Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

For I testify to them, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to perfect knowledge;

for being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

Then how can they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how can they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how can they preach, unless they may be sent forth? as has been written, How beautiful are the feet of those, who preach the gospel of good things!

But they have not all heard the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?

But I say, Have they not all heard? Yea, truly, Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars: and I am left alone, and they are seeking my life.

as has been written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

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

Then I say; Whether did they stumble that they may fall? it could not be so: but by their fall, salvation came to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

Beautifully; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith, Think not high things, but fear.

But these also, if they may not abide in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

They are enemies indeed, as touching the gospel, for your sakes: but beloved with reference to election for the sake of the fathers:

even also these were now disobedient, in order that through the mercy shown to you they themselves may now also obtain mercy.

For on account of this also pay tribute; for they are the ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

but, as has been written, Those, to whom he has not been preached, shall see concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.

For they were pleased to do so; and they are their debtors: for if the Gentiles participated in spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.

which no one of the princes of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.

But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may remain even as I:

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the brother. Since then your children are unclean; but now they are holy.

But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

and they all did eat the same spiritual food;

and all did drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

But with many of them God is not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

And these became our examples, in order that we may not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

But those things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. But I do not wish you to be the communicants of demons.

as I also please all in all things, seeking not my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.

It has been written in the law; I will speak to this people with other tongues and with the lips of others; and thus they will not hearken unto me, says the Lord.

Then if the whole church may come together, and all may speak with tongues, and the unlearned or unbelievers may come in, will they not say that you are gone mad?

But if they wish to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is disgraceful for a woman to talk in church.

If any one seems to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him understand the things which I write to you, that they are of the Lord;

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace was not vain toward me; but I have labored more abundantly than they all: and not I, but the grace of God with me.

Then whether I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

But each one in his own rank: Christ the first-fruit; then they who are Christ's, at His coming:

Then what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they also baptized for them?

But one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

As was the earthy, such are they also who are earthy; and as was the heavenly, such are they also who are heavenly.

if it may be counted worthy for me also to go, they shall go along with me.

But I exhort you, brethren; (know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),

But I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: because they have supplied your deficiency:

for they refreshed my spirit and yours. Acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.

For so many promises of God, in Him are yes; therefore indeed through him they are Amen unto the glory to God through us.

but when they may turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

So if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

And what harmony has the temple of God with idols? for we are the temple of the living God; as God said; I will live in them, and walk about among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Because I witness, that according to their ability, and beyond their ability they were anxious,

and not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God:

Therefore I considered it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they may come to you beforehand, and perfect your preannounced benefaction, that it may be ready, as a benefaction, not as a stingy contribution.

Because they say, His letters are indeed weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body is weak, and his speech contemptible.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain ones of those who recommend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not wise.

But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are.

Are they Hebrews? I am also. Are they Israelites? I am also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I am also.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.

But they were only hearing that The one persecuting us at one time is now preaching the faith which he was once desolating;

and they continued to glorify God in me.

but on account of the false brethren having crept in, who came in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they shall bring us into bondage:

But of those seeming to be something what they were at that time makes no difference to me: God does not receive the face of man: for those seeming to me to be prominent added nothing extra:

and having known the grace of God which was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, who seem to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

For before certain ones came from James, he was eating along with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, If you being a Jew are living like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how do you compel the Gentiles to judaize?

So many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only that they do not suffer persecution on account of the cross of Christ.

For neither do those who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, in order that they may glory in your flesh.

on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.

the former from self-seeking are proclaiming Christ insincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.

along with our faithful and beloved brother, Onesimus, who is from you; they will truly make known all things to you.

for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God,

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Jesus Christ: because you suffered the same things from your fellow tribes, as they also from the Jews;

forbidding that we should speak to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved; that they may fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman in gestation; and they can not escape.

and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And on this account God sends to them the working of delusion, that they should believe a lie:

in order that they may all be condemned who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness.

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks about disorderly, and not according to the teaching they received from us.

For we hear that there are certain ones walking about among you disorderly, doing nothing, but they are busybodies:

but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must eat their own bread.

wishing to be teachers of the law, not knowing either what they are saying, or concerning what things they do affirm.

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

but she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they may abide in faith and in divine love and in sanctification with prudence.

Indeed command these things, in order that they may be blameless.

But reject the younger widows: for when they may wax wanton against Christ, they wish to marry;

having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith:

and at the same time they learn to be idle, going about houses; and not only idle, but also loquacious even busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

The sins of some men are manifest beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they also follow after:

But let those that have faithful masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather let them serve them, because they are the faithful and beloved who are partaking of the benefaction. Command these things and exhort them.

that they do good, be rich in good works, be cheerful givers, ready communicators;

laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.

On account of this I endure all things for the sake of the elect, in order that they may also have the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Remember these things, testifying before God, that they shall not fight with words, profitable unto nothing, for the overturning of those who hear.

But reject the unsanctified empty talks: for they will proceed unto more of ungodliness,

who have made shipwreck concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come, and they overturn the faith of some.

But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife.

and they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him (the Lord's servant) according to his will.