2 Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, le every man have his own wife, and E every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to the wil Rom. 12.19. due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband. a Matt. 5. 39. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that will be able to judge between Titus 3. 3. body, but the husband: and likewise also his brethren ? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with a cc. 10. 23. 4 The wife hath not power of her own the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and another. Why do ye not rather take 4 or, profita. come together again, that Satan may not wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 But ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ble. 5 Not flesh only, but a Gen. 2. 24. Matt. 19. 5. Ephes.5.31. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but c. 3. 16. ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 12 All things are lawful to me, but fc. 7. 23. all things are not 4 expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 135 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? By no means. 16 What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for d two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body. Matt. 5. 32. & 19. 9. Mark 10.11. Luke 16. 18. 1 Gr. in peace. 2 or, bond man. 3 Gr. made 2 He treateth of marriage, 4 showing it to be a remedy against lewdness; 10 and that the marriage tie ought not lightly to be dissolved. 18, 20 Every man must be content with his free. vocation. 25 Virginity why to be embraced. 35 And for what respects we may either mar. ry, or abstain from murrying. NOW concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. tempt you for your incontinence. 6 But I speak this by permission, end not as a commandment. 7 For I would that all men were as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that. 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But if she shall depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband pat away his wife. 12 But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, if any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And the woman who hath a husband that believeth not, and if he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases; but God hath called us to peace. 16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches. 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not become circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man continue in the same calling in which he was called. 21 Art thou called being a 2 servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's a free-man: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man in the state in which he is called, continue in it with God. A. D. 59. 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give c. 6. 20. my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present 4 distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be." 27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you. 29 But this I say, brethren, The time 4 or, neces- is short. It remaineth, that both they Rom. 7. 2. 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 anxious care. He that is unmarried, is anxious for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married, is anxious for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. c. 10. 19. Rom.11.36. 1 or, for him. 34 There is a difference also between 2 or, have a wife and a virgin. The unmarried we the more. woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body 3 or, have we and in spirit: but she that is married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without dis traction. 36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin, if she hath passed the flower of her age, and need so requireth, 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 his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. the less. CHAP. VIII. 1 To abstain from meats offered to idols. 8, 9 We must not abuse our Christian liberty, to the offense of our brethren: 11 but must bridle our knowledge with charity. NOW TOW as concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 2 And if any man thinketh that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if any man loveth God, the same is known by him. 4 Therefore as concerning the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5 For though there are that are called gods, whether in heaven or upon earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many) 6 Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we 1 in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." 7 But there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol to this hour eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But food commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat, 2 are we the better; neither if we eat not, 3 are we the worse. 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours should become a stumbling-block to them that are weak. 4 10 For if any man shall see thee, who hast knowledge, sit eating in the idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be 5 emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when ye thus sin against the 4 or, power. brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if food maketh my brother to fall into sin, I will eat no flesh 5 Gr. edified. while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to fall into sin. Rom. 14.21. a c. 15. 8. 1 or, con 38 So then he that giveth her in mar- demn. riage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 2 A sister, 40 But she is happier if she so remain, woman, or 2 sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, after my judgment; and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. wife. and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working? A. D. 59. 7 Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of its fruit? or who Deut. 25. 4. feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Do I say these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen ? 10 Or saith he this altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. C 11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? Rom.15.27. Num. 18.20. Deut. 10. 9. & 18. 1. 12 If others are partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Never-3 or, feed. theless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13 & Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things 3 live from the things of the temple, and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me 4 for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. Gal. 6. 6. 1 Tim. 5. 17. or, one dis approved. Ex. 13. 31. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I Num. 9. 18. have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I Ex. 14. 22. preach not the gospel! & 68.9. 17 For if I do this thing willingly, IPs. 77. 17. have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed & Ex. 16.15. to me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my power in the gospel. 19 For though I am free from all men, yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more. 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, 3 or, types. that I may be partaker of it with you. 24 Know ye not, that they who run in 4 or, modera race, all run, but one receiveth the ate. prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth f the mastery is temperate in all thing Now they do it to obtain a corrupts crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertai ly; so I fight, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a 4 cast-away. CHAP. X. 1 The sacraments of the Jews, 6 are types of ours, 7 and their punishments, 11 examples for us. 14 We must flee from idolatry. A We must not make the Lord's table the table of demons; 24 and in things indiferent we must have regard for our brethren. MOREOVER, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through & the sea; 2 And were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And all ate the same a spiritual food; 4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that spiritual Rock that I followed them: and that Rock was Christ.) 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust aller evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them: as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and i were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened to them for 3 examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. 13 There hath no temptation taken you but 4 such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers` of that one bread. 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman to have 2 power on her head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman P Col. 3. 17. without the man in the Lord. 29 Conscience, I say, not thy own, but Gen. 2. 23. of the other for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience? 30 For if I by 6 grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 31 P Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 2 That is, a covering in sign that she is power of her hus band. 32 Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the 7 Gentiles, nor to the 3 or, an orchurch of God: 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. CHAP. XI. nument. 4 or, vail. 5 or,schisms. 12 For as the woman is from the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things from God. 13 Judge in yourselves: Is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered? 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man hath long hair, it is a shame to him? 15 But if a woman hath long hair, it is a 3 glory to her for her hair is given her for a 4 covering. 16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 17 Now in this that I declare to you, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are 5 divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you. 20 When therefore ye come together in one place, 7 this is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For in eating every one taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame s them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. 23 For I have received from the Lord, that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: 24 & And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do 9 in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup. is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, 10 ye do show the Lord's death till he shall come. 27 Wherefore, whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh 11 condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. A. D. 59. 10 or, show ye. 11 or, judg ment. 12 or, are dead. 30 For this cause many are weak and 13 Gr. resickly among you, and many 12 sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, 13 tarry one for another. 34 And if any man hungereth, let him eat at home; that ye come not together to 14 condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. CHAP. XII. ceive one another. 14 or, judg ment. 1 or, anathema. a Rom. 12. &c. 13 For by one Spirit are we all bes tized into one body, whether Jews. 4 Gentiles, whether bond or free; as have been all made to drink into ste Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I ars not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because! am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ! 18 But now hath God set the members one of them in the body, as it hath every pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, 4, head to the feet, I have no need of you I have no need of thee: nor again the 2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as ye were led. eth. 4 Gr. Greeks. 22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: 23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we 5 bestow more abundant bonor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked: 25 That there should be nos schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And thus if one member suffers all 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus 1 accursed: and that 5or, put on. the members suffer with it; or, if one no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit. a 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of admin-7 or, in part. church, first apostles, secondly prophets, istrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of opera thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, 8 governments, a diver tions, but it is the same God who worketh Eph. 4. 11. sities of languages. all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for 2 profit. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of languages; to another, the interpretation of languages: Il But all these 3 worketh that one and the same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. b 8 or, directions. 9'or, kinds. 10 or, pow. ers. 11 or, divers, 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of 12 or, ye dethat one body, being many, are one body: sire." so also is Christ. 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all 10 workers of miracles? 30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak in 11 languages? do all interpret? 31 But 12 covet earnestly the best gifts. And yet I show to you a inore excellent way. CHAP. XIII. 1 All gifts, 2, 3 how excellent soever, are noth ing worth without charity. 4 The praises of it, and 13 preference before hope and fash. of men and of angels, and have not HOUGH I speak with the tongues charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of proph ecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all |