16:23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus

the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my

gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation

of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets,

according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all

nations for the obedience of faith:

16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians

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1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of

God, and Sosthenes our brother,

1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are

sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every

place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and

our's:

1:3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord

Jesus Christ.

1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is

given you by Jesus Christ;

1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in

all knowledge;

1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our

Lord Jesus Christ:

1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in

the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his

Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among

you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in

the same judgment.

1:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them

which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of

Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized

in the name of Paul?

1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not

whether I baptized any other.

1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not

with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none

effect.

1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;

but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will

bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of

this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not

God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that

believe.

1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and

unto the Greeks foolishness;

1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the

power of God, and the wisdom of God.

1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness

of God is stronger than men.

1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after

the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the

wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the

things which are mighty;

1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath

God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things

that are:

1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us

wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory

in the Lord.

2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of

speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ,

and him crucified.

2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's

wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the

power of God.

2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the

wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to

nought:

2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,

which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,

they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have

entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for

them that love him.

2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit

searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man

which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the

Spirit of God.

2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit

which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to

us of God.

2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom

teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things

with spiritual.

2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:

for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because

they are spiritually discerned.

2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is

judged of no man.

2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?

But we have the mind of Christ.

3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as

unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were

not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and

strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are

ye not carnal?

3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye

believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that

watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man

shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye

are God's building.

3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise

masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.

But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is

Jesus Christ.

3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious

stones, wood, hay, stubble;

3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare

it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every

man's work of what sort it is.

3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall

receive a reward.

3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he

himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of

God dwelleth in you?

3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the

temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise

in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is

written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are

vain.

3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;

3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or

death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;

3:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and

stewards of the mysteries of God.

4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you,

or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he

that judgeth me is the Lord.

4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who

both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make

manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have

praise of God.

4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself

and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of

men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one

against another.

4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that

thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou

glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

4:8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without

us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were

appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to

angels, and to men.

4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are

weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are

naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless;

being persecuted, we suffer it:

4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world,

and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I

warn you.

4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye

not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the

gospel.

4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

4:17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved

son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of

my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know,

not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in

the spirit of meekness?

5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and

such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one

should have his father's wife.

5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath

done this deed might be taken away from among you.

5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged

already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this

deed,

5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together,

and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,

that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven

leaveneth the whole lump?

5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye

are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with

the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of

sincerity and truth.

5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the

covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go

out of the world.

5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man

that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater,

or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not

to eat.

5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not

ye judge them that are within?

5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from

among yourselves that wicked person.

6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before

the unjust, and not before the saints?

6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the

world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest

matters?

6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that

pertain to this life?

6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set

them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among

you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the

unbelievers.

6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to

law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not

rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of

God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor

adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor

extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are

sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by

the Spirit of our God.

6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient:

all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power

of any.

6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy

both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord;

and the Lord for the body.

6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by

his own power.

6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I

then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?

God forbid.

6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?

for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body;

but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost

which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,

and in your spirit, which are God's.

7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a

man not to touch a woman.

7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife,

and let every woman have her own husband.

7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise

also the wife unto the husband.

7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and

likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time,

that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together

again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath

his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if

they abide even as I.

7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to

marry than to burn.

7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not

the wife depart from her husband:

7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to

her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife

that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not

put her away.

7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he

be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the

unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children

unclean; but now are they holy.

7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a

sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to

peace.

7:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?

or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

7:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called

every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become

uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be

circumcised.

7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the

keeping of the commandments of God.

7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou

mayest be made free, use it rather.

7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's

freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's

servant.

7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with

God.

7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I

give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be

faithful.

7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I

say, that it is good for a man so to be.

7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed

from a wife? seek not a wife.

7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry,

she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh:

but I spare you.

7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that

both they that have wives be as though they had none;

7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice,

as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed

not;

7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of

this world passeth away.

7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried

careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the

Lord:

7:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world,

how he may please his wife.

7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried

woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in

body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the

world, how she may please her husband.

7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare

upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the

Lord without distraction.

7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his

virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him

do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no

necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his

heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

7:38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that

giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if

her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will;

only in the Lord.

7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think

also that I have the Spirit of God.

8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have

knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing

yet as he ought to know.

8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered

in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world,

and that there is none other God but one.

8:5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in

earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,

and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we

by him.

8:7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with

conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an

idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we

the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a

stumblingblock to them that are weak.

8:10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the

idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be

emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

8:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom

Christ died?

8:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak

conscience, ye sin against Christ.

8:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh

while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our

Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

9:2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for

the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

9:3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

9:4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?

9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other

apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

9:7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a

vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock,

and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

9:8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the

mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

9:10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt,

this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he

that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if

we shall reap your carnal things?

9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?

Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we

should hinder the gospel of Christ.

9:13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of

the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers

with the altar?

9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel

should live of the gospel.

9:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these

things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to

die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for

necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the

gospel!

9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against

my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I

may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power

in the gospel.

9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant

unto all, that I might gain the more.

9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to

them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them

that are under the law;

9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without

law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that

are without law.

9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made

all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker

thereof with you.

9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one

receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all

things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an

incorruptible.

9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that

beateth the air:

9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that

by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a

castaway.

10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how

that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the

sea;

10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that

spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were

overthrown in the wilderness.

10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not

lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written,

The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and

fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were

destroyed of serpents.

10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were

destroyed of the destroyer.

10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they

are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are

come.

10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he

fall.

10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:

but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye

are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that

ye may be able to bear it.

10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the

blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of

the body of Christ?

10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all

partakers of that one bread.

10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the

sacrifices partakers of the altar?

10:19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is

offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they

sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have

fellowship with devils.

10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye

cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient:

all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

10:24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question

for conscience sake:

10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

10:27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be

disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question

for conscience sake.

10:28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto

idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for

the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

10:29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my

liberty judged of another man's conscience?

10:30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that

for which I give thanks?

10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to

the glory of God.

10:32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor

to the church of God:

10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own

profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and

keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ;

and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,

dishonoureth his head.

11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered

dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it

be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is

the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

11:8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the

man.

11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because

of the angels.

11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the

woman without the man, in the Lord.

11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the

woman; but all things of God.

11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God

uncovered?

11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long

hair, it is a shame unto him?

11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair

is given her for a covering.

11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,

neither the churches of God.

11:17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come

together not for the better, but for the worse.

11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that

there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are

approved may be made manifest among you.

11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat

the Lord's supper.

11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and

one is hungry, and another is drunken.

11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the

church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you?

shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto

you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took

bread:

11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat:

this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped,

saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as

ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew

the Lord's death till he come.

11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of

the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread,

and drink of that cup.

11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh

damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we

should not be condemned with the world.

11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one

for another.

11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not

together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I

come.

12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you

ignorant.

12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols,

even as ye were led.

12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the

Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus

is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God

which worketh all in all.

12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit

withal.

12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another

the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of

healing by the same Spirit;

12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to

another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to

another the interpretation of tongues:

12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing

to every man severally as he will.

12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members

of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be

Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to

drink into one Spirit.

12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.

12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the

body; is it therefore not of the body?

12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of

the body; is it therefore not of the body?

12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the

whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as

it hath pleased him.

12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?

12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.

12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor

again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more

feeble, are necessary:

12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less

honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely

parts have more abundant comeliness.

12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body

together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.

12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members

should have the same care one for another.

12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or

one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily

prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings,

helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all

workers of miracles?

12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all

interpret?

12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more

excellent way.

13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not

charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all

mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I

could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I

give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me

nothing.

13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity

vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily

provoked, thinketh no evil;

13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,

endureth all things.

13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall

fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be

knowledge, it shall vanish away.

13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part

shall be done away.

13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I

thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now

I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the

greatest of these is charity.

14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that

ye may prophesy.

14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men,

but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he

speaketh mysteries.

14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and

exhortation, and comfort.

14:4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that

prophesieth edifieth the church.

14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye

prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh

with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

14:6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall

I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by

knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp,

except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what

is piped or harped?

14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare

himself to the battle?

14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be

understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak

into the air.

14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and

none of them is without signification.

14:11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto

him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian

unto me.

14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek

that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he

may interpret.

14:14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my

understanding is unfruitful.

14:15 What is it then? 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.

14:16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that

occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks,

seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my

understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten

thousand words in an unknown tongue.

14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be

ye children, but in understanding be men.

14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips

will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear

me, saith the Lord.

14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to

them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe

not, but for them which believe.

14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and

all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or

unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or

one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so

falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in

you of a truth.

14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you

hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an

interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the

most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the

church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

14:30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first

hold his peace.

14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all

may be comforted.

14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all

churches of the saints.

14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not

permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under

obedience as also saith the law.

14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at

home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him

acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments

of the Lord.

14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak

with tongues.

14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached

unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached

unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,

how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day

according to the scriptures:

15:5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

15:6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of

whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen

asleep.

15:7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due

time.

15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called

an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was

bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than

they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

15:11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye

believed.

15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some

among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

15:13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not

risen:

15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your

faith is also vain.

15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have

testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so

be that the dead rise not.

15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in

your sins.

15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men

most miserable.

15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits

of them that slept.

15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of

the dead.

15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward

they that are Christ's at his coming.

15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom

to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all

authority and power.

15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all

things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did

put all things under him.

15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son

also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God

may be all in all.

15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the

dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

15:30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord,

I die daily.

15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,

what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for

to morrow we die.

15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the

knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what

body do they come?

15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall

be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed

his own body.

15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of

men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the

glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is

another.

15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and

another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in

glory.

15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;

it is raised in incorruption:

15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in

weakness; it is raised in power:

15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is

a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul;

the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is

natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord

from heaven.

15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is

the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear

the image of the heavenly.

15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the

kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall

all be changed,

15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for

the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and

we shall be changed.

15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal

must put on immortality.

15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this

mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the

saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord

Jesus Christ.

15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always

abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour

is not in vain in the Lord.

16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order

to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in

store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I

come.

16:3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them

will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

16:4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.

16:5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for

I do pass through Macedonia.

16:6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye

may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.

16:7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while

with you, if the Lord permit.

16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are

many adversaries.

16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear:

for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

16:11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace,

that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

16:12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come

unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this

time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.

16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

16:14 Let all your things be done with charity.

16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it

is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to

the ministry of the saints,)

16:16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth

with us, and laboureth.

16:17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus:

for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore

acknowledge ye them that are such.

16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you

much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

16:20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy

kiss.

16:21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema

Maranatha.

16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

2 Corinthians

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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our

brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints

which are in all Achaia:

1:2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord

Jesus Christ.

1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father

of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to

comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we

ourselves are comforted of God.

1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation

also aboundeth by Christ.

1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and

salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings

which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your

consolation and salvation.

1:7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers

of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which

came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength,

insomuch that we despaired even of life:

1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not

trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom

we trust that he will yet deliver us;

1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift

bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by

many on our behalf.

1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in

simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the

grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more

abundantly to you-ward.

1:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or

acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

1:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your

rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that

ye might have a second benefit;

1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of

Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the

things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me

there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

1:18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us,

even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him

was yea.

1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto

the glory of God by us.

1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed

us, is God;

1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our

hearts.

1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I

came not as yet unto Corinth.

1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of

your joy: for by faith ye stand.

2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to

you in heaviness.

2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the

same which is made sorry by me?

2:3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have

sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you

all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you

with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know

the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part:

that I may not overcharge you all.

2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of

many.

2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort

him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch

sorrow.

2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of

you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any

thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person

of Christ;

2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant

of his devices.

2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a

door was opened unto me of the Lord,

2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother:

but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in

Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every

place.

2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are

saved, and in them that perish:

2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other

the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of

sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others,

epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ

ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the

living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of

ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of

the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit

giveth life.

3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,

was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold

the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to

be done away:

3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the

ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect,

by reason of the glory that excelleth.

3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which

remaineth is glorious.

3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of

speech:

3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children

of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is

abolished:

3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same

vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is

done away in Christ.

3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their

heart.

3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be

taken away.

3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,

there is liberty.

3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the

Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by

the Spirit of the Lord.

4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy,

we faint not;

4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in

craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by

manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's

conscience in the sight of God.

4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which

believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the

image of God, should shine unto them.

4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and

ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath

shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of

God in the face of Jesus Christ.

4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of

the power may be of God, and not of us.

4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed,

but not in despair;

4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that

the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake,

that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I

believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore

speak;

4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us

also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might

through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish,

yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us

a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things

which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the

things which are not seen are eternal.

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were

dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands,

eternal in the heavens.

5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our

house which is from heaven:

5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for

that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be

swallowed up of life.

5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also

hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at

home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the

body, and to be present with the Lord.

5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be

accepted of him.

5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that

every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he

hath done, whether it be good or bad.

5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we

are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your

consciences.

5:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion

to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which

glory in appearance, and not in heart.

5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be

sober, it is for your cause.

5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that

if one died for all, then were all dead:

5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not

henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and

rose again.

5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we

have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no

more.

5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things

are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by

Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,

not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the

word of reconciliation.

5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech

you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we

might be made the righteousness of God in him.

6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye

receive not the grace of God in vain.

6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day

of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time;

behold, now is the day of salvation.)

6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in

much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings,

in fastings;

6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the

Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of

righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as

deceivers, and yet true;

6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as

chastened, and not killed;

6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich;

as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

6:11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is

enlarged.

6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own

bowels.

6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be

ye also enlarged.

6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what

fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion

hath light with darkness?

6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that

believeth with an infidel?

6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are

the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them,

and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the

Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and

daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse

ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting

holiness in the fear of God.

7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we

have defrauded no man.

7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are

in our hearts to die and live with you.

7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of

you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our

tribulation.

7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we

were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down,

comforted us by the coming of Titus;

7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was

comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning,

your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I

did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry,

though it were but for a season.

7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to

repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might

receive damage by us in nothing.

7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented

of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly

sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of

yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement

desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have

approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

7:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that

had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our

care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly

the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed

by you all.

7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed;

but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which

I made before Titus, is found a truth.

7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he

remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye

received him.

7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on

the churches of Macedonia;

8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy

and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

8:3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they

were willing of themselves;

8:4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and

take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves

to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

8:6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would

also finish in you the same grace also.

8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and

knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye

abound in this grace also.

8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of

others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was

rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty

might be rich.

8:10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who

have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

8:11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a

readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which

ye have.

8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to

that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

8:13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

8:14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a

supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for

your want: that there may be equality:

8:15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and

he that had gathered little had no lack.

8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the

heart of Titus for you.

8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of

his own accord he went unto you.

8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the

gospel throughout all the churches;

8:19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to

travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory

of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:

8:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which

is administered by us:

8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but

also in the sight of men.

8:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes

proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the

great confidence which I have in you.

8:23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper

concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers

of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of

your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for

me to write to you:

9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to

them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath

provoked very many.

9:3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in

vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

9:4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you

unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same

confident boasting.

9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they

would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye

had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty,

and not as of covetousness.

9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly;

and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give;

not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always

having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the

poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for

your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your

righteousness;)

9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth

through us thanksgiving to God.

9:12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want

of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for

your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your

liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding

grace of God in you.

9:15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of

Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold

toward you:

10:2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with

that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think

of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through

God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth

itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every

thought to the obedience of Christ;

10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your

obedience is fulfilled.

10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust

to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again,

that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the

Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I

should not be ashamed:

10:9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his

bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

10:11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by

letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are

present.

10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves

with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by

themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

10:13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according

to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure

to reach even unto you.

10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we

reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching

the gospel of Christ:

10:15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other

men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we

shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast

in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord

commendeth.

11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed

bear with me.

11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused

you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through

his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that

is in Christ.

11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not

preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received,

or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with

him.

11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

11:6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have

been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be

exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no

man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from

Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being

burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this

boasting in the regions of Achaia.

11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from

them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found

even as we.

11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming

themselves into the apostles of Christ.

11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of

light.

11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be

transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be

according to their works.

11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a

fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were

foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

11:20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour

you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on

the face.

11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak.

Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they

the seed of Abraham? so am I.

11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in

labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more

frequent, in deaths oft.

11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I

suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers,

in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in

the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils

among false brethren;

11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and

thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me

daily, the care of all the churches.

11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern

mine infirmities.

11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for

evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of

the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and

escaped his hands.

12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to

visions and revelations of the Lord.

12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the

body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God

knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I

cannot tell: God knoweth;)

12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable

words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in

mine infirmities.

12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I

will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me

above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of

the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the

messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart

from me.

12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my

strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I

rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon

me.

12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in

necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when

I am weak, then am I strong.

12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought

to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very

chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all

patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except

it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not

be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children

ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more

abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I

caught you with guile.

12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a

gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same

steps?

12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before

God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I

would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest

there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings,

swellings, tumults:

12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and

that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not

repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which

they have committed.

13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or

three witnesses shall every word be established.

13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the

second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have

sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward

is not weak, but is mighty in you.

13:4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the

power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by

the power of God toward you.

13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own

selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,

except ye be reprobates?

13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear

approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as

reprobates.

13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also

we wish, even your perfection.

13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I

should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given

me to edification, and not to destruction.

13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of

one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with

you.

13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.

13:13 All the saints salute you.

13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the

communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

Galatians

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1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ,

and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of

Galatia:

1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord

Jesus Christ,

1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this

present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

1:5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into

the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would

pervert the gospel of Christ.

1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto

you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other

gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for

if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of

me is not after man.

1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by

the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews'

religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and

wasted it:

1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own

nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb,

and called me by his grace,

1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen;

immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before

me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and

abode with him fifteen days.

1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's

brother.

1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie

not.

1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

1:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in

Christ:

1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past

now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

1:24 And they glorified God in me.

2:1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with

Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel

which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of

reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to

be circumcised:

2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in

privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they

might bring us into bondage:

2:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the

truth of the gospel might continue with you.

2:6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it

maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who

seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the

uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision

was unto Peter;

2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the

circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,

perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas

the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and

they unto the circumcision.

2:10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I

also was forward to do.

2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,

because he was to be blamed.

2:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the

Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,

fearing them which were of the circumcision.

2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that

Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the

truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a

Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why

compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by

the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that

we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of

the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also

are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a

transgressor.

2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto

God.

2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but

Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live

by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by

the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey

the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,

crucified among you?

3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works

of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made

perfect by the flesh?

3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh

miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the

hearing of faith?

3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for

righteousness.

3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the

children of Abraham.

3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen

through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee

shall all nations be blessed.

3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for

it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things

which are written in the book of the law to do them.

3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is

evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall

live in them.

3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a

curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a

tree:

3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through

Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through

faith.

3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's

covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth

thereto.

3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not,

And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is

Christ.

3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God

in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,

cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but

God gave it to Abraham by promise.

3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of

transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;

and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if

there had been a law given which could have given life, verily

righteousness should have been by the law.

3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by

faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the

faith which should afterwards be revealed.

3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,

that we might be justified by faith.

3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a

schoolmaster.

3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on

Christ.

3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,

there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs

according to the promise.

4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth

nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the

father.

4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the

elements of the world:

4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,

made of a woman, made under the law,

4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the

adoption of sons.

4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son

into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then

an heir of God through Christ.

4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which

by nature are no gods.

4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,

how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire

again to be in bondage?

4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have

not injured me at all.

4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel

unto you at the first.

4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor

rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

4:15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record,

that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes,

and have given them to me.

4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude

you, that ye might affect them.

4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and

not only when I am present with you.

4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ

be formed in you,

4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I

stand in doubt of you.

4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the

law?

4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a

bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of

the freewoman was by promise.

4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the

one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem

which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us

all.

4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break

forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more

children than she which hath an husband.

4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that

was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and

her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of

the freewoman.

4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the

free.

5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us

free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall

profit you nothing.

5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a

debtor to do the whole law.

5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are

justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by

faith.

5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor

uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the

truth?

5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none

otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment,

whosoever he be.

5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer

persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not

liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt

love thy neighbour as thyself.

5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not

consumed one of another.

5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the

lust of the flesh.

5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against

the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye

cannot do the things that ye would.

5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,

fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,

seditions, heresies,

5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the

which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they

which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith,

5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the

affections and lusts.

5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,

envying one another.

6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual,

restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest

thou also be tempted.

6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he

deceiveth himself.

6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have

rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.

6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that

teacheth in all good things.

6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,

that shall he also reap.

6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;

but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life

everlasting.

6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall

reap, if we faint not.

6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,

especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

6:11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own

hand.

6:12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain

you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the

cross of Christ.

6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but

desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord

Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the

world.

6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor

uncircumcision, but a new creature.

6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and

mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the

marks of the Lord Jesus.

6:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Amen.

Ephesians

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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints

which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

1:2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord

Jesus Christ.

1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath

blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the

world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus

Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us

accepted in the beloved.

1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of

sins, according to the riches of his grace;

1:8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his

good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather

together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and

which are on earth; even in him:

1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated

according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel

of his own will:

1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in

Christ.

1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the

gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were

sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the

purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus,

and love unto all the saints,

1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my

prayers;

1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may

give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of

him:

1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know

what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his

inheritance in the saints,

1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who

believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and

set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and

every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which

is to come:

1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head

over all things to the church,

1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this

world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that

now worketh in the children of disobedience:

2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the

lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;

and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved

us,

2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with

Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly

places in Christ Jesus:

2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his

grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:

it is the gift of God:

2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good

works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the

flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the

Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the

commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise,

having no hope, and without God in the world:

2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh

by the blood of Christ.

2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down

the middle wall of partition between us;

2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of

commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain

one new man, so making peace;

2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross,

having slain the enmity thereby:

2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them

that were nigh.

2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but

fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,

Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy

temple in the Lord:

2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God

through the Spirit.

3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you

Gentiles,

3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is

given me to you-ward:

3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I

wrote afore in few words,

3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery

of Christ)

3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it

is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and

partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of

God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace

given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches

of Christ;

3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which

from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all

things by Jesus Christ:

3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in

heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus

our Lord:

3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of

him.

3:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you,

which is your glory.

3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ,

3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to

be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being

rooted and grounded in love,

3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and

length, and depth, and height;

3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye

might be filled with all the fulness of God.

3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that

we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all

ages, world without end. Amen.

4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk

worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one

another in love;

4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope

of your calling;

4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in

you all.

4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of

the gift of Christ.

4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity

captive, and gave gifts unto men.

4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first

into the lower parts of the earth?

4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all

heavens, that he might fill all things.)

4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,

evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for

the edifying of the body of Christ:

4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of

the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of

the fulness of Christ:

4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and

carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and

cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,

which is the head, even Christ:

4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by

that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in

the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying

of itself in love.

4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth

walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of

God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of

their heart:

4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto

lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

4:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as

the truth is in Jesus:

4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man,

which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in

righteousness and true holiness.

4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his

neighbour: for we are members one of another.

4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

4:27 Neither give place to the devil.

4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour,

working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give

to him that needeth.

4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that

which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto

the hearers.

4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto

the day of redemption.

4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil

speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one

another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given

himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling

savour.

5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be

once named among you, as becometh saints;

5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not

convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor

covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of

Christ and of God.

5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things

cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:

walk as children of light:

5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness

and truth;)

5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but

rather reprove them.

5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of

them in secret.