I say, then, Has God rejected his people? It can not be. For I am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says, in regard to Elijah? how he intercedes with God against Israel, saying:

But what says the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened to this day,

as it is written: God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes with which they can not see, and ears with which they can not hear.

And David says: Let their table become a trap, and a net, and a snare, and a recompense to them;

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

I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy.

boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you.

Well; on ac count of unbelief they were broken off; but you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, lest he spare not you.

And they, also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery lest you be wise in your own conceit that blindness has happened to Israel in part, till the full number of the Gen tiles shall have come in.

For as you formerly did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief;

so, also, these have not now believed, that through the mercy shown to you, they also may obtain mercy.

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, that he must not think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but that he be disposed to think modestly, as God has distributed to each a measure of faith.

For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office,

in what requires diligence, be not slothful; in spirit, be fervent; in service, be devoted to the Lord;

bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not;

cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to the wrath of God; for it is written: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.

For rulers are not a terror to works that are good, but to those which are evil. Will you, then, not be afraid of the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall receive praise from the same.

For he is the minister of God to you for that which is good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God to inflict punishment on him that does evil.

Wherefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of punishment, but also for conscience sake.

For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

the night is far advanced, the day draws near. Let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in. contention and in envy:

Him that is weak in the faith, receive kindly, but not to judge his reasonings.

Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not, judge him that eats: for God has received him.

He that regards the day, to the Lord he regards it; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord; for he gives God thanks: and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.

But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not, with your food, destroy him, for whom Christ died.

Therefore, let not that which is your good be evil spoken of.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble.

Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves.

But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

But we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

For the Christ did not please himself; but as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell on me.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient,

so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

but, as it is written: They to whom he was not preached, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.

that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she has aided many, and myself also.

who, for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only do I give thanks, but all the churches of the Gentiles:

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own appetites; and, by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.

I did, in deed, immerse the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of- this world?

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are;

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know any thing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

Yet we speak wisdom among the perfect; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are brought to nought:

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:

which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able;

for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not carnal?

Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

But with me, it matters very little, that I should be judged by you, or by the judgment of men: indeed, I do not judge myself.

For, though I am conscious of no wrong, yet by this I am not justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.

For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?

I do not write these things that I may make you ashamed; but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you;

but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;

but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within?

Does any one of you that has a matter of dispute with another, presume to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Know you not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy to decide concerning the smallest matters?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then, things pertaining to this life.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man, not even one, who shall be able to arbitrate between his brethren?

Now, certainly, you are altogether in fault, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? It must not be.

Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband; likewise, also, the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife.

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

But this I say by permission, not by commandment:

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband: