And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, "The Deliverer shall go forth out of Sion, and shalt turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

If therefore thine enemy hunger, give him food; if he thirst, give him drink: for so doing, thou shalt heap up coals of fire on his head.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And thus do, knowing the time; for the hour is come that we should awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God; that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

But I have in such manner endeavoured to preach the gospel, not where Christ's name had been heard, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

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.

that no flesh should glory in his presence.

But it is my least consideration that I should be judged by you, or by human opinion: yea I decide not respecting myself.

What is your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators.

and even if she should be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

For how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband? and how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife?

Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not;

Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.

But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age [in celibacy], and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry.

for in the law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox which treadeth out the corn." Doth God take care for oxen?

or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes doubtless it was written; because he who ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he who soweth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your corporal things?

So also the Lord hath commanded to those who preach the gospel, that they should live by the gospel.

But I have used nothing of these things, nor have I written indeed these things, that it should be so done respecting me; for it would become me to die rather than that any man should make my glorying void.

BUT I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

For if we thoroughly judged ourselves, we should not be judged of the Lord.

If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body?

And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body?

that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I grew a man, I put away childish things.

Now I could wish that you all spake with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: for greater is he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret also, that the church may receive edification.

Now I, brethren, if I should come unto you, speaking in unknown languages, what should I profit you, unless I should speak to you [intelligibly] by revelation, or by science, or by prophecy, or by doctrine?

But if any thing should be revealed to one sitting by, let the first be silent.

But if it be of importance that I should go also, they shall go with me.

for we ourselves, in ourselves have received the sentence of death, that we should have no confidence in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Such then being my intention, did I indeed change it with levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose after the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

And [act] not as Moses who spread a veil over his face, in order that the children of Israel might not look stedfastly to the end of that which should be abolished.

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 know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle should be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

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.

For I mean not that there should be ease for others and a burden on you;

but that according to equality, your abundance on the present occasion should afford a supply for their deficiency, that their abundance also may supply your deficiency, that there may be equality.

Avoiding this, that no man should lay any blame to us in this abundance which is administered by us:

Yea, and if I should boast somewhat more highly of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for your edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed;

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.

For though I should be disposed to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I shall speak truth: but I desist, lest any man think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth of me.

and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Now I pray unto God that ye do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you may do that which is laudable, though we should be as reprobates.

For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

And when they knew the grace which was bestowed on me, James and Cephas and John, who appeared to be the pillars [of the church], gave unto me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision:

For if seeking to be justified by Christ, we also ourselves should be found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? God forbid.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I should live unto God.

O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your eyes, crucified among you.

To what end then was the law given? It was given on account of transgressions, until that seed should come to whom the promise was made, being delivered through the ministry of angels into the hand of a mediator.

But before the faith came, we were in ward under the law, shut up together for the faith that should be revealed.

Ye were running well: who hath hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world,

as he hath elected us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love:

that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first had hope in Christ.

not by works, lest any man should boast;

for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God hath before prepared us, that we should walk therein.

that the Gentiles should be co-heirs, and of the same body, and sharers with them of his promise in Christ by the Gospel:

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves, and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error;

and over all lifting up the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

But if it be his will, that I should live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my travail: and what to chuse I know not.

For this favour on the part of Christ is granted you, not only that ye should believe on him, but also that ye should suffer for his sake;

that to the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of beings celestial and terrestrial, and infernal;

and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus [is] Messiah, to the glory of God the Father.

Yea, and should I become the victim, in the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

For it hath pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell;

that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.

For this cause also, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your fidelity, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

NOW concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I should write to you:

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction rusheth upon them, as travail on a woman with child, and they shall in no wise escape.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief.

which is a manifest proof of the righteous judgment of God, that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

And for this cause God shall send unto them the energy of delusion, that they should believe a lie:

For when we were with you, this we enjoined you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat.

But for this end obtained I mercy, that in me, the chief, Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to those who should after believe in him unto eternal life.

but should I be delayed, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and the pedestal of truth.

If thou suggest these truths to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and sound doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

Take heed unto thyself, and to thy doctrine; abide in them: for so doing thou shalt both save thyself, and those who hear thee.

For the Scripture saith, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox while he treadeth out the corn." And again, "The labourer is worthy of his hire."

In like manner also the good works [of some] are previously manifest; and it is not possible that what they have besides should be concealed.

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ.

instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day;

And Moses indeed was faithful in all that house of his as a servant, to bear testimony of the things which should be after spoken;

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who did not believe?

LET us fear then lest, though a promise be left of entering into his rest, any one of you should appear to fail of obtaining it.

FOR, every high-priest taken from among men, is constituted on behalf of men for those services which relate to God, that he should offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

If therefore there was perfection by the Levitical priesthood (for under that the people had the law given to them), what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

and it is yet more abundantly evident, that there should arise another priest after the likeness of Melchisedec,

There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

and not that he should often offer up himself in sacrifice, as the high-priest enters every year into the holies with blood not his own,

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.