grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

so that ye have not been deficient in any gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

who shall confirm you to the end blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Now I conjure you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that ye be perfectly united together in the same mind and the same sentiment.

Now this I observe, that one and another of you saith, I am indeed of Paul; but I of Apollos; but I of Cephas; but I am of Christ.

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

For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of discourse, lest the cross of Christ should be slighted.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offence, and to the Greeks folly;

but to those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

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

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

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? who will instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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

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.

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.

For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten 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.

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.

but to us there is one God, the Father; of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

And the weak brother will be destroyed by thy knowledge, for whom Christ died.

But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

AM I not an apostle? am I not a free man? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

if others partake of this power over you, ought not we much more? But we have not used this power, and we suffer all things, that we might not put any obstruction in the way of the gospel of Christ.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may put the gospel of Christ to no expence, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law.

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

BE ye imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

For I delivered to you among the first things that which I also had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

But if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ risen:

and if Christ be not risen, vain indeed is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

Yea, and we also are found false witnesses for God; because we have testified on the behalf of God, that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if indeed the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, neither is Christ risen:

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Then also they who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are more miserable than all other men.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

For as in Adam all are dead, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

But every one in his own rank: Christ the first-fruit; afterwards those that are Christ's at his appearing.

I solemnly declare by all the joy over you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema, Maranatha.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

PAUL an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy a brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

grace unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all consolation;

Because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so through Christ aboundeth also our consolation.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us??y me and Silvanus and Timotheus??as not yea and nay, but there was yea in him;

Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

But to whomsoever ye forgive any thing, so do I; and if I forgive any thing, to whom I forgive, for your sakes I do it, in the person of Jesus Christ,

But when I came to Troas to preach the Gospel of Christ, though a door was opened unto me by the Lord,

But thanks be to God, who causeth us always to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those who are saved, and in those who perish.

For we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

because ye are manifestly seen to be the letter of Christ, of which we have been the secretaries, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tables of stone, but on the fleshly tables of the heart.

And such confidence have we through Christ towards God:

But their understandings were darkened: for unto this day the same veil in their reading the old testament abideth unremoved; which veil is taken away by Christ.

among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dart its bright beams upon them.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

For the God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, he hath shined into our hearts, to give illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

knowing that he who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ, will raise up us also through Jesus, and present us together with you.

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body according to what he hath done, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Wherefore from the present moment know we no man after the flesh: yea though we have also known Christ after the flesh, yet so henceforth know we him no more.

Wherefore if any person be in Christ, he is a new creation: the old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

namely, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing to them their offences: and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God exhorted you by us; we entreat you for Christ's sake, be ye reconciled to God.

and what concord of Christ with Belial? or what share hath he that believeth with an infidel?

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor though he was rich, that ye by his poverty should be made rich.

If [any inquire] concerning Titus, he is my companion and fellow-labourer to you; or our brethren [be inquired of], they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

(while by the evidence of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberality towards them, and towards all men;)

NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you.

laying low proud reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and making every thought captive to the obedience of Christ:

Regard ye the things that are personal? If any man is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him reflect again in himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we Christ's.

For we stretch not our pretensions beyond bounds, as though we reached not unto you; for we have advanced even unto you in the gospel of Christ:

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which belongs to Christ.

I protest, by the truth of Christ in me, that from this boasting no man shall seal up my lips in the regions of Achaia.

For such are fake apostles, deceitful labourers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or whether out of the body I know not: God knoweth;) such a one was caught up unto the third heavens.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may fix its residence in me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Think ye that we are again making an apology to you? In the sight of God speak we in Christ: but all things, beloved, for your edification.

since ye demand a proof that Christ speaketh in me, who to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your ownselves: know ye not your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobate?