For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked;

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and vain also is your faith.

For if the dead rise not, neither has Christ arisen;

And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

For he must rule until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

For He hast put all things under his feet, but in that quotation All things are put under him, it is evident that God is excepted, who put all things under Him.

And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

for a door has opened to me, great and effectual, and the opponents are many.

As for our Apollos, I have many times urged him to go to you with the others, but he was always unwilling to go to you at this time. He will come, however, whenever he has a good opportunity.

And he who has established me with you in the Anointed One, and has anointed me, is God.

He has also set his seal upon me, and given me the pledge of his Spirit in my heart.

As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you??t least some of you (not to overstate the case).

If you forgive the man, I forgive him, too; for whatever I have forgiven has been forgiven in the presence of Christ,

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Indeed that which once was glorious has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.

Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation.

Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness?

What concord has Christ with Belial? What portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

And what compact has God's temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said: I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

For if there be first willing mind, the gift is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

More than that, he is the one chosen by the churches to accompany me on my journey, in administering this gift of yours for the Lord's glory. And this has my full consent,

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

and I am fully prepared to punish every act of disobedience, when once your submission has been put beyond question.

I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me?? sphere which reaches even to you.

but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter has with the gospel for the circumcised

(for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

and the Law has nothing to do with faith, but declares, The man that has done these things shall live therein.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

I mean to say that the testament which God has already ratified could not be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the Promise void.

but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;

For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband.

because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

But I, brothers, if I "still preach circumcision," why am I still persecuted? Then surely the stumbling-block of the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!

For the whole Law has been fulfilled in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,

And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

For he is our Peace, who has made the two of us Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the party-wall of partition between us.

which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

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

and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.

For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to help than to the hindrance of the gospel.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

For it has been granted you in Christ's behalf, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.

I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

and it is he who has told me of your love for me in the spirit.

I ask that you may give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the heritage of the saints in the light.

For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.

And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints.

And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,

Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;

bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as Christ the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive.

And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is read also in the church of Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

And tell Archippas to take heed to the ministry which he has received in the Lord, that he may fulfill it.

For I know, O brothers, beloved of God, that he has chosen you;

For the word of the Lord has been sounded forth from you, and its sound has been heard not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place where the tidings of your faith toward God have been spread abroad, so that I have no need to speak of it.

But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and a good hope in grace,

as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.

And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service,

For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night.

But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

She must be well reputed for good works, as one who has brought up a family, received strangers with hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved the distressed, and diligently followed every good work.

Any believing woman, who has widowed relatives, ought to relieve them and not let the church be burdened with them; so that the church may relieve the really destitute widows.

who alone possesses immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power and of love and of self-control.

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

This has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who has put an end to death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

Guard the glorious trust which has been committed to you by the aid of the Holy Spirit who makes his home in us.

The farmer who has done the work should be the first to get a share of the crop.