for he is God's minister to you for good. But, if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

Wherefore, there is necessity that ye submit yourselves, not only because of the wrath, but also because of conscience.

Owe no one anything, but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

And this, knowing the season, that it is time already for you to be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when ye believed.

But him that is weak in the faith receive ye, yet not for decisions of scruples.

One believes that he may eat all things; but he that is weak eats herbs.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that does not eat despise him that eats; for God received him.

Who are you that judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

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

For to this end Christ died, and lived, that He might be Lord of both dead and living.

I know, and have been persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: except that to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

For he that in these things serves Christ, is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification.

The faith which you have, have to yourself before God. Happy is he that judges not himself in that which he approves.

And he who doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification;

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

that with one accord ye may, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

and that the gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it has been written, "For this cause, I will confess to Thee among the gentiles; and to Thy name will I sing praise."

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound In hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And I myself also have become persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the gentiles may become acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fully dispensed the Gospel of Christ;

and I know that, when coming to you, I will come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

that I may be delivered from the unbelieving in Judea, and that my ministry to Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

that, coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed.

that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself became a helper of many, and of myself.

and salute the assembly that is in her house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia unto Christ.

For your obedience reached unto all. I rejoice, therefore, over you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, but simple as to evil.

that in everything ye were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge;

so that ye fall short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Now I mean this: that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul;" and "I of Apollos;" and "I of Cephas:" and "I of Christ!"

I am thankful that I immersed no one of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

lest some one should say that ye were immersed into my name.

seeing that both Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

For ye behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are chosen;

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;

and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

that no flesh should glory before God.

that, even as it has been written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

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

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.

And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.

But he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one.

For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

So that neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God Who causeth it to grow.

And he that plants and he that waters are one; but each shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

And again, "The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain."

Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that one be found faithful.

But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself.

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, even, Christ;

not at all meaning, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; since ye ought, in that event, to go out of the world;

Or know ye not that the saints will judge the world? And, if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest tribunals?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, then, things pertaining to this life?

I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

But ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren!

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, taking away the members of Christ, make them members of a harlot? It could not be!

Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that.

but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband; and that the husband leave not his wife.

Let each one abide in that calling in which he was called.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

I think, therefore, that this is good on account of the impending distress; namely, that it is good for a man to be thus.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened; that henceforth both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

But, if any one thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be beyond the prime of life, and thus it ought to be brought about, let him do what he wishes, he sins not; let them marry.

But he who has been standing steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has authority respecting his own will, and has determined this in his own heart, that he will keep his own virgin daughter, will do well.

So that both he that gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well; and he that gives her not in marriage will do better.

But she is happier, if she abides as she is, according to my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;

concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

For he that is weak??he brother for whom Christ died??erishes by reason of your knowledge.

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.

Or doth He say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written; because he that plows ought to plow in hope; and he that threshes ought to thresh in hope of partaking.

If others partake of this authority over you, do not we still more? But we used not this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

Know ye not that those who are occupied upon sacred things eat of the things of the temple? and that those who wait at the altar partake with the altar?

Even so did the Lord ordain, that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.