world, as the offscouring of all things, unto this day.

13 I write not these things to reproach you; but, as my beloved sons, I admonish you:

14 for, though ye had ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye would not have many fathers; for, I have begotten you in Christ, through the gospel :

15 I beseech you, therefore, imitators of me.

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ye 16 For this cause I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord; who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach every where, in every church.

17 But, some are elated, as if I should not come to you:

18 yet I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I shall then ascertain, not the speech only, but also the power of them who are so elated:

19 for, the kingdom of God consisteth not in speech, but in power.

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

CHAPTER V.

T is commonly reported, that there is fornication among you, and such a fornication as is not known even among the Gentiles; that one of you hath his father's wife:

2 yet ye are elated, and have not rather mourned; that he who hath done this deed, might be taken away from among you.

3 But I, though absent indeed in body, yet present in spirit, have already thus judged, as if I were present, concerning him who hath so done this deed:

4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, (when yourselves and my spirit are assembled, with the power of our Lord Jesus,)

5 to deliver such an one to Satan, for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

6 Your glorying is not right: know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole heap? 7 purge out, therefore, the former leaven, that ye may be a new heap, according as ye are unleavened:

8 for, Christ our passover is sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast:

9 not with the former leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but, with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

10 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators;

11 not altogether with the fornicators, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters

of this world; for then, indeed, ye must go out of the world: 12 but I now write to you, not to keep company with any one who is called a brother, if he be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one not even to eat :

13 for, what have I to do with judging those that are with

out?

14 do not ye judge them that are within; and God judge them that are without?

15 Put ye away that wicked person, from among you.

CHAPTER VI.

DOTH any one of you, who

hath a matter against another, dare to seek judgment from the unjust, and not from the saints?

2 know ye not, that the saints will judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

3 know ye not, that we shall judge angels? and shall we not, then, judge the things that pertain to this life?

4 if, then, ye may hold judgments of things pertaining to this life, do ye set those to judge you, who are of no esteem in the church? I speak it to your reproach:

5 are ye so entirely without one among you, wise enough to be able to decide between his brethren? but, brother seeketh judgment against brother, and that from the unbelievers?

6 Now, it is altogether a fault among you, that ye seek any judgments one against another: 7 why do ye not rather submit to be injured? why do ye not rather submit to be defrauded?

8 nay, ye yourselves injure and defraud, and that your brethren:

9 know ye not, that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God?

10 Be not deceived: neither

fornicators, nor idolaters, nor

adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

11 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God:

12 and such were some of you; but, ye are washed, yea, ye are sanctified, yea, ye are justified, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.

13 Though all things be lawful to me, yet all are not ex- c. x. 23. pedient: though all things be lawful to me, yet I will not be brought under the power of

any:

14 though food is for the belly, and the belly for food; God will destroy both it and them:

15 but, the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body: and, as God hath raised the Lord, so also will he raise us, by his power.

16 Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ?

17 shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot? God forbid!

18 or, know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot, is one body with her? for "The "two," saith he, "shall be as one flesh."

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19 but, he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit with him. 20 Flee fornication: every other sin that a man doth, is without the body; but, he who committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body:

21 or, know ye not, that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit that is within you, and that ye are not your own? for, ye have been bought with a price:

22 glorify God, therefore, in your body.

CHAPTER VII.

AND, as to those things concerning which ye wrote:

It is good, that a man should not touch a woman:

2 nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to the wife her due; and so also the wife, to the husband:

4 the wife hath not authority over her own body, but the husband; and likewise also, the husband hath not authority over his own body, but the wife:

5 deprive not one the other, unless it be with consent, for a season, that ye may have leisure for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you by incontinency.

6 But this I say as a permission, not as a command; for I would, that all men were even as I am myself:

7 but, each hath his own gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that: 8 I say, therefore, to the unmarried, and to the widows, It will be good for them, if they continue even as I am;

9 but, if they cannot contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

10 And to the married I enjoin, yet not I only, but also the Lord, That a wife depart not from her husband;

11 but if she depart, let her

either remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not a husband put away his wife.

12 But, as to the rest, I speak, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away; 13 and the woman who hath an husband that believeth not, if he also be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband:

14 for, the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband who is a brother otherwise, truly, your children would be unclean; but now they are holy. 15 But, if the unbelieving husband or wife depart, let him depart a brother, or a sister, is not under bondage in such cases; and God hath called us

to peace:

16 for, how knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?

17 Only, as the Lord hath apportioned to each, as God hath called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the churches:

18 Hath any one been called, being circumcised? let him not seek to become uncircumcised: hath any one been called in

uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised:

19 circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but, keeping the commandments of God is every thing. 1 Sam. xv. 22. 20 Let each continue in the calling, in which he is called: 21 art thou called, being a servant? care not for it: but yet, if thou canst become free, use it rather:

22 for, the servant that is called by the Lord, is the Lord's freed-man; and, the free-man that is called, is Christ's ser

vant.

23 Ye have been bought with c. vi. 21. a price; become not servants of men :

24 Brethren, in whatever condition each is called, in that let him continue with God.

25 But, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; yet I give my opinion, as one who hath been accounted by the Lord, to be faithful:

26 I think, therefore, this is good, on account of the present distress; that it is good, for a man to be thus:

27 art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife:

28 but yet, if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such will

have trouble in the flesh; and I would spare you.

29 But this I say, brethren, that the time is short:

30 it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as if they had them not; and they that weep, as if they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not;

31 and they that buy, as if they possessed not; and they that use the world, as not misusing it:

32 for, the fashion of this world passeth away; and I wish you to be without cares:

33 he who is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but, he who is married, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

34 And there is difference, also, in the woman:

35 both the unmarried woman, and the virgin, careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit; but, she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband:

36 and I say this, for your benefit; not that I may lay a snare for you, but with respect to that which is decorous, and which may enable you to attend on the Lord, without distraction.

37 Yet, if any one think that he behaveth unduly to his betrothed virgin, and not as ought to be done, if she pass the flower of her age, let him do what he will, he sinneth not; let them marry :

38 nevertheless, he who standeth firm in his heart, having

no necessity; and who hath
power over
his own will,
and hath so determined in
his heart, to keep his be-
trothed a virgin, will do well:

39 so that, he who taketh his virgin in marriage, will do well; but he who taketh her not in marriage, will do better.

40 The wife is bound, so long Rom. vii. 2. as her husband liveth; but, if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only let it be in the Lord:

41 but, she is happier if she so continue, according to my judgment: for I think, that I also have the Spirit of God.

CHAPTER VIII.

NOW concerning idol-sacri

fices, We know indeed, that we all have knowledge; 2 yet, knowledge alone puffeth up, but love buildeth up:

3 if any one thinketh that he hath known any thing, he c. iii. 18.