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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE
CORINTHIANS.

CHAP. I.

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Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all
speak the same thing, and that
there be no divisions among
you; but that ye be perfectly
joined together in the
mind, and in the same judg-
ment. 11 For it hath been de-
clared to me, concerning you,
my brethren, by those who are
of the household of Chloe, that
there are contentions among

1 PAUL, [called] an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2 to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified through Christ Jesus, called saints, and to all who in every place are called by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord, and ours: 3 favour be to you, and | you. peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I THANK my God always, on your account, for his favour, which is given you through Jesus Christ: 5 for ye have been enriched by him in every thing, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 6 (according as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed among you :) 7 so that ye are inferior in no gift; looking for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also establish you irreproachable to the end, even in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom ye have been called into a fellowship with his son Jesus Christ, our Lord.

10 NOW I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our

12 Now I mean this; (since every one 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 that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius: 15 so that no one can say that I baptized into mine own name. 16 Now I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not that I baptized any other.

17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gos pel; though not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is, to those who are lost, foolishness; but, to us,

Gr. Cephas, i. e. Peter.

who are saved, it is the power | things which are not, to bring

to nought the things which are: 29 so that no one should boast in the presence of God.*

›f God. 19 For it is written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of hose who are wise, and will bring to nothing the knowledge 30 Now of him ye are in Christ of those who are knowing." 20 Jesus, who hath been made to us Where is the wise? where is wisdom from God, even justihe scribe? where is the dis-fication, and sanctification, and puter of this age? hath not God redemption: 31 so that, as it made foolish the wisdom of is written, "He who boasteth, this world? 21 For since in let him boast in the Lord." the wisdom of God, the world hrough its wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God to save, hrough the foolishness of preaching, those who believe.

22 For the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 but we preach | Christ crucified; to the Jews i stumbling-block, and to the gentiles foolishness; 24 but to hose who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26 For ye see, brethren, those of you who are called; that not many of you are wise men, according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble: 27 but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to shame those who are wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world, and the things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, [and] the

CH. II. 1 NOW I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech, nor of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. 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 much fear and trembling. 4 And my speech, and my preaching, were with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit, and power: 5 that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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6 HOWEVER, we speak wis-dom among those who are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the princes of this age, who will come to nought: 7 but we speak of divine wisdom which was hidden in a mystery, which God predetermined before the ages, for our glory: 8 which none of the princes of this age knew ; (for, if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory :) 9 but as it

"And ignoble and despised persons, and even gentiles, regarded by the Jews as nothing, [Deut. xxxii. 21; 1 Pet. ii. 10.] to substitute them in the place of the people of God." Newcome.

is written, "Things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, God hath prepared for those who love him." 10 But God hath revealed them to us through [his] spirit: for the spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

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11 For what man knoweth 5 WHO then is Paul, and the things of a man, but the who is Apollos? Ministers by spirit of a man, which is in him? whom ye have believed, even as In like manner also, no one the Lord hath given to each of knoweth the things of God, but us. 6 I planted; Apollos waterthe spirit of God. 12 Now we ed; but God gave the increase have not received the spirit of 7 So that, neither is he who the world, but the spirit which planteth, any thing, nor he who is from God; that we may know watereth; but God who giveth the things which have been the increase. 8 Now he who freely given to us of God: 13 planteth, and he who watereth, which things we speak also, not are one; and each will receive in the words which man's wis-his own reward, according to dom teacheth, but which the his own labour. 9 For we are spirit teacheth; comparing spi-workers together with God: ye ritual things with spiritual. are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

14 Now an animal man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for to him they are foolishness; nor can he know them, because they are to be spiritually examined. 15 But the spiritual man examineth, [indeed,] all things; yet he himself is examined by no one. 16 For who knoweth the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?* But we have the mind of Christ.

10 According to the favour of God, which hath been given to me, I laid the foundation, as a wise master-builder: and another buildeth thereon. But let every one take heed how he buildeth thereon; 11 for no other foundation can any one lay, than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 But if any one build upon [this] foundation, gold, silver, CH. III. 1 NOW I, breth-precious stones, wood, hay, ren, could not speak to you as to spiritual; but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat: for ye were not then able to bear it, nor indeed are ye now able;

stubble, 13 every one's work will be manifest: for the day will show it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every one's work, of what kind it is. 14 If the work * i. e. the spiritual man.

f any one which he hath built by human inquiry; because I hereon, remaineth, he will re-do not condemn myself; 4 (for eive a reward. 15 If the work I am conscious to myself of f any one be burnt, he will nothing evil; yet I am not hereaffer loss himself, however, by justified;) but he that judgeth hall be saved; yet SO as rough a fire.

16 Know ye not, that ye are he temple of God; and that he spirit of God dwelleth in ou? 17 If any one corrupt he temple of God, God will orrupt him for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye

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

and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? But if thou didst only receive it, why dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received it?

6 NOW these things, breth18 Let no one deceive him-ren, I have transferred to myelf. If any among you seem to self, and to Apollos, for your e wise in this age, let him | sakes; that ye may learn in us ecome a fool, that he may be-not to think of men above that come wise. 19 For the wisdom which is here written; that no of this world is foolishness with one of you be puffed up in beGod. For it is written, "He half of one another. 7 For who aketh the wise in their own maketh thee to differ from ancraftiness.” 20 And again, "The other? Lord knoweth the reasonings of he wise, that they are vain." | 21 Let no one, therefore, Doast in men: for all things are yours: 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas,* or the world, or life, or death, or hings present, or things to come; all things [are] yours: 23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. CH. IV. 1 So then, let a man death; for we have been made consider us, only as servants a spectacle to the world, both of Christ, and stewards of the to angels and to men. 10 We mysteries of God. 2 Now it is are fools for the sake of Christ, required in stewards that they but ye are wise in Christ; we be found faithful. 3 But with are weak, but ye are strong; me it is a very small thing that ye are honourable, but we are I should be judged by you, or disgraced.

* i. e. Peter.

8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think [that] God hath brought forth apostles, last,t as devoted to

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"Alluding to those last exposed on the theatre, to fight with wild beasts, or with each other; and who were devoted to certain destruction. Or, we may render, hath appointed us apostles the lowest of men, and as devoted to death." Newcome.

11 To this present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are beaten, and have no certain abode; 12 and labour, working with our own hands being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we bear it; 13 being evil spoken of, we exhort: we are made as the vilest of the world, as the offscouring of all things, until now. 14 I write not these things to shame you; but I admonish you as my beloved children.

15 For if ye have ten thousand guides in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers: for I am your father in Christ Jesus, by preaching to you the gospel. 16 Wherefore I exhort you, be ye imitators of me. 17 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 which are in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. 18 But some have been puffed up, as though I would not come to you. 19 But I will come to you, shortly, if the Lord be willing; and I will know, not the speech of those who are puffed up, but their power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

21 What will ye? that I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness. CH. V. 1 FORNICATION is

certainly heard of among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And are ye puffed up? and have ye not rather mourned? so that he who hath wrought out this work might be taken away from among you.

3 For I truly, [as] absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him who hath done this; 4 that, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, (when ye and I, are gathered together, in spirit,) with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 ye deliver such an one to the adversary,* for the sufferingt of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Take away thoroughly the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, inasmuch as ye are unleavened: for even our passover, Christ, hath been slain [for us]. 8 Let us therefore keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and maliciousness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I have written to you, in this epistle, not to associate with fornicators: 10 [yet] not wholly with the fornicators, or

* q. d. Disown him as a christian brother. Expel him from the community of believers. Let him be regarded as a heathen: no longer a subject to Christ, but a vassal of his own vile appetites and passions, which destroy the mind and render a man a pest to society. To deliver one over in this solemn manner, is done as a last remedy, to make him ashamedof his vices, and, if possible, to bring him to sincere repentance.

Gr. 0x0gov violent death, destruction, or ruin of one.

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