So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

So then He hath mercy on whom He pleaseth, and whom He will, He hardeneth.

Thou wilt say then, Why doth he yet blame us? who hath resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou, that disputest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

And Esaias crieth out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved.

What shall we say then? that the Gentiles, who sought not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.

But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh thus, "Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven, (that is, to bring Christ down) or,

So that faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But I say, Have they not heard? Verily their sound is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

But I say again, Did not Israel know this? when first Moses saith, "I will move you to jealousy by those who are not a people, I will provoke you to anger by a foolish nation:"

I say then, Hath God cast off his people? God forbid! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And so in the present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

(according as it is written, God hath given them a spirit of slumber, that their eyes could not see and their ears could not hear,) even unto this day.

Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and always bow down their back.

Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.

Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, "The deliverer shall come out of Sion, and shall turn away impiety from Jacob:

so these also in your mercy have now been disobedient, that they themselves might be the objects of mercy.

so we who are many, are one body in Christ, and every one members of each other.

Bless them that persecute you: bless them, I say, and do not curse them.

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

So that he who resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive condemnation.

For you pay them tribute also for this reason; because they are God's ministers, continually attending hereunto.

He that regardeth a day regardeth it to the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, in deference to the Lord he doth not regard it. So he, that eateth all sorts of food, eateth to the Lord; for he giveth God thanks for it; and he that eateth not of some kinds of food, in deference to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

but if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

So that every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

through the efficacy of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round as far as to Illyricum, I have fully declared the gospel of Christ:

being studious however so to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, least I should build upon another man's foundation;

but as it is written, They, to whom nothing was said concerning Him, shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand.

for I hope to see you as I pass by, and to be brought forward by you on my way thither, after I have first had some enjoyment of you.

It pleased them, I say, and they are indeed their debtors; for if the Gentiles have partook of their spiritual things, they ought also to be helpful to them in carnal ones.

so that ye are deficient in no gift, expecting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye would all say alike, and that there may be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

so that no one can say I baptized in my own name.

For, since in the wisdom of God the world by it's wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by what they called the folly of preaching to save those that believe.

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

but God hath chosen things that are foolish in the eye of the world to put it's wise men to confusion; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? so also the things of God no one knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

So that neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.

According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon: but let every one see to it how he buildeth thereon.

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work abide, which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward:

but if any man's work be burnt, he will be damaged; though he himself shall be saved, but, as it were out of fire.

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But to me it is of very small moment to be judged by you, or by any man's judgement; nor indeed do I judge myself:

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak, but ye are strong: ye are honoured, but we are despised.

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say,

And as God hath raised up the Lord, so will He raise up us by his power.

and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

But I say this by way of permission, not of command:

Now to the unmarried and widows I say, it is good for them to continue so, as I do.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she like to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

However, as God hath distributed to every man, and as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk: and thus I order in all the churches.

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

I think then, that it is---better on account of the present distress,---that it is better, I say,

for a single man to be so. Art thou bound to a wife indeed? seek not to be loosed: but art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But this I say, brethren, that the time is short: it remains therefore, that even those, who have wives, be as though they had none;

And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.

But if any one think that he acts unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and that it ought to be so, let him do what he will; he doth not sin: let them marry.

So that he, who giveth her in marriage, doth well; but he, that giveth her not in marriage, doth better.

But there is not in all men this knowledge: and some with a consciousness of the idol unto this day, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and so their conscience being weak is defiled.

But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be encouraged to eat of the things sacrificed to idols?

and so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, shall perish by thy knowledge?

or doth He say this indeed for our sakes? For it is certainly written for our sakes, that he, who ploweth, might plow in hope; and that he, who thresheth in hope, should partake of his hope.

So also the Lord hath ordained, that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

What is my reward then but this? that when I preach I may make the gospel of Christ not expensive, that so I may not abuse my power in the gospel.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

and were all baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea;

I speak to you as to men of understanding: and judge ye what I say,

What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that what is sacrificed to an idol is in itself any thing to stumble at?

No: but this I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.

Let no one seek his own only, but every one another's benefit.

for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol,---eat it not; for his sake who informed thee, and for conscience-sake: for, as I said, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, so that thou mayst have food enough without it.

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

When therefore ye thus assemble together, this is not eating the Lord's supper:

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

As often then as ye eat of this bread, and drink of this cup, ye commemorate the Lord's death till he come.

So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup:

for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement against himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.

I must acquaint you, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus a curse: and no one can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

If the foot should say, "Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

and those which we judge the less honorable parts we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our less comely parts have more comeliness added to them, of which our comely ones have no need.

But God hath so blended the several parts of the body, giving greater honor to that which was deficient,

And so if one member suffer all the members suffer with it; and if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

For we see now as through a mirror obscurely: but then we shall see face to face. Now I know but in part, but then I shall know even as I am known.