his subtilty, [so] your minds should himself is transformed into an angel be corrupted from the simplicity that of light. is in Christ. 15 Therefore it is no great thing 4 For if he that cometh preacheth if his ministers also be transformed another Jesus, whom we have not as the ministers of righteousness; preached, or if ye receive another whose end shall be according to their spirit, which ye have not received, works. or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made: throughout made things manifest among you in all things. 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing 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, 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 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool 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, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I 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 3 OUTO Rec. Omitted by Lach. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, &, B, D, F, G, etc., Coptic, Armenian, Gothic. 6 pavepolévтes Rec. pavepoσavres Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, &, B, F, G. 17, Armenian. perils by 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. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. 31 The God and Father of our: the Lord Jesus [Christ], which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, [desirous] to apprehend me: 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. IT CHAP. XII. 5 of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in neces T is not expedient for me doubt-sities, in persecutions, in distresses less to glory: Boast I must-it for Christ's sake: for when I am is not expedient for I will come to weak, then am I strong. visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in 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 ;) 11 I 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. 31 pov Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles. 31 XpioToû Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles. 32 θέλων Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Tregelles, B, D, d, e, f, Vulgate, P. Syriac, Armenian, etc. 1 δὴ Rec. dei Lach. T.S.Green, Tregelles, B, E, F, G, L, etc., d, e, g, P. Syriac, Ph. Syriac, Gothic, etc. 11 KaνXάμevos Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, N, A, B, D, 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except CHAP. XIII. it be that I myself was not burden-HIS is the third time I am comsome to you? forgive me this wrong. ing to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome [to you]: for I seek not your's, 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 abundantly 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: You have been long thinking 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, 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: 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, but we shall live with him by the power 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 reprobates? 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. 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, 10 Therefore I write these things and that I shall bewail many which being absent, lest being present I have sinned already, and have not should use sharpness, according to repented of the uncleanness and forni- the power which the Lord hath cation and lasciviousness which they given me to edification, and not to have committed. destruction. 14 ipov Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, &, A, B, etc., Æthiopic. 19 Táλiv Rec. Táλaι Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, ~, A, B, F, G, etc., d, e, f, Vulgate, etc. 2 ypápa Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, ~, A, B, D, F, G, Vulgate, etc. 9 de Rec. Omitted by Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles. 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. 12 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 GALATIANS. CHAP. I. PAUL an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 3 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: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert 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. my con 13 For ye have heard of versation 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' 10 γὰρ Rec. Omitted by Lach. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles, N, A, B, D, F, G, etc., religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God: Him who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the 17 Neither went I up to Jeru- truth of the gospel might continue salem to them which were apostles with you. 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: before me; but I went into Arabia, 6 But of these who seemed to be and returned again unto Damascus. 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter: Cephas, 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. 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 nothing to me: 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the 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 that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. 11 But when Peter: Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that blamed. gospel which I preach among the 12 For before that certain came Gentiles, but privately to them which from James, he did eat with the 15 ó eòs Rec. etc. 18 Пéтрov Rec. 11 Пérpos Rec. Omitted by Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, B, F, G, etc., Vulgate, P. Syriac, Knoâu Lach. Tisch. T.S.Green, Alford, Tregelles. |