1. CORINTHIANS,

Of Paul's preaching. Against strife, &c. lency of speech, or of wisdom, ritual, but as unto carnal, even as declaring unto you the testimony unto_babes in Christ. of God.

2 For 1 determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are 4 And my speech and my preach-ye not carnal, and walk as men? ing was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Howbeit, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory;

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apor los; are ye not carnal?

5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

6 I have planted, Apollos wr tered: but God gave the increase 7 So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward. according to his own labour.

9 For we are labourers togethe with God: ye are God's husbandry. ye are God's building.

10 According to the grace God which is given unto me, as i wise master-builder, I have the foundation, and another bu eth thereon. But let every EN take heed how he buildeth there upon.

11 For other foundation can man lay than that is laid, which Jesus Christ.

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, pre cious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

13 Every man's work shaib made manifest: for the day declare it, because it shall be vealed by fire; and the fire s try every man's work, of what s it is.

14 If any man's work al which he hath built thereupon shall receive a reward.

15 If any man's work shall b burned, he shall suffer loss: bu himself shall be saved; yet so fire.

16 Know ye not that ye are temple of God, and that the S of God dwelleth in you?

17 If any man defile the tem of God, him shall God destroy: the temple of God is holy, w temple ye are.

18 Let no man deceive his If any man among you see become a fool, that he mas to be wise in this world, let wise.

19 For the wisdom of this was

CHAP. V

ufferings and conduct
foolishness with God. For it is
ritten, He taketh the wise in their
wn craftiness.

20 And again, The Lord knoweth
e thoughts of the wise, that they
e vain.

21 Therefore let no man glory in en: for all things are yours;

2 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or ephas, or the world, or life, or ath, or things present, or things come; all are yours;

23 And ye are Christ's: and
arist is God's.
CHAP. IV.

How to account of Ministers.
ET a man so account of us, as
of the ministers of Christ, and
wards of the mysteries of God.
Moreover, it is required in
vards that a man be found
hful.

But with me it is a very small g that I should be judged of or of man's judgment: yea, I e not mine own self.

For I know nothing by myself; am I not hereby justified: but hat judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before time, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden rs of darkness, and will make ifest the counsels of the hearts: then shall every man have se of God.

of the apostles

our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day.

14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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

17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

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

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

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

21 What will ye shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? CHAP. V.

And these things, brethren, I - in a figure transferred to myand to Apollos, for your sakes: ye might, learn in us not to of men above that which is en, that no one of you be -d up for one against another. For who maketh thee to differ another? and what hast thou 2 And ye are puffed up, and have thou didst not receive? now not rather mourned, that he that ou didst receive it, why dost hath done this deed might be taken glory, as if thou hadst not re-away from among you. d it?

Of the Incestuous Person. IT is reported commonly that

there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Now ye are full, now ye are ye have reigned as kings out us: and I would to God ye ign, that we also might reign

you.

For I think that God hath set us the apostles last, as it were nted to death: for we are a spectacle unto the world, angels, and to men.

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the We are fools for Christ's flesh, that the spirit may be saved but ye are wise in Christ; in the day of the Lord Jesus. re weak, but ye are strong;6 Your glorying is not good. e honourable, but we are Know ye not, that a little leaven ed. leaveneth the whole lump? Even unto this prosent hour th hunger, and thirst, and are and are buffeted, and have tain dwelling-place; And labour, working with

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacri ficed for us:

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of going to law.
Against fornication
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
not with old leaven, neither with extortioners, shall inherit the king-
the leaven of malice and wicked- dom of God.
ness; but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle,
not to company with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the
fornicators of this world, or with
the covetous, or extortioners, or
with idolaters: for then must ye
needs go out of the world.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one no not to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within ?

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked

person.

CHAP. VI.
Against going to Law.

DAR

ARE any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life,, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expe dient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shali de stroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for we body.

14 And God hath both raised the Lord, and will also raise up t by his own power.

15 Know ye not, that your bod are the members of Christ? sa. I then take the members of Chr and make them the members of s harlot? God forbid.

16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is body? for two, saith he, shal k one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every s that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth for nication, sinneth against his e body.

19 What! know ye not that you body is the temple of the Ba Ghost which is in you, which y have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with: price: therefore glorify God? your body, and in your st which are God's.

5 I speak to your shame. Is it
so, that there is not a wise man
among you? no, not one that shall
be able to judge between his bre-
thren ?
6 But brother goeth to law with Now concerning

brother, and that before the unbe-
lievers.

7 Now therefore there is utterly a
fault among you, because ye go to
aw one with another. Why do ye
1ot rather take wrong? why do ye
not rather suffer yourselves to be
defrauded?

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

9 Know ye not that the un-
righteous shall not inherit the king-
dom of God? Be not deceived;
neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
abusers of themselves with man-
kind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous,
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CHAP. VII. The Use of Marriage. the thir whereof ye wrote unto It is good for a man not to tour

woman.

2 Nevertheless, to avoid forma tion, let every man have his wife, and let every woman her own husband.

3 Let the husband render the wife due benevolence: likewise also the wife unto husband.

4 The wife hath not power her own body, but the husba and likewise also the husband not power of his own body, the wife.

5 Defraud ye not one the othe time, that ye may give yourselv except it be with consent for

CHAP. VII.

Of marriage,
fasting and prayer; and come to-
ether again, that Satan tempt you
ot for your incontinency.

6 But I speak this by permission, nd not of commandment.

7 For I would that all men were ven as I myself. But every man ath his proper gift of God, one ter this manner, and another after at.

8 I say therefore to the unmarried d widows, It is good for them if ey abide even as I.

9 But if they cannot contain, let em marry: for it is better to marry an to burn.

10 And unto the married I com-
and, yet not I, but the Lord, Let
Et the wife depart from her hus-
nd:

11 But and if she depart, let her
main unmarried, or be reconciled
her husband: and let not the
sband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not
Lord, If any brother hath a
fe that believeth not, and she be
ased to dwell with him, let him
put her away.

3 And the woman which hath
usband that believeth not, and
he be pleased to dwell with her,
her not leave him.

4 For the unbelieving husband sanctified by the wife, and the believing wife is sanctified by husband: else were your chiln unclean; but now are they

But if the unbelieving depart, him depart. A brother or a er is not under bondage in such es; but God hath called us to

ce.

For what knowest thou, O e, whether thou shalt save thy Sand? or how knowest thou, O whether thou shalt save thy

?

But as God hath distributed every man, as the Lord hath ed every one, so let him walk. Iso ordain I in all churches.

and continency.

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

vant.

23 Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the servants of men.

24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress; I say, that it is good for a man so to be."

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

28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

29 But this I say, brethren, The time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none;

30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not. and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried, careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

33 But he that is married, careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife,

34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband."

Is any man called being circised? let him not become un- 35 And this I speak for your own mcised. Is any called in un-profit; not that I may cast a snare umcision? let him not be cir- upon you, but for that which is cised. comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Circumcision is nothing, and rcumcision is nothing, but the bing of the commandments of

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a ser? care not for it; but if thou est be made free, use it rather. For he that is called in the , being a servant, is the Lord's

36 But if any man think that he behayeth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

37 Nevertheless, he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in

I. CORINTHIANS, The true minister brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. CHAP. IX.

40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and Iye in the Lord. think also that I have the Spirit of God.

10 For if any man see thee, which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the con- 14 Even so hath the Lord ordai science of him which is weak beled that they which preach the g emboldened to eat those things pel should live of the gospel. which are offered to idols;

11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against rist.

Wherefore, if meat make my