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ceive? now if thou didst receive which be in Christ, as I teach it, why dost thou glory as if every where in every church. thou hadst not received it? 18 Now some are puffed up,

8 Now ye are full, now ye as though I would not come to are rich, ye have reigned as kings you. without us: and I would to God 19 But I will come to you ye did reign, that we also might shortly, if the Lord will, and reign with you. will know, not the speech of 9 For I think that God hath them which are puffed up, but set forth us the apostles last, as it the power.

men.

were appointed to death: for we 20 For the kingdom of God are made a spectacle unto the is not in word, but in power. world, and to angels, and to 21 What will ye shall I come unto you with a rod, or 10 We are fools for Christ's in love, and in the spirit of sake, but ye are wise in Christ; meekness! we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are 1 of the incestuous person....6 Of necessity despised.

CHAP. V.

the old leaven must be purged out, &c.

IT

11 Even unto this present TT is reported commonly that hour we both hunger, and thirst, there is fornication among and are naked, and are buffeted, you, and such fornication as and have no certain dwelling- is not so much as named among place; the Gentiles, that one should

12 And labour, working with have his father's wife. our own hands. Being reviled, 2 And ye are puffed up, and we bless; being persecuted, we have not rather mourned, that suffer it; he that hath done this deed

13 Being defamed, we en- might be taken away from treat we are made as the filth among you. of the world, and are the off- 3 For I verily, as absent in scouring of all things unto this body, but present in spirit, have day. judged already as though I were 14 I write not these things to present, concerning him, that shame you, but as my beloved hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord

sons I warn you.

15 For though ye have ten Jesus Christ, when ye are gaththousand instructers in Christ, ered together, and my spirit, with yet have ye not many fathers: for the power of our Lord Jesus in Christ Jesus I have begotten Christ,

you through the gospel.

5 To deliver such a one unto

16 Wherefore, I beseech you, Satan for the destruction of the be ye followers of me. flesh, that the spirit may be sav. 17 For this cause have I sent ed in the day of the Lord Jeunto you Timotheus, who is sus.

my beloved son, and faithful in 6 Your glorying is not good. the Lord, who shall bring you Know ye not, that a little leaven into remembrance of my ways leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the judge angels! how much more, old leaven, that ye may be a new things that pertain to this life? lump, as ye are unleavened. 4 If then ye have judgments For even Christ our passover is of things pertaining to this life, sacrificed for us: set them to judge who are least

8 Therefore let us keep the esteemed in the church. feast, not with old leaven, nei- 5 I speak to your shame. Is ther with the leaven of malice it so, that there is not a wise and wickedness; but with the man among you? no, not one unleavened bread of sincerity that shall be able to judge beand truth. tween his brethren?

9 I wrote unto you in an epis- 6 But brother goeth to law tle, not to company with forni- with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

cators:

10 Yet not altogether with the 7 Now therefore there is utfornicators of this world, or with terly a fault among you, because the covetous, or extortioners, or ye go to law one with another. with idolaters: for then must ye Why do ye not rather take needs go out of the world. wrong? why do ye not rather 11 But now I have written suffer yourselves to be defraudunto you not to keep company, ed?

if any man that is called a brother 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and debe a fornicator, or covetous, or an fraud, and that your brethren. idolator, or a railer, or a drunk- 9 Know ye not that the unard, or an extortioner: with such righteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God! Be not deceiv

a one no not to eat.

12 For what have I to do to ed; neither fornicators, nor judge them also that are without? idolaters, nor adulterers, nor efdo not ye judge them that are feminate, nor abusers of themwithin? selves with mankind, 13 But them that are without 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, God judgeth. Therefore put nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor away from among yourselves that extortioners, shall inherit the wicked person. kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of 1 Of bringing controversies before heathen you: but ye are washed, but ye judges....7 How law-suits may be avoid- are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Je

ed.

CHAP. VI.

DARE any of you, having sus, and by the Spirit of our a matter against another, God.

to go to law before the unjust, 12 All things are lawful unand not before the saints? to me, but all things are not ex

2 Do ye not know that the pedient: all things are lawful for saints shall judge the world? and ine, but I will not be brought if the world shall be judged by under the power of any. you, are ye unworthy to judge 13 Meats for the belly, and the smallest matters! the belly for meats: but God 3 Know ye not that we shall shall destroy both it and them.

Now the body is not for fornica-[of her own body, but the hustion, but for the Lord; and the band: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his Lord for the body. 14 And God hath both rais-own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the othed up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. er, except it be with consent for 15 Know ye not, that your a time, that ye may give yourbodies are the members of selves to fasting and prayer; Christ? Shall I then take the and come together again, that. members of Christ, and make Satan tempt you not for your inthem the members of a harlot ? continency.

God forbid.

6 But I speak this by per16 What! know ye not that mission, and not of commandhe which is joined to a harlot is ment. one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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

7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and

18 Flee fornication. Every another after that. 8 I say therefore to the unsin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth married and widows, It is good fornication, sinneth against his for them if they abide even own body.

as I.

19 What! know ye not that 9 But if they cannot contain, your body is the temple of the let them marry for it is better Holy Ghost which is in you, to marry than to burn. which ye have of God, and ye 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with Lord, Let not the wife depart a price therefore glorify God from her husband: in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

CHAP. VII. 1 The use of marriage....10 Christ hath forbidden to dissolve the bond thereof, &c.

NOW concerning the things

a woman.

11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

12 But to the rest speak I, whereof ye wrote unto me: not the Lord, If any brother It is good for a man not to touch hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with 2 Nevertheless, to avoid for- him, let him not put her away. nication, let every man have his 13 And the woman which own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

hath a husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell 3 Let the husband render un- with her, let her not leave him. to the wife due benevolence: 14 For the unbelieving hus

and likewise also the wife unto band is sanctified by the wife, the husband. and the unbelieving wife is sanc

4 The wife hath not power tified by the husband: else were

your children unclean; but now

are they holy.

26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present dis15 But if the unbelieving de- tress; I say, that it is good for a part, let him depart. A brother man so to be.

or a sister is not under bondage 27 Art thou bound unto a in such cases; but God hath call-wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife?

ed us to peace.

16 For what knowest thou, seek not a wife. O wife, whether thou shalt save 28 But and if thou marry, thy husband? or how knowest thou hast not sinned: and if a thou, O man, whether thou shalt virgin marry she marry she hath not save thy wife? sinned. Nevertheless, such shall 17 But as God hath distribut- have trouble in the flesh; but I ed to every man, as the Lord spare you.

hath called every one, so let him 29 But this I say, brethren, walk. And so ordain I in all The time is short. It remaineth, churches. that both they that have wives,

18 Is any man called being be as though they had none; circumcised? let him not be- 30 And they that weep, as come uncircumcised. Is any though they wept not; and they called in uncircumcision? let that rejoice, as though they him not be circumcised. rejoiced not; and they that buy,

19 Circumcision is nothing, as though they possessed not; and uncircumcision is nothing, 31 And they that use this but the keeping of the command-world, as not abusing it. For the ments of God. fashion of this world passeth

called.

20 Let every man abide in away. the same calling wherein he was 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is 21 Art thou called being a unmarried, careth for the things servant? care not for it; but if that belong to the Lord, how he thou mayest be made free, use it may please the Lord:

rather.

33 But he that is married, 22 For he that is called in careth for the things that are of the Lord, being a servant, is the the world, how he may please Lord's freeman: likewise also he his wife. that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

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

23 Ye are bought with a price; unmarried woman careth for the be not ye the servants of men. things of the Lord, that she may 24 Brethren, let every man, be holy, both in body and in wherein he is called, therein spirit: but she that is married, abide with God. careth for the things of the world, 25 Now concerning virgins, how she may please her husI have no commandment of the band.

Lord yet I give my judgment 35 And this I speak for your as one that hath obtained mercy own profit; not that I may cast of the Lord to be faithful. la snare upon you, but for that

which is comely, and that ye we know that an idol is nothing may attend upon the Lord with- in the world, and that there is out distraction. none other God but one.

36 But if any man think that 5 For though there be that he behaveth himself uncomely are called gods, whether in toward his virgin, if she pass the heaven or in earth, (as there flower of her age, and need so be gods many, and lords require, let him do what he will, many;)

he sinneth not: let them mar- 6 But to us there is but one ry. God, the Father, of whom are 37 Nevertheless, he that stan- all things, and we in him; and deth steadfast in his heart, hav- one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom ing no necessity, but hath power are all things, and we by over his own will, and hath so him.

decreed in his heart that he will 7 Howbeit, there is not in evkeep his virgin, doeth well. ery man that knowledge: for 38 So then, he that giveth some with conscience of the idol her in marriage doeth well; but unto this hour eat it as a thing he that giveth her not in mar-offered unto an idol: and their riage doeth better. conscience, being weak, is defil

39 The wife is bound by the ed. law as long as her husband liv- 8 But meat commendeth us eth; but if her husband be not to God: for neither if we dead, she is at liberty to be eat are we the better; neither if married to whom she will; only we eat not, are we the worse. in the Lord. 9 But take heed lest by any 40 But she is happier if she means this liberty of yours beso abide, after my judgment: and come a stumbling-block to them I think also that I have the that are weak. spirit of God.

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10 For if any man see thee, which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat

NOW, as touching things of those things which are offered to

fered unto idols, we know idols;

that we all have knowledge. 11 And through thy knowlKnowledge puffeth up,but chari-edge shall the weak brother perty edifieth. ish, for whom Christ died? 2 And if any man think that 12 But when ye sin so against he knoweth any thing, he know- the brethren, and wound their eth nothing yet as he ought to weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

know.

3 But if any man love God, 13 Wherefore, if meat make the same is known of him. my brother to offend, I will eat 4 As concerning therefore no flesh while the world standthe eating of those things that eth, lest I make my brother to are offered in sacrifice unto idols, offend.

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