as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

CHAP. XVI.

1 How to proceed for the relief of the brethren....13 Admonitions, 19 and salutations.

49 And as we have borne the the saints, as I have image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heaven-NOW concerning the collec

ly.

tion

50 Now this I say, breth-given order to the churches of ren, that flesh and blood cannot Galatia, even so do ye. inherit the kingdom of God; 2 Upon the first day of the neither doth corruption inherit week let every one of you lay incorruption. by him in store, as God hath

51 Behold, I shew you a prospered him, that there be no mystery; We shall not all sleep, gatherings when I come. but we shall all be chang- 3 And when I come, whomed, soever ye shall approve by your 52 In a moment, in the letters, them will I send to bring twinkling of an eye, at the last your liberality unto Jerusalem. trump: for the trumpet shall 4 And if it be meet that I go sound, and the dead shall be also, they shall go with me. raised incorruptible, and we 5 Now I will come unto you, shall be changed. when I shall pass through 53 For this corruptible must Macedonia: for I do pass through put on incorruption, and this Macedonia. mortal must put on immortali- 6 And it may be that I will ty. abide, yea, and winter with you, 54 So when this corruptible that ye may bring me on my shall have put on incorruption, journey whithersoever I go. and this mortal shall have put 7 For I will not see you now on immortality, then shall be by the way; but I trust to tarry brought to pass the saying that a while with you, if the Lord is written, Death is swallowed permit.

up in victory.

8 But I will tarry at Ephesus. 55 O death, where is thy until Pentecost. sting? O grave, where is thy 9 For a great door and effecvictory! tual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you 57 But thanks be to God, without fear; for he worketh which giveth us the victory, the work of the Lord, as I also through our Lord Jesus Christ. do.

58 Therefore, my beloved 11 Let no man therefore desbrethren, be ye steadfast, un-pise him: but conduct him forth moveable, always abounding in in peace, that he may come unthe work of the Lord, foras-to me: for I look for him with much as ye know that your the brethren.

labour is not in vain in the 12 As touching our brother Lord. Apollos, I greatly desired him to

come unto you with the breth- my spirit and yours: therefore ren: but his will was not at all acknowledge ye them that are to come at this time; but he such. will come when he shall have

convenient time.

19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscil13 Watch ye, stand fast in la salute you much in the Lord, the faith, quit you like men, be with the church that is in their house.

strong.

14 Let all your things be

done with charity.

20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with a

15 I beseech you, brethren, holy kiss.

(ye know the house of Stepha- 21 The salutation of me Paul nas, that it is the first-fruits of with mine own hand.

Achaia, and that they have ad- 22 If any man love not the dicted themselves to the minis- Lord Jesus Christ, let him be try of the saints,) Anathema, Maran-atha.

16 That ye submit yourselves 23 The grace of our Lord Jeunto such, and to every one that sus Christ be with you. helpeth with us, and laboureth.

24 My love be with you all in

17 I am glad of the coming Christ Jesus. Amen. of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, I and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part, they have supplied.

18 For they have refreshed

1

The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

I The Second Epistle of PAUL, the Apostle, to the

CHAP. I.

CORINTHIANS.

our tribulation, that we may be 3 The apostle encourageth against troubles, able to comfort them which are 12 sheweth the sincerity of his preaching, in any trouble by the comfort 15 and excuseth his not coming to them. wherewith we ourselves are

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus comforted of God.

6 And whether we be afflic

Christ by the will of God, 5 For as the sufferings of and Timothy our brother, unto Christ abound in us, so our the church of God which is at consolation also aboundeth by Corinth, with all the saints which Christ. are in all Achaia: 2 Grace be to you and peace ted, it is for your consolation from God our Father, and from and salvation, which is effectual the Lord Jesus Christ. in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

4 Who comforteth us in all 7 And our hope of you is

steadfast, knowing, that as ye Macedonia, and to come again are partakers of the sufferings, out of Macedonia unto you, and so shall ye be also of the conso- of you to be brought on my way lation. toward Judea.

8 For we would not, brethren, 17 When I therefore was have you ignorant of our trouble thus minded, did I use lightness? which came to us in Asia, that or the things that I purpose, do we were pressed out of meas- I purpose according to the flesh, ure, above strength, insomuch that with me there should be yea, that we despaired even of life: yea, and nay, nay?

9 But we had the sentence 18 But as God is true, our of death in ourselves, that we word toward you was not yea should not trust in ourselves, and nay. but in God which raiseth the 19 For the Son of God, Jedead: sus Christ, who was preached 10 Who delivered us from so among you by us, even by me, great a death, and doth deliver and Silvanus, and Timotheus, in whom we trust that he will was not yea and nay, but in yet deliver us: him was yea.

11 Ye also helping together 20 For all the promises of by prayer for us, that for the gift God in him are yea, and in him bestowed upon us by the means Amen, unto the glory of God of many persons, thanks may by us.

be given by many on our be- 21 Now he which establishhalf. eth us with you in Christ, and 12 For our rejoicing is this, hath anointed us, is God; the testimony of our conscience, 22 Who hath also sealed us, that in simplicity and godly and given the earnest of the sincerity, not with fleshly wis- Spirit in our hearts.

dom, but by the grace of God, we 23 Moreover, I call God for a have had our conversation in record upon my soul, that to the world, and more abundantly spare you I came not as yet unto you-ward. to Corinth.

13 For we write none other 24 Not for that we have dothings unto you, than what ye minion over your faith, but are read or acknowledge; and I helpers of your joy: for by faith trust ye shall acknowledge even ye stand.

to the end;

CHAP. II. 14 As also ye have acknowl-1 The reasons of Paul's not coming unto edged us in part, that we are them....6 of the excommunicated person. your rejoicing, even as ye_also UT I determined this with are ours in the day of the Lord myself, that I would not Jesus. come again to you in heaviness. 22 For if I make you sorry,

BUT

15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you who is he then that maketh me before, that ye might have a sec-glad, but the same which is ond benefit; made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this same unto

16 And to pass by you into

you, lest, when I came, I should 14 Now thanks be unto God, have sorrow from them of whom which always causeth us to triI ought to rejoice; having con- umph in Christ, and maketh fidence in you all, that my joy is manifest the savour of his the joy of you all. knowledge by us in us in every

4 For out of much affliction place. and anguish of heart I wrote un

15 For we are unto God a to you with many tears; not that sweet savour of Christ, in them ye should be grieved, but that ye that are saved, and in them that might know the love which I perish: have more abundantly unto 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death: and 5 But if any have caused grief, to the other the savour of life he hath not grieved me, but in unto life. And who is sufficient part that I may not overcharge for these things?

you.

you all.

17 For we are not as many, 6 Sufficient to such a man is which corrupt the word of God: this punishment, which was in- but as of sincerity, but as of God, flicted of many. in the sight of God speak we in

7 So that contrariwise, ye Christ. ought rather to forgive him, and

CHAP. III.

comfort him, lest perhaps such a He sheweth that their gifts and graces were one should be swallowed up a sufficient commendation of his miniswith overmuch sorrow.

try.

8 Wherefore I beseech you DO that ye would confirm your love toward him.

O we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of 9 For to this end also did I commendation to you, or letters write, that I might know the of commendation from you? proof of you, whether ye be 2 Ye are our epistle written in obedient in all things. our hearts, known and read of 10 To whom ye forgive any all men : thing, I forgive also: for if I for- 3 Forasmuch as ye are manigave any thing, to whom I for- festly declared to be the epistle gave it, for your sakes forgave I of Christ ministered by us, writit in the person of Christ; ten not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Furthermore, when I came 4 And such trust have we to Troas to preach Christ's gos-through Christ to God-ward: pel, and a door was opened un- 5 Not that we are sufficient to me of the Lord, of ourselves to think any thing 13 I had no rest in my spirit, as of ourselves; but our suffibecause I found not Titus my ciency is of God; brother: but taking my leave of 6 Who also hath made us able them, I went from thence into ministers of the new testament; Macedonia. not of the letter, but of the spirit:

for the letter killeth, but the 18 But we all, with open spirit giveth life. face beholding as in a glass the 7 But if the ministration of glory of the Lord, are changdeath, written and engraven in ed into the same image from stones, was glorious, so that the glory to glory, even as by the children of Israel could not stead- Spirit of the Lord. fastly behold the face of Moses

CHAP. IV. for the glory of his buntenance; 1 Paul's unwearied diligence and zeal in which glory was to be done preaching: 7 his troubles for the same. THEREFORE, seeing we 8 How shall not the ministra- have this ministry, as we tion of the Spirit be rather glo- have received mercy, we faint rious? not;

away:

9 For if the ministration of 2 But have renounced the condemnation be glory, much hidden things of dishonesty; more doth the ministration of not walking in craftiness, nor righteousness exceed in glory. handling the word of God de10 For even that which was ceitfully; but, by manifestation made glorious had no glory in of the truth, commending ourthis respect, by reason of the selves to every man's conscience glory that excelleth. in the sight of God.

ous.

11 For if that which is done! 3 But if our gospel be hid, it away was glorious, much more is hid to them that are lost. that which remaineth is glori- 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds 12 Seeing then that we have of them which believe not, lest such hope, we use great plain- the light of the glorious gospel ness of speech: of Christ, who is the image 13 And not as Moses, which of God, should shine unto put a vail over his face, that the them. children of Israel could not 5 For we preach not ourselves, steadfastly look to the end of but Christ Jesus the Lord; and that which is abolished: ourselves your servants for Jesus'

14 But their minds were sake. blinded for until this day re- 6 For God, who commandmaineth the same vail untaken ed the light to shine out of darkaway in the reading of the old ness, hath shined in our hearts, testament; which rail is done to give the light of the knowlaway in Christ. edge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ..

15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

7 But we have this treasure in earthern vessels, that the ex16 Nevertheless, when it shall cellency of the power may be turn to the Lord, the vail shall of God, and not of us. 8 We are troubled on every 17 Now the Lord is that side, yet not distressed; we are Spirit and where the Spirit of perplexed, but not in despair; the Lord is, there is liberty. 9 Persecuted, but not forsak

be taken away.