but he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is sin.

Let us each please our neighbor in that which is good for edification;

For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

that I may be delivered from those that obey not in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.

I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;

For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil.

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

but we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from eternity for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this life knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;

For who knows the [things] of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? So also no one knows the [things] of God except the Spirit of God.

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

which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

For no one can lay another foundation besides that laid, which is Christ Jesus.

If any one's work continues which he has built, he shall receive a reward;

If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

Let each one remain in the calling in which he was called;

Let each one continue, brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God.

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock which followed them, and that rock was Christ;

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation of the body of Christ?

If I partake with thanks, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that on the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread

and giving thanks broke, and said, This is my body, which is for you; this do in remembrance of me.

but much more those members of the body which seem to be weak are necessary,

and those which we esteem to be less honorable members of the body, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness,

for our comely ones have no need. But God has commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was lacking,

when the perfect has come, that which is in part shall pass away.

If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let him acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the Lord's;

I DECLARE to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which also you stand,

by which also you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless indeed you believed in vain.

By the joy on account of you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

and what you sow, you sow not the body which shall be, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or some of the other grains;

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 comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those in every affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God,

And if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation, wrought by a patient endurance the same sufferings which we also suffer, and our hope for you is strong; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation,

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed beyond our power, so that we despaired even of life;

For I wrote to you in much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

But if the ministry of death engraved in a writing on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses on account of the brightness of his face, which passed away,

For that which was made glorious was not glorious in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

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

and not as Moses put a vail on his face, that the children of Israel might not see to the end of that which has passed away;

For the light affliction which is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal weight of glory,

while we look not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are for a time, but those which are unseen are eternal.

For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven,

and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted on your account, telling us of your great desire, your deep sorrow, your zeal for me, so that I rather rejoiced.

for I know your readiness, of which I boasted in your behalf to the Macedonians that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has excited many.

that you may be enriched in every thing for all liberality, which produces through us thanksgiving to God.

and I desire that I may not be bold when present, with that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

destroying [false] reasonings and every height which is exalted against the knowledge of God, and subjecting every thought to the obedience of Christ,

For if I should even boast some of our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

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.

but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

Besides things without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

I know even such a man,??hether in the body or out of the body I know not, God knows,??4 that he was caught up to paradise, and heard unutterable words, which it is not lawful for man to speak.

For what is there in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that I may not use sharpness when present, with the power which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.

which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ.

only they heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which he formerly destroyed;

and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.

but on account of false brothers brought in secretly to act as spies against our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, to bring us into servitude,

only [they wished] that we should remember the poor, which I was also forward to do.

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

The promises were spoken to Abraham and his offspring. He said not, And to offsprings, as of many, but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

And this I say; that the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot abrogate the covenant previously established by God, to make the promise of no effect.

What then? The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by the hand of a mediator.

But formerly, not knowing God you served beings which are not really Gods;

but now knowing God, or rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you wish again to serve?

These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which is Hagar;

But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us;

STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,

murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

to the praise of his glorious grace, which he bestowed upon us in the beloved,

which he bestowed on us abundantly with all wisdom and knowledge

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

in respect to the dispensation of the fullness of times, to bring all things into one in Christ, the things which are in heaven and the things which are on earth, in him

which is a pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.

which he performed in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly [worlds],

which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all things in all.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,??2 in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience,

but God who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,??5 even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,??y grace are you saved,

for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk.

by which all the building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

in which you also are built up together for a spiritual habitation of God.

by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,??5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power.

according to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Wherefore I desire you not to faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.

and to know the love of Christ which exceeds knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, by the power which operates in us,

I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the call with which you were called,

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

Let him that has stolen steal no more, but rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he may have to give to him that needs.

Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption.