So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst men, that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.

Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.

according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among the dead.

But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich towards all that call upon him.

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy through them that are not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that they also may be objects of mercy.

For God hath shut up together all in unbelief, in order that he might shew mercy to all.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

or service, let us occupy ourselves in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;

or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above him. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God.

So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who thus resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.

for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.

One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

For to this end Christ has died and lived again, that he might rule over both dead and living.

For it is written, I live, saith the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean.

For he that in this serves the Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men.

For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.

But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because it is not of faith; but whatever is not of faith is sin.

But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name.

And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

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

that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

in order that I may come to you in joy by God's will, and that I may be refreshed with you.

that ye may receive her in the Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for she also has been a helper of many, and of myself.

For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, and simple as to evil.

Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,

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

that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word of doctrine, and all knowledge,

so that ye come short in no gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.

For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

But I speak of this, that each of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius,

that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name.

For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.

but to those that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

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

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

so that no flesh should boast before God.

that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.

For other foundation can no man lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Do ye not know that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours.

Here, further, it is sought in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself.

For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.

So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.

Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.

Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.

What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?