What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

Well, what I think is this: that, considering the imminent distress in these days, it would be an excellent plan for you to remain just as you are.

At the same time, if any man considers he is not behaving properly to the maid who is his spiritual bride, if his passions are strong and if it must be so, then let him do what he wants ??let them be married; it is no sin for him.

What! are we the only ones, myself and Barnabas, who are denied the right of abstaining from work for our living?

What I am proud of is not the mere preaching of the gospel; that I am constrained to do. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons!

What! do we intend to rouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?

If one partakes of food after saying a blessing over it, why should one be denounced for eating what one has given thanks to God for?

What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

I passed on to you what I received from the Lord himself, namely, that on the night he was betrayed the Lord Jesus took a loaf,

If they all made up one member, what would become of the body?

Suppose now I were to come to you speaking with 'tongues,' my brothers; what good could I do you, unless I had some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching to lay before you?

Well, it is the same with yourselves. Unless your tongue utters language that is readily understood, how can people make out what you say? You will be pouring words into the empty air!

Well, unless I understand the meaning of what is said to me, I shall appear to the speaker to be talking gibberish, and to my mind he will be talking gibberish himself.

Otherwise, suppose you are blessing God in the Spirit, how is the outsider to say 'Amen' to your thanksgiving? The man does not understand what you are saying!

Let only two or three prophets speak, while the rest exercise their judgment upon what is said.

If anyone considers himself a prophet or gifted with the Spirit, let him understand that what I write to you is a command of the Lord.

First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said,

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

At any rate, whether I or they have done most, such is what we preach, such is what you believed.

Otherwise, if there is no such thing as a resurrection, what is the meaning of people getting baptized on behalf of their dead? If dead men do not rise at all, why do people get baptized on their behalf?

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

But, someone will ask, 'how do the dead rise? What kind of body have they when they come?'

Foolish man! What you sow never comes to life unless it dies.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be; it is a mere grain of wheat, for example, or some other seed.

So with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is mortal, what rises is immortal;

(indeed, in view of the transcendent glory, what was glorious has thus no glory at all);

if what faded had its glory, then what lasts will be invested with far greater glory.

Come what may, then, I am confident; I know that while I reside in the body I am away from the Lord

for we have all to appear without disguise before the tribunal of Christ, each to be requited for what he has done with his body, well or ill.

If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.

Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.

There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?

What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever?

What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God ??as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,

but I am glad now ??not glad that you were pained but glad that your pain induced you to repent. For you were pained as God meant you to be pained, and so you got no harm from what I did;

See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

That is what comforts me. And over and above my personal comfort, I was specially delighted at the delight of Titus. You have all set his mind at rest.

But I will tell you what I think about it; it is to your interest to go on with this enterprise, for you started it last year, you were the first not merely to do anything but to want to do anything.

If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

it is a matter of give and take; at the present moment your surplus goes to make up what they lack, in order that their surplus may go to make up what you lack.

Everyone is to give what he has made up his mind to give; there is to be no grudging or compulsion about it, for God loves the giver who gives cheerfully.

This service shows what you are, it makes men praise God for the way you have come under the gospel of Christ which you confess, and for the generosity of your contributions to themselves and to all;

You put up with it all right, when some interloper preaches a second Jesus (not the Jesus I preached), or when you are treated to a Spirit different from the Spirit you once received, and to a different gospel from what I gave you! Why not put up with me?

(What I am now going to say is not inspired by the Lord: I am in the role of a 'fool,' now, on this business of boasting.

If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer!

Now this is playing the fool! But you forced me to it, instead of coming forward yourselves and vouching for me. That was what I deserved; for, 'nobody' as I am, I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles.'

Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children.

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder ??21 afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be ??God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed.

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

When He supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, is it because you do what the Law commands or because you believe the gospel message?

Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary

What I mean is this. As long as an heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a servant, though he is lord of all the property;

Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)

However, what does the scripture say? Put away the slave-woman and her son, for the son of the slave-woman shall not be heir along with the son of the free-woman.

Make no mistake ??God is not to be mocked ??a man will reap just what he sows;

Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

See what big letters I make, when I write you in my own hand!

For what counts is neither circumcision nor uncircumcision, it is the new creation.

not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this,

So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,'

What does he ascended mean, except that he first descended to the nether regions of the earth?

verifying what pleases the Lord.

One is indeed ashamed even to speak about what such men do in secret;

So do not be senseless, but understand what is the Lord's will;

for what you have contributed to the gospel from the very first day down to this moment;

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,

Practise also what you have learned and received from me, what you heard me say and what you saw me do; then the God of peace will be with you.

It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it.

It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

mind what is above, not what is on earth,

for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

Night and day I pray specially that I may see your faces and supply what is defective in your faith.

see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world;

but test them all, retaining what is good

Well, you can recall now what it is that restrains him from being revealed before his appointed time.

Now, we rely on you in the Lord, confident that you do and will do what we enjoin.

As for yourselves, brothers, never grow tired of doing what is right.

doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.

I transmit these instructions to you, Timotheus my son, in accordance with what the prophets said who first directed me to you; fight the good fight on these lines,