I. CORINTHIANS. How to account of ministers. The wise counsel of God. 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. CHAP. III. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus.AND I, brethren, could not speak unto 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. 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 I, brethren, when came to you, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk or of wisdom, declaring unto you the 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; testimony of God. and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not came not with excellency of speech, as men? 2 For I determined not to know any carnal? thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him 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. : 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. 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. is 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; 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 be 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 wor is 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 piritual 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 hath 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 Of the crime of fornication. The sufferings of the apostles. CHAP. IV, V. 21 Therefore let no man glory in men: for all things are yours; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas,| or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 And ye are Christ's: and Christ is God's. CHAP. IV. LET aman so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of I the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful. 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. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shail bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though would not come to you. 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. 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 the TT is reported commonly that there is fortime, until the Lord come, who both will nication 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 rather mourned, that he that hath done this have praise of God. 6 And these things, brethren, I have in deed might be taken away from among you. 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 puffed up for one against another. 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 received it? 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. 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. : 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 ure despised. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 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, 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 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 is sacrificed for us: 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. 11 But now I have written unto you not persecuted, we suffer it; 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 extortioner: with such a one no not to eat. day. 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. 143 54 Against going to law. DA CHAP. VI. 1. CORINTHIANS. in you, Concerning marriage. which ye have of God, and ye are ARE any of you, having a matter not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall in your spirit, which are God's. judge the world? and if the world shall be CHAP. VII. judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge NOW concerning the things whereof ye the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let woman have her own husband. every man have his own wife, and let every 3 Let the husband render unto the wife wife unto the husband. due benevolence and likewise also the body, but the husband: "and likewise also 4 The wife hath not power of her own 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, body, but the wife. the husband hath not power of his own and that before the unbelievers. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault it be with consent for a time, that ye may among you, because ye go to law one with give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and another. Why do ye not rather take come together again, that Satan tempt you wrong? why do ye not rather suffer your-not for your incontinency. 6 But I speak this by permission, and selves to be defrauded? & Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and not of commandment. that your brethren. 7 For I would that all men were even 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous as I myself. But every man hath his proshall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be per gift of God, one after this manner, and not deceived; neither fornicators, nor another after that. idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, widows, It is good for them if they abide 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunk-even as I. ards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, inherit the kingdom of God. shall 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife 10 And unto the married I command, depart from her husband: unmarried, or be reconciled to her bus11 But and if she depart, let her remain band: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly If any brother hath a wife that believeth 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord, for meats: but God shall destroy both it not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, and them. Now the body is not for forni- let him not put her away. cation, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 13 And the woman which hath a husband dwell with her, let her not leave him. that believeth not, and if he be pleased to 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not, that your bodies are tified by the wife, and the unbelieving 14 For the unbelieving husband is sancthe members of Christ? shall I then take wife is sanctified by the husband: else the members of Christ, and make them the were your children unclean; but now are members of a harlot? God forbid. they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let 16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, him depart. A brother or a sister is not saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord hath called us to peace. under bondage in such cases; but God is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. man doeth, is without the body; but he Every sin that a that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, how knowest thou, O man, whether thou whether thou shalt save thy husband? or shalt save thy wife? 19 What! know ye not that your body man, as the Lord hath called every one, so 17 But as God hath distributed to every is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches 144 An unmarried life recommended. CHAP. VIII. Of offending our brethren. be circumcised. '18 Is any man called being circumcised? gin, if she pass the flower of her age, and let him not become uncircumcised. Is need so require, let him do what he will, any called in uncircumcision? let him not he sinneth not let them marry. 37 Nevertheless, he that standeth stead19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncir- fast in his heart, having no necessity, but cumcision is nothing, but the keeping of hath power over his own will, and hath so the commandments of God. decreed in his heart that he will keep his 20 Let every man abide in the same virgin, doeth well. calling wherein he was called. 38 So then he that giveth her in mar 21 Art thou called being a servant? care riage doeth well; but he that giveth her not for it; but if thou mayest be made not in marriage doeth better. free, use it rather. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 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. 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that have the Spirit of God. CHAP. VIII. I NOW TOW,as touching things offered unto 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no idols, we know that we all have commandment of the Lord: yet I give my knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but judgment as one that hath obtained mercy charity edifieth. of the Lord to be faithful. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress; I say, that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you. 2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him. 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. 5 For though there be that are called 29 But this I say, brethren, The time is gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as short. It remaineth, that both they that there be gods many, and lords many;) have wives, be as though they had none; 6 But to us there is but one God, the 30 And they that weep, as though they Father, of whom are all things, and we in wept not; and they that rejoice, as though him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as are all things, and we by him. though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it. For the fashion of this world passeth away. 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried, careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married, careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 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 we the better;. neither if we eat not, are we the worse. 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them that are weak. 34 There is difference also between a 10 For if any man see thee, which hast wife and a virgin. The unmarried wo- knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temman careth for the things of the Lord, that ple, shall not the conscience of him which she may be holy, both in body and in spi- is weak be emboldened to eat those things rit: but she that is married, careth for the which are offered to idols; things of the world, 'how she may please her husband. 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 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 dis- 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the 36 But if any man think that he be-world standeth, lest I make my brother to haveth himself uncomely toward his vir-offend. traction. Paul shows his liberty. I. CORINTHIANS. Life compared to a race. CHAP. IX. M I not an apostle? am I not free? that I might gain the Jews; to them that 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, have I not seen Jesus Christ our are under the law, as under the law, that I Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? might gain them that are under the law; 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine without law, (being not without law to 21 To them that are without law, as apostleship are ye in the Lord. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine might gain them that are without law. God, but under the law to Christ,) that I me is this; 4 Have we not power to cat and to drink? I might gain the weak: I am made all 22 To the weak became I as weak, that 5 Have we not power to lead about a things to all men, that I might by all means sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and save some. as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we that I may be partaker thereof with you. power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare at any time at a race, run all, but one receiveth the 24 Know ye not, that they which run in his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, prize? So run, that ye may obtain. and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plougheth should plough in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11 If we have sown unto you 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 power: but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple, and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? mastery is temperate in all things. Now so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: bring it into subjection: lest that by any MO CHAP. X. TOREOVER, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all passed through the sea; all our fathers were under the cloud, and 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; drink: (For they drank of that spiritual 4 And did all drink the same spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.) well pleased: for they were overthrown in 5 But with many of them God was not the wilderness. 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that to the intent we should not lust after evil 6 Now these things were our examples, they which preach the gospel should live things, as they also lusted. of the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, wo is unto me, if preach not the gospel! of them: as it is written, The people sat 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. some of them committed, and fell in one 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as day three and twenty thousand. of them also tempted, and were destroyed 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of serpents. 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have also murmured, and were destroyed of the 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them a reward: but if against my will, a dispen- destroyer. sation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, them for ensamples: and they are written 11 Now all these things happened unto when I preach the gospel, I may make the for our admonition, upon whom the ends of gospel of Christ without charge, that I the world are come. abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For though I be free from all men, standeth, take heed lest he fall. yet have I made myself servant unto all,| that I might gain the more. 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh be 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is 146 |