But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

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

Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,

but which has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --

to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

For other foundation can no man lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

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

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

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.

But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

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

But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.

But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

and having given thanks broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.

But concerning spiritual manifestations, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in assembly.

But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,

by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Daily I die, by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)

Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.

who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

But whether we are in tribulation, it is for your encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer,

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.

For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

Sufficient to such a one is this rebuke which has been inflicted by the many;

(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;

For also that which was glorified is not glorified in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

For if that annulled was introduced with glory, much rather that which abides subsists in glory.

But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled.

For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which is from heaven;

For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

begging of us with much entreaty to give effect to the grace and fellowship of the service which was to be rendered to the saints.

avoiding this, that any one should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;

For concerning the ministration which is for the saints, it is superfluous my writing to you.

For I know your readiness, which I boast of as respects you to Macedonians, that Achaia is prepared since a year ago, and the zeal reported of you has stimulated the mass of the brethren.

enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

and in their supplication for you, full of ardent desire for you, on account of the exceeding grace of God which is upon you.

but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given to us for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;

Now we will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.

to announce the glad tidings to that which is beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.

For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it.

The truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.

If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.

that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable things said which it is not allowed to man to utter.

For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.

On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.

which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.

But I let you know, brethren, as to the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

But I was unknown personally to the assemblies of Judaea which are in Christ;

only they were hearing that he who persecuted us formerly now announces the glad tidings of the faith which formerly he ravaged:

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

only that we should remember the poor, which same thing also I was diligent to do.

This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of the report of faith?

For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;

But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.

Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith which was about to be revealed.

but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.

For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which is now, for she is in bondage with her children;

but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and intelligence,

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

Wherefore I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,

in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies,

which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all:

in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.