For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye by his poverty might be rich.

Now therefore perfect also the doing it; that as there was a readiness of will, so there may be also a performance according to your ability.

(and not only so, but he was also chosen by the churches to accompany us with this grace, which is administered by us for the glory of the same Lord, and to shew your readiness of mind:)

for I know your readiness of mind, which I boast of concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath excited many.

For I think I was not inferior to the very chiefest apostles: and if I am unskilled in speech,

And when I was present among you, and in want, I was chargeable to no one. For the brethren that came from Macedonia supplied my want: and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

Thrice I have been beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I have been shipwrecked, and was a night and a day on the deep:

and I was let down by the wall through a window in a basket, and so escaped his hands.

I know not, God knoweth) that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unutterable words, which it is not permitted unto man to speak.

And least I should be too much lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, least I should be too much elevated.

For what is it that ye were inferior in to the rest of the churches, unless it be that I myself was not burdensome to you?--- Forgive me this injury.

For if He was crucified as from weakness, yet He now liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in Him, but shall live with Him by the power of God manifested to you.

For I neither received it, nor was taught it by man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

and was not known in person to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ.

But even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised;

But on the contrary, seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of uncircumcision, as Peter was with that of the circumcision;

and knowing the grace which was given to me; James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars of the church, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

Only desiring that we would remember the poor: which I also was forward to do.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was indeed to be blamed.

And the rest of the Jews dissembled also with him; so that Barnabas too was carried away with their dissimulation.

As Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness:

This then I say, that the law, which was given four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the covenant, which was so long before confirmed by God unto Christ, to make void the promise.

What then availeth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to whom the promise was made; and it was delivered by angels in the hand of a mediator.

But before faith came, we were kept shut up under the law, till the faith appeared which was to be revealed.

So that the law was our guide to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I also was as ye are: and ye have not injured me at all.

and my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected me for it; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

But he who was of the servant, was born according to the course of nature; whereas the son of the free-woman was by virtue of the promise.

But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

as ye have heard the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given me to preach unto you:

which in other generations was not made known to men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be co-heirs,

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God conferred on me by the effectual operation of his power.

On me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace bestowed, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

which according to your former conversation was corrupted with deceitful lusts,

for we are members of his body, as if taken out of his flesh, and of his bones, as Eve was out of Adam's.

Let the same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

and being in the human state, He humbled himself, and was obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

for he much longed after you all, and was greatly concerned because ye had heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick and nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, so that he might fill up what was wanting in your kind offices towards me.

And ye Philippians know, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I was departing from Macedonia, no church communicated to me on the score of giving and receiving, but you only.

Of which I was made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I might fully declare the word of God:

even that mystery which was hid from former ages and generations, but is now manifested to his saints:

and cancelled the obligation we were under by ritual decrees, which was grievous to us, and hath taken it quite away, even nailing it to his cross.

For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of impurity, nor in guile:

in that day, when He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe; because our testimony among you was believed.

Do ye not remember, that when I was with you, I told you these things?

which is according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I was intrusted.

who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an oppressor. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief: and the grace of our Lord superabounded,

for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle. I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not; I am a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

And Adam was not seduced by the serpent, but the woman being led astray was first in the transgression.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up into glory.

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose, and grace bestowed upon us through Christ Jesus, before the world was,

but now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel: for which I was appointed an herald,

The Lord shew mercy to the family of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: but when he was at Rome,

Remember Jesus Christ of the seed of David, who was raised from the dead, according to my gospel:

But they shall not proceed far: for their folly shall be evident to all, as theirs also was.

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that by me the gospel might be fully spread, and that all the nations might hear: and so I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

and hath in his own times manifested his word, by the preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour:

who was formerly unprofitable to thee, but now profitable both to thee and to me; whom I have sent back to thee:

For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou mightest receive him for ever:

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received it's just recompence;

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which began to be declared by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard Him;

For in putting all things under Him, He left nothing which was not to be in subjection to Him: though we do not yet see all things subjected to Him.

But we see Jesus, who was made for a little while lower than the angels, in order to suffer death, that by the grace of God He might taste death for every man, crowned with glory and honor.

who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as Moses also was in all his house.

For He was accounted worthy of more honor than Moses, as he who hath built it, hath more honor than the house.

Now Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things which were to be spoken:

wherefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, They are always erring in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

But with whom was He provoked forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was at first offered did not enter because of their unbelief,

for we have not an high-priest who cannot sympathize with our infirmities, but was in all respects tempted in like manner with us, yet without sin.

And no one taketh this honor to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.

Who in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, to Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in what He feared;

but though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered: and being thus perfected,

Now consider how great a man this was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

Now if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law) what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not after the order of Aaron?

Moreover inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath,

For such an high-priest was meet for us, who was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and higher than the heavens;

For every high-priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it was necessary that He also should have something to offer.

who worship under the representation and shadow of heavenly things; as Moses was ordered by God, when he was about to finish the tabernacle. For see, saith He, that thou make all according to the model shewn thee in the mount.

as we see there was, for after complaining of them, He adds, "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

For there was a tabernacle prepared; the first part, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the loaves set on it, which is called the sanctuary.

and the ark of the covenant which was overlaid all round with gold, and in which was the golden pot with the manna in it, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

The Holy Ghost shewing by this, that the way into the Holy of holies was not yet manifested, the first tabernacle being yet standing.

Whence neither was the first covenant entered into without blood:

for when every command was spoken according to the law, by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the book and all the people,

It was therefore necessary that the representations of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with more excellent sacrifices than these.

of how much greater punishment, think ye, shall he be counted worthy, who hath trampled under foot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and abused the Spirit of grace?

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts: and by it, though dead, he yet speaketh.

By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God:

By faith Abraham when called to go out to a place which he was afterwards to receive for an inheritance obeyed: and went out, though he knew not whither he was going.

By faith also Sarah received strength to conceive seed, and brought forth a son when she was past age, because she accounted Him faithful who had promised.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he who had received the promises, offered up his only son;

of whom it was told him, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called: