chosen the weak things of the prepared for them that love him. world to confound the things which t 10 But God hath revealed them are mighty; unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit t 28 And base things of the world, searcheth all things, yea, the deep and things which are despised, things of God. hath God chosen, yea, and things t 11 For what man knoweth the which are not, to bring to nought things of a man, save the spirit of things that are: man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. t* 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. d 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wis dom teacheth, but which the Hoy 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. t 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. CHAP. II. to you,came not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. ritual things with spiritual. because they are spiritually dis cerned. d 2 For I determined not to know him: neither can he know them, any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. f3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 15 But he that is spiritual jud eth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. we have the d 4 And my speech and my preach- 16 For who hath known the ing was not with enticing words of mind of the Lord, that he may in man's wisdom, but in demonstra- struct him? But tion of the Spirit, and of power: mind of Christ. 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but c in the power of God. AN CHAP. III. ND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spi ritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 6 Howbeit, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor 2 I have fed you with milk, and of the princes of this world, that not with meat: for hitherto ye come to nought: were not able to bear it, neither yet 7 But we speak the wisdom of now are ye able. God in a mystery, even the hidden p 3 For ye are yet carnal: for wisdom which God ordained be- whereas there is among you envy. fore the world unto our glory; ing, and strife, and divisions, are 8 Which none of the princes of ye not carnal, and walk as men? this world knew for had they 4 For while one saith, I am of known it, they would not have Paul; and another, I am of Apollos: crucified the Lord of Glory. are ye not carnal? b9 But as it is written, Eye hath 5 Who then is Paul, and who is not seen, nor ear heard, neither Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have entered into the heart of believed, even as the Lord gave to man the things which God hath every man? 61 have planted, Apollos wa-| written, He taketh the wise in tered: but God gave the increase. their own craftiness. 7 So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase. t 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. 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. P 21 Therefore let no man glory 23 And ye are Christ's: and Christ is God's. t CHAP. IV. ET a man so account of us,as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. d 2 Moreover, it is required in stew 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 there-ards that a man be found faithful. upon. t'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; t 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 1 he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. f c 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. t 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 to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be pufft 16 Know ye not that ye are the ed up for one against another. temple of God, and that the Spirit t 7 For who maketh thee to differ of God dwelleth in you? w 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 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? 18 Let no man deceive himself. 8 Now ye are full, now ye are If any man among you seemeth rich, ye have reigned as kings to be wise in this world, let him without us: and I would to God become a fool, that he may be ye did reign, that we also might wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is reign with you. 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. e 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 naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; c 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 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. f15 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. d 16 Wherefore, I beseech you, beye followers of me. c 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. 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, d 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 leaves leaveneth the whole lump? d 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: d 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, not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with 18 Now some are puffed up, as the covetous, or extortioners, or though I would not come to you. with idolators: for then must ye 19 But I will come to you short-needs go out of the world. ly, if the Lord will, and will know, d* 11 But now I have written unto not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. t 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. you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous; or an idolator, 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? PIT is reported commonly that do not ye judge them that are there is fornication among within? you, and such fornication as is not 13 But them that are without so much as named among the Gen-God judgeth. Therefore put away tiles, that one should have his fa- from among yourselves that wick ther's wife. ed person. d 32 But I would have you with- knoweth any thing, he knoweth out carefulness. He that is un-nothing yet as he ought to know. married, careth for the things that b 3 But if any man love God, the belong to the Lord, how he inay same is known of him. please the Lord: 4 As concerning therefore the 33 But he that is married, careth eating of those things that are offor the things that are of the world, fered in sacrifice unto idols, we how he may please his wife. know that an idol is nothing in the 34 There is difference also be-world, and that there is none other tween a wife and a virgin. The God but one. unmarried woman careth for the 5 For though there be that are things of the Lord, that she may called gods, whether in heaven or be holy, both in body and in spirit: in earth, (as there be gods many, but she that is married, careth for and lords many ;) 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 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. t 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. 7 Howbeit, there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat are 37 Nevertheless, he that stand- we the better; neither if we eat eth steadfast in his heart, having not, are we the worse. no necessity, but hath power over e 9 But take heed lest by any his own will, and hath so decreed means this liberty of yours become in his heart that he will keep his a stumbling-block to them that are virgin, doeth well. 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. d 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. weak. 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 those things which are offered to idols; t 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 40 But she is happier if she so 12 But when ye sin so against abide, after my judgment: and I the brethren, and wound their think also that I have the Spirit of weak conscience, ye sin against God. Christ. NOW CHAP. VIII. d 13 Wherefore, if meat make TOW, as touching things offer- my brother to offend, I will eat no ed unto idols, we know that flesh while the world standeth, lest we all have knowledge. Know-I make my brother to offend. ledge puffeth up, but charity edifi eth. 2 And if any man think that he A CHAP. IX. M I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my things: neither have I written work in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this; 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? these things, that it should be so 17 For if I do this tning wingly, I have a reward: but if agains my will, a dispensation of the go pel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then' Verily that, when I preach the may make the gospel a 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? d 7 Who goeth a warfare at any gospel, time at his own charges? who Christ without charge, that I abse planteth a vineyard, and eateth not my power in the gospel not of the fruit thereof? or who 19 For though I be free from feedeth a flock, and eateth not of all men, yet have I made my the milk of the flock? servant unto all, that I might gain 8 Say I these things as a man? the more. or saith not the law the same also? 20 And unto the Jews I became 9 For it is written in the law of as a Jew, that I might gain the Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the Jews; to them that are under the mouth of the ox that treadeth out law, as under the law, that I might the corn. Doth God take care for gain them that are under the law; uxen ? 21 To them that are without 10 Or saith he it altogether for law, as without law, (being not our sakes? For our sakes no doubt, without law to God, but under the this is written: that he that plough- law to Christ,) that I might gain eth should plough in hope; and them that are without law. that he that thresheth in hoped 22 To the weak became I as should be partaker of his hope. weak, that I might gain the weak: am made all things to all men, that might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker thereof with you. I d 11 If we have sown unto you I 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 d 24 Know ye not, that they which power: but suffer all things, lest run in a race, run all, but one rewe should hinder the gospel of ceiveth the prize? So run, that ye Christ. may obtain. 13 Do ye not know that they 25 And every man that striveth which minister about holy things for the mastery is temperate in all live of the things of the temple, and things. Now they do it to obtain they which wait at the altar are a corruptible crown; but we an partakers with the altar? incorruptible. d 14 Even so hath the Lord ord 26 I therefore so run, not as undained that they which preach the certainly; so fight I, not as one gospel should live of the gospel. that beateth the air: 15 But I have used none of thesed 27 But I keep under my body |