2 [23:6]And Paul knowing that one part were Sadducees and the other

Pharisees, cried in the Sanhedrim, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee

and the son of Pharisees; for the hope and resurrection of the dead am

I under trial. [23:7] And having said this, there was a dissension

between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the multitude were divided.

[23:8]For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither

angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess both. [23:9]And there was

a great cry, and the scribes of the party of the Pharisees rising up

contended, saying, We find no evil in this man; but [what] if a spirit

or an angel has spoken to him? [23:10]And there being a great

dissension, the chiliarch, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by

them, commanded the troops to come down and take him by force from the

midst of them, and conduct him to the fortress.

3 [23:11]And on the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be

of good courage, for as you have testified of me at Jerusalem, so you

must also testify at Rome. [23:12]And when it was day, the Jews formed

a conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath, saying that they would

not eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. [23:13]And there were more

than forty who took this oath, [23:14] who came to the chief priests

and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a curse to taste

nothing till we kill Paul. [23:15]Now, therefore, speak to the

chiliarch, with the Sanhedrim, to bring him down to you tomorrow, as if

you were about to investigate his case more accurately, and we, before

he comes nigh, are ready to kill him.

4 [23:16]But a son of Paul's sister hearing of this lying in wait, went

and entering into the fortress told Paul. [23:17]And Paul calling one

of the centurions, said, Lead this young man to the chiliarch, for he

has something to tell him. [23:18]He therefore took him and led him to

the chiliarch, and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to

lead this young man to you, who has something to tell you. [23:19]And

the chiliarch taking him by the hand and leading him aside, inquired,

What is it that you have to tell me? [23:20]And he said, The Jews have

entered into a compact to ask you to bring down Paul to the Sanhedrim

to-morrow, as if about to learn more accurately of something concerning

him. [23:21]But do not therefore be persuaded by them; for more than

forty men of them lie in wait, who have taken an oath not to eat nor

drink till they have killed him, and now they are ready, awaiting an

answer from you. [23:22]Then the chiliarch dismissed the young man,

charging him, Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.

5 [23:23]And calling two of the centurions he said, Prepare two hundred

soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen and two hundred light

armed troops, after the third hour of the night. [23:24]And provide

animals to put Paul on, and take him safely to Felix the procurator.

[23:25]And he wrote a letter having this form; [23:26]Claudius Lysias

to the most excellent procurator Felix, greeting. [23:27]I went with

the soldiery and rescued this man, when he was seized by the Jews, and

about to be killed by them, having learned that he is a Roman;

[23:28]and wishing to know the cause for which they accuse him, I took

him down to their Sanhedrim, [23:29]and found him criminated in respect

to questions of their law, but charged with nothing worthy of death or

bonds. [23:30]Being informed that a conspiracy was about to be formed

against the man, I immediately sent to you, commanding also his

accusers to speak before you.

6 [23:31]The soldiers therefore took Paul as they were commanded and

brought him by night to Antipatris, [23:32]and the next day leaving the

horsemen to go with him, they returned to the fortress. [23:33]And when

they came to Caesarea, and had delivered the letter to the procurator,

they also presented Paul to him. [23:34]And having read, he asked of

what province he was; and learning that he was of Cilicia, [23:35]I

will hear you, he said, when your accusers have come; and he commanded

him to be kept in the Praetorium of Herod.

CHAPTER XXII.

PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FELIX THE PROCURATOR.--A.D. 59, 60.

1 [24:1]AND after five days the chief priest Ananias, with the elders,

and a certain orator, Tertullus, went down and gave information to the

procurator against Paul. [24:2]And he being called, Tertullus began to

accuse him, saying, Having obtained great peace by you, and things

being happily arranged for this nation by your oversight in all things

and in all places [24:3]we accept [it] most excellent Felix, with all

thankfulness. [24:4]But that I may not further weary you, I beg you to

hear us briefly, with your clemency. [24:5]For finding this man a

pestilence and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the

world, and a chief of the sect of the Nazoraeans, [24:6]who also

endeavored to profane the temple, whom we also took, [24:8]from whom

you will be able to learn by examination of all these things of which

we accuse him. [24:9]And the Jews also assented, saying, These things

are so.

2 [24:10]And the procurator making a sign to him to speak, Paul

answered, Knowing that you have been for many years a judge of this

nation, I shall defend myself cheerfully, [24:11]you being able to know

that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at

Jerusalem. [24:12]And they did not find me in the temple disputing with

any one, or making a disturbance of the multitude, neither in the

synagogues nor in the city; [24:13]neither can they prove the things of

which they now accuse me.

3 [24:14]But this I confess to you, that in the way which they call a

heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers; believing all things

written in the law and the prophets, [24:15]having a hope in God which

they also hold, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous

and wicked. [24:16]And in this also I endeavor always to have a

conscience without offense towards God and man.

4 [24:17]But after many years I came to bring charities and offerings

to my nation, [24:18]in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified

in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with a tumult, [24:19]who

ought to be present and accuse me before you, if they have any thing

against me. [24:20]Or let them say whether they found any

unrighteousness in me when I stood before the Sanhedrim, [24:21]except

in this one statement which I made, as I stood among them, that I am

under trial by you to-day concerning the resurrection of the dead.

5 [24:22]But Felix put them off, saying, Having learned more accurately

of this way, when Lysias the chiliarch comes down I will decide

concerning your matters, [24:23]and he commanded the centurion that

Paul should be kept, and be freed from bonds, and that he should forbid

none of his friends to serve him.

6 [24:24]And after some days Felix coming with Drusilla his wife, who

was a Jewess, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in

Christ. [24:25]And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance,

and the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for

the present; but when I have time I will call you. [24:26]At the same

time also he hoped that money would be given him by Paul; and on this

account sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him. [24:27]But

after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and

wishing to gratify the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

CHAPTER XXIII.

PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FESTUS, HIS APPEAL TO CAESAR, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT

DEFENSE BEFORE AGRIPPA.--A.D. 61.

1 [25:1]FESTUS therefore coming into the province, after three days

went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. [25:2]And the chief priests and the

first men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,

[25:3]asking favor against him, that he would send for him to

Jerusalem, having provided an ambuscade to kill him on the way.

[25:4]Then Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and

that he would go down there shortly; [25:5]and then, he said, the

principal men among you may go down with me; if there is any thing

against this man they may prosecute him. [25:6]And staying with them

not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the

next day, sitting on the tribunal, commanded Paul to be brought.

2 [25:7]And when he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem

stood around him, bringing many and weighty accusations which they

could not prove, [25:8]while Paul maintained in his defense, Neither

against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against

Caesar, have I done any wrong.

3 [25:9]But Festus wishing to gratify the Jews, answered Paul and said,

Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried by me for

these things? [25:10]And Paul said, I stand at the tribunal of Caesar,

where I ought to be tried. I have not injured the Jews, as you also

know very well. [25:11]If indeed I have done wrong or committed any

thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if those things of

which they accuse me are nothing, no man may give me up to them; I

appeal to Caesar. [25:12]Then Festus having conferred with the council

answered, You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go.

4 [25:13]But after some days king Agrippa and Bernice came down to

Caesarea to salute Festus. [25:14]And when they had staid there many

days, Festus proposed the case of Paul to the king, saying, There is a

certain man left a prisoner by Felix, [25:15]concerning whom when I was

at Jerusalem the chief priests and elders of the Jews gave me

information, asking judgment against him; [25:16]to whom I answered, It

is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before the accused

has the accusers face to face, and is allowed an opportunity to defend

himself against the accusation.

5 [25:17]When therefore, they came here, making no delay, the next day

I sat on the tribunal, and ordered the man to be brought;

[25:18]concerning whom his accusers standing up brought no charge of

such things as I supposed, [25:19]but had certain questions with him

concerning their religion, and concerning one Jesus that was dead, who

Paul said was alive. [25:20]Being in doubt on the question concerning

these things, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried

by me there on these charges. [25:21]But Paul appealing, to be kept for

the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I could send

him to Caesar. [25:22]And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I should like to

hear the man also myself. And he said, To-morrow you shall hear him.

6 [25:23]On the next day, therefore, Agrippa and Bernice coming with

great pomp, and entering into the place of hearing with chiliarchs and

men of distinction in the city, at the command of Festus Paul was

brought. [25:24]And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all the men present

with us, you see this man, of whom all the multitude of the Jews

besought me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought no

longer to live. [25:25]But finding that he had done nothing deserving

death, and he having appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send

him. [25:26]But I have nothing certain to write to the sovereign

concerning him, wherefore I have brought him before you, and especially

before you, King Agrippa, that on examination I may have something to

write; [25:27] for it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and

not to signify the charges against him.

7 [26:1]And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for

yourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense.

[26:2]I think myself happy, King Agrippa, in being allowed to make my

defense before you to-day in respect to all things of which I am

accused by the Jews, [26:3]especially as you are acquainted with all

the customs and questions of the Jews; wherefore, I beg you to hear me

patiently. [26:4]My mode of life from my childhood, the early part of

it being with my nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, [26:5]who knew

me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the

strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. [26:6]And now I

stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

[26:7]which our twelve tribes, serving God continually, day and night,

hope to attain; of this hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

[26:8]Why is it judged by you incredible that God raises the dead?

[26:9]I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things

contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazoraean, [26:10]which I also did at

Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received

authority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my

vote against them. [26:11]And punishing them often in all the

synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad

against them, I pursued them even to cities abroad.

8 [26:12]In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with

authority, and a commission from the chief priests, [26:13]at midday I

saw in the way O king, a light from heaven shining around me and those

going with me, exceeding the brightness of the sun; [26:14]and when we

had all fallen on the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying

in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? it is hard

for you to kick against the goads. [26:15]And I said, Who are you,

Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. [26:16]But rise

and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to

make you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of

visions ] in which I will appear to you, [26:17]delivering you from the

people, and the gentiles, to whom I send you [26:18]to open their eyes,

to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to

God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among

the sanctified by faith in me. [26:19]Whence, King Agrippa, I was not

disobedient to the heavenly vision, [26:20]but preached first to those

at Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the

gentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God,

performing works worthy of a change of mind.

9 [26:21]On this account the Jews seized me in the temple and

endeavored to kill me. [26:22]Having obtained therefore help from God,

I have continued to this day, testifying to small and great, saying

nothing but what the prophets and Moses said should take place;

[26:23]that the Christ should suffer, and that he first from the

resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and

the nations.

10 [26:24]And when Paul had said these words, Festus said with a loud

voice, You are mad, Paul; much learning has driven you to madness.

[26:25]But he said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter

words of truth and sobriety. [26:26]For the king knows of these things,

before whom I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these

things have escaped his notice; for this was not done in a corner.

[26:27]King Agrippa, believe you the prophets? I know that you believe.

[26:28]And Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to be a

Christian. [26:29]And Paul said, I would to God that not only you but

also all who hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I

am, except these bonds. [26:30]And the king arose, and the procurator,

and Bernice, and those who sat with them, [26:31]and departing they

conversed with each other, saying, This man has done nothing deserving

death or bonds. [26:32]And Agrippa said to Festus, If he had not

appealed to Caesar, this man might be released.

CHAPTER XXIV.

PAUL'S VOYAGE TO ROME.--A.D. 61, 62.

1 [27:1]AND when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they

delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion by the name

of Julius, of the cohort of Augustus. [27:2]And going on board of a

ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places in Asia, we set

sail, Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us; [27:3]and

on the next day we came to Sidon, and Julius treating Paul with

humanity allowed him to go to his friends, and receive attention.

2 [27:4]Proceeding thence we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds

were contrary, [27:5]and sailing through the sea by Cilicia and

Pamphylia we came to Myra in Lycia; [27:6]and the centurion finding

there an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, put us into it. [27:7]And

sailing slowly in those days, and scarcely being by Cnidus, the wind

not permitting us [to proceed in a direct course] we sailed under

Crete, by Salmone, [27:8]and sailing by it with difficulty, we came to

a place called Fair Havens, near which is the city Lasea.

3 [27:9]But some time being spent and navigation not being safe,

because the fast had already passed by, Paul advised, [27:10]saying to

them, Men, I see that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not

only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives. [27:11]But the

centurion believed the master and owner rather than the words spoken by

Paul. [27:12]And the harbor being inconvenient to winter in, the

greater part advised to depart thence, and, if they were able, to come

to Phenice to winter, a harbor of Crete, which opens to the South and

Southwest.

4 [27:13]And the South wind blowing gently, supposing that they had

attained their purpose, setting sail they proceeded along the coast of

Crete. [27:14]But not long after a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon,

rushed against it, [27:15] and the ship being caught and not being able

to bear up against the wind, we gave up, and were borne along.

[27:16]And running a little under the island called Clauda, we with

difficulty became masters of the boat, [27:17]and taking it out they

used helps, under-girding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall

on the shoal, letting down the mast they were driven in that condition.

[27:18]And we being exceedingly pressed with the storm, on the next day

they cast the cargo overboard, [27:19]and on the third day with our own

hands we cast overboard the furniture of the ship. [27:20]And neither

sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no slight storm being upon

us, at last all hope that we should be saved was taken away.

5 [27:21]Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood

up in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not

to have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss.

[27:22]And now I advise you to be of good courage; for there shall be

no loss of a life of you, but only of the ship. [27:23]For an angel of

the God whose I am, and whom I serve, came to me this night [27:24]and

said, Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar, and behold, God has

given you all that sail with you. [27:25]Wherefore, men, be of good

courage; for I believe God, that it will be as he has told me; [27:26]

but we must be cast on a certain island.

6 [27:27]And on the fourteenth night, when we were borne along in the

Adriatic, at about midnight the sailors suspected that some land was

approaching them. [27:28]And sounding they found twenty fathoms, and

going a little distance and sounding again they found fifteen fathoms;

[27:29]and fearing lest we should fall on rough places, casting out

four anchors from the stern, they prayed for day. [27:30]And the

sailors seeking to escape from the ship, and letting down the boat into

the sea, with the pretence that they were about to put out anchors from

the fore part of the ship, [27:31]Paul said to the centurion and

soldiers, Unless these continue in the ship you cannot be saved.

[27:32]Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the boat and let it fall off.

7 [27:33]And when day was about to appear, Paul exhorted all to take

food, saying, It is the fourteenth day to-day that you have watched and

continued without food, taking nothing. [27:34]Wherefore I exhort you

to partake of food; for this is necessary to your safety, for there

shall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you. [27:35]And

having said these things, and taken bread, he thanked God before all,

and having broken began to eat. [27:36]And all being in good spirits

they also partook of food; [27:37]and all the souls in the ship were

two hundred and seventy-six. [27:38]And being satisfied with food they

lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

8 [27:39]And when it was day they did not know the land, but they

perceived a bay having a shore, on which they wished if possible to

thrust the ship. [27:40] And taking up the anchors, they committed [the

ship] to the sea, loosening at the same time the fastenings of the

rudder and raising the top sail to the wind, they bore down towards the

shore. [27:41]And falling on a place with a sea on both sides, they run

the ship aground. And the bow being firmly fixed, remained immoveable;

and the stern was broken by violence.

9 [27:42]And the design of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, that

none might escape by swimming; [27:43]but the centurion wishing to save

Paul, prohibited them from this design, and commanded those able to

swim to cast themselves into the water first, and go to the land;

[27:44]and the rest, some on boards, and some on parts of the ship; and

in this way all were brought safely to land.

10 [28:1]And when they were saved, they learned that the island was

called Melita. [28:2]And the barbarians showed us no ordinary humanity;

for kindling a fire they received us all, on account of the rain which

was falling, and the cold. [28:3]And Paul having collected a bundle of

sticks and put them on the fire, a viper coming out from the heat

fastened on his hand. [28:4]And when the barbarians saw the creature

hanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is

undoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not

permitted to live. [28:5]Then shaking off the creature into the fire he

suffered no harm; [28:6]but they expected that he would swell up, or

suddenly fall down dead. And waiting a long time, and seeing nothing

extraordinary happen to him, they thought differently, and said, He is

a god.

11 [28:7]Near that place were the lands of the first man in the island,

whose name was Poplius, who received and entertained us kindly three

days. [28:8]And the father of Poplius lay sick with a fever and

dysentery, and Paul came to him, and prayed, and put his hands on him,

and cured him. [28:9]And this being done, the rest also who had

sicknesses in the island came and were cured, [28:10]and they bestowed

on us many rewards, and when we left supplied us with things that we

needed.

12 [28:11]And after three months we sailed away in an Alexandrian

vessel, that had wintered in the island, with the sign of Castor and

Pollux. [28:12]And coming to Syracuse we remained there three days;

[28:13]and proceeding thence we came to Rhegium, and after one day, a

south wind blowing, we came the second day to Puteoli, [28:14]where

finding brothers we were invited to remain with them seven days; and

thus we came to Rome. [28:15]And thence, the brothers hearing of us

came out to meet us even to the Forum of Appius, and the Three Taverns

[fifty-one miles]; and when Paul saw them, thanking God he took courage.

CHAPTER XXV.

PAUL AT ROME.--A.D. 62, 64.

1 [28:16]AND when we came to Rome the centurion committed the prisoners

to the prefect of the camp, and Paul was allowed to remain by himself,

with a soldier to guard him. [28:17]And after three days he called the

chief men of the Jews together; and when they had convened, said to

them, Men and brothers, having done nothing contrary to the people or

to the customs of the fathers, I was delivered up from Jerusalem a

prisoner into the hands of the Romans, [28:18]who on trial wished to

release me, because they found no cause of death in me; [28:19]but the

Jews opposing it I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have

any thing of which to accuse my nation. [28:20]For this reason,

therefore, I have called you to see and converse with you, because I am

loaded with this chain on account of the hope of Israel.

2 [28:21]And they said to him, We have neither received letters

concerning you from Judea, nor has any one of the brothers come and

reported or told any evil of you. [28:22]But we would like to hear from

you what you think, for it is known to us concerning this sect, that it

is everywhere spoken against.

3 [28:23]And appointing him a day they came in great numbers to his

lodging, to whom he set forth and testified the kingdom of God,

persuading them concerning Jesus both from the law of Moses and the

prophets, from morning till evening. [28:24]And some believed the

things which were spoken, and others believed not; [28:25]and

disagreeing among themselves they were dismissed by Paul, saying one

word; Well did the Holy Spirit speak by Isaiah the prophet to our

fathers, [28:26]saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall

hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive;

[28:27]for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear

imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any

time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and

understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.

[28:28]Be it known to you, therefore, that the salvation of God is sent

to the gentiles, and they will hear it.

4 [28:30]But Paul continued two entire years in his hired house, and

received all who came to him, [28:31]preaching the kingdom of God, and

teaching the doctrines concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all

boldness and without hindrance.

THE EPISTLES OF PAUL.

FIRST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS.

CORINTH, A.D. 53. (ACTS 16, 3.)

CHAPTER I.

THE INTRODUCTION OF THE GOSPEL TO THE THESSALONIANS, TIMOTHY'S VISIT

AND REPORT, ETC.

1 [1:1]PAUL and Sylvanus [Silas] and Timothy to the church of the

Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to

you and peace.

2 [1:2]We thank God always for you all, making mention of you in our

prayers, [1:3]remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor

of love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God

even our Father, [1:4] knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,

[1:5]that our gospel came not to you in word only, but with power and

with the Holy Spirit and with full assurance, as you know what we were

among you for your sakes.

3 [1:6]And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received

the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit, [1:7]so

that you became an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

[1:8]For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in

Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into

every place, so that we had no need to say any thing; [1:9]for they

declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from

idols to God, to serve the living and true God, [1:10]and to wait for

his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers

us from the wrath to come.

4 [2:1]For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not

in vain, [2:2]but having suffered before, and been injuriously treated,

as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the

gospel of God with much contention. [2:3]For our exhortation was not

of error, nor of impurity, nor with deceit, [2:4]but as we were judged

worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as

pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts. [2:5]For we used at no time

a word of flattery, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness, God is

witness, [2:6]neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of

others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;

[2:7]but we were gentle among you, as a nurse would cherish her own

children; [2:8]so being greatly desirous of you, we were well pleased

to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls, because

you were dear to us. [2:9]For you remember, brothers, our labor and

weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one

of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. [2:10]You are witnesses,

and God, how piously, and righteously, and blamelessly we were with you

that believe, [2:11]as you know how we exhorted and comforted you, as a

father each one of his own children, [2:12]and charged you to walk

worthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

5 [2:13]For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that

receiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of

men, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that

believe. [2:14]For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of

God in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same

things from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews [2:15]who

also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who

please not God and are hostile to all men, [2:16] forbidding us to

speak to the gentiles that they may be saved, that they may fill up

their sins always; and the wrath has come on them to the utmost.

6 [2:17]But we, brothers, being deprived of you for a short time in

presence, not in heart, used greater diligence to see your face, with

much desire. [2:18] For which reason we wished to come to you; I Paul

indeed once and again, and Satan hindered us. [2:19]For what is our

hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you before our Lord

Jesus at his coming? [2:20]For you are our glory and joy.

7 [3:1]When therefore we could no longer refrain, we thought it best to

be left alone at Athens, [3:2]and sent Timothy, our brother and God's

co-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in

behalf of your faith, [3:3]that no one should be moved by these

afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this; [3:4]for

indeed when we came to you, we told you before that we were about to

suffer affliction, as it also happened, and you know. [3:5]For this

reason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith,

lest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be

in vain.

8 [3:6]But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good

news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us

always, desiring to see us, as we also you, [3:7]therefore we were

comforted, brothers, on your account in all our affliction and distress

by your faith, [3:8]for now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

[3:9]For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you for all the joy

with which we rejoice on your account before our God, [3:10]desiring

exceedingly, night and day, to see your face, and to perfect what is

lacking of your faith?

9 [3:11]And may God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct

our way to you; [3:12]and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with

love one to another and to all men, as we also to you, [3:13]to confirm

your hearts without blame in holiness before God, even our Father, at

the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

CHAPTER II.

CHASTITY, BROTHERLY LOVE, THE STATE OF THE DEAD, THE COMING OF CHRIST,

ETC.

1 [4:1]FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the

Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and

please God, that you abound still more. [4:2]For you know what

commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. [4:3]For this is the will

of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

[4:4]that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and

honor, [4:5]not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not

God, [4:6]that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the

matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told

you before and fully testified. [4:7]For God has not called us to

impurity, but to purity. [4:8]He therefore that despises, despises not

man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.

2 [4:9]But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should

write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another; [4:10]for

you also do the same to all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we

exhort you, brothers, to abound still more, [4:11]and strive to be

quiet and pursue your own business, and work with your hands, as we

charged you, [4:12]that you may walk becomingly towards those without

and have need of nothing.

3 [4:13]And we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those

that have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no

hope. [4:14] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also

will God bring with him those that have fallen asleep on account of

Jesus. [4:15]For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who

live and remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those

that have fallen asleep, [4:16]for the Lord himself will descend from

heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the

trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, [4:17] then we

the living who remain shall be caught up together with them in clouds,

to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be always with the Lord.

[4:18] Comfort one another, therefore, with these words.

4 [5:1]But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need

that I should write to you; [5:2]for you yourselves know perfectly that

the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. [5:3]When they

say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a

woman with child, and they shall not escape. [5:4]But you, brothers,

are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief;

[5:5]for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not

of night nor of darkness.

5 [5:6]Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be

sober. [5:7]For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are

drunk drink in the night; [5:8]but let us who are of day be sober,

putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of

salvation, [5:9]for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain

salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, [5:10] who died for us, that,

whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

[5:11]Wherefore exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also

do.

6 [5:12]And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among

you, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, [5:13]and to

esteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace

among yourselves. [5:14] And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the

disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long

suffering towards all men. [5:15]See that no one renders evil for evil,

but always pursue the good both one to another and to all.

7 [5:16]Rejoice always; [5:17]pray without ceasing, [5:18]give thanks

on every occasion; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to us.

[5:19]Quench not the Spirit, [5:20]despise not prophecies. [5:21]Prove

all things, hold fast the good; [5:22]abstain from every form of evil.

[5:23]And may the God of peace himself purify you wholly, and your

whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless at the coming

of our Lord Jesus Christ. [5:24]Faithful is he that calls you, who will

also perform.

8 [5:25]Brothers, pray for us. [5:26]Salute all the brothers with a

holy kiss. [5:27]I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to

all the holy brothers. [5:28]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

you.

SECOND EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS.

CORINTH, A.D. 53. (ACTS, 16:3.)

CHAPTER I.

PAUL'S LOVE AND PRAYERS FOR THE THESSALONIAN CHRISTIANS, THE COMING OF

CHRIST, ETC.

1 [1:1]PAUL and Silvanus [Silas] and Timothy, to the church of the

Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. [1:2]Grace

be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 [1:3]We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit,

because your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you

all one for another abounds, [1:4]so that we boast of you in the

churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions

and the afflictions which you endure, [1:5] a token of the righteous

judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God,

for which you also suffer, [1:6]since it is just with God to repay

affliction to those who afflict you, [1:7]and to you who are afflicted

rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his

mighty angels [1:8]in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that

know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus; [1:9]who shall

suffer the punishment of eternal destruction from the presence of the

Lord and from the glory of his power, [1:10]when he shall come to be

glorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that

day, for our testimony was believed by you. [1:11] For which also we

pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the

calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the

work of faith with power; [1:12]that the name of our Lord Jesus may be

glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and

the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 [2:1]And we beseech you, brothers, in respect to the coming of our

Lord Jesus Christ, and our being brought together to him, [2:2]that you

be not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by

a discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the

Lord was at hand. [2:3]Let no one deceive you in any way, for [he shall

not come] unless the apostacy comes first, and the man of sin is

revealed, the son of destruction, [2:4]who opposes and exalts himself

above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that

he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. [2:5]Do

you not remember that when I was with you I told you of these things?

[2:6]And now you know what hinders him from being revealed in his time.

[2:7]For the mystery of wickedness already works, [God] only restrains

it just now, till it shall be out of the way; [2:8]and then shall the

wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of

his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming, [2:9]whose

coming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles

and false prodigies [2:10]and with every unrighteous deceit among those

who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that

they might be saved. [2:11]And therefore, God sends them a power of

delusion that they should believe a lie, [2:12]that they all may be

condemned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in wickedness.

4 [2:13]But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by

the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by

purification of spirit, and belief of the truth, [2:14]to which he

called you by our gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[2:15]Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which

you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle; [2:16]and our

Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and

given us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace, [2:17] comfort

and confirm your hearts in every good work and word.

5 [3:1]Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may

run and be glorified, as also with you, [3:2]and that we may be

delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all have not faith.

[3:3]But the Lord is faithful, who will confirm you, and guard you from

evil. [3:4]And we trust in the Lord with respect to you, that you both

do and will do what we direct. [3:5] And may the Lord direct your

hearts in the love of God, and in the patience of Christ.

6 [3:6]And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus

Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not

according to the tradition which you received from us. [3:7]For you

know yourselves how you ought to follow us, for we walked not

disorderly among you, [3:8]neither did we eat bread of any one for

nought, but worked with labor and fatigue, night and day, not to be

burdensome to any of you; [3:9]not that we have not a right [to a

support], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow

us. [3:10]For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if

any one will not work, neither let him eat. [3:11]For we hear that some

go about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above

work; [3:12]we charge and exhort such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, to

work quietly, and eat their own bread. [3:13]But, brothers, be not

weary of well doing. [3:14]But if any one obeys not our word by this

epistle, mark that one, and have no association with him, that he may

be ashamed; [3:15]and account him not as an enemy, but admonish him as

a brother. [3:16]And may the Lord of peace give you peace always in

every way. The Lord be with you all.

7 [3:17]The salutation by my hand, Paul's, which is [the] sign in every

epistle; so I write. [3:18]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

you all.

EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS.

EPHESUS, A.D. 56. (ACTS, 17:3.)

CHAPTER I.

PAUL'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND OF THE GOSPEL.

1 [1:1]PAUL an apostle, not from men nor by man but by Jesus Christ and

God the Father who raised him from the dead, [1:2]and all the brothers

with me, to the churches of Galatia. [1:3]Grace be to you and peace

from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, [1:4]who gave himself

for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life

according to the will of God even our Father, [1:5] to whom be the

glory forever and ever; amen.

2 [1:6]I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that

called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, [1:7]which is not

another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the

gospel of Christ. [1:8]But if we or an angel from heaven preach you

another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be

accursed. [1:9]As we said before I now also say again, If any one

preaches you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be

accursed. [1:10]For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please

men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of

Christ.

3 [1:11]For I certify you, brothers, of the gospel preached by me, that

it is not according to man; [1:12]for I neither received it from man

nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ. [1:13]For you

heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the

church of God and destroyed it; [1:14]and was a proficient in Judaism

beyond many of my age among my people, being more exceedingly zealous

for the traditions of my fathers. [1:15] But when God who gave me being

and called me by his grace, [1:16]was pleased to reveal his Son in me,

that I might preach him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not

with flesh and blood, [1:17]neither did I go to Jerusalem to those who

were apostles before me, but I went to Arabia and returned again to

Damascus.

4 [1:18]Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas,

and staid with him fifteen days; [1:19]and I saw no other of the

apostles except James, the Lord's brother. [1:20]And what I write to

you, behold, before God, I lie not.

5 [1:21]Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. [1:22]But I

was unknown by face to the churches of Christ in Judea, [1:23]only they

heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which

he formerly destroyed; [1:24]and they glorified God in me.

6 [2:1]Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with

Barnabas, taking also Titus; [2:2]and I went up by a revelation, and

proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but

privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in

vain. [2:3]But Titus who was with me, and was a Greek, was not

compelled to be circumcised; [2:4]but on account of false brothers

brought in secretly to act as spies against our liberty which we have

in Christ Jesus, to bring us into servitude, [2:5]we did not yield to

them by subjection, for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might

continue with you. [2:6]But from those of distinction, whatever they

were it makes no difference to me,--God is partial to no man,--for

those of distinction added nothing to me, [2:7]but on the contrary

seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as

Peter was of the circumcision,-- [2:8]for he that operated in Peter for

the apostleship of the circumcision, operated also in me for the

gentiles,-- [2:9]and knowing the grace given me, James and Cephas and

John, who were manifest pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand

of fellowship that we should go to the gentiles and they to the

circumcision; [2:10]only [they wished] that we should remember the

poor, which I was also forward to do.

7 [2:11]But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to his face,

because he was to blame. [2:12]For before some came from James he eat

with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated

himself; fearing those of the circumcision; [2:13]and the other Jews

also dissembled with him, so that Barnabas was carried away with their

dissimulation. [2:14]But when I saw that they walked not correctly,

according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If

you being a Jew live after the manner of the gentiles, and not after

the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the gentiles to practise

Judaism? [2:15]For we Jews by race and not sinners of the gentiles,

[2:16] knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by

the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that

we may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by

works of the law shall no flesh be justified. [2:17]But if seeking to

be justified by Christ we are found to be ourselves also sinners, is

Christ then a minister of sin? By no means. [2:18] For if I build up

again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. [2:19]For by

a law I have died to the law, that I may live to God. [2:20]I am

crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in

me; and the present life which I 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

reject the grace of God; for if rightousness is through the law, then

Christ died for nothing.

CHAPTER II.

RIGHTEOUSNESS EXPLAINED.

1 [3:1]O FOOLISH Galatians, who has fascinated you, before whose eyes

Jesus Christ has been set forth among you crucified? [3:2]This only

would I learn of you. Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law,

or by a hearing of faith? [3:3]Are you so foolish? Having begun in the

Spirit do you now end in the flesh? [3:4]Have you suffered so much in

vain? if indeed also it is in vain. [3:5]He then that imparts to you

the Spirit, and exercises miraculous powers among you, does he do it by

works of the law, or by the doctrine of faith? [3:6] As Abraham

believed God and it was accounted to him a righteousness.

2 [3:7]Know, therefore, that those of faith, these are children of

Abraham. [3:8]And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the

nations by faith, promised before to Abraham, In you shall all the

nations be blessed. [3:9]Those of faith, therefore, are blessed with

believing Abraham. [3:10]For as many as are of works of the law are

under a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues

not in all things written in the book of the law to do them. [3:11]And

it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because

the just shall live by faith, [3:12]but the law is not of faith, but he

that does these things shall live by them. [3:13]Christ redeemed us

from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is

written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree, [3:14]that the

blessing of Abraham may come on the nations, in Christ Jesus, that we

may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

3 [3:15]Brothers, I speak according to man. But no one abolishes a

man's covenant when it is established, or makes additions to it.

[3:16]The promises were spoken to Abraham and his offspring. He said

not, And to offsprings, as of many, but as of one, And to your

offspring, which is Christ. [3:17]And this I say; that the law which

was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot abrogate the covenant

previously established by God, to make the promise of no effect.

[3:18]For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by the

promise. But God gave it to Abraham by the promise. [3:19]What then?

The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring

should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by

the hand of a mediator. [3:20]But there is no mediator of one; but God

is one.

4 [3:21]Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For

if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really

have been by the law; [3:22]but the Scripture has shut up all under

sin, that the promise of the faith of Jesus Christ may be given to them

that believe. [3:23]But before the faith came, we were kept shut up

under the law for the faith to be revealed. [3:24]So that the law was

our schoolmaster to lead to Christ, that we might be justified by

faith; [3:25]but the faith having come, we are no longer under a

schoolmaster. [3:26]For you are all children of God by the faith in

Jesus Christ; [3:27]for as many of you as are baptized in Christ, have

put on Christ. [3:28]There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither

servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all

one in Christ Jesus. [3:29] And if you are of Christ, then are you

Abraham's children and heirs according to the promise.

5 [4:1]But I say, that as long as the heir is a child, he differs not

from a servant, though he is lord of all, [4:2]but is under tutors and

stewards till the time appointed by the father. [4:3]So also we, when

we were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;

[4:4]but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born

of a woman, born under the law, [4:5] that he might redeem those under

the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. [4:6]And because

you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your

hearts, crying, Abba, Father. [4:7]So that you are no longer a servant,

but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God.

6 [4:8]But formerly, not knowing God you served beings which are not

really Gods; [4:9]but now knowing God, or rather being known by God,

how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you

wish again to serve? [4:10] Do you observe days, and months, and times,

and years? [4:11]I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you

in vain.

7 [4:12]I beseech you, brothers, be as I am, for I am as you [ought to

be]. You did not injure me; [4:13]but you knew I preached the gospel to

you on my former [visit] in weakness of the flesh, [4:14]and my trial

in my flesh you despised not nor rejected, but received me as an angel

of God, as Christ Jesus. [4:15] What then was your blessedness? For I

bear you witness that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes

and have given them to me. [4:16]Have I therefore become your enemy, by

telling you the truth? [4:17]They are zealous for you, but not well,

but they wish to exclude you that you may be zealous for them. [4:18]It

is good to be zealous for a good object always, and not only when I am

present with you. [4:19]My little children, with whom I am again in

pain till Christ is formed in you, [4:20]I wish to be present with you

now and change my voice with you, for I am in doubt of you.

8 [4:21]Tell me, you that wish to be under the law, do you not hear the

law? [4:22]For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a

servant woman, and the other by a free woman. [4:23]But he by the

servant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the

promise. [4:24]These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two

covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which

is Hagar; [4:25]for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; and the present

Jerusalem answers to her, for she is in servitude with her children.

[4:26]But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us;

[4:27]for it is written, Rejoice, barren woman, that did not bear,

break forth and cry, woman that had no pain, for the children of the

desolate are more numerous than those of her who had a husband.

[4:28]But we, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.

[4:29]But as then he that was born of the flesh persecuted him that was

born of the Spirit, so also now. [4:30]But what says the Scripture?

Cast out the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant

woman shall not be an heir, with the son of the free. [4:31]Wherefore,

brothers, we are not children of the servant woman, but of the free.

CHAPTER III.

MORAL DUTIES.

1 [5:1]STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free,

and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude. [5:2]Behold, I Paul

tell you, that if you are circumcised Christ will not profit you.

[5:3]For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is

bound to perform the whole law. [5:4] You have departed from Christ,

whoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the

grace. [5:5]For we wait in spirit for the hope of righteousness, by

faith. [5:6]For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing

nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

2 [5:7]You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

[5:8]This persuasion is not of him that calls you. [5:9]A little leaven

leavens the whole mass. [5:10]I have confidence in you, in the Lord,

that you will not be of another mind; but he that troubles you shall

bear his sin, whoever he is. [5:11] And I, brothers, if I preach

circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the

cross ceased. [5:12]I would that they were cut off that disturb you.

[5:13]For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your

liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.

[5:14]For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love

your neighbor as yourself. [5:15]But if you bite and devour one

another, see that you be not consumed one by another.

3 [5:16]And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the

flesh. [5:17]For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit

against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do

not what you wish. [5:18]But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not

under the law. [5:19]For the works of the flesh are manifest, which

are, fornication, impurity, lewdness, [5:20]idolatry, magic, enmities,

strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies, [5:21]murders,

drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I

have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not

inherit the kingdom of God. [5:22]But the fruit of the Spirit is love,

joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, [5:23]meekness,

temperance; against such there is no law. [5:24]And the [subjects] of

Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

[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.

4 [6:1]Brothers, if a man is overtaken with any fault, do you that are

spiritual restore such a one with a spirit of meekness, considering

yourself; lest you also be tried. [6:2]Bear one another's burdens, and

so perform the law of Christ. [6:3]For if any one thinks he is

something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. [6:4]But let each

one prove his work, and then shall he have joy in himself alone and not

in another, [6:5]for every one shall bear his own burden.

5 [6:6]Let him that is taught the word communicate with him that

teaches of all good things. [6:7]Be not deceived, God is not mocked.

For what a man sows, that shall he also reap; [6:8]for he that sows for

his flesh, shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows for

the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life eternal. [6:9]Let us not be

weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

[6:10]As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but

especially to the members of the family of the faith.

6 [6:11]You see with how long a letter I have written to you.

[6:12]Those who wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh compel you

to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross

of Christ. [6:13]For the circumcised themselves do not keep the law,

but they wish you to be circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.

[6:14]But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord

Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

[6:15]For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor

uncircumcision, but a new creation. [6:16]And whoever walk by this

rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God.

7 [6:17]Finally, let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks

of Jesus. [6:18]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit,

brothers; amen.

FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS.

EPHESUS, A.D. 57. (ACTS, 19:10.)

CHAPTER I.

SALUTATION, EXHORTATION TO UNITY, THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL, ETC.

1 [1:1]PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of

God, and Sosthenes the brother, [1:2]to the church of God which is at

Corinth, to the sanctified in Jesus Christ, called to be saints, with

all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both

theirs and ours. [1:3]Grace and peace be to you from God our Father,

and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 [1:4]I thank my God always for you, for the grace of God given you in

Christ Jesus, [1:5]that in every thing you are enriched in him, in all

speech and all knowledge, [1:6]as the testimony of Christ was confirmed

in you, [1:7]so that you are behind in no gift, waiting for the

revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, [1:8]who also will confirm you to

the end, without blame, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. [1:9]God

is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus

Christ our Lord.

3 [1:10]I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.

[1:11]For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of

Chloe, that there are contentions among you. [1:12]I mean this; that

each one of you says I indeed 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 you baptized in the name of Paul? [1:14]I thank God I

baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius; [1:15]that no one may

say that I baptized in my name. [1:16]And I also baptized the family of

Stephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other. [1:17]For

Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a

wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

[1:18]For the word of the cross is to the lost foolishness, but to the

saved 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

intelligent. [1:20]Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the

disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the

world? [1:21]For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew

not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those

that believe; [1:22]and since the Jews seek signs, and the Greeks seek

wisdom, [1:23]we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an

offense, and to the gentiles foolishness, [1:24]but to the called, both

Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God; [1:25]for

the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is

stronger than men. [1:26]For you see your calling, brothers, that not

many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are

called]; [1:27]but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to

confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to

put to shame the mighty, [1:28]and the ignoble things of the world and

things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to

destroy things that are, [1:29]that no flesh may glory in the sight of

God. [1:30]But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us

wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,

[1:31]that as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

4 [2:1]And when I came to you, brothers, I came not with excellency of

speech, or wisdom, declaring to you the mystery of God. [2:2]For I

determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him

crucified. [2:3]And I was with you in weakness, and with fear and with

much trembling, [2:4]and my speech and my preaching were not with

persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the spirit and

power, [2:5]that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in

the power of God.

5 [2:6]But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of

this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed; [2:7]but

we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from

eternity for our glory, [2:8] which none of the rulers of this life

knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of

glory; [2:9]but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not

heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God

has prepared for those that love him; [2:10]but God has revealed them

to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the

depths of God. [2:11]For who knows the [things] of man, except the

spirit of man which is in him? So also no one knows the [things] of God

except the Spirit of God. [2:12]And we have received not the spirit of

the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things

given us by God, [2:13]which we also speak, not in words taught by

human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual

things with spiritual. [2:14]But the natural man receives not the

[things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he

cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned. [2:15]But the

spiritual man discerns all things, and is himself perceived by no one.

[2:16] For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him?

But we have the mind of Christ.

6 [3:1]And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but

as carnal, as babes in Christ. [3:2]I have fed you milk, not solid

food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

[3:3]for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among

you are you not carnal and walk as men? [3:4]For when one says, I am

of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men? [3:5]Who then is

Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to

each as the Lord gave. [3:6]I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused

[the seed] to grow; [3:7]so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he

that waters, but God that causes it to grow. [3:8]He that plants and he

that waters are one; and each shall receive his reward according to his

labor. [3:9] For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's

building.

7 [3:10]According to the grace of God given me as a wise architect I

have laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one see

how he builds on it. [3:11]For no one can lay another foundation

besides that laid, which is Christ Jesus. [3:12]And if any man builds

on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, reeds,

[3:13]each one's work shall be manifest; for the day shall show it,

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

man's work what it is. [3:14]If any one's work continues which he has

built, he shall receive a reward; [3:15]if any one's work is consumed,

he shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.

8 [3:16]Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God

dwells in you? [3:17]If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall

God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy. [3:18]Let no

one deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this

life, let him be a fool, that he may be wise. [3:19]For the wisdom of

this world is foolishness with God. For it is written; He takes the

wise in their craftiness. [3:20]And again; The Lord knows the thoughts

of the wise that they are vain. [3:21]Let no one therefore glory in

men; for all things are yours, [3:22]whether Paul, or Apollos, or

Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things

to come, all are yours, [3:23]and you Christ's, and Christ God's.

9 [4:1]Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the

mysteries of God. [4:2]But, moreover, it is required of stewards that

one should be found faithful. [4:3]But it is of little account to me

that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge

not myself; [4:4]for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am

not on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord.

[4:5]Judge nothing therefore before the time, till the Lord comes, who

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

the purposes of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise from

God.

10 [4:6]I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself

and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go

beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against

another. [4:7]For who made you to differ? And what have you that you

did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that

receives not? [4:8]You are already full, you are already enriched; you

have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also

might reign with you. [4:9]For I think that God has shown us the

apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle

to the world, both to angels and men. [4:10]For we are foolish for

Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are

strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous. [4:11]Even to this

hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are

unsettled, [4:12]and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we

bless, being persecuted we endure, [4:13]being defamed we entreat; we

are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all

things, even till now.

11 [4:14]I write these things not to shame you, but as my beloved

children, I admonish you. [4:15]For if you have ten thousand teachers

in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have

begotten you by the gospel. [4:16]I exhort you therefore, be followers

of me. [4:17]For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and

faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as

I teach everywhere, in every church. [4:18]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 word of those who are puffed up but

the power; [4:20]for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

[4:21]What do you wish? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and

a spirit of meekness?

CHAPTER II.

INCEST, LITIGATION, EXPEDIENCY, AND CHASTITY.

1 [5:1]IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and

such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have

his father's wife. [5:2]And you are puffed up, and have not rather

mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among

you. [5:3]For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have

already judged as present him that has so done this, [5:4]in the name

of our Lord Jesus you being assembled together and my spirit with the

power of our Lord Jesus [5:5]to deliver such a one to Satan for the

destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of

the Lord. [5:6]Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a

little leaven leavens the whole mass? [5:7]Remove the old leaven, that

you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover

was also sacrificed for us. [5:8] Let us therefore keep the feast, not

with old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the

unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 [5:9]I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators;

[5:10] not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous

and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the

world. [5:11]But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one

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

railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.

[5:12]For what business have I to judge those without? Do you not judge

those within? [5:13]but those without, God judges. Remove therefore

the evil man from among you.

3 [6:1]Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the

wicked, and not by the saints? [6:2]Do you not know that the saints

shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you

unworthy of the lowest courts? [6:3]Know you not that we shall judge

angels? Much more then things pertaining to this life? [6:4]If then you

have courts for the business of this life, do you constitute them of

the most abject in the church? [6:5]I speak to your shame. Is there

not now a wise man among you? not one who can judge between his

brothers? [6:6]But brother goes to law with brother, and that before

unbelievers. [6:7]Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that

you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why

not rather be defrauded? [6:8]But you injure and defraud, and that your

brothers. [6:9]Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the

kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters,

nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, [6:10]nor thieves,

nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious,

shall inherit the kingdom of God. [6:11]And such were some of you; but

you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name

of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

4 [6:12]All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient;

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

any. [6:13]Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will

destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for

the Lord; and the Lord for the body; [6:14]and God both raised the

Lord, and will raise us up by his power. [6:15]Know you not that your

bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ

and make them a harlot's members? by no means. [6:16]Know you not that

he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says

he, shall be one flesh. [6:17]But he that is joined to the Lord is one

spirit [with him]. [6:18]Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man

commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his

body. [6:19]Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy

Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

[6:20]For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your

body.

CHAPTER III.

MARRIAGE, CELIBACY, ETC., AND THINGS OFFERED TO IDOLS.

1 [7:1]CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to

touch a woman; [7:2]but on account of fornications, let each man have

his wife, and each woman have her husband. [7:3]Let the husband render

to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband.

[7:4]The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in

like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife.

[7:5]Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for

a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again,

that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence. [7:6]But this I say

by suggestion, not by command. [7:7]For I wish that all men were even

as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and

another of another.

2 [7:8]And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good

for them to continue as I am; [7:9]but if they have not self-control,

let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent. [7:10]But

the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from

her husband, [7:11]and also if she is separated let her remain

unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave

his wife.

3 [7:12]But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an

unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not

leave her; [7:13]and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is

pleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband. [7:14]For the

unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the

unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children

impure, but now are they holy. [7:15]But if the unbelieving companion

departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such

cases; but God has called us to peace. [7:16]For how do you know, wife,

that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that

you will not save your wife?

4 [7:17]Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called

each one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches.

[7:18]Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be

uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be

circumcised. [7:19]Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is

nothing, but keeping God's commandments. [7:20]Let each one remain in

the calling in which he was called; [7:21]were you called being a

servant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather.

[7:22]For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like

manner the called freeman is Christ's servant. [7:23]You are bought

with a price; be not servants of men. [7:24]Let each one continue,

brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God.

5 [7:25]And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but

I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be

faithful. [7:26]I think then that this is good on account of the

present necessity, because it is good for man to be so. [7:27]Are you

bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek

not a wife. [7:28]But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin

marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh;

but I spare you. [7:29]But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so

that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

[7:30]and those who weep as those not weeping, and those who rejoice as

those not rejoicing, and those who buy as not possessing, [7:31]and

those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of

this world passes away. [7:32] But I wish you to be without cares. The

unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the

Lord; [7:33]but he that is married cares for the things of the world,

how he shall please the wife. [7:34]And the wife and the virgin are

different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that

she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for

the things of the world, how she shall please the husband. [7:35]But I

say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for

[your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.

6 [7:36]But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin,

if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes;

he does not sin; let them marry. [7:37]But he that stands firm in mind,

not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined

in his mind to keep his virgin, does well. [7:38]He that gives in

marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does

better.

7 [7:39]A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her

husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only

in the Lord. [7:40] But she is happier if she continues thus, in my

opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.

8 [8:1]And concerning things offered to idols we all have knowledge.

Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. [8:2]And if any one thinks he

knows any thing, he yet knows nothing as he ought to know; [8:3]but if

any one loves God, this [man] is known by him. [8:4]Concerning eating

things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world,

and that there is no other God but one. [8:5]For even if there are

those called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many

gods and many lords, [8:6]yet to us there is one God the Father, of

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

whom are all things and we through him. [8:7]But all have not this

knowledge; and some with the conscience [unenlightened] even till now

eat an idol's [sacrifice] as an idol's sacrifice, and their conscience

being weak is defiled. [8:8]But food does not commend us to God; for

neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.

[8:9]But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.

[8:10]For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's

temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to

eat things offered to idols? [8:11]And will not the weak brother for

whom Christ died perish by your knowledge? [8:12]But when you thus sin

against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against

Christ. [8:13] Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no

meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

CHAPTER IV.

THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ENTITLED TO A SUPPORT, PAUL'S LABORS WITHOUT

CHARGE.

1 [9:1]AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus

Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? [9:2]If I am not an

apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my

apostleship in the Lord. [9:3]My defense to those who condemn me is

this; [9:4]Have we not a right to eat and drink? [9:5]Have we not a

right to lead about a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles; and

the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? [9:6]Or I only and Barnabas,

have we not a right to abstain from labor? [9:7]Who ever goes on a

military expedition at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and eats

not the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock and eats not of the milk of

the flock? [9:8] Do I say these things in the manner of men? or does

not the law also say the same? [9:9]For it is written in the law of

Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for

oxen? [9:10]or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes,

doubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and

that he who threshes in hope should partake of it. [9:11]If we have

sown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly

things? [9:12]And if others have this right, do we not have it more?

But we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not

impede the gospel of Christ. [9:13]Know you not that those who perform

sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake

of the altar? [9:14]So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach

the gospel to live by the gospel. [9:15]But I have used none of these

things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done

to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my

boasting vain.

2 [9:16]For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a

necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.

[9:17]For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly,

I am intrusted with a stewardship. [9:18]What then is my reward? That

preaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse

my right in the gospel. [9:19]For being free from all men, I have made

myself a servant of all, that I may gain more; [9:20]to the Jews I have

been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as

under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those

under the law; [9:21]to those without law, as without law, being not

without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those

without law; [9:22]to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain

the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in

all conditions; [9:23]and I do all things for the sake of the gospel,

that I may be a partaker of it.

3 [9:24]Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but

one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain. [9:25]And every one

that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to

obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. [9:26]I therefore so

run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;

[9:27]but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest

having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

4 [10:1]For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our

fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, [10:2]and

all were baptized to Moses by the cloud and by the sea, [10:3]and all

eat the same spiritual food, [10:4]and all drank the same spiritual

drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock which followed them, and

that rock was Christ; [10:5]but with many of them God was not pleased;

for they were destroyed in the wilderness. [10:6]But these things are

examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

[10:7]Neither be idolaters, as some of them were, 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 did and fell in one day

twenty-three thousand. [10:9]Neither let us try Christ, as some of them

did and were destroyed by serpents. [10:10]Neither do you complain as

some of them complained and were destroyed by the destroyer. [10:11]All

these things happened to them as examples, and are recorded for our

admonition on whom the ends of the ages have come; [10:12]so that he

who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall. [10:13]For no

trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful,

who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with

the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

5 [10:14]Wherefore, my beloved, avoid idolatry. [10:15]I speak as to

wise men; judge what I say. [10:16]The cup of blessing which we bless,

is it not a participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we

break, is it not a participation of the body of Christ? [10:17]For we,

being many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one

bread. [10:18]Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat

the sacrifices partakers of the altar? [10:19]What then do I say? that

an idol sacrifice is any thing, or that an idol is any thing?

[10:20]But what the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and

not to God; and I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

[10:21]You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons; you

cannot partake at the Lord's table and the table of demons. [10:22]Do

we provoke the Lord to anger? Are we stronger than he?

6 [10:23]All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient; all

things are lawful, but all things do not edify. [10:24]Let no one seek

his own but the good of another. [10:25]Whatever is sold in the market

eat, asking no questions for conscience' sake; [10:26]for the earth is

the Lord's and all it contains. [10:27]But if an unbeliever invites

you and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no

questions for conscience' sake. [10:28]But if any one says to you, This

has been offered to an idol, eat not for his sake that informed you,

and for conscience' sake. [10:29]I mean not your conscience, but that

of the other. For why is my freedom limited by the conscience of

another? [10:30]If I partake with thanks, why am I blamed for that for

which I give thanks? [10:31]Whether then you eat or drink, or whatever

you do, do all to the glory of God. [10:32]Be without offense both to

Jews and Greeks, and the church of God, [10:33]as I also please all in

all things, not seeking my own profit but that of many, that they may

be saved. [11:1]Be followers of me as I also am of Christ.

CHAPTER V.

PUBLIC WORSHIP, THE LORD'S SUPPER.

1 [11:2]I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my

[instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them

to you. [11:3]But I wish you to know that the head of every man is

Christ, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ,

God. [11:4]Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered

disgraces his head. [11:5]But every woman praying or prophesying with

her head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and the same as if

she was shaved. [11:6]For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be

cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off,

or to be shaved, let her wear a veil.

2 [11:7]For a man ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory

of God; but the woman is a glory of man. [11:8]For man is not of woman,

but woman of man; [11:9]for man also was not created because of the

woman, but woman because of the man. [11:10]For this reason ought the

woman to have a power [veil] on her head because of the angels.

[11:11]But neither is woman without man, nor man without woman in the

Lord; [11:12]for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through

the woman, but all things are from God. [11:13]Judge of yourselves; is

it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled? [11:14] Does not

nature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace

to him? [11:15]but if a woman wears long hair it is her glory; for the

hair is given her for a covering. [11:16]But if any one is disposed to

be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.

3 [11:17]But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together

not for the better but for the worse. [11:18]For first, when you come

together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and

some part of it I believe. [11:19]For it is necessary that there should

be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.

[11:20]When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's

supper, [11:21]for each one in eating takes his supper before the rest,

and one is hungry and another drunk. [11:22] Have you not [food] to eat

and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and

shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I

commend you? In this I commend you not.

4 [11:23]For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that

on the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread

[11:24]and giving thanks broke, and said, This is my body, which is for

you; this do in remembrance of me. [11:25]In like manner also the cup,

after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant [sealed] with my

blood; this do, as often as you drink, in remembrance of me. [11:26]For

as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you declare the

Lord's death till he comes. [11:27]So that whoever eats this bread or

drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, is guilty of the body and blood

of the Lord. [11:28]But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of

the bread and drink of the cup; [11:29]for he eats and drinks judgment

to himself, who eats and drinks not discerning the body.

5 [11:30]For this reason many are weak and sick among you and some

sleep. [11:31]For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged;

[11:32]but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not

be condemned with the world. [11:33]Therefore, my brothers, when you

come together to eat, wait one for another. [11:34]If any one is

hungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment.

The other things I will arrange when I come.

CHAPTER VI.

SPIRITUAL GIFTS.

1 [12:1]AND I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of the spiritual

gifts. [12:2]You know that when you were gentiles, you followed dumb

idols as you were led. [12:3]I assure you, therefore, that no one

speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one

can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

2 [12:4]And there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit;

[12:5]and there are diversities of services and the same Lord;

[12:6]and there are diversities of operations and the same God, who

performs all things in all. [12:7]But a manifestation of the Spirit is

given to each one for a useful purpose. [12:8]For to one is given by

the Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge by the

same Spirit, [12:9]and to another faith by the same Spirit, and to

another gifts of performing cures by the same Spirit, [12:10]and to

another the performance of mighty works, and to another prophecy, and

to another discrimination of spirits, and to another different tongues,

and to another an interpretation of tongues; [12:11]but all these

[works] performs one and the same Spirit, distributing to each in

particular as it wills.

3 [12:12]For as the body is one and has many members, and all the

members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ;

[12:13]for we have all been baptized with one Spirit in one body,

whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and have all been

made to drink one Spirit. [12:14]For the body also is not one member

but many. [12:15]If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of

the body, is it therefore not of the body? [12:16]and if the ear says,

Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of

the body? [12:17]If the whole body was an eye, where would be the

hearing? If the whole was a hearing, where would be the smelling?

[12:18]But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body,

as he pleased. [12:19]But if all were one member, where would be the

body? [12:20]But now there are many members, but one body. [12:21]The

eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head

to the feet, I have no need of you; [12:22]but much more those members

of the body which seem to be weak are necessary, [12:23]and those which

we esteem to be less honorable members of the body, on these we bestow

more abundant honor, and our uncomely members have more abundant

comeliness, [12:24]for our comely ones have no need. But God has

commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was

lacking, [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 if

one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; and if one member

is glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

4 [12:27]And you are a body of Christ, and members in particular.

[12:28]And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly

prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing

cures, aids, governments, different tongues. [12:29]Are all apostles?

are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers? [12:30]have all

gifts of performing cures? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

[12:31]But desire earnestly the best gifts: and I will still more fully

show you the way.

5 [13:1]If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not

love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. [13:2]And if I have

prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I

have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am

nothing. [13:3]And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and

if I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be

profited.

6 [13:4]Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not

boastful, is not puffed up, [13:5]does not behave unbecomingly, seeks

not her own, is not easily provoked, devises not evil, [13:6]rejoices

not in wickedness, but rejoices in the truth; [13:7]bears all things,

believes all things, hopes for all things, and endures all things.

7 [13:8]Love never fails; but if there are prophecies, they shall pass

away; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it shall pass away.

[13:9]And we know in part and we prophesy in part; [13:10]when the

perfect has come, that which is in part shall pass away. [13:11]When I

was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a

child; when I became a man I put away childish things. [13:12]For now

we see by a mirror darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I

know in part, but then I shall know fully as I also am known.

[13:13]And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest

of these is love.

8 [14:1]Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but

rather that you may prophesy. [14:2]For he that speaks with a tongue

speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit

he speaks mysteries; [14:3]but he that prophesies speaks to men to

edification and exhortation and consolation. [14:4]He that speaks with

a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly.

[14:5]I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should

prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with

tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive

edification.

9 [14:6]But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what

shall I profit you, unless I speak to you by a revelation, or by a

knowledge, or by a prophecy, or by a doctrine? [14:7]So of irrational

objects making a sound, whether a flute or harp; if it makes no

distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is played on the

flute or harp? [14:8]For also if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound,

who will prepare himself for the battle? [14:9]So also you by a tongue

if you utter a word not easily understood, how shall it be known what

is spoken? for you will speak to the air. [14:10]There are perhaps as

many kinds of voices in the world, and no one is without significance;

[14:11]if therefore I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be

to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian

to me. [14:12]So also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spirits

[spiritual gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.

[14:13]Let him therefore that speaks with a tongue pray that he may

interpret, [14:14]For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my

understanding is unfruitful. [14:15]What then is [to be done]? I will

pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding; I will

sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding; [14:16]

since if you bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the

place of the unlearned say, Amen, to your thanksgiving, since he knows

not what you say? [14:17]For you indeed give thanks well; but the other

is not edified. [14:18]I thank God I speak with a tongue more than you

all; [14:19]but in an assembly I had rather speak five words with my

understanding, that I may also teach others, than ten thousand words in

a tongue.

10 [14:20]Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be

children, and in understanding be perfect men. [14:21]For it is

written in the law, With other tongues, and with other lips will I

speak to this people, and so they shall not understand me, says the

Lord. [14:22]Tongues therefore are a sign, not for believers but for

unbelievers, but prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

[14:23]If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak

with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will

they not say that you are mad? [14:24]But if all prophesy, and there

comes in an unbeliever or an unlearned man, he is convinced by all, he

is examined by all, [14:25]and the secrets of his heart are made

manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, declaring

that God is really among you.

11 [14:26]What then is [to be done] brothers? When you come together,

each one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a revelation, has an

interpretation; let all things be done for edification. [14:27]If any

one speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or at most by three, and by

turns, and let one interpret; [14:28] and if there is no interpreter,

let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to

God. [14:29]Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge;

[14:30]but if any thing is revealed to another sitting by, let the

first be silent. [14:31]For you can all prophesy one by one, that all

may learn, and all be comforted. [14:32]And the spirits of prophets are

subject to the prophets; [14:33]for God is not [the friend] of disorder

but of peace.

12 [14:34]As in all the churches of the saints, let your women keep

silence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted to them to speak,

but to be in subjection, as the law also says. [14:35]But if they wish

to learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a

shame for a woman to speak in an assembly. [14:36]Did the word of God

go out from you, or did it come to you alone?

13 [14:37]If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let

him acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the

Lord's; [14:38] but if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

[14:39]Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid

not to speak with tongues; [14:40]but let all things be done becomingly

and in order.

CHAPTER VII.

THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

1 [15:1]I DECLARE to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you,

which you also received, in which also you stand, [15:2]by which also

you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless

indeed you believed in vain. [15:3]For I delivered to you at first,

what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the

Scriptures, [15:4]and that he was buried, and that he rose on the third

day according to the Scriptures, [15:5]and that he appeared to Cephas,

then to the twelve. [15:6]Afterwards he appeared to more than five

hundred brothers at once, of whom the most continue even to the present

time, but some have fallen asleep. [15:7]Then he appeared to James,

then to all the apostles, [15:8]and last of all he appeared to me also,

as one born out of due time. [15:9]For I am the least of the apostles,

and am not worthy 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 to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they

all, but not I but the grace of God with me. [15:11]Whether therefore

it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

2 [15:12]But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead,

how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

[15:13]But if there is not a resurrection of the dead, Christ has not

been raised; [15:14]and if Christ has not been raised, then both our

preaching is vain, and your faith also vain; [15:15]and we are found

also false witnesses of God, because we testified in regard to God that

he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if indeed the dead are not

raised. [15:16]For if the dead are not raised, Christ was not raised;

[15:17]and if Christ was not raised, your faith is vain, you are yet in

your sins, [15:18]and those then who have fallen asleep in Christ have

perished. [15:19]If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of

all men most miserable.

3 [15:20]But now Christ has been raised from the dead, a first fruit of

those that have slept. [15:21]For since by a man came death, by a man

also came the resurrection of the dead. [15:22]For as in Adam all die,

so in Christ also shall all be made alive. [15:23]But each one in his

own order; Christ a first fruit, then those who are Christ's at his

coming; [15:24]then is the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to the

God and Father, when he will destroy every principality and every

authority and power. [15:25]For he must reign till he has put all

enemies under his feet. [15:26]The last enemy, death, shall be

destroyed, [15:27]for he put all things under his feet. But when he

says that all things are put under him, it is clear that he is excepted

who puts all things under him; [15:28]and when all things have been put

under him, then will the Son also himself be subject to him that put

all things under him, that God may be all in all.

4 [15:29]Else what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the

dead rise not at all? and why are they baptized for them? [15:30]Why

also do we encounter danger every hour? [15:31]By the joy on account of

you 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, of what

advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for

to-morrow we die. [15:33]Be not deceived; evil companionships corrupt

good morals. [15:34]Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have

not a knowledge of God. I speak to your shame.

5 [15:35]But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with

what body do they come? [15:36]Foolish man, what you sow is not made

alive unless it dies; [15:37]and what you sow, you sow not the body

which shall be, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or some of the

other grains; [15:38]but God gives it a body as he pleases, and to each

of the grains its own body. [15:39] All flesh is not the same flesh;

but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another

flesh of birds, and another of fishes. [15:40]And there are heavenly

bodies and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, and of

the earthly another. [15:41]There is one glory of the sun, and another

glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs

from star in glory. [15:42]So also is the resurrection of the dead. It

is sown in destruction, it is raised in indestructibleness; [15:43]it

is sown in dishonor, 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. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual

body. [15:45]And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a

living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit. [15:46] But the

spiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. [15:47]

The first man was from the earth, earthly, the second man is from

heaven. [15:48]Like the earthly, such also are the earthly; and like

the heavenly, such also are the heavenly; [15:49]and as we have borne

the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

6 [15:50]But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit

the kingdom of God, nor shall destruction inherit indestructibleness.

[15:51] Behold, I tell 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 trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead be

raised, indestructible, and we shall be changed. [15:53]For this

destructible must put on indestructibleness, and this mortal must put

on immortality. [15:54]And when this destructible has put on

indestructibleness, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall

the word be accomplished that is written; Death was swallowed up in

victory. [15:55]Where, death, is your sting? where, death, is your

victory? [15:56]And the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is

the law; [15:57]but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through

our Lord Jesus Christ. [15:58] Therefore, my beloved brothers, be

steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing

that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHARITABLE COLLECTIONS, TIMOTHY, APOLLOS, FAMILY OF STEPHANAS,

SALUTATIONS.