saying, Go thou to this people, and say, Hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive.

For this people's heart was made fat, and they hear heavily with the ears. And they shut their eyes, lest they may perceive with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should turn, and I would heal the

And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,

Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature.

And think thou this, O man who judge those who do such things and do the same, that thou will escape the judgment of God?

Is this blessedness therefore upon men of circumcision, or also upon men of uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Because of this it is from faith, so that it is according to grace, in order for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to the seed from the law, but also to the seed from the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all

through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many.

Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.

And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.

For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do.

But if I do this that I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good.

For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do.

But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me.

I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?

But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.

For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and there will be a son by Sarah.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same thing I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?

So then also at this present time there has become a remnant according to the selection of grace.

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened,

just as it is written that God gave them a spirit of slumber: eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, until this very day.

For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

And this is the covenant from me to them when I will take away their sins.

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head.

For because of this ye also fulfill taxes, for they are servants of God being devoted to this same thing.

For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love

And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.

For because of this Christ both died and arose, and he became alive so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

Let us not therefore criticize each other any more, but judge ye this instead, not to place a stumbling block to the brother, or a snare.

and the Gentiles, for the sake of mercy, to glorify God, as it is written, Because of this I will give thanks to thee among Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.

Having therefore completed this, and having sealed this fruit for them, I will depart by you to Spain.

Now I say this. That each of you actually say, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, even this crucified man.

But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.

which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

And if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every congregation.

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.

But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers?

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But I say this from concession not from commandment.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and this woman consents to dwell with him, he should not leave her.

Each man, in the situation in which he was called, in this he should remain.

Brothers, each man, in what he was called, should remain in this before God.

I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has power based upon his own will, and has decided this in his heart, to keep his own celibacy, does well.

But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.

But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.

But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

And sinning this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

My defense to those who examine me is this.

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.

And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

But if any man say to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the heavenly agents.

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

and having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and said, Take ye, eat, this is my body broken for you. This do ye for my memorial.

Likewise also the cup after the supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do, as often as ye drink it, for my memorial.

For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Therefore whoever may eat this bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily of the Lord, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.

If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

In the law it is written, In other tongues and in other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear me, says Lord.

If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability.

For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality.

But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,

Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?

But I determined this in myself, not to come again to you in sadness.

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment by the many,

For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

For also that which has been glorified, has not been glorified in this regard, because of the glory that transcends.

But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old testament, not being uncovered, which thing is abolished in Christ.

But to this day when Moses is read, a veil lays upon their heart.

Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.