But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well.

A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

And will not the weak brother for whom Christ died perish by your knowledge?

Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

If any one is hungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment. The other things I will arrange when I come.

But desire earnestly the best gifts: and I will still more fully show you the way.

For also if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?

So also you by a tongue if you utter a word not easily understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you will speak to the air.

if therefore I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian to me.

What then is [to be done]? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding;

For it is written in the law, With other tongues, and with other lips will I speak to this people, and so they shall not understand me, says the Lord.

If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

then is the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when he will destroy every principality and every authority and power.

and when all things have been put under him, then will the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Else what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? and why are they baptized for them?

But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

And when I come, whom you shall approve, these will I send with letters to carry your charity to Jerusalem;

And I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia; for I will pass through Macedonia

But I will remain at Ephesus till Pentecost,

But concerning Apollos the brother, I have exhorted him much to come to you with the brothers; but he was entirely indisposed to come now, but he will come when he has a convenient time.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

who delivered us from so great a death and will deliver, in whom we hope that he will also still deliver,

For we do not write to you of other things, but of what you read and acknowledge; and I hope you will also acknowledge to the end,

But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have shown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

For if the ministry of condemnation was a glory, much more will the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

For if that which has passed away was with glory, much more will that which continues be in glory.

knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and present us with you.

and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.

Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you,

and will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

and not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God,

And now, therefore, perform the doing also, that as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be a performance from what you have.

Let such a one think, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also will we be in work when present.

But we will not boast of things not measured, but according to the measure of the rule which God has given us, to come even to you.

and when I was with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself without being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.

But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.

It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Since many boast of the flesh, I also will boast.

If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of my infirmities.

It is not expedient therefore for me to boast [of these things]; for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Of such a one will I boast, but of myself I will not boast except of my infirmities.

For if I shall wish to boast I shall not be foolish, for I will tell the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me beyond what he sees or hears of me.

Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with infirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And I most gladly will spend and will be spent for your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am loved.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;

But I hope you will know that we are not reprobates.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,

Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you are circumcised Christ will not profit you.

I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will not be of another mind; but he that troubles you shall bear his sin, whoever he is.

PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints in [Ephesus] and the faithful in Christ Jesus.

having predestinated us in love to an adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

in whom also we have been called, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will,

Be not foolish therefore, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

not with eye service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

But that you may also know the things concerning me, how I do, Tichycus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will inform you of all things;

having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

For some indeed preach Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good will;

What then? nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice. But I also will rejoice;

for I know that this will result in salvation to me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

for God works in you both to will and to work of his good pleasure.

For I have no one like minded who really will care for your interests;

Him therefore I hope to send to you as soon as I know how it will be with me;

who will change our humble body, and make it like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

knowing that you will receive from the Lord the recompense of the inheritance. You serve Christ the Lord;

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

Tychicus will inform you of all things relating to me, who is a beloved brother, and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord,

with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; they will tell you of all things here.

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also will God bring with him those that have fallen asleep on account of Jesus.

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

give thanks on every occasion; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to us.

Faithful is he that calls you, who will also perform.

For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power;

and then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming,

But the Lord is faithful, who will confirm you, and guard you from evil.

And we trust in the Lord with respect to you, that you both do and will do what we direct.

For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

ruling well his own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,??5 but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God???6 not a novice, lest being inflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;

Attend to yourself, and to teaching; continue in it, for doing this you will both save yourself and those that hear you.

which the blessed and only Potentate will show in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords,

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

if we endure patiently we shall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us;

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that will not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth.

and their word will eat like a gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

and that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are made captives by him to his will.

Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

And all who will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear,

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to myths.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

Luke only is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you; for [he will be] useful to me for service.