that no flesh may glory before Him;

and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

that, according as it hath been written, 'He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'

for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

but, according as it hath been written, 'What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him -- '

for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;

for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.

if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such cases, and in peace hath God called us;

if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;

Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;

each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth him to know;

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

yet to us is one God, the Father, of whom are the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are the all things, and we through Him;

so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?

and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;

and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;

and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --

for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.

and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;

on every first day of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

no one, then, may despise him; and send ye him forward in peace, that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren;

and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all his will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.

if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news is through all the assemblies,

The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's;

This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;

any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?

I entreated Titus, and did send with him the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? -- did we not in the same steps?

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!

as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!

to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

the obedience is not of him who is calling you!

And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.

in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

to Him is the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,

and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me -- immediately;

for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;

receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,