18 For not he that commendeth I have kept myself from being burhimself is approved, but whom the densome unto you, and so will I keep Lord commendeth. myself. CHAPTER XI. WOULD to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed 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. 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. IO As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. II 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 him4 For if he that cometh preacheth self is transformed into an angel of another Jesus, whom we have not light. preached, or if ye receive another 15 Therefore it is no great thing spirit, which ye have not received, if his ministers also be transformed or another gospel, which ye have not as the ministers of righteousness; accepted, ye might well bear with whose end shall be according to their works. 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 manifest among you in all things. 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 7 Have I committed an offence in foolishly, in this confidence of boastabasing myself that ye might be ex-ing. alted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 9 And when I was present with you, 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you and wanted, I was chargeable to no into bondage, if a man devour you, man: for that which was lacking to if a man take of you, if a man exalt me the brethren which came from himself, if a man smite you on the Macedonia supplied: and in all things face. 11,3 SV om. so; SV from the simplicity and holiness 5 V But I suppose 6 SV but in every matter we made things manifest before all men among you 10 translate this boasting in me shall not be stopped in the regions 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 Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 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? 33 And through a window in a (I speak as a fool) I am more; in basket was I let down by the wall, 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; 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, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 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. 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 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? 30 If I must necds glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. 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. 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 श्रभ 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 measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 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. 9 And he said unto me, My grace in my infirmities, that the power of 18 I desired Titus, and with him I 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. 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, II I am become a fool in glory- 12 Truly the signs of an apostle be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, 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 SYA 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 Sy debate; envying 298 sy de CHAPTER XIII. proved, but that ye should do that THIS is the third time I am com- which is honest, though we be as re ing 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. probates. 8 For we can do nothing against 9 For we are glad, when we are struction. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be 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 kiss. 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 ap 13 All the saints salute you. The second epistle to the Corinthians 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; Sy 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;) 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. 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 13 For ye have heard of my conJesus Christ, versation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 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: 14 And profited in the Jews' religion 5 To whom be glory for ever and above many my equals in mine own 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. IO For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? 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 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 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. Title: SVA To the Galatians. 1,3 SA our Father; SA from the Lord 6 translate in the grace 8 S om. unto you before than 9 S As I said 10 SVA om. for before if 17 V neither went I unto Jerusalem IIV For I certify 15 V it pleased him who 18 SVA to acquaint myself with Cephas |