For I would pray, that I myself might be an offering from Christ; in behalf of my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh:

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing have I raised you up, that I may show forth my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Then thou wilt say to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?

O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Whether shall the thing formed say to him that formed it. Why did you make me thus?

as he says in Hosea, I will call them my people, who are not my people; and her beloved, who is not beloved:

and it shall come to pass, in the place in which it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called the sons of the living God:

but Isaiah cries out in behalf of Israel, Though the number of sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

Brethren, indeed the desire of my heart and my prayer to God in their behalf, is for their salvation.

That if you may confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and may believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved:

For every one who may call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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 Isaiah is bold, and says, I was found by those not seeking after me; and made manifest to those not inquiring after me.

But to Israel he says, All day long have I reached forth my hands to a gainsaying and disobedient people.

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

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.

But I speak to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry:

if perchance I may provoke my flesh, and save some of them.

Then you will say, The branches were broken off, that I may be grafted in.

Then behold the goodness and severity of God: upon those who fell indeed, severity; but upon you the goodness of God, if you may abide in his goodness: since you too may be cut off.

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

I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to this mystery, in order that you may not he wise with yourselves, that blindness in part has happened unto Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles may come in;

And this is the covenant with me unto them, that I may take away their sins.

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

For God has shut up all in unbelief, in order that he may have mercy on all.

and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

For I speak, through the grace which has been given unto me, for every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one the measure of faith.

avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it has been written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

For unto this Christ died, and lives, in order that He may be Lord of the dead and of the living.

For it has been written; As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

but if he may eat doubting, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; but every thing which is not of faith is sin.

for Christ did not please himself; but, as has been written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

For so many things as were previously written were written for our instruction, in order that through the patience and through the consolation of the scriptures we may have hope.

But may the God of patience and consolation grant unto you to think the same things among one another with reference to Christ Jesus.

In order that you may with one accord with one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And the God of hope fill you in all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Ghost.

But I am indeed persuaded, my brethren, concerning you, that you are also full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one another.

But I have written unto you more boldly in part, as reminding you, on account of the grace which has been given unto me from God,

that I should be the minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles may be well received, having been sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

for I will not dare to speak anything save those things which Christ has wrought through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,

but being so ambitious not to preach the gospel, where Christ has been named, in order that I may not build on another man's foundation;

as I may journey into Spain, for I hope traveling through to see you, and by you to be sent forth thither, if in the first place I may be satisfied with your company??25 but now I journey to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.

But I exhort you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you cooperate with me in your prayers to God in my behalf;

in order that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and my ministry may be acceptable to the saints in Jerusalem;

in order that you may receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye may assist her in whatsoever matters she may need you: for she has been a helper of many, and myself.

Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus;

who laid down their neck for my life; and for whom not I alone hut all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;

and the church in their house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first fruit of Asia unto Christ.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsman and my fellow-soldiers, who are celebrated among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

Salute Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord.

Salute Urbanus our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Salute Herodian my kinsman. Salute those from the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

Timothy my fellow-laborer salutes you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my consanguinity, salute you.

Gaius my host, and that of the whole church salutes you. Erastus the steward of the city, and brother Quartus, salute you.

To Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery having been hidden during the eternal times,

I give thanks to my God always in your behalf, for the grace of God given unto you in Christ Jesus;

But I exhort you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you may all speak the same things, and that there may be no schisms among you; but you may be perfected in the same mind and in the same disposition.

For it has been revealed to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

in order that no one may say that you are baptized in my name.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with the wisdom of speech, in order that the cross of Christ may not be made of none effect.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may confound the strong;

and God has chosen the base-born of the world, and those of no reputation, the things which are not, that He may set at nought the things which are,

And my speech and my preaching were not in the persuasive words of wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and the power:

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

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God; in order that we may know the things which have been graciously given unto us from God.

For when one may say, I am indeed of Paul; another, I am of Apollos; are you not men?

According to the grace of God which was given unto me, I as a wise architect, laid the foundation; and another builds on it. Let each one take heed how he builds.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

But to me it is the smallest matter, that I may be judged by you, or by human day: but I do not judge myself.

For I know nothing against myself; but in this I am not justified; and the Lord is the one judging me.

So judge nothing before the time, until the Lord may come, who will also bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then praise shall be to each one from God.

But, brethren, I have transferred these things to myself and Apollos on your account: that you may learn among us not to be wise above what is written; in order that you may not be puffed up one in behalf of one against another.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men.

I do not write these things shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children.

Therefore I exhort you, be ye imitators of me.

For this same thing I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach everywhere in every church.

But I will come to you quickly, if the Lord may will; and I will know not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power.

And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst?

in the name of the Lord Jesus, you and my spirit being assembled, with the power of the Lord Jesus,

to turn over such a one to Satan for the destruction of carnality, in order that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Cleanse away the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, as you are free from leaven; for Christ has truly become our Passover.

For now I have written unto you not to keep company with him, if any one denominated a brother may be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a scold, or drunken, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

For why is it for me to judge the outsiders? Do you not judge those within? But God will judge those without.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable: all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.

But concerning those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:

Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

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

(but if indeed she may depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled unto her husband); and that the husband shall not send away the wife.

But if, indeed you may marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned; but such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

But I say this, brethren; that the time is at hand, that moreover indeed those having wives may be as those not having;

I wish you to be free from solicitude. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, in order that he may please the Lord:

but the one having married cares for the things of the world, in order that he may please his wife.

A wife and a virgin truly also differ: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but she having married cares for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

I speak this for the profit of you yourselves; not that I may cast a burden upon you, but for that which is pleasing and acceptable to the Lord without perturbation.

But if any one considers that he is acting indiscreetly towards his virgin, if she may be marriageable, and thus it ought so to be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

A wife has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she may so remain, according to my opinion: but I realize that I truly have the Spirit of God.

See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak.

For if any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols?