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saints who are with them. 16. Salute one another with an holy salutation. All the churches of Christ salute you.

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17. Now, I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and avoid them. 18. For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19. For the report of your obedience is come abroad to all men. I rejoice, therefore, on your account: but yet I would have you wise for what is good, and simple concerning evil. 20. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan (and every enemy) under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

21. Timothy my fellow-labourer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. 22. I Tertius, (Heb. Silas), who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. 23. Gaius mine host, and that of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus, steward of the city, salutes you, and Quartus a brother. 24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

25. Now, to him that hath power to establish you according to my gospel, even the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, 26. But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the promise of the everlasting God, made known to all nations, for their obedience to the faith, 27. To the only wise God, be glory through Jesus Christ, for ever.

Written to the Romans from Cenchrea, (the suburbs of Corinth).

ST. PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO THE

CORINTHIANS.

CHAP. I.

PAUL CONDEMNS DIVISIONS AS MOST DANGEROUS.

PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother, 2. To the church of God at Corinth, being sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints; and to all that in every place call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours; 3. Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

4. I thank my God always on your account for the grace of God given to you by Christ Jesus; 5. That in all things ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 6. As the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you. . So that ye 7. are deficient in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: 8. Who shall confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9. God is faithful by whom ye were called to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment, (Rom. xvi. 17.) 11. For it hath been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you. 12. Now this I mention, that each of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Peter, and I of Christ.

13. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

14. I thank God I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius. 15. And the family of Stephanas, besides I know not whether I baptized any other. 16. Lest any should say I baptized in mine own name. 17. For Christ sent me rather to preach the gospel than to baptize; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should have been rendered vain. 18. For the doctrine of the cross is indeed foolishness to them that are perishing; but to us who are saved it is the power of God. 19. Før it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the sagacity of the prudent. 20. Where is the wise? where is the learned scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolish? 21. For since, in the wisdom of God's works, the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. 22. For altho' the Jews demand a sign (in the sky), and the Greeks seek learning and eloquence. 23. Yet we nevertheless preach Christ crucified; to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and foolishness to the Greeks, 24. But to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25. Because what the vain world profanely reckons a folly, unworthy of God, is wiser than all that the wit of men can devise; and the weakness of the ser vants of God is stronger in reforming the world, than the strongest efforts of man's wit. 26. For ye see those among you, who are called brethren, there are not many worldly-wise men, not many mighty, not many noble; 27. But God hath chosen this world's foolish things, to shame its wise men; and its weak things, to shame its mighty things; 28. And its things that are base and despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things not regarded, to bring to

nought things that are; 29. So that none can glory before God. 30. But by him ye are in Christ Jesus, (Rom. viii. 1.) who is made by God to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption; 31. So that, as it is written, He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord.

CHAP. II.

OF THE POWER OF GOD.

Now, brethren, when I came to you, I came not with the pomp of language or worldly wisdom, publishing to you the gospel of God. 2. For I determined to make known nothing among you but Jesus Christ, even that crucified person. 3. And I was with you in weakness, and in much fear and trembling. 4. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in the powerful demonstration of the Spirit, 5. That your faith should not depend on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. 6. Yet we speak (perfect) wisdom among those who are perfectly instructed; but not the wisdom of this world, nor of its rulers, who shall be brought down. 7. But we speak the mysterious wisdom of God, which was (long) kept secret, which God from eternal ages pre-determined to our glory; 8. Which none of the rulers of the world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. 10. But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit of God searcheth all things; yea, the deep things of God, 11. For what man knoweth the things of another man? these are known only to the spirit of the man which resides in him: so also, none knoweth the things of God, but the Spirit of God. 12. Now the Spirit we have received, is not that of the world, but the

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Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things which are freely given us by God. Which things we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit; explaining the spiritual things (of the prophets) by the spiritual words (of Christ.) 14. But the sensual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15. But the spiritual man discerneth all things, while he himself is discerned by no man. 16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath instructed him? But we have the mind of Christ.

CHAP. III.

PAUL'S WAY WITH WEAK BELIEVERS.

Now, brethren, I could not speak to you as to spiritual (men,) but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ, (or beginners in the divine life.) 2. I have fed you with milk, and not with strong meat; for hitherto ye could not bear it, nor are ye yet able. 3. For ye are yet carnal: for as there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as natural men? 4. For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 5. Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means you have believed, as the Lord gave to every man (ability and success.) 6. I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7. Therefore, he that planted is nothing, (without charity,) nor he that watereth, in comparison of God, who giveth the increase (by his grace.) 8. But he that planteth, and he that watereth are one (in interest and affection,) and each shall receive his own (proper) reward, according to his labour. 9. For we are fellow-labourers for God, ye are the

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