by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty & might be rich. 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be Iforward a year ago. 11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: j Mk. 12. 43, + Lk. 21. 3. m ch. 9. 12. 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance & ch. 12. 17. also may be a supply for your want: Ga. 6. 7-9, that there may be equality: n Deu. 15. 10. 15 As it is written, He that had gathered. Ex. 16. 18. much had nothing over; and he that had p Phil. 4. 19. gathered little had no lack. 16 But thanks be to God, which put the 7 Ps. 112. 9. same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you. 17 For indeed he accepted "the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. 18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout "all the churches; rver. 6. s Isa. 55. 10. t ch. 12. 18. u ch. 11. 28. 4 Or, liberality. Gr. simplicity. v ch. 1. 11. Ac. 14. 23. 5 Or, gift. r ch.4. 15. y ch. 8. 14. Ro. 12. 17. ch. 2. 3. a ch. 8. 1. 19 And not that only, but who was also to chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord,b and declaration of your ready mind: 20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: 6 Or, he hath. e ver. 6, 17, 18, 22. ch. 9. 3, 5. 21 Providing for honest things, not Ro. 12 1. only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you. 23 Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ. e Mt. 11. 29. fl Co. 2. 3. 7 Or, in outward appearance. ch. 9. 2. hver. 7, 8. eh. 13. 2, 10. ch. 7. 4, 14 & 9. 2. 8 Or, reckon. ver. 12, 13. ch. 1. 17. 24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and 9 before the churches, the proof of hyourn Ro. 12. 13. love, and of jour boasting on your behalf. o ch. $ 11. p ch. 6. 7. Eph. 6. 11, 13. 1 Th. 5. 8. Ro. 6. 13 marg. or, to God. Ro. 15. 26. t ch. 8. 10. r ch. 8. 21. unto the saints. year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. 3 Yet have I sent "the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: 4 Lest haply f if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. 5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort "the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your 2 bounty, 3 whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of 2 bounty, and knot as of covetousness. 6 But this I say, 'He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not "grudg ingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10 Now he that 'ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness ;) 11 Being enriched in every thing to all 4 bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; a 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeak. able gift. NOW CHAPTER 10 TOW I Paul myself d beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who 7in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 But I beseech you, ithat I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I 8think to be bold against k some, which 8 think of us as if we walked "according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh : 4 (For P the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty 9through God to the pulling down of strong holds ;) Paul answereth II. CORINTHIANS 10 1 Or, reasonings. a ch. 3. 1. 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought & Ga. 1. 6. to the obedience of Christ; 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 7 d Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? 9 If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. 2 Or, with me. e ch. 12. 11. d Jn. 7. 24. ch. 5. 12. el Co. 1. 17. ch. 10. 10. Eph. 3. 4. 91 Co. 14. 37. 1 Jn. 4. 6. ch. 12 & 5. 11. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of kour authority, which the Lord; hath given us for edification, and notch. 10. 1. for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters, 3 say they, are weighty and powerful; but "his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. ch. 13. 10. l Ac. 18 3. 1 Co. 9. 1-8. m ch. 12. 13, 14. 3 Gr. saith he. n ver. L 1 Co. 16. 17. Phil.4.15,16. pl Co. 1. 17. ch. 11. 6. 4 Gr. this boasting shall not be stopped 12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by them-1 selves, and comparing themselves among themselves, 5are not wise. 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the 6rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours: but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be 8 enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. 17 But dhe that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but 9 whom the Lord commendeth. CHAPTER 11 WOULD to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed 10 bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. in me. ch. 6. 11 & 7. 3 & 12. 15. r ch. 3. 1. a ver. 18. 1 Co. 9. 12. 5 Or, understand it not. u Ac. 15. 1, 24 & 20. 29, 30. Ga. 1. 7 & 2..4 8 Or, line. v Phil, 3. 2 ver. 15, 16. w1 Co. 5. 5. 1 Co. 8. 6. y ch. 3. 9. z Phil. 3. 19. a Ro. 15. 20. 7 Or, b ch. 12. 6. Or, suffer. 8 Or, magnified in you. e1 Co. 7. 6, 12. 9 Or, rule. d Jer. 9. 23, 24 1 Co. 1. 31. e ver. 1. f Ga. 2. 4. Ro. 2, 29. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as "the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted. from the simplicity that is in Christ. ch. 5. 13. 10 Or, ye do bear with me. Ga. 4. 17, 18. Phil. 3. 5. k Ro. 11. 1. Eph. 5. 27. m ch. 3. 6. n Ge. 3. 4. ch. 6. 5. p Ac. 16. 23. his detractors. 4 For if a he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear 2 with him. 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6 But though I be rude in speech, ƒ yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. 7 Have I committed an offence in jabasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, "I was chargeable to no man for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, 4 no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 13 For such are "false apostles, "deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 16 I say again, 6 Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool 7 receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they * Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they "ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, Pin stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Glorying in infirmity. II. CORINTHIANS 11 24 Of the Jews five times received I a Mt. 5. 12. forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils fby the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, "the care of all the churches. ch. 7. 4. d ch. 11. 1, 16, e Ac. 13. 50 Ac. 14. 5 & 19. 23. ch. 3. 1. ch. 11. 5. Ga. 2.6-8. i Ac. 21. 31. Ga. 24. Ro. 15. 19. 1 Co. 9. 1. m ch. 8. 7. 29 ? Who is weak, and I am not weak?n Ac. 20. 18, who is offended, and I burn not? &c. Ro. 1. 14. o 1 Co. 9. 12. 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. CHAPTER 12 It foe to d visions and is not expedient for me doubtless to revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man fin Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;) 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not 3 lawful for a man to utter. 5 Of such an one will I glory yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 10. 15. Ro. 15. 6. ch. 8. 6; 16. a 9. 5. c ch. 8. 18. 1 Co. 4. 21. Lk. 23, 43. 6 For though I would desire to glory, should think of me above that which heo ch. 12 14. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord ch. 10. 2, 6. ch. 1. 23. t Phil. 4. 13. w 1 Co. 9. 2. 1 Pe. 3. 18. 4 Or, Paul will not spare 10 Therefore I "take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 11 dI am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for "the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abun dantly I love you, the less I be loved. 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I make a gain of you " by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20 For I fear, lest, 9 when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 21 And lest, kwhen I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and " fornication and las civiousness which they have committed. CHAPTER 13 THIS is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be es tablished. 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, "which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty "in you 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, those who have sinned. II. CORINTHIANS 13 Greetings and farewell. but we shall live with him by the power a 1 Co. 4. 21. of God toward you. 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be dreprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your "perfection. 10 Therefore I write these things being PAUL ch. 2. 3. 61 Co. 11. 28. Ro. 8. 10. Ga. 19. d 1 Co. 9. 27. e Ro. 12. 16. f Ro. 12. 18. Ro. 15. 33. il Co. 11. 19. j Phil. 4. 22. k Ro. 16. 20. Phil. 2. 1. m 1 Co. 4. 10. ch. 11. 30. * 1 Th. 3. 10. absent, "lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 12h Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CHAPTER 1 GALATIANS. AUL, an apostle, ( not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, dwho raised him from the dead :) 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present "evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto" another gospel: a Ac. 8. 3. 1 Gr. equals Mt. 15. 2. k ver. 6. Ac. 9. 15. ch. 2, 7, 8. m Mt. 20. 28. ch. 2. 20. n Jn. 15. 19. Ac. 9. 23. 2 Or, returned. o chỉ 4 25. Ac. 9. 26. ver. 15. ch. 5. 8. 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would per-2 Co. 11. 4. vert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or "an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Ac. 9. 29. Ac. 15. 24. ch. 5. 10. " Ac. 12. 17. v2 Co. 11. 14. a Cp, ch. 5. 12 a 1 Th. 2. 4. b 2 Co. 9. 13. Ro. 2. 16. d Ac. 15. 2. • Ac. 4, 36. f2 Co. 2. 13, g 1 Co. 11. 23. ch. 1. 12. i Ac. 15. 12. j2 Co. 12. 2, 7. ch. 2. 2. Eph. 3. 3. 13 For ye have heard of my kconver-3 Eph. 4. 22. He. 13. 7. Or, severally. sation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that "beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous off the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and k called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 18 Then after three years I 2 went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save "James the Lord's brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of "Syria and Cilicia; 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judæa which were in Christ: 23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me. CHAPTER 2 THEN fourteen years after & I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but 3privately to them which were of 4 And that because of 9 false brethren unawares brought in, who came in pri-2 vily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: ch. 4. 3, 9, 24, 25, 5. 1. k Ro. 8. 37. ch. 1. 4. m ch. 3. 21. He. 7. 11. ch. 5. 4. o ch. 5.7. Ac. 9. 15. Of the law 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I6through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then "Christ is dead in vain. CHAPTER 3 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added 1 Tim. 1. 11. obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus nothing to me: 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that Pthe gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same" was mighty in me toward the Gentiles :) 9 And when "James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would d that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. P ch. 1. 16. ver. 8. r ver. 14. Eph. 1. 13, He. 6. 4. 8 Ro. 10. 17. t ch. 4. 9. u ch. 3. 5. v He. 10. 32, 35, 36. 1 Or, so great. w Ac. 12. 17. ver. 12. r 1 Co. 1. 12. y ver. 2, 6. z Rev. 3. 12. a ch. 2. 8. Ge. 15. 6. b ver. 1. Ro. 4. 3, 9, 29r, d Ro. 12. 13. e Ac. 24. 17. f ver. 29. Ac. 11, 26. h 13 And the other Jews dissembled like-k wise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. ver. 22 ch. 4. 30. i Ro. 3. 30. Ae. 10, 28 & 11. 3 & 15. 28, 29. Ge. 12 3. Ac. 10. 45. m Ro. 4. 15. n Deu. 27. 26. o ch 2. 16. p Hab. 2. 4. Ro. 1. 17. He. 10. 38. 9 Lev. 18. 5. +2 Co. 5. 21. sch. 4. 5. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentilest Eph. 2. 12. to live as do the Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but "by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. u Ac. 13. 38, 39. ch. 3, 11. v Deu. 21. 23. w Ro. 1. 17 & 3. 22, 28 & 5. 1. ch. 3. 24. r Ac. 5. 30. y Ac. 2. 33. Ro. 3. 5. 3 Or, testament. Ro. 9. 4. aa ver. 15. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister Ro. 4. 16. of sin? God forbid. ver. 8. FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh ? 4 "Have ye suffered 1so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and "worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was 2accounted to him for righteous ness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, kIn thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ hath 'redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's 3 covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. 16 Now bb to Abraham and his seed were |