and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: For this cause I will give praise to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in the hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit. PAET IV. Conclusion.

Yet I have written to you more boldly in part, my brethren, as if I would put you in remembrance, on account of the grace which is given to me by God,

that I may be the public servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating as a priest with respect to the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have, therefore, cause to glory in Christ Jesus in things that pertain to God.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me, in your prayers to God for me,

that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed among you.

The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own appetites; and, by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience has gone abroad to all men: I rejoice, therefore, on your account. But I desire you to be wise in respect to that which is good, and guileless in respect to that which is evil.

The God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you

but is now made manifest, and through the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known among all nations for the obedience of faith,

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

PAUL, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sostlienes my brother,

to the church of God which is in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always on your account, for the grace of God which is given to you in Christ Jesus;

God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I immersed none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of- this world?

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may bring to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may put to shame the strong;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are;

But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us, from God, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even that which had been hidden, which God predestined before the ages, for our glory,

But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of man, but the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, the things of God no one knows, but the Spirit of God.

And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:

But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow.

So, neither he that plants nor he that waters is any thing: but God that makes to grow.

For we are fellow-laborers for God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this.

Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

and you are Christ's: and Christ is God s.

Let each one so think of us as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

So, then, judge nothing be fore the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.

For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

nor thieves, nor defrauders, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

and God has raised, up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.

But as God has assigned a place to every one, as the Lord has called every one, so let him continue to live: and so do I command in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God is our aim.

Brethren, let every one, in whatever condition he is called, abide in this with God.

I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

but if any one loves God, he is taught by him).

With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

For it is written in the law of Moses: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain? Has God a care for oxen?

to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law:

But with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

Whether, therefore, you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Give no occasion for stumbling, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks, or to the church of God;

even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

But I wish you to know, that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For a man ought not to vail his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

Judge in yourselves, whether it is becoming that a woman pray to God unvailed.

But if any one seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor have the churches of God.

What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

For this reason, I make known to you, that no one, speaking by the Spirit of God, calls Jesus accursed: and no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

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

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one, for the good of all.

But now God has placed the members, each of them, in the body, as it has pleased him.

for our comely members have no need. But God has so arranged the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which is deficient,

And God has placed some in the church, first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then mighty deeds; then gifts of healing; helps, governments, kinds of tongues.

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue, speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands him: but yet in spirit he speaks mysteries.

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all.

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.

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church: but let him speak to himself, and to God.

for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Has the word of God come forth from you? or did it come to you only?

Let all things be done with propriety, and in good order.

For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

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.

Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down every principality and authority and power: