Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.

for the earth and its fullness are the Lord s.

If any one of the unbelievers invites you to a feast, and you are disposed to go, eat any thing that is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake.

For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman; but all things are of God.

For, in the first place, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are schisms among you, and I partly believe it:

For this reason, many among you are weak and sick, and many sleep.

but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit;

and there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord;

and there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who makes them all effectual in all.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

But now there are many members, but one body.

But much more are those members of the body necessary, which seem to be more feeble.

And those members of the body, which, we think, are less honorable, around these we place the more abundant honor; and our uncomely members have the more abundant comeliness:

Now, you are the body of Christ, and, as individuals, you are members.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of mighty deeds?

So, also, unless you, with the tongue, utter words that are intelligible, how shall that which is spoken be known? for you will speak into the air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to those who believe not: but prophecy is not for those who believe not, but for those who believe.

If, then, the whole church come together into the same place, and all speak in tongues, and there come in unlearned men, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

and the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is really among you.

and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;

If any one has the reputation of being a prophet, or spiritual man, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

We are, indeed, also found false witnesses of God; for we have testified against God, that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.

but each in his own order; Christ the first-fruit, afterward, those who are Christ's at his coming.

For he has put all things under his feet. But when the scripture says, that all things are put under him, it is evident that he is excepted, who did put all things under him.

For else, what shall those do, who are immersed for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why, then, are they immersed for the dead?

And why are we in danger every hour?

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

There are also bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and that of the terrestrial is another.

As the earthy man was, such also are the earthy; and as the heavenly man is, such also shall the heavenly be.

for a great and effective door is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

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

who con soles us in all our afflictions, so that we are able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which salvation is effected by your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer; (and our hope in you is steadfast;) or if we are consoled, it is for your comfort and salvation;

because we know, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you shall be partakers of the comfort.

as some of you also acknowledge us, that we are the cause of your rejoicing, even as you, also, are of ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For whatever promises of God there are, are in him yes, and in him amen, to the glory of God by us.

not that we are lords over your faith, but fellow- workers for your joy: for by faith you stand.

For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

lest an advantage should be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

For, through God, we are a sweet odor of Christ, among the saved, and among the lost:

to the one, we are the odor of death ending in death; to the other, the odor of life ending in life: and who is sufficient for these things?

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

you are well known to be a letter of Christ, written by us as his ministers, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise any thing, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,

And we all, with unvailed face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

We are pressed on all sides, yet not restrained; perplexed, but not in despair;

For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For all these afflictions are for your sakes, that the favor which abounds to me, may, through the thanksgiving of the many, abound richly to the glory of God.

For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

Knowing, then, the fearful judgment of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God. I hope, indeed, that we are also made manifest in your consciences.

And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

you are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own affections.

What has a temple of God in common with one of idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I do not say this to condemn you; for I have said before, that you are in our hearts, so that we could die with you, and live with you.

But God, who comforts those who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

If it is necessary to speak of Titus, he is my partner and fellow-worker for you; if our brethren are spoken of, they are the apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ.

(for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, for the overthrowing of strongholds,)

Do you look on things according to the outward appearance? If any one trusts in himself, that he is Christ s, let him again reason thus of himself: that as he is Christ s, so also are we.

For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.

Let such a one conclude thus that such as we are in word, by letters, while absent, such also will we be in deed, when present.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, trans forming themselves into the apostles of Christ;

For it is a pleasure to you to bear with men of no understanding, since you yourselves are wise.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they of the posterity of Abraham? So am I.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

Make trial of yourselves, whether you are in the faith; put yourselves to the proof. Do you not know your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless you be without proof.

But I hope that you will know that we are not without proof.

For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong. And we pray also for this your perfection.

and all the brethren that are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

I am astonished that you are so soon turning away from him that called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel:

which is nothing else than that there are some who trouble you, and are determined to pervert the gospel of the Christ.

but I was not known, in person, to the churches of Judea which are in Christ.

And I went up because of a revelation, and communicated to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who are of reputation, lest, by any means, I should run or had run in vain.

We, who are Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is Christ, there fore, the minister of sin? It can not be.

Are you so thoughtless? After having begun in Spirit, do you make an end in flesh?

Know, therefore, that those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham.

So, then, those who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

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

But since the faith has come, we are no longer under a pedagogue:

for you are all the sons of God, by faith in Christ Jesus:

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondman nor free man, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if you are Christ s, then you are Abraham's posterity, and heirs according to the promise.

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

So, then, you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God, through Christ.

But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods:

now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; because I was as you are. You have injured me in nothing.

They are ardently attached to you, but not honorably; in deed, they desire to exclude us, that you may be ardently attached to them.