In what account the

n Is.28.16. Mat. 16. 18. Ep.2.20. 2Ti.2.19.

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious 4 is. stones, wood, hay, stubble;

13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall| declare it because it 4 shall be revealed by fire; and the fire o shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

oZec. 13.9. 1 Pe. 1.7. 4.12.

p Zec.3.2. Jude 23.

q 2Co.6.16.

ministers ought to be had. who e both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to my self and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. 7 For who 2 maketh thee to differ from another? and what ƒ hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not re

18 Let no man deceive himself. Ifr any man among you seemeth b Lu. 12.42. to be wise in this world, let him; become a fool, that he may be wise.

Tit.1.7.

1 Pe.4.10.

19 For the wisdom of this world 1 day. is foolishness with God: for it is, written, Hes taketh the wise in c Ps. 143.2. their own craftiness.

20 And again, The Lordt know- d Mat.7.1. eth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

21 Therefore let u no man glory in men: for all things are your's; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;

e Ro.2.16

Re.20.12.

2 distin

guisheth thee.

23 And ye v are Christ's; and fJa. 1. 17. Christ is God's. g Re.3.17.

CHAPTER IV.

1 How to account of Christ's minis- 3 or, the last ters. 8 To a self-sufficient vanity apostles. Paul opposeth his own afflicted h He. 10 33. state, etc. theatre.

ET a man so account of us, as of the ministers a of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

2 Moreover, it is required in stewards, b that a man be found faithful.

3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment; yea, I judge not mine own self.

i Ro.8.35.

k Ac.20.34. 1 Mat.5.44. Ac.7.60.

m La.3.45.

n 1Th.2.11.

o Ja.4, 15.

4 For I know nothing by myself: yet c am I not hereby justified: but p Ga.2.6. he that judgeth me is the Lord.

5 Therefore judged nothing before the time, until the Lord come,

q Ro. 14. 17.

8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich,g ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

forth us the 3 aposties last, as it were appointed to death: for we h are made a 4 spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

9 For I think that God hath set

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

11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, i and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

12 And labour, k working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring m of all things unto this day.

14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons n I warn you.

15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

16 Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you 19 But I will come to you shortly, if o the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but p the power.

20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Of the incestuous person.

1 Of the incestuous person. 6 Of necessity the old leaven must be purged out, etc.

T is reported commonly that there,

Issication among you, and

A. D. 59.

r 2Co. 13. 10.

(CHAP. 5.) a De.27.20. b2C0.7.7.

c Col.2.5.

1 or, determined.

such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that a d 2Co.2.9, 10. one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, b that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, as absent c in body, but present in spirit, have 1 judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed;

4 In the named of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit,with the power e of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliverf such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the g spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your gloryingh is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ k our passover is 2 sacrified for us :

8 Therefore let us keep the 3feast./ not with old leaven, neither with. the m leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle n not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye! needs go out of the world.

e Mat. 16. 19.

Jno.20.23. fTi. 1.20. g ch.11.32. h Ja.4.16.

Lu. 13.21.

k Is.53.7.
1 Pe. 1.19.
Re.5.6, 12.
2 or, slain.
3 or, holy-
day.

1 Ex. 13.6.
m Mat. 16.6,
12.

n Ep.5.11.
2Th.3.14.

o Ro. 16.17. 2Jno. 10.

p Mar.4.11. g Mat. 18.17.

(CHAP. 6.) a Da.7.22. Mat. 19.28.

Jude 14.15.

Re. 20.4. b Pr.20.22. Mat.5.39,40. R. 12. 17,19. 1Th.5.15. Th.4.6. Ga.5. 19-21. Ep.5.4.5. He.12.14,18.

d

13.4. Re.22.15.

e Ep.2.1,2. 5.8. Col.3.7. Tit.3.3-6.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if o any ƒ He. 10.22. man that is called a brother be a forg He.2.11. nicator, or covetous, or an idolater, Ro.8.30. or a railer, or a drunkard, or an ex- i or, profittortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

able. i ch.9.27.

20. Ro. 14.17.

Of going to law. before the unjust, and not before the saints?

2 Do ye not know that the saints a shall 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? how much more things that pertain to this life?

4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren ?

6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ve not rather take b wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

8 Nay, ye do wrong, and c defraud, and that your brethren.

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither d fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such e were some of you: but ye are washed,.f but ye are sanctified, g but ye are justified h in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the poweri of any.

13 Meats k for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: m and the Lord n for the body.

by his own power.

son.

CHAPTER VI.

10f bringing controversies before heathen judges. 7 How law suits may be avoided.

ARE any of you, having a mat

Dter against another, go to law

Th.4.3,7.

m Ro, 12.1. o R.6.5,8. n Ep.5.23.

p Ep.5.30. q Ge.2.24.

Mat. 19.5. r Juo. 17.21

Ep.4.4.

23.

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the meinbers p of Christ ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, q saith he, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is oner spirit.

Paul treats

of marriage. he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

s Pr.6.25-32.

7.24-27.

19 What! know ye not that your t t 2Co.6.16. body is the temple of the Holy u Ro. 14.7,8. Ghost which is in you, which yev Ac.20.28. have of God, and ye are not u your Own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify w God in your body, and in your spirit,which are God's.

CHAPTER VII.

1 Pe. 1. 18, 19. Re.5.9. w 1Pe.2.9. (CHAP. 7.) a Ex.21.10. 1 Pe.3.7.

b Joel.2.16.

c 1Tb.3.5.

1 The use of marriage: 10 Christ hath forbidden to dissolve the bond thereof, etc. TOW concerning the things d Mat. 19.11, whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a wo

N

man.

12.

e 1Ti.5.14.

16. Mat. 19.6,9.

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornica-f Mal.2.14tion, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

3 Let the a husband render unto the wife due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now h are they holy.

15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath calledi us 1 to peace.

16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save k thy husband or 2 how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And m so ordain I in all churches. 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision?n let him not be circum

h Mal.2.15.

4 The wife hath not power of her i Ro. 12. 18. own body, but the husband and 14.19. likewise also the husband hath not! He.12.14. power of his own body, but the 1 in. wife.

ver.20-24.

5 Defraud ye not one the other, k 1Pe.3.1,2. except it be b with consent for a 2 what. time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that c Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

m ch.4.17. 2Co. 11.28.

19 Circumcision o is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping p of the commandments of God.

20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? carer not for it but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is s the Lord's 3 free-man likewise also he that is called, being free, is t Christ's ser

vant.

23 Ye are bought u with a price;

27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

28 But and if thou marry, thou z hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh but I spare you.

29 But this I say, brethren, the time a is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that re

Of meats offered to idols.

joice, as though they rejoiced not; A. D. 59. and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion b of this world passeth away. 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried c careth for the things 5 that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord :

33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married d careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

b Ps.39.6. Ja.4.14. 1 Pe.4.7. 1Jno.2.17. c 1Ti.5.5. of the Lord,

as ver.34.

d Lu. 10.4042.

e ver.28.

f Ro.7.2.
g 2Co.6.14.

h ver.25.

i 2Pe.3.15. (CHAP. 8.) a Ac. 15. 10,

19.

b Ro. 14. 14,22.

35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare c Is.47.10. upon you, but for that which is d ch. XIII. comely, and that ye may attend e Ro.11.25. upon the Lord without distraction. Ga.6.3. 36 But if any man think that he: ITI.6.3,4. behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not let them marry.

f Na.1.7.

2Ti.2.19.

8 Is.41.24.

i

37 Nevertheless he that standeth h De.4.39. steadfast in his heart, having no ne- Is.44.8,24. cessity, but hath power over his Jno. 10.34. own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his vir-k Mal.2.10. gin, doeth well. Ep.4.6.

38 So then, e he that giveth her in 1 or, for. marriage doeth well; but he that 1 Jno. 1.3. giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

39 The wife f is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only g in the Lord.

40 But she is happier if she so abide, after h my judgment: and I think i also that I have the Spirit of God.

CHAPTER VIII.

He.1.2. m Ro.14.17. 2 or, have we

the more.

3 or, have we the less.

4 or, power. n Ro.14.13,

20.

Ga.5. 13.

1 Charity preferable to knowledge. 45 edified. An idol is nothing to those who rightly know God.

NOW as touching things offered a

unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge.b Knowledge c puffeth up, but charity d edifieth. 2 And if e any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if any man love God, the same is known ƒ of him.

o Mat.25.40,

p ch.9.22.

45.

(CHAP. 9.) a Ac.9.3.17. b ch.4.15. 1 or, woman. c 2Th.3.8,9.

d 1Ti.1.18.

Pr.27.18.

4 As concerning therefore the eat-e De.20.6. ing of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know if 1Pe.5.2. that an idolg is nothing in the

IX. Paul showeth his liberty. world, and that there is none other h God but one.

5 For though there be that are i called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

6 But to us k there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some, with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

8 But meat m commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, 2 are we the better: neither, if we eat not, 3 are we the worse.

9 But take heed lest by any means this 4 liberty n of your's become a stumbling-block to them that are

weak.

10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be 5 emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

12 But o when ye sin so against the brethren,and wound their weak conscience ye sin against Christ.

13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest p I make my brother to offend.

CHAPTER IX.

1 Paul asserteth his apostolical character, 3 and right to a maintenance: 24 he striveth to obtain an incorruptible crown.

not apostle? am

free have I not seen a Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work b in the Lord?

2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this;

4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?

5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a 1 wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we c power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare d any time at his own charges? who planteth e a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth f