And when a south wind blew gently, having presumed to have obtained their purpose, after taking up anchor, they sailed very near by Crete.

And being long without food, then Paul, who stood in the midst of them, said, Ye truly ought, O men, to have complied with me, not to launch from Crete, and gain this damage and loss.

pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,

For as many as have sinned without law will also be destroyed without law, and as many as have sinned in law will be judged by law.

For when the Gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these men, not having law, are a law to themselves.

And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,

and the way of peace they have not known.

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred

What then will we say Abraham, our father according to flesh, to have found?

(as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before him whom he believed, of God who makes the dead alive, and who calls things not existing, as existing.

Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection.

for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

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.

And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor heavenly agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming,

And just as Isaiah has foretold, Unless Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.

For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

How then will they call on whom they have not believed? And how will they believe of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without preaching?

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and they have torn down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal.

For as ye once were also disobedient to God, but now have received mercy at the disobedience of these,

so also now these have been disobedient for thy mercy, so that they also may receive mercy.

For just as we have many body-parts in one body, and all the body-parts have not the same function,

Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher, for there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God, are those that have been instituted.

So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves.

For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it.

The faith thou have, have in relation to thyself before God. Blessed is the man not condemning himself in what he allows.

For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

I have therefore a boast in Christ Jesus in things toward God.

but, as it is written, They will see to whom it was not reported about him, and they will understand who have not heard.

so that ye may welcome her in Lord worthily of the sanctified, and that ye provide for her in whatever matter she may have need of you, for she also became a helper of many, and of me myself.

to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

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

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.

For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

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.

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

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,

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

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in Lord?

Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?

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.

To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

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

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

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 the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,

whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other.

Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

If I speak with the tongues of men and of heavenly agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.

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

For he subordinated all things under his feet. But when he says that all things have been subordinated, it is clear that he who subordinated all things under him, is excepted.

Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly.

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.

But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

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

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.

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

But to whom ye forgive anything, I too. For I also, whom I have forgiven (if anything), I have forgiven because of you in the presence of Christ,

And we have such confidence toward God through Christ,

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us,

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.

For we are not commending ourselves again to you, but giving you an opportunity of boasting about us, so that ye may have for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.