If any man destroy the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou hast received it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?

Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?

And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

And all drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank out of the spiritual rock which followed them; and that rock was Christ) Yet, with the most of them, God was not well-pleased;

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

The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

But in this which I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

I praise you not. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the night in which he was betrayed,

took bread, And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me.

Yea, the members of the body, which appear to be weaker, are much more necessary.

And those which we think to be the less honourable parts of the body, these we surround with more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

For our comely parts have no need; but God hath tempered the body together, giving more abundant honour to that which lacked:

And when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall vanish away.

So inanimate things which give a sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

If any one think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you, are the commandments of the Lord.

Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, and wherein ye stand:

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain what I preached to you, unless ye have believed in vain.

For I delivered to you first, that which I also received, That Christ died for our sins,

Why are we also in danger every hour? I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die,

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat, or of any other corn:

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

And I beseech you, brethren, as ye know the houshold of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serve the saints,

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

And whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effectual in the patient enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the trouble which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed, above our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

Now when I was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that there should be with me yea and nay?

For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.

And if the ministration of death engraven in letters on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face, which was to be abolished: Shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be glorious?

For even that which was made glorious, had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excelleth.

For if that which is abolished was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

And not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly to the end of that which is abolished.

But their understandings were blinded: and until this day the same veil remaineth unremoved on the reading of the old testament, which is taken away in Christ.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory:

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon, with our house which is from heaven:

but he was also appointed by the churches to be a fellow-traveller with us, with this gift, which is administred by us, to the glory of the Lord himself,

and for the declaration of our ready mind) Avoiding this, lest any one should blame us in this abundance, which is administred by us.

For I know your readiness, which I boast concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

Therefore I thought it necessary, to desire the brethren to go before to you, and compleat this your bounty, which had been spoken of before, that it may be ready as a bounty, and not as a matter of covetousness.

Being inriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which worketh by us thanksgiving to God.

And by their prayer for you, who long after you, for the exceeding grace of God, which is in you.

Destroying reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Yea, if I should boast something more also of the authority which the Lord hath given us, for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

But we will not boastingly extend ourselves beyond our measure; but according to the measure of the providence, which God hath allotted us, a measure to reach even unto you.

I wish ye would bear a little with my folly; yea, bear with me.

If indeed he that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another Spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this my boasting shall not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

Beside the things which are from without, that which rusheth upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

and heard unspeakable things, which it is not possible for man to utter.

and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

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

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, for edification, and not for destruction.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Christ who called you by his grace to another gospel, Which is not another;

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

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

And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ.

Only they had heard, He that persecuted in time past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

I went up by revelation, and explained to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but severally to those of eminence, lest by any means I should run, or should have run in vain.

being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised, Because of false brethren introduced unawares, who came in privily, to spy out our liberty which we have through Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

the same which I also was forward to do.

God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.

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

And this I say, the covenant which was before confirmed of God through Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Is then the law against the promises of God? God forbid. But if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness would have been by the law.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up together unto the faith which was to be revealed.

But now having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again?

And ye did not slight or disdain my temptation which was in the flesh, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

Which things are an allegory; for these are the two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Agar.

But Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

For the flesh desireth against the Spirit, but the Spirit desireth against the flesh (these are contrary to each other) that ye may not do the things which ye would.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication,

emulations, wraths, strifes, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I tell you before (as I have also told you in time past) that they who practise such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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

by which he hath freely accepted us through the beloved, By whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins,

in all wisdom and prudence, Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself,

That in the dispensation of the fulness of the times, he might gather together into one in Christ all things which are in heaven, and which are in earth,

Which he wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead; and he hath made him sit at his own right-hand in heavenly places,

Far above all principality, and power, and might, 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; who is the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

For we are his workmanship, created through Christ Jesus unto good works, which God had before prepared, that we might walk in them.

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh (who were called the uncircumcision, by that which is called the circumcision made with hands in the flesh) Were at that time without Christ,

By reading which ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ:

Which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed to the holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

Of which I have been made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power.

And to let all men see, what is the fellowship of the mystery, which was hidden from the beginning of the world by God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Wherefore I intreat you not to faint at my afflictions for you, which is your glory.

ye may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge,

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted, by that which every joint supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every member, maketh increase of the body, to the edifying of itself in love.

concerning your former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful desires:

And to put on the new man, which is created after God, in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good, to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.

Neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient, but rather thanksgiving.