sinful ways.
(1 Corinthians 15:34, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
You should be embarrassed that some people still don`t know about God.
(1 Corinthians 15:34, Contemporary English Version)
God gives everything the kind of body he wants it to have.
(1 Corinthians 15:38, Contemporary English Version)
These bodies will die, but the bodies that are raised will live forever.
(1 Corinthians 15:42, Contemporary English Version)
When the body is buried it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal. When buried, it is ugly and weak; when raised, it will be beautiful and strong. When buried it is a physical body; when raised, it will be a spiritual body.
(1 Corinthians 16:42-44, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Jesus, who may be called the last Adam, is a life-giving spirit.
(1 Corinthians 15:45, Contemporary English Version)
It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
(1 Corinthians 15:46)
What is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God’s Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.
(1 Corinthians 15:50, Good News Bible)
What is mortal must clothe itself with what is immortal; what will die must clothe itself with what cannot die.
(1 Corinthians 16:53, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Sin is what gives death its sting.
(1 Corinthians 15:56, Contemporary English Version)
Death gets its power to hurt form sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.
(1 Corinthians 16:56, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)
Nothing you do in the Lord’s service is ever useless.
(1 Corinthians 15:58, Good News Bible)
Always keep busy working for the Lord.
(1 Corinthians 15:58, Contemporary English Version)
Do all your work in love.
(1 Corinthians 16:13, Good News Bible)
Show love in everything you do.
(1 Corinthians 16:14, Contemporary English Version)