5 Likewise greet the church that is in theird Ga.1.22. house. Salute my weil-beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ. 6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. 7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note kinsmen, among the apostles, who also were in a Christ before me. 8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. 9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. e e or friends f Ep.1.4. 2 Jn.l. 1 Pe. 5.14. h 1 Ti 6.3.. 5. and salutations. to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you m wise unto that 8 IC 16.20 which is good, and "simple concerning evil. 20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. 21 Timotheus my work-fellow, and Lucius,and 2 Th. 3.6, Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. 22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. i Mat. 18.17 1 Co. 5.11. 14. J Phi 3.19. 2 Pe. 2.3. 1.1.8. 10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute Col.2.4. them which are of Aristobulus' household. 11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. 12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. 13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. 15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them. 16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. churches of Christ salute you. m Mat.10.16 nor, harmlesa. 27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. 3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: 8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. i Ro.1.8. h 1 Pe.1.2 T2.13 j 2 Co.8.7. 2 Pe. 3.12. I revela- m 1Th. 3. 13. n 1 Jn. 1.3. p schisms. q Ac. 19.1. r Jn. 1.42. Ro.16.23. • Ac. 18.8. 3Jn. 1, &c. wor, speech y Ro. 1.16. z Is.29.14. 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the same thing, and that there be no divisions b 1.44.25. that ye all speak among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. c. Lu. 10.21. Ro. 1.20, 22,28. d Mat. 12 38, &c. 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom ▾ of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. W 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. where is the disputer of this world? hath not 20 Where is the wise ? where is the scribe? God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 699 Character of Paul's preaching. 1 CORINTHIANS.-CHAP. II..IV. 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the A. M. 4061. Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; A. D. 07. e Is. 8. 14. 1 Pe. 2.8. 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews f ver. 18. and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men ; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Jn. 7.48. h Ps.8.2. Mat. 11.25 i Ro.3.27. J 2 Co. 5.17. Ep.1.3,10 1 Col. 2.3. Ep.1.17. 1.45 24. Je. 23.5,6. Ro.4.25. 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God | Ep.1.7. hath chosen the weak things of the world too Je.9.23,24 confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: mJn.17.19 a ver.4,13. b Ga.6.14. cor, persuasible. d 2 Pe.1.16. 1 Th.1.5. 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who off or, be God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and m sanctification, and " redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. CHAPTER II. He declareth that his preaching, I though it bring not excellency of speech, or of 4 human wisdom: yet consisteth in the 4, 5 power of God: aurl so far excelleth 6 the wisdom of this world, and 9 human sense, as that 14 the natural man cannot understand it. AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I 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. C g Phi.315. h Ps.33.10. i Ep.3.5,9. Lu.2334. k 18.64.4. 1 Jn. 16.13. in Ro.11.33. n Pr.14.10. o Ro.11.33, 34. P Ro. 8.15. q 1 Jn.5.20. r c.1.17. Mat.13. 11, &c. Ro. 8.5,7. Pr 28.5. or, dis cerneth. vor, discerned. w Is. 40.13. Je.23.18. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, butu 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 themx that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this y Ja.17.8. world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: h shall a c.2.14.15. b He.5. 12, 13 1 Pe. 22. e Jn. 16.12. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God or-d Ja.3.16. dained 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. k e or, factions. f according to man. g c.1.12. h Ro. 12.3,6. 1 Pe 4.11. 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart.15.10. of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Jn.15.5. 2 Co. 12.9 ..11. 6212 Re. 22.12. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, | 1 2 Co.6.1. yea, the deep m things of God. in or, tillage 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, p but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not P 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. n He.3.6. o Ro. 12.3. 1.28.16. Mat. 16.18 2 Ti.2.19. 9 is. r Zec.13.9. 1 Pe. 1.7. 4.12. 8 Zec. 3.2. Jude 23. t 2 Co.6.16. u or, destroy. v Pr.26.12. w Job 5.13. x P.91.11. y Je.9.23,24 z Ro. 14.8. a 2 Co.6.4. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; 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 watered; but God I 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 together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's " building. 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 16 Know ye not that yet are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man " defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, ▾ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. The sufferings of the apostles. 1 CORINTHIANS.-CHAP. V., VI. Heinous offenders to be avoided. 2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. e d AM4061 A. D. 57. b Lu. 12.42 1 Pe. 4.10. Mat.7.1. f Ro.2.16. g distinguisheth thee. h Ja.1.17. i Re.3.17. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. 6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not tok think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it ? or, the last apos- He.10.33. theatre. m Ro. 8.35. o Mat.5.44. p La.3.45. q 1 Th.2.11. ■ Ga.2.6. 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye haver Ja.4.15. reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a 1 spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. k 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are m naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 And labour, working with 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 earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. 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 flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: k m 8 Therefore let us keep the "feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle P 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 2Co.13.10 go out of the world. t Ro.14.17. a De.27.20. b 2 Co.7.7. c Col.25. d or, deter. e 2 Co.2.9, f Mat 16.19 g T.1.20 h c.11.32. 15 For though ye have ten thousand instruct-Lu.13.2. ers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. k Is. 53.7. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers or, slain. 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. r mor, holy 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 o Mat. 16.6, least esteemed in the church. n Ex.13.6. 12. P Ep. 5.11. q Ro. 16.17. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which Ma.4.11. 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? CHAPTER V. I The incestuous person 6 is cause rather of shame unto them, than of rejoicing. 7 The old leaven is to be purged out. 10 Heinous offenders are to be shunned and avoided. 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. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather 8 Mat. 18.17 a Da.7.22. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Mat 19:24 Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Jude 14,15 Re. 20.4. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not 1 Th.5.15 inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived:neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulte rers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, c 1 Th.4.6. d Ga.5. 19.. Ep. 5.4.5 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Re-22.15 kingdom of God. 18. Paul treateth of marriage. A. M. 4061. Not to be lightly dissolved. 1 CORINTHIANS.-CHAP. VII. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are f 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 expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. m 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord "for the body. | 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? God forbid. 16 What? know ye not that he which is join-r ed to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one ⚫ spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. t 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not " your own? W e Ep.2.1,2 Til 3.3..6. He.10.22. h Ro.8.30. i or, profit- 9.27. 17,20 1 1T.4.3,7. m Ro. 12. 1. n Ep.5.23. • Ro 6.5,8. Mat.19.5. 23. Ep.4.4. 8 Pr. 6.25.. t 2 Co.6.16. 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 depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called i us to peace. 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? as m 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, the Lord hath called every one, so let him Walk. And " so ordain I in all churches. 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision P is nothing, and uncircuma Ro. 14.7,8 cision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. ▾ Ac. 20.28. w 1 Pe. 2.9 a Ex.21.10. b Joel 2.16. c 1 Th.3.5. 11,12 20 For ye are bought with a price: there-d MaL 19, fore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit which are God's. CHAPTER VII. 2 He treateth of marriage, 4 showing it to be a remedy against fornication: 10 and that the bend thereof ought not lightly to be dissolved. 18, 20 Every man must be content with his vocation. 25 Virginity wherefore to be embraced. 35 And for what respects we may either marry, or abstain from marrying. NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye Mat. 19.6, the servants of men. e 1 Ti.5.14. f Mal 2.14 9. g Ezr. 10.11 h Mal. 2. 15, í Ro. 12.18. He. 12.11. j in. 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 P.3.1,2 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; e 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. 35 And this I speak for your own profit; not Of meats offered to idols. 1 CORINTHIANS.-CHAP. VIII., IX. that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. A. D. 57. i ver 28. J Ro.7.2 k 2 Co.6.14. 1 ver.25. m 2 Pe.3.15, a Ac. 15.10, 19. 22. 37 Nevertheless, he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath powerb Ro.14.14, over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage 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 be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after 1 my judgment: and I think m also that I have the Spirit of God. c la 47.10. e Ro.11.25. Ga.6.3. 1 Ti.6.3,4. Na 17. 2 T1.2.19. Is.41.24. h De 4.39. i Jn. 10.34, j Mal 2.10. k or, for. 1 Jn. 1.3. m Ro. 14. 17. n or, have more. 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those 6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. t c.9.22. Ministers to be supported 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not wed power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I 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 it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plougheth should plough in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless * we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they m which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 14 Even so hath the Lord" ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. b c.4.15. |