for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,

who is he that is condemning? Christ is He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God -- who also doth intercede for us.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,

nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who are of Israel are these Israel;

that is, the children of the flesh -- these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- 'For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith,

Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that is to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;

for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'

and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: 'Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

or, 'Who shall go down to the abyss,' that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up.

But what doth it say? 'Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, 'I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- 'According to the proportion of faith!'

so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it,

for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

Thou -- who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one it is unclean;

and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

that with one accord -- with one mouth -- ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;

And I am persuaded, my brethren -- I myself also -- concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;

and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --

and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.

that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that is for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints;

that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,

And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea --

that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place -- both theirs and ours:

I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,

that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

and I say this, that each one of you saith, 'I, indeed, am of Paul' -- 'and I of Apollos,' -- 'and I of Cephas,' -- 'and I of Christ.'

I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius --

that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

that no flesh may glory before Him;

that, according as it hath been written, 'He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'

that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it,

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;

if of any one the work doth remain that he built on it, a wage he shall receive;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

and again, 'The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not!

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,