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.

I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:

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.

or ministry, it is in the ministry; or he that teacheth, in teaching;

or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; or he that giveth, with a single eye; he that presideth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and scold not.

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except that which is from God; and the existing authorities have been ordained of God.

And recognizing this time, that it is already the hour we should wake out of sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

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

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: except to him who considers it unclean, to him it is unclean.

The faith which you have, have it with yourself before God. Happy is the one not judging himself in that which he approves:

Let each of us please his neighbor in that which is good, unto edification;

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.

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

For I say that Christ has been made minister of circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises of the fathers,

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as has been written, Therefore I will confess thee among the Gentiles, and in thy name sing praises.

And again, Isaiah says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.

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.

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.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and around about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

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;

but I know that coming unto you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

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 having come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest.

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.

For your obedience has come abroad unto all men: therefore I rejoice over you, and wish you to be wise in that which is good, and uncompromising towards that which is evil.

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

so that you are deficient in no spiritual gift; awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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.

And I say this, that each one says, I indeed am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

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.

For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many influential, not many high-born:

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,

in order that no flesh can boast in the sight of God.

in order that, as it has been written, Let him that glorieth glory in the Lord.

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.

But he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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

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.

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

Here, moreover, it is required among stewards, that every one must be found faithful.

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.

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.

Already are ye filled, already have ye become rich; you did reign without us: and I would indeed that you did reign, in order that we also might reign along with you.

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.

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father.

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

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.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

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.

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest judgments?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not indeed matters of this life?

But does brother go to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers?

Indeed it is already altogether a small matter to you, that you have law-suits one with another. Why do you not rather stiffer injustice? why are you not rather defrauded?

But you inflict injustice, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? then taking the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot? it could not be so.

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

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own;

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

Let the husband give to the wife that which is due, and likewise the wife also to the husband.

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 wish that all men were even as myself; but each one has his own gift from God, some one, and some another.

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

But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband

(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 I consider this to be good on account of the present distress, that it is good for a man so to be.

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.

So indeed he that marries his own virgin does well; and he that marries her not will do better.

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

But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine love builds up.

Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God except one.

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

For in the law of Moses it has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that plows. Is there a care to God for oxen,

or does he speak it altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us, That the one plowing ought to plow in hope, and the one threshing in hope of partaking.

If others partake of your bounty, shall not we the more? But we have not used this privilege, but we bear all things, in order that we may not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Do you not know that those working in the sacrifices eat those things of the temple; and those serving the altar partake of the altar?

But I have used none of these things. But I have not written these things that it may be so in me: for it is good for me rather to die than that any one shall make void my boasting.

Then what is my reward? that preaching the gospel, I may render the gospel free from charge, in order that I may not use my right in the gospel.

For being free from all, I rendered myself servant to all, that I may gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not myself being under law, that I may gain those under the law;

to those without law, I became as without law, not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ, that I may gain those without law.

To the weak I became as weak, that I may gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I may indeed save some.

But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.