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I recommend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the church at Cenchrea; that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatever business she have need of you; for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. Greet

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Apelles approved in Christ. Greet those who are of 11 Aristobulus's household. Greet Herodion my kinsman.

Greet those of the household of Narcissus, that are in 12 the Lord. Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour

in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who laboured 13 much in the Lord. Greet Rufus the chosen in the Lord, 14 and his mother and mine. Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon,

Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are 15 with them. Greet Philologus, and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

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our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by good words 19 and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; and I would have you wise 20 unto what is good, and harmless unto evil. And the God of peace will bruise Satan under your feet shortly. -The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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Timothy my workfellow, and Lucius and Jason and 22 Sosipater, my kinsmen, greet you. I Tertius, who wrote 23 this epistle, greet you in the Lord. Gaius the host of

myself and of the whole church greeteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city greeteth you, and Quartus, a brother.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all;

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The First Epistle of PAUL to the CORINTHIANS. PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, chosen to be saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours; grace be unto you, and peace, from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you in Christ Jesus; that in everything ye are enriched in him, in all words and in all knowledge, (as the witnessing of the Christ was confirmed among you;) so that ye are wanting in no gift, waiting for the revelation of Jesus Christ our Lord; who also will confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord 10 Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, 11 by them that are of the house of Chloë, that there are contentions among you. And this I say, because each 12 of you saith; I am of Paul;' and, I of Apollos;' and, 'I of Cephas;' and, 'I of Christ.' Is the Christ divided? 13 was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you 14 but Crispus and Gaius; so that no one can say that I 15 baptized into my own name. And I baptized also the 16 household of Stephanas; for the rest, I know not whether I baptized any other. For Christ sent me forth, not to 17 baptize, but to preach the Good Tidings; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of the Christ be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that are perishing, foolishness, but to us that are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written; I will destroy the 19 wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the prudence of the prudent. Where is the wise? where the scribe? 20

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271 where the disputer of this age? hath not God made foolish 21 the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of the preaching to save them that be22 lieve. And while the Jews ask for signs, and the Greeks 23 seek after wisdom, we indeed preach a crucified Christ,

to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Gen24 tiles foolishness; but to them who are chosen both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom 25 of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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spised, hath God chosen, and the things that are not, 29 that he might bring to nought the things that are; so 30 that no flesh may boast in the sight of God. But of him ye are in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and re31 demption; that, as it is written, He that boasteth let him boast in the Lord.

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any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him cruci3 fied. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and 4 in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching

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for them that love him. But to us God hath revealed 10 them by his spirit; for the spirit searcheth all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knoweth the 11 things of man, save the spirit of the man which is within him? Even so no one knoweth the things of God, save the spirit of God. Now we have received not the 12 spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are given to us by God. Which also we speak, in words not taught by 13 man's wisdom, but taught by the spirit; interpreting spiritual things by spiritual. And the animal man re- 14 ceiveth not the things of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; for they are judged of spiritually. But he that is spiritual judgeth 15 all things, yet is himself judged by no one. For who hath 16 known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? And we have the mind of Christ.

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