For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou doest that which is evil, tremble! for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, an avenger to inflict wrath on him that practises what is evil.

Wherefore there is a necessity for being in subjection, not only for fear of wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Love doeth no ill to a neighbour; the fulfilment therefore of the law is love.

And thus do, knowing the time; for the hour is come that we should awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

The night is far advanced, the day approaches: let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Let us walk becomingly as in the face of day, not in revels and drunkenness, not in impurities and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

HIM that is weak in faith take by the hand, and enter not into niceties of disputes.

One man indeed thinketh he may eat all meats; another, who is weak, eateth vegetables.

Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth; but he shall be established: for God is able to establish him.

For no one of us liveth to himself, and no one dieth to himself.

For it is written, "As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall make confession to God."

Assuredly then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

Let us therefore no more judge one another; but judge this rather, that no one put a stumbling-block or offence before his brother.

I know, and am convinced by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who thinketh any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

But if by meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no more according to love. Do not by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died.

Let not therefore food, which is good for you, give occasion of reproach.

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

For he who in these things is the servant of Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

Well then, let us earnestly pursue the things that conduce to peace, and the things which are for mutual edification.

For the sake of meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are clean; but it is an evil thing for a man to eat, giving offence.

It is laudable not to eat flesh, or to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother is stumbled, or scandalized, or weakened.

Hast thou faith, exercise it before God within thyself. Blessed is the man who condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.

But he that maketh a difference between meats, if he eat is condemned, because he doth it not by faith: for every thing which is not of faith, is sin.

Let every one of us gratify his neighbour in that which is good for his edification.

For even Christ gratified not himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."

Therefore help one another, as Christ also hath helped us, for the glory of God.

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, "For this cause will I confess unto thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name."

And again Isaiah saith, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that ariseth to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust."

But I have written to you, my brethren, in part, with greater freedom, as refreshing your memory through the grace which is given to me of God;

but as it is written, "To whom the tidings concerning him have not reached, they shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand."

I NOW commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is at Cenchrea:

that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that you assist her in every matter wherein she may have need of you: for she hath also been a succourer of many, and of me myself.

and the church which is in their house. Salute Epinetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ.

Salute Mary, who laboured in many things to serve us.

For your obedience is gone forth in report to all men. I rejoice therefore on your account: but I wish you to be wise indeed unto good, but harmless respecting evil.

Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the revelation of the mystery; which was concealed from all former ages,

but is now made manifest, and by the prophetical scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, notified to all the Gentiles to bring them to the obedience of faith:

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

to the church of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, to the called saints, with all those who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both their's and our's:

Faithful is God, by whom ye have been called into communion with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptised into the name of Paul?

For the discourse, [the subject of which is] the cross, is indeed to those who perish, folly; but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the intelligent will I make useless."

Where is the sophist? where is the scribe? where is the inquisitive searcher after this world's wisdom? hath not God turned into folly the wisdom of this world?

For this foolishness of God is wiser than men; and this weakness of God is stronger than men.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many fleshly wise, not many men in power, not many men of high birth, are called:

but the foolish things of this world hath God elected, that he might confound the wise; and the feeble things of the world hath God elected, that he might confound the mighty;

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who hath been made to us of God wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

that, as it is written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

But, as it is written, "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and that have not entered into the heart of man, these hath God prepared for those who love him."

But to us hath God revealed them by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth out all things, even the depths of God.

For who among men knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? so also the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

But the spiritual man discerneth indeed all things, though himself is discernible by no man.

AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but the ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each [of us]?

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, nor he that watereth; but God who giveth the increase.

According to the grace of God given unto me, as a skilful architect, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every one take heed how he buildeth upon it.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus the Messiah.

every man's work shall be made manifest: for that day shall declare it, for it shall be laid open by fire; and the fire shall prove every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work be burnt up, he shall suffer loss: but himself shall be saved; yet so as through the fire.

If any man prophane the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinketh himself a wise man in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

For the wisdom of this world is folly in the sight of God. For it is written, "He entangleth the wise in their own craftiness."

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

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

LET a man so account of us, as the under servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Moreover it is expected of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But it is my least consideration that I should be judged by you, or by human opinion: yea I decide not respecting myself.

For though I am not conscious to myself of any unfaithfulness, yet am I not thereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

But these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself, and Apollos for your sake; that in us ye might learn not to be attached, beyond what is written, lest one being for one [minister], ye be puffed up [with prejudice] against another.

For who distinguisheth thee? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou also hast received it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Now ye are full, now ye have grown rich, ye have reigned without us: and I wish indeed that you may reign, that we also might reign together with you.

For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

We are counted fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are mighty; ye are honourable persons, but we despised.

being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my son beloved and faithful in Christ, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach every where in every church.

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not really come to you.

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

What is your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing;

Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

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

I speak to you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not so much as one who is able to judge between one brother and another?

Now verily therefore there is altogether a fault among you, because ye have law-suits one with another. Why do ye not rather submit to the wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up by his own power.

Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be "one flesh."

But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that.

I say then to the unmarried and the widows, that it is becoming them if they abide as I am.