128:16AND when we came to Rome the centurion committed the prisoners to the prefect of the camp, and Paul was allowed to remain by himself, with a soldier to guard him.28:17And after three days he called the chief men of the Jews together; and when they had convened, said to them, Men and brothers, having done nothing contrary to the people or to the customs of the fathers, I was delivered up from Jerusalem a prisoner into the hands of the Romans,28:18who on trial wished to release me, because they found no cause of death in me;28:19but the Jews opposing it I was compelled to appeal to Cæsar; not that I have any thing of which to accuse my nation.28:20For this reason, therefore, I have called you to see and converse with you, because I am loaded with this chain on account of the hope of Israel.
228:21And they said to him, We have neither received letters concerning you from Judea, nor has any one of the brothers come and reported or told any evil of you.28:22But we would like to hear from you what you think, for it is known to us concerning this sect, that it is everywhere spoken against.
328:23And appointing him a day they came in great numbers to his lodging, to whom he set forth and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening.28:24And some believed the things which were spoken, and others believed not;28:25and disagreeing among themselves they were dismissed by Paul, saying one word; Well did the Holy Spirit speak by Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,28:26saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive;28:27for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.28:28Be it known to you, therefore, that the salvation of God is sent to the gentiles, and they will hear it.
428:30But Paul continued two entire years in his hired house, and received all who came to him,28:31preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the doctrines concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
11:1PAUL and Sylvanus [Silas] and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you and peace.
21:2We thank God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God even our Father,1:4knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,1:5that our gospel came not to you in word only, but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with full assurance, as you know what we were among you for your sakes.
31:6And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit,1:7so that you became an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.1:8For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into every place, so that we had no need to say any thing;1:9for they declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God,1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
42:1For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not in vain,2:2but having suffered before, and been injuriously treated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much contention.2:3For our exhortation was not of error, nor of impurity, nor with deceit,2:4but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.2:5For we used at no time a word of flattery, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness, God is witness,2:6neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;2:7but we were gentle among you, as a nurse would cherish her own children;2:8so being greatly desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you were dear to us.2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.2:10You are witnesses, and God, how piously, and righteously, and blamelessly we were with you that believe,2:11as you know how we exhorted and comforted you, as a father each one of his own children,2:12and charged you to walk worthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
52:13For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that receiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of men, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that believe.2:14For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same things from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews2:15who also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God and are hostile to all men,2:16forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always; and the wrath has come on them to the utmost.
62:17But we, brothers, being deprived of you for a short time in presence, not in heart, used greater diligence to see your face, with much desire.2:18For which reason we wished to come to you; I Paul indeed once and again, and Satan hindered us.2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you before our Lord Jesus at his coming?2:20For you are our glory and joy.
73:1When therefore we could no longer refrain, we thought it best to be left alone at Athens,3:2and sent Timothy, our brother and God's co-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in behalf of your faith,3:3that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this;3:4for indeed when we came to you, we told you before that we were about to suffer affliction, as it also happened, and you know.3:5For this reason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.
83:6But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you,3:7therefore we were comforted, brothers, on your account in all our affliction and distress by your faith,3:8for now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.3:9For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,3:10desiring exceedingly, night and day, to see your face, and to perfect what is lacking of your faith?
93:11And may God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you;3:12and the Lord cause you to be full and abound with love one to another and to all men, as we also to you,3:13to confirm your hearts without blame in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
14:1FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.4:2For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.4:3For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,4:4that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor,4:5not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,4:6that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified.4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to purity.4:8He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.
24:9But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;4:10for you also do the same to all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound still more,4:11and strive to be quiet and pursue your own business, and work with your hands, as we charged you,4:12that you may walk becomingly towards those without and have need of nothing.
34:13And we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those that have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no hope.4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also will God bring with him those that have fallen asleep on account of Jesus.4:15For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who live and remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those that have fallen asleep,4:16for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,4:17then we the living who remain shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be always with the Lord.4:18Comfort one another, therefore, with these words.
45:1But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need that I should write to you;5:2for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.5:3When they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.5:4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief;5:5for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.
55:6Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober.5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night;5:8but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,5:9for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,5:10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.5:11Wherefore exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.
65:12And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,5:13and to esteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.5:14And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long suffering towards all men.5:15See that no one renders evil for evil, but always pursue the good both one to another and to all.
75:16Rejoice always;5:17pray without ceasing,5:18give thanks on every occasion; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to us.5:19Quench not the Spirit,5:20despise not prophecies.5:21Prove all things, hold fast the good;5:22abstain from every form of evil.5:23And may the God of peace himself purify you wholly, and your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.5:24Faithful is he that calls you, who will also perform.
85:25Brothers, pray for us.5:26Salute all the brothers with a holy kiss.5:27I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brothers.5:28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
11:1PAUL and Silvanus [Silas] and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.1:2Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
21:3We ought to thank God always for you, brothers, as is fit, because your faith increases greatly, and the love of every one of you all one for another abounds,1:4so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,1:5a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,1:6since it is just with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,1:7and to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels1:8in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;1:9who shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,1:10when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that day, for our testimony was believed by you.1:11For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power;1:12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
32:1And we beseech you, brothers, in respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being brought together to him,2:2that you be not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by a discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the Lord was at hand.2:3Let no one deceive you in any way, for [he shall not come] unless the apostacy comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,2:4who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.2:5Do you not remember that when I was with you I told you of these things?2:6And now you know what hinders him from being revealed in his time.2:7For the mystery of wickedness already works, [God] only restrains it just now, till it shall be out of the way;2:8and then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming,2:9whose coming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles and false prodigies2:10and with every unrighteous deceit among those who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.2:11And therefore, God sends them a power of delusion that they should believe a lie,2:12that they all may be condemned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in wickedness.
42:13But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by purification of spirit, and belief of the truth,2:14to which he called you by our gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.2:15Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle;2:16and our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace,2:17comfort and confirm your hearts in every good work and word.
53:1Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as also with you,3:2and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all have not faith.3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will confirm you, and guard you from evil.3:4And we trust in the Lord with respect to you, that you both do and will do what we direct.3:5And may the Lord direct your hearts in the love of God, and in the patience of Christ.
63:6And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us.3:7For you know yourselves how you ought to follow us, for we walked not disorderly among you,3:8neither did we eat bread of any one for nought, but worked with labor and fatigue, night and day, not to be burdensome to any of you;3:9not that we have not a right [to a support], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow us.3:10For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.3:11For we hear that some go about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above work;3:12we charge and exhort such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, to work quietly, and eat their own bread.3:13But, brothers, be not weary of well doing.3:14But if any one obeys not our word by this epistle, mark that one, and have no association with him, that he may be ashamed;3:15and account him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.3:16And may the Lord of peace give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all.
73:17The salutation by my hand, Paul's, which is [the] sign in every epistle; so I write.3:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
11:1PAUL an apostle, not from men nor by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,1:2and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.1:3Grace be to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,1:5to whom be the glory forever and ever; amen.
21:6I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel,1:7which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ.1:8But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.1:9As we said before I now also say again, If any one preaches you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be accursed.1:10For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.
31:11For I certify you, brothers, of the gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man;1:12for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.1:13For you heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God and destroyed it;1:14and was a proficient in Judaism beyond many of my age among my people, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.1:15But when God who gave me being and called me by his grace,1:16was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,1:17neither did I go to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.
41:18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and staid with him fifteen days;1:19and I saw no other of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother.1:20And what I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.
51:21Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.1:22But I was unknown by face to the churches of Christ in Judea,1:23only they heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which he formerly destroyed;1:24and they glorified God in me.
62:1Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking also Titus;2:2and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.2:3But Titus who was with me, and was a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised;2:4but on account of false brothers brought in secretly to act as spies against our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, to bring us into servitude,2:5we did not yield to them by subjection, for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.2:6But from those of distinction, whatever they were it makes no difference to me,—God is partial to no man,—for those of distinction added nothing to me,2:7but on the contrary seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was of the circumcision,—2:8for he that operated in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision, operated also in me for the gentiles,—2:9and knowing the grace given me, James and Cephas and John, who were manifest pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcision;2:10only [they wished] that we should remember the poor, which I was also forward to do.
72:11But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he was to blame.2:12For before some came from James he eat with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself; fearing those of the circumcision;2:13and the other Jews also dissembled with him, so that Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.2:14But when I saw that they walked not correctly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you being a Jew live after the manner of the gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the gentiles to practise Judaism?2:15For we Jews by race and not sinners of the gentiles,2:16knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no flesh be justified.2:17But if seeking to be justified by Christ we are found to be ourselves also sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? By no means.2:18For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.2:19For by a law I have died to the law, that I may live to God.2:20I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.2:21I do not reject the grace of God; for if rightousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
13:1O FOOLISH Galatians, who has fascinated you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been set forth among you crucified?3:2This only would I learn of you. Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by a hearing of faith?3:3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit do you now end in the flesh?3:4Have you suffered so much in vain? if indeed also it is in vain.3:5He then that imparts to you the Spirit, and exercises miraculous powers among you, does he do it by works of the law, or by the doctrine of faith?3:6As Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him a righteousness.
23:7Know, therefore, that those of faith, these are children of Abraham.3:8And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, promised before to Abraham, In you shall all the nations be blessed.3:9Those of faith, therefore, are blessed with believing Abraham.3:10For as many as are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.3:11And it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because the just shall live by faith,3:12but the law is not of faith, but he that does these things shall live by them.3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree,3:14that the blessing of Abraham may come on the nations, in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.
33:15Brothers, I speak according to man. But no one abolishes a man's covenant when it is established, or makes additions to it.3:16The promises were spoken to Abraham and his offspring. He said not, And to offsprings, as of many, but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.3:17And this I say; that the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot abrogate the covenant previously established by God, to make the promise of no effect.3:18For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by the promise. But God gave it to Abraham by the promise.3:19What then? The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by the hand of a mediator.3:20But there is no mediator of one; but God is one.
43:21Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;3:22but the Scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise of the faith of Jesus Christ may be given to them that believe.3:23But before the faith came, we were kept shut up under the law for the faith to be revealed.3:24So that the law was our schoolmaster to lead to Christ, that we might be justified by faith;3:25but the faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.3:26For you are all children of God by the faith in Jesus Christ;3:27for as many of you as are baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.3:29And if you are of Christ, then are you Abraham's children and heirs according to the promise.
54:1But I say, that as long as the heir is a child, he differs not from a servant, though he is lord of all,4:2but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed by the father.4:3So also we, when we were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;4:4but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,4:5that he might redeem those under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.4:6And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.4:7So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God.
64:8But formerly, not knowing God you served beings which are not really Gods;4:9but now knowing God, or rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you wish again to serve?4:10Do you observe days, and months, and times, and years?4:11I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you in vain.
74:12I beseech you, brothers, be as I am, for I am as you [ought to be]. You did not injure me;4:13but you knew I preached the gospel to you on my former [visit] in weakness of the flesh,4:14and my trial in my flesh you despised not nor rejected, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.4:15What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes and have given them to me.4:16Have I therefore become your enemy, by telling you the truth?4:17They are zealous for you, but not well, but they wish to exclude you that you may be zealous for them.4:18It is good to be zealous for a good object always, and not only when I am present with you.4:19My little children, with whom I am again in pain till Christ is formed in you,4:20I wish to be present with you now and change my voice with you, for I am in doubt of you.
84:21Tell me, you that wish to be under the law, do you not hear the law?4:22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a servant woman, and the other by a free woman.4:23But he by the servant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the promise.4:24These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which is Hagar;4:25for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; and the present Jerusalem answers to her, for she is in servitude with her children.4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us;4:27for it is written, Rejoice, barren woman, that did not bear, break forth and cry, woman that had no pain, for the children of the desolate are more numerous than those of her who had a husband.4:28But we, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.4:29But as then he that was born of the flesh persecuted him that was born of the Spirit, so also now.4:30But what says the Scripture? Cast out the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant woman shall not be an heir, with the son of the free.4:31Wherefore, brothers, we are not children of the servant woman, but of the free.
15:1STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.5:2Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you are circumcised Christ will not profit you.5:3For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to perform the whole law.5:4You have departed from Christ, whoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the grace.5:5For we wait in spirit for the hope of righteousness, by faith.5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.
25:7You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?5:8This persuasion is not of him that calls you.5:9A little leaven leavens the whole mass.5:10I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will not be of another mind; but he that troubles you shall bear his sin, whoever he is.5:11And I, brothers, if I preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the cross ceased.5:12I would that they were cut off that disturb you.5:13For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.5:14For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.5:15But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not consumed one by another.
35:16And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.5:17For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.5:18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.5:19For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,5:20idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies,5:21murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,5:23meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.5:24And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.5:25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
46:1Brothers, if a man is overtaken with any fault, do you that are spiritual restore such a one with a spirit of meekness, considering yourself; lest you also be tried.6:2Bear one another's burdens, and so perform the law of Christ.6:3For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.6:4But let each one prove his work, and then shall he have joy in himself alone and not in another,6:5for every one shall bear his own burden.
56:6Let him that is taught the word communicate with him that teaches of all good things.6:7Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what a man sows, that shall he also reap;6:8for he that sows for his flesh, shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows for the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life eternal.6:9Let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.6:10As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but especially to the members of the family of the faith.
66:11You see with how long a letter I have written to you.6:12Those who wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.6:13For the circumcised themselves do not keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.6:14But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.6:16And whoever walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God.
76:17Finally, let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus.6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers; amen.
11:1PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,1:2to the church of God which is at Corinth, to the sanctified in Jesus Christ, called to be saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours.1:3Grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
21:4I thank my God always for you, for the grace of God given you in Christ Jesus,1:5that in every thing you are enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,1:6as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,1:7so that you are behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,1:8who also will confirm you to the end, without blame, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.1:9God is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
31:10I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.1:11For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.1:12I mean this; that each one of you says I indeed am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.1:13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?1:14I thank God I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;1:15that no one may say that I baptized in my name.1:16And I also baptized the family of Stephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other.1:17For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.1:18For the word of the cross is to the lost foolishness, but to the saved the power of God.1:19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.1:20Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?1:21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe;1:22and since the Jews seek signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom,1:23we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness,1:24but to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God;1:25for the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.1:26For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];1:27but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,1:28and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,1:29that no flesh may glory in the sight of God.1:30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,1:31that as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
42:1And when I came to you, brothers, I came not with excellency of speech, or wisdom, declaring to you the mystery of God.2:2For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.2:3And I was with you in weakness, and with fear and with much trembling,2:4and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the spirit and power,2:5that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
52:6But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;2:7but we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from eternity for our glory,2:8which none of the rulers of this life knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;2:9but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;2:10but God has revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.2:11For who knows the [things] of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? So also no one knows the [things] of God except the Spirit of God.2:12And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God,2:13which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.2:14But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.2:15But the spiritual man discerns all things, and is himself perceived by no one.2:16For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
63:1And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.3:2I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;3:3for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?3:4For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men?3:5Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.3:6I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused [the seed] to grow;3:7so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he that waters, but God that causes it to grow.3:8He that plants and he that waters are one; and each shall receive his reward according to his labor.3:9For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.
73:10According to the grace of God given me as a wise architect I have laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one see how he builds on it.3:11For no one can lay another foundation besides that laid, which is Christ Jesus.3:12And if any man builds on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, reeds,3:13each one's work shall be manifest; for the day shall show it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the same fire shall try every man's work what it is.3:14If any one's work continues which he has built, he shall receive a reward;3:15if any one's work is consumed, he shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.
83:16Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?3:17If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.3:18Let no one deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this life, let him be a fool, that he may be wise.3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written; He takes the wise in their craftiness.3:20And again; The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.3:21Let no one therefore glory in men; for all things are yours,3:22whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours,3:23and you Christ's, and Christ God's.
94:1Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.4:2But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful.4:3But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;4:4for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am not on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord.4:5Judge nothing therefore before the time, till the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden deeds of darkness, and make known the purposes of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise from God.
104:6I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another.4:7For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not?4:8You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.4:9For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.4:10For we are foolish for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous.4:11Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled,4:12and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure,4:13being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.
114:14I write these things not to shame you, but as my beloved children, I admonish you.4:15For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.4:16I exhort you therefore, be followers of me.4:17For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.4:18Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you;4:19but I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know not the word of those who are puffed up but the power;4:20for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.4:21What do you wish? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?
15:1IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.5:2And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.5:3For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this,5:4in the name of our Lord Jesus you being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus5:5to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.5:6Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?5:7Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.5:8Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
25:9I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators;5:10not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.5:11But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.5:12For what business have I to judge those without? Do you not judge those within?5:13but those without, God judges. Remove therefore the evil man from among you.
36:1Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the wicked, and not by the saints?6:2Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts?6:3Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then things pertaining to this life?6:4If then you have courts for the business of this life, do you constitute them of the most abject in the church?6:5I speak to your shame. Is there not now a wise man among you? not one who can judge between his brothers?6:6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.6:7Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded?6:8But you injure and defraud, and that your brothers.6:9Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,6:10nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.6:11And such were some of you; but you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
46:12All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any.6:13Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;6:14and God both raised the Lord, and will raise us up by his power.6:15Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.6:16Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.6:17But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with him].6:18Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.6:19Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?6:20For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
17:1CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;7:2but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.7:3Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband.7:4The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife.7:5Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.7:6But this I say by suggestion, not by command.7:7For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.
27:8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am;7:9but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.7:10But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,7:11and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife.
37:12But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not leave her;7:13and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is pleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband.7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children impure, but now are they holy.7:15But if the unbelieving companion departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to peace.7:16For how do you know, wife, that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that you will not save your wife?
47:17Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches.7:18Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised.7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.7:20Let each one remain in the calling in which he was called;7:21were you called being a servant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather.7:22For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant.7:23You are bought with a price; be not servants of men.7:24Let each one continue, brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God.
57:25And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.7:26I think then that this is good on account of the present necessity, because it is good for man to be so.7:27Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife.7:28But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.7:29But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,7:30and those who weep as those not weeping, and those who rejoice as those not rejoicing, and those who buy as not possessing,7:31and those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away.7:32But I wish you to be without cares. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;7:33but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.7:34And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.7:35But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.
67:36But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.7:37But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well.7:38He that gives in marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does better.
77:39A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.7:40But she is happier if she continues thus, in my opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.
88:1And concerning things offered to idols we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.8:2And if any one thinks he knows any thing, he yet knows nothing as he ought to know;8:3but if any one loves God, this [man] is known by him.8:4Concerning eating things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.8:5For even if there are those called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many gods and many lords,8:6yet to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him.8:7But all have not this knowledge; and some with the conscience [unenlightened] even till now eat an idol's [sacrifice] as an idol's sacrifice, and their conscience being weak is defiled.8:8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.8:9But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.8:10For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?8:11And will not the weak brother for whom Christ died perish by your knowledge?8:12But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.8:13Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.
19:1AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?9:2If I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my apostleship in the Lord.9:3My defense to those who condemn me is this;9:4Have we not a right to eat and drink?9:5Have we not a right to lead about a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles; and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?9:6Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor?9:7Who ever goes on a military expedition at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and eats not the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock and eats not of the milk of the flock?9:8Do I say these things in the manner of men? or does not the law also say the same?9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for oxen?9:10or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes, doubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and that he who threshes in hope should partake of it.9:11If we have sown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly things?9:12And if others have this right, do we not have it more? But we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not impede the gospel of Christ.9:13Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?9:14So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel.9:15But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.
29:16For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.9:17For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am intrusted with a stewardship.9:18What then is my reward? That preaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse my right in the gospel.9:19For being free from all men, I have made myself a servant of all, that I may gain more;9:20to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law;9:21to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;9:22to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in all conditions;9:23and I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it.
39:24Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.9:25And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable.9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;9:27but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.
410:1For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,10:2and all were baptized to Moses by the cloud and by the sea,10:3and all eat the same spiritual food,10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock which followed them, and that rock was Christ;10:5but with many of them God was not pleased; for they were destroyed in the wilderness.10:6But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.10:7Neither be idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written; The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.10:9Neither let us try Christ, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents.10:10Neither do you complain as some of them complained and were destroyed by the destroyer.10:11All these things happened to them as examples, and are recorded for our admonition on whom the ends of the ages have come;10:12so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.10:13For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.
510:14Wherefore, my beloved, avoid idolatry.10:15I speak as to wise men; judge what I say.10:16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation of the body of Christ?10:17For we, being many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one bread.10:18Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?10:19What then do I say? that an idol sacrifice is any thing, or that an idol is any thing?10:20But what the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.10:21You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons; you cannot partake at the Lord's table and the table of demons.10:22Do we provoke the Lord to anger? Are we stronger than he?
610:23All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but all things do not edify.10:24Let no one seek his own but the good of another.10:25Whatever is sold in the market eat, asking no questions for conscience' sake;10:26for the earth is the Lord's and all it contains.10:27But if an unbeliever invites you and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.10:28But if any one says to you, This has been offered to an idol, eat not for his sake that informed you, and for conscience' sake.10:29I mean not your conscience, but that of the other. For why is my freedom limited by the conscience of another?10:30If I partake with thanks, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?10:31Whether then you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.10:32Be without offense both to Jews and Greeks, and the church of God,10:33as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit but that of many, that they may be saved.11:1Be followers of me as I also am of Christ.