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21 I speak as concerning reproach, 31 The God and Father of our Lord as though we had been weak. How-Jesus Christ, which is blessed for beit whereinsoever any is bold, (I evermore, knoweth that I lie not. speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 32 In Damascus the governor under

22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

23 Are they ministers of Christ? 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall,

(I speak as a fool) I am more; in

labours more abundant, in stripes and escaped his hands.
above measure, in prisons more fre-
quent, in deaths oft.

CHAPTER XII.

24 Of the Jews five times received IT is not expedient for me doubt

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;

less to glory. I will come to 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.

26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, 3 And I knew such a man, (whein perils in the wilderness, in perils ther in the body, or out of the body, in the sea, in perils among false bre-I cannot tell: God knoweth;). thren; 4 How that he was caught up in27 In weariness and painfulness, in to paradise, and heard unspeakable watchings often, in hunger and thirst, words, which it is not lawful for a in fastings often, in cold and naked-man to utter.

ness.

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?

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 wil! say the truth: but now I forbear, lest 30 If I must needs glory, I will any man should think of me above glory of the things which concern that which he seeth me to be, or that mine infirmities. The heareth of me.

21 S* om. I speak 23 S in stripes more frequent, in prisons above measure, V in prisons more frequent, in stripes above measure 30 V which concern infirmity 31 SV Father of the Lord Jesus, which 32 V with a garrison to apprehend me 12,1 V It is needful to glory, it is not expedient indeed, but I will come also, S It is not expedient, indeed, to glory, but I will 3 V om. I cannot tell 5 V but in infirmities 6-7 SVA But now I forbear even the abundance of the revelations, lest any man he heareth of me; for lest I should be exalted above measure, there was given

7 And lest I should be exalted be burdensome to you: for I seek not above measure through the abun- yours, but you: for the children ought dance of the revelations, there was not to lay up for the parents, but the given to me a thorn in the flesh, parents for the children.

the messenger of Satan to buffet 15 And I will very gladly spend me, lest I should be exalted above and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be

measure.

8 For this thing I besought the loved. Lord thrice, that it might depart from 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

me.

9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength

17 Did I make a gain of you by is made perfect in weakness. Most any of them whom I sent unto gladly therefore will I rather glory you?

in my infirmities, that the power of 18 I desired Titus, and with him I Christ may rest upon me.

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.

II 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.

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, 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 12 Truly the signs of an apostle be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, were wrought among you in all pa- backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tience, in signs, and wonders, and tumults: 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

21 And lest, when 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 lasciviousness which they have committed.

7 SVA after buffet me om. lest I should be exalted above measure 8 A And for this thing 9 SVA for strength; V in infirmities 10 S and necessities; A om. in persecutions; SV in persecutions and distresses II SVA om. in glorying 12 SVA in all patience and (A om.) signs 14 SVA Behold this is the third time I am; SVA om. to you after burdensome 15 V for you, if the more abundantly loving you, the less I be loved, SA for you. If I love you more abundantly, am I less beloved? 19 SVA You have thought for some time that we excuse ourselves unto you. 20 SV debate; SV envying

CHAPTER XIII.

THIS is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

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 shal! know that we are not reprobates.

7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear ap

proved, 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 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. 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.

13,1 A Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come; S that in the mouth 2 SVA I told before and now I foretell, as if I were present the second time, and being absent, to them which 4 SV For he was crucified through weakness, but he liveth; SV weak with him; V om. toward you 5 A om. prove your own selves; SA Christ Je7 SVA Now we pray II A om. be of one mind 14 V om. Christ; Subscription: SVA The second to the Corinthians,

sus; V is in you SVA om. Amen.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE

CHAPTER I.

GALATIANS.

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.

for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

II 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.

13 For ye have heard of my conversation 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 of the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

16 To reveal his Son in me, that 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.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other 18 Then after three years I went gospel unto you than that ye have up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and received, let him be accursed. abode with him fifteen days.

10 For do I now persuade men, or 19 But other of the apostles saw I God? or do I seek to please men? none, save James the Lord's brother.

Title: SVA To the Galatians. 1,3 SA our Father; SA from the Lord 6 translate in the grace 8 Som. unto you before than 9 S As I said 10 SVA om. for before if

11 V For I certify
15 V it pleased him who
18 SVA to acquaint myself with Cephas

17 V neither went I unto Jerusalem

20 Now the things which I write 7 But contrariwise, when they saw unto you, behold, before God, I lie that the gospel of the uncircumcinot. sion was committed unto me, as the

21 Afterwards I came into the re-gospel of the circumcision was unto gions of Syria and Cilicia; Peter;

22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea 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 II.

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

THEN fourteen years after I went they unto the circumcision.

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 privately to them which 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:

10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

II 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 cir

4 And that because of false bre-cumcision. thren 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:

13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

5 To whom we gave place by sub- 14 But when I saw that they walked jection, no, not for an hour; that the not uprightly according to the truth truth of the gospel might continue of the gospel, I said unto Peter before with you. them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest 6 But of these who seemed to be after the manner of Gentiles, and somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it not as do the Jews, why compellest maketh no matter to me: God ac- thou the Gentiles to live as do the cepteth no man's person:) for they Jews? who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

come

15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

2,9 A om. Cephas II SVA But when Cephas was come 12 SV but when he was 13 S And all the other Jews 14 SVA unto Cephas

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