And if I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for that, for which I give thanks?

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:

and gave thanks, and brake it, and said, "Take and eat; this is my body, which is going to be broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

But those parts of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary:

and those which we judge the less honorable parts we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our less comely parts have more comeliness added to them, of which our comely ones have no need.

But God hath so blended the several parts of the body, giving greater honor to that which was deficient,

But when that which is perfect shall come, then that which is defective shall be laid aside.

As inanimate things which give a found, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall what is piped or harped be understood?

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached to you at first, which ye received, and wherein ye stand.

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain it as I preached it to you: unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

For in the first place I delivered to you, that which I also received, to wit, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I am even dying daily.

Silly creature! that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die first.

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

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is wrought out by the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or if we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befel us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed above our strength, so that we despaired even of life:

For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

Now if the ministration of death which was in writing, and engraven on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the lustre of his countenance, which was to be taken away:

For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.

and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:

for unto this day the same veil remaineth unremoved in the reading of the old testament, which veil is taken away in Christ.

For which cause we are not disheartened: but though our outward man decayeth, yet the inward man is renewed daily.

For our short and light affliction is working out for us an infinite and eternal weight of glory, as we aim not at the things which are visible, but invisible:

for those, which are visible, are temporary, but the invisible are eternal.

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but as a tent, were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

And therefore whilst we are in this tabernacle we groan, being very desirous to be covered with our house which is from heaven: since though unclothed of this body,

For behold this very thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly manner, what diligence it wrought in you! yea, what apology, what indignation, what fear, what earnest desire, what zeal, what revenge! by all which ye have shewn yourselves to be clear in the affair.

(and not only so, but he was also chosen by the churches to accompany us with this grace, which is administered by us for the glory of the same Lord, and to shew your readiness of mind:)

hereby taking care that no one might blame us in the disposal of this large sum which is administered by us:

for I know your readiness of mind, which I boast of concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath excited many.

being in every thing enriched to all liberality, which produceth through us thanksgiving to God.

For though I should boast yet more of our authority, (which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction) I should not be ashamed:

But we will not glory of things beyond our bounds, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath given to us, a measure to come even unto you.

For if he, that cometh to you, preacheth 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 embraced, ye might indeed bear with him.

that which besets me daily, the care of all the churches.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things which relate to my infirmity.

I know not, God knoweth) that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unutterable words, which it is not permitted unto man to speak.

when I come again, my God should humble me among you, and I should be grieved for many of those who have sinned heretofore, and have not repented of the impurity, and fornication, and lewdness which they have practised.

I pray to God that ye may do no evil: and not that we may appear to be approved by your punishment, but that ye may do that which is good, though we should seem to be disapproved.

Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

I wonder that ye are so soon removed from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel: which is not another;

and was not known in person to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ.

But only they had heard that he who persecuted us before, now preacheth the faith which he formerly would have destroyed.

But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.

and that because of the false brethren clandestinely introduced, who had crept in as spies upon our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

and knowing the grace which was given to me; James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars of the church, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

Only desiring that we would remember the poor: which I also was forward to do.

God forbid. And if I build again the same things which I demolished, I shew myself a transgressor: for I through the law am dead to the law,

I am crucified with Christ; yet I live, though no longer I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave up himself for me.

For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed be every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.

Brethren, (I speak after the manner of men,) no one cancelleth or addeth to a covenant which hath been ratified, though it be but the covenant of a man.

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

This then I say, that the law, which was given four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the covenant, which was so long before confirmed by God unto Christ, to make void the promise.

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? not at all: for if a law had been given, which could have confered life, certainly righteousness would have been by the law.

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

But then indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which in reality are no gods.

But now that ye know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that ye turn again to the poor weak elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage as before?

and my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected me for it; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But it is good to be zealously affected always in that which is good, and not only when I am present with you.

Which things are figurative; for these persons are emblems of the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, bringing forth children unto bondage, which is Hagar: for this name Hagar,

a rock, is expressive of mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to the present Jerusalem, which is in bondage with her children.

But the Jerusalem above is represented by the free-woman, 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 things contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit things contrary to the flesh: and these are opposite to each other; so that ye do not those things which ye would.

heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like: of which I forewarn you, as I have also told you before, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

having made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure, which He had before purposed in Himself:

which He exerted in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him 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, the complete work of Him, who filleth all in all.

in which ye formerly walked after the manner of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that still operates in the children of disobedience:

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God before prepared us, that we might walk in them.

Wherefore remember that ye were formerly Gentiles in the flesh, called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision made by hands in the flesh;

as ye have heard the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given me to preach unto you:

that by immediate revelation He made known to me the mystery, (as I wrote before in brief, by which,

which in other generations was not made known to men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be co-heirs,

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God conferred on me by the effectual operation of his power.

and make all men to see the communication of the mystery, which from the ages past hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

according to the ancient purpose, which He executed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Wherefore I desire that ye would not be discouraged at my afflictions on your account, which is your glory.

and height, and to know the love of Christ, which surpasseth knowledge; that ye may be filled according to the abundant fulness of God.

which according to your former conversation was corrupted with deceitful lusts,

and to put on the new man, which according to the image of God is created in righteousness, and true holiness.

nor ribaldry, nor buffoonery, nor wanton jesting, which are not meet: but rather giving of thanks.

And be not drunk with wine, in which there is riotous excess; but be filled with the Spirit:

Honour thy father and thy mother, (which is the first commandment with promise,)

take also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

for which I am an ambassador though in chains: that I may speak boldly in behalf of it, as I ought to speak.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

being full of the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.

But I would have you know, my brethren, that the things, which have befallen me, have proved rather to the advancement of the gospel:

for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is much preferable:

and are in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is a demonstration of ruin to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

Let the same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

which were once gain to me, I counted loss for Christ.

not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is by the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him,

not that I have yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press forward to acquire that perfection, for which also I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before,

And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye have heard before in the word of truth, that is the gospel;

which is come unto you, even as in all the world, and is fruitful; as it hath been also among you, from the day in which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth.