or of wisdom;

2 for, I determined not to know any thing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified :

3 and I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling:

4 and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit and of power; 5 that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

6 Nevertheless, we speak wisdom, among them that are perfect; not indeed the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought:

7 but, we speak the wisdom of God which hath been hidden in mystery; which wisdom God ordained, before the world, for our glory:

8 (which none of the rulers of this world knew, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of

even the depths of God.

11 For, what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of the man which is in him? so, also, no one knoweth the things of God, but the Spirit of God:

12 but we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we may know the things that are bestowed on us by God:

13 which things we also declare, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But, the animal man apprehendeth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they must be spiritually discerned :

15 but, he that is spiritual discerneth them all, though he himself is discerned by

no one:

16 for," who hath known Is. xl. 13. "the mind of the Lord, that

we have the mind of the Lord.

CHAPTER III.

NEVERTHELESS, bre

thren, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual

Rom. xi. 33.

persons, but only as to carnal; as to infants in Christ.

and

2 I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for ye were not able to receive it; neither are ye even now able, for ye are yet carnal:

3 for, while jealousy, and strife, and division, are among you, are ye not carnal, and walk according to men?

4 for, when one saith, I am of Paul, but another, I am of Apollos; are ye not walking as men?

5 What, then, is Apollos, and what is Paul? but ministers through whom ye believed, and, as the Lord assigned to each of us:

6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase:

7 so that, neither he that planteth, nor he that watereth, is any thing, but God only who giveth the increase:

8 both he that planteth, and he that watereth, are as one: and each will receive his own reward, according to his own labour:

9 for, we are only joint-labourers of God; ye, are God's soil, God's building.

10 As a skilful architect, according to the grace of God given to me, I laid a foundation; and another buildeth upon it:

11 but, let each of us take care how he buildeth upon it; for,

other foundation no one can lay than that which is laid, Matt. xvi. 14

which is, that Jesus is Christ: Acts, .;

12 and, if either of us build on this foundation, gold, and silver, and precious stones, or wood, hay, and stubble; the work of each will be made manifest: 13 for, the day will expose it, because it will be revealed as by fire; and the fire will prove

of what quality the work of each is:

14 if the work of either remain, which he hath built thereon, he will receive a reward:

15 if the work of either be consumed, he will suffer the loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as by fire.

and v. 43.

16 Know ye not, that ye are a sanctuary of God, and that c. vi. 21. the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

17 if any one defile the sanctuary of God, him God will destroy; for, the sanctuary of God is holy, which sanctuary

ye are.

18 Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you esteemeth himself to be wise c. viii. 3. in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise;

19 for, the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, "He taketh Job, v. 13 "the wise by their own crafti"ness :"

LET every man, therefore,

account us only as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God:

2 in all other things, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful;

3 yet, it is of the very least concern to me, that I should be judged by you, or by any human judgment; yea, I judge not myself:

4 for, though I am conscious in myself of nothing, yet I am not thereby justified; but, he who must judge me, is the Lord.

5 Judge nothing, therefore, before the time; until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then, each will have his praise from God.

6 And these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos, for your c. iii. 5-15. sakes; that, by us, ye may learn, not to think above that which is written; that none of you be elated for the one, against the other:

7 for, who distinguisheth thee? and what hast thou, that thou hast not received? but, if thou hast received it, why gloriest thou, as if thou hadst not received it?

8 are ye already full? are ye already rich? have ye reigned as kings without us? truly, I would ye did reign, that we also might reign with you:

9 for, I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle, both to the world, to angels, and to men:

10 we are made fools for Christ's sake, but ye are made wise in Christ; we are made weak, but ye are made strong; ye are made honourable, but we are despised:

11 to the present hour, we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; Matt. viii. 20. and labour, working with our own hands:

12 when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure: when defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the

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, be ye imitators of me.

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?

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 without?

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.

Do

CHAPTER VI.

OTH 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: