For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

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

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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

But I say , that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:

and those parts of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

whereas our comely parts have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked;

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

If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,

by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:

and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;

Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.

And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they supplied.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:

But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away:

For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

For if that which passeth away was with glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory.

and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:

But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;

and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness:

Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty which is ministered by us:

and we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.

for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.

For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him .

That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me to be , or heareth from me.

lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

which is not another gospel only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.

As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

Now touching the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;

And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

only they would that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints,

which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places ,

far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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

Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

which in other generation was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;