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Days and meats indifferent.

CHAP. XIV, XV. Study the happiness of others. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, | 19 Let us therefore follow afterthe things and make not provision for the flesh, to which make for peace, and things wherefulfil the lusts thereof. with one may edify another. CHAP. XIV.

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20 For meat destroy not the work of IM that is weak in the faith receive God. All things indeed are pure; but it ye, but not to doubtful disputations. is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 2 For one believeth that he may eat all 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to things; another, who is weak, eateth herbs. drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy 3 Let not him that eateth, despise him brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is that eateth not; and let not him which eat-made weak. eth not, judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. 23 And he that doubteth is damned if

4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth: yea, he shall be holden up: he eat, because he eateth not of faith for for God is able to make him stand. whatsoever is not of faith is sin. CHAP. XV.

5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day WE then that are strong ought to bear alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

6 He that regardeth the day, regarde th it unto the Lord and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope..

8 For whether we live, we live unto the 5 Now the God of patience and consoLord; and whether we die, we die unto lation grant you to be like-minded one tothe Lord whether we live therefore, or ward another according to Christ Jesus: die, we are the Lord's. 6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a mi

7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? Christ also received us,to the glory of God. or why dost thou set at ought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-nister of the circumcision for the truth of seat of Christ. God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. 14 I know, and am persuaded by the 12 And again Esaias saith, There shall Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to of itself: but to him that esteemeth any reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Gentiles trust.

15 But if thy brother be grieved with 13 Now the God of hope fill you with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. all joy and peace in believing, that ye may Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom abound in hope, through the power of the Christ died. Holy Ghost.

16 Let not then your good be evil 14 And I myself also am persuaded of spoken of: you, my brethren, that ye also are full of 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat goodness, filled with all knowledge, able and drink, but righteousness, and peace, also to admonish one another. and joy in the Holy Ghost. 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have writ 18 For he that in these things serveth ten the more boldly unto you in some sort, Christ, is acceptable to God; and approved as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

of men.

The church at Jerusalem relieved. ROMANS.

16 That I should be the minister of Je-l

sus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

Caution against divisions.

CHAP. XVI.

which is a servant of the church which COMMEND unto you Phebe our sister, is at Cenchrea:

2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as 17 I have therefore whereof I may glory becometh saints, and that ye assist her in through Jesus Christ, in those things which whatsoever business she hath need of you: pertain to God. for she hath been a succourer of many,

18 For I will not dare to speak of any and of myself also. of those things which Christ hath not 3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my help. wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obe-ers in Christ Jesus: dient, by word and deed,

4 Who have for my life laid down their 19 Through mighty signs and wonders, own necks: unto whom not only I give by the power of the Spirit of God; so that thanks, but also all the churches of the from Jerusalem, and round about unto Il-Gentiles. lyricum, I have fully preached the gospel 5 Likewise greet the church that is in their of Christ. house. Salute my well-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

20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest should build upon another man's foundation:

21 But as it is written, To whom he was kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who not spoken of, they shall see: and they are of note among the apostles, who also that have not heard shall understand. were in Christ before me.

22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.

23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company. 25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.

8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. 9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute 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.

42 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.

27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles 15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, have been made partakers of their spiritual and his sister, and Olympas, and all the things, their duty is also to minister unto saints which are with them.

them in carnal things.

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16 Salute one another with a holy

28 When therefore I have performed kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark will come by you into Spain. them which cause divisions and offences, 29 And I am sure that when I come contrary to the doctrine which ye have you, I shall come in the fulness of the learned; and avoid them. blessing of the gospel of Christ. 18 For they that are such serve not our 30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for and by good words and fair speeches dethe love of the Spirit, that ye strive to-ceive the hearts of the simple. gether with me in your prayers to God 19 Foryour obedience is come abroad unfor me; to all men. I am glad therefore on your be31 That I may be delivered from them half: but yet I would have you wise unto that that do not believe in Judea; and that my which is good, and simple concerning evil. service which I have for Jerusalem, may 20 And the God of peace shall bruise be accepted of the saints; Satan under your feet shortly. The grace 32 That I may come unto you with joy of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Amen.

21 Timotheus my work-fellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater,my kinsmen, salute you.

Paul reproves the church

CHAP. I.

at Corinth for their disunion. 22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, which was kept secret since the world salute you in the Lord. began,

23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole 26 But now is made manifest, and by church, saluteth you. Erastus the cham- the scriptures of the prophets, according berlain of the city saluteth you, and Quar- to the commandment of the everlasting tus a brother. God, made known to all nations for the

24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ obedience of faith: be with you all. Amen.

25 Now to him that is of power to establish you, according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery,

27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.

Written to the Romans from Corin-
thus, and sent by Phebe servant of the
church at Cenchrea.

1 The First Epistle of PAUL,the Apostle, to the
CORINTHIANS.

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called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

16 And I bapti ed also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether baptized any other.

2 Unto the church of God which is at I Corinth, to them that are sanctified in 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom that in every place call upon the name of of words, lest the cross of Christ should Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and be made of none effect.

ours:

3 Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 4 I thank my God always on your be- wisdom of the wise, and will bring to half, for the grace of God which is given nothing the understanding of the pruyou by Jesus Christ;

dent.

5 That in every thing ye are enriched 20 Where is the wise? where is the by him, in all utterance, and in all know-scribe? where is the disputer of this world? ledge; hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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.

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:

23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be 25 Because the foolishness of God is no divisions among you; but that ye be wiser than men; and the weakness of God perfectly joined together in the same is stronger than men. mind, and in the same judgment.

26 For ye see your calling, brethren, 11 For it hath been declared unto me how that not many wise men after the of you, my brethren, by them which are flesh, not many mighty, not many noble of the house of Chloe, that there are con- are called:

tentions among you.

27 But God hath chosen the foolish 12 Now this I say, that every one of things of the world to confound the wise; you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and God hath chosen the weak things of and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. the world to confound the things which are

13 Is Christ divided? was Paul cruci-mighty; fied for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God 14 I thank God that I baptized none of chosen, yea, and things which are not, to you, but Crispus and Gaius; bring to nought things that are:

I. CORINTHIANS. How to account of ministers.
CHAP. III.

The wise counsel of God. 29 That no flesh should glory in his] presence.

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.

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ND 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 bim crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but 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 them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained 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.

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ND I, brethren, could not speak unto

you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

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 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.

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10 According to the grace of God which 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;

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 13 Every man's work shall be made 10 But God hath revealed them unto us manifest: for the day shall declare it, beby his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all cause it shall be revealed by fire; and the things, yea, the deep things of God. fire shall try every man's work, of what

11 For what man knoweth the things sort it is. of a man, save the spirit of man which is

14 If any man's work abide which he

in him? even so the things of God knoweth hath built thereupon, he shall receive a no man, but the Spirit of God.

reward.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit 15 If any man's work shall be burned, of the world, but the Spirit which is of he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall God; that we might know the things that be saved; yet so as by fire.

are freely given to us of God.

16 Know ye not that ye are the temple 13 Which things also we speak, not in of God, and that the Spirit of God dwellthe words which man's wisdom teacheth, eth in you?

but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; com- 17 If any man defile the temple of God, paring spiritual things with spiritual. him shall God destroy: for the temple of 14 But the natural man receiveth not God is holy, which temple ye are.

the things of the Spirit of God: for they 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any are foolishness unto him: neither can he man among you seemeth to be wise in this know them, because they are spiritually world, let him become a fool, that he may discerned. be wise.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who bath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

The sufferings of the apostles. CHAP. IV, V. Of the crime of fornication.

21 Therefore let no man glory in men: for all things are yours;

16 Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, 17 For this cause have I sent unto you or the world, or life, or death, or things Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and present, or things to come; all are yours; faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you 23 And ye are Christ's: and Christ is into remembrance of my ways which be in God's. Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

CHAP. IV.

ET a so account of us, as of the

Lemnisters of Christ, and stewards of I would not come to you. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though

the mysteries of God.

2 Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

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. 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of am I not hereby justified: but he that meekness? judgeth me is the Lord.

CHAP. V.

5 Therefore judge nothing before T time, until the Lord come, who both this reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication bring to light the hidden things of dark- as is not so much as named among the Genness, and will make manifest the counsels tiles, that one should have his father's wife. of the hearts: and then shall every man 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not have praise of God. rather mourned, that he that hath done this 6 And these things, brethren, I have in deed might be taken away from among you. a figure transferred to myself, and to Apol- 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but los, for your sakes: that ye might learn in present in spirit, have judged already as us not to think of men above that which is though I were present, concerning him written, that no one of you be puffed up that hath so done this deed, for one against another.

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,

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 5 To deliver such a one unto Satan for received it? the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

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

9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. is sacrificed for us: 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 dwellingplace;

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 the covetous, or 12 And labour, working with our own extortioners, or with idolaters: for then hands. Being reviled, we bless; being must ye needs go out of the world. persecuted, we suffer it; 11 But now I have written unto you not

13 Being defamed, we entreat: we to keep company, if any man that is called are made as the filth of the world, and a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or are the off-scouring of all things unto this an idolater, or a railer, ora drunkard, or an day. extortioner: with such a one no not to eat.

14 I write, not these things to shame you, 12 For what have I to do to judge them but as my beloved sons I warn you. also that are without? do not ye judge

15 For though ye have ten thousand in-them that are within? structors in Christ, yet have ye not many 13 But them that are without God fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten judgeth. Therefore put away from among you through the gospel. yourselves that wicked person,

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