THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS

         St. Paul, having planted the faithful in Corinth, where he
         had preached a year and a half and converted a great many,
         went to Ephesus. After being there three years, he wrote
         this first Epistle to the Corinthians and sent it by the
         same persons, Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achaicus, who had
         brought their letter to him. It was written about
         twenty-four years after our Lord's Ascension and contains
         several matters appertaining to faith and morals and also
         to ecclesiastical discipline.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 1

         He reproveth their dissensions about their teachers. The
         world was to be saved by preaching of the cross, and not by
         human wisdom or eloquence.

         1:1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
         will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,

         1:2. To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that
         are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with
         all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every
         place of theirs and ours.

         1:3. Grace to you and peace, from God our father and from
         the Lord Jesus Christ.

         1:4. I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace
         of God that is given you in Christ Jesus:

         1:5. That in all things you are made rich in him, in all
         utterance and in all knowledge;

         1:6. As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

         1:7. So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace,
         waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

         1:8. Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime,
         in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

         1:9. God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the
         fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

         1:10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord
         Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that
         there be no schisms among you: but that you be perfect in
         the same mind and in the same judgment.

         1:11. For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of
         you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are
         contentions among you.

         1:12. Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed
         am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of
         Christ.

         1:13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you?
         Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

         1:14. I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but
         Crispus and Caius:

         1:15. Lest any should say that you were baptized in my
         name.

         1:16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanus.
         Besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

         1:17. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the
         gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ
         should be made void.

         1:18. For the word of the cross, to them indeed that
         perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that
         is, to us, it is the power of God.

         1:19. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the
         wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject.

         1:20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the
         disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the
         wisdom of this world?

         1:21. For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by
         wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of
         our preaching, to save them that believe.

         1:22. For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek
         after wisdom.

         1:23. But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed
         a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:

         1:24. But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks,
         Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

         1:25. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the
         weakness of God is stronger than men.

         The foolishness, etc... That is to say, what appears
         foolish to the world in the ways of God, is indeed most
         wise; and what appears weak is indeed above all the
         strength and comprehension of man.

         1:26. For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not
         many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many
         noble.

         1:27. But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen,
         that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the
         world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.

         1:28. And the base things of the world and the things that
         are contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not,
         that he might bring to nought things that are:

         1:29. That no flesh should glory in his sight.

         1:30. But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is
         made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and
         redemption:

         1:31. That, as it is written: He that glorieth may glory in
         the Lord.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 2

         His preaching was not in loftiness of words, but in spirit
         and power. And the wisdom he taught was not to be
         understood by the worldly wise or sensual man, but only by
         the spiritual man.

         2:1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in
         loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the
         testimony of Christ.

         2:2. For I judged not myself to know anything among you,
         but Jesus Christ: and him crucified.

         2:3. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much
         trembling.

         2:4. And my speech and my preaching was not in the
         persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the
         Spirit and power:

         2:5. That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men,
         but on the power of God.

         2:6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the
         wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world
         that come to nought.

         2:7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom
         which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto
         our glory:

         2:8. Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if
         they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord
         of glory.

         2:9. But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear
         heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what
         things God hath prepared for them that love him.

         2:10. But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For
         the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
         God.

         2:11. For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the
         spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are
         of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

         2:12. Now, we have received not the spirit of this world,
         but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things
         that are given us from God.

         2:13. Which things also we speak: not in the learned words
         of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit,
         comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

         2:14. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that
         are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and
         he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

         The sensual man - the spiritual man... The sensual man is
         either he who is taken up with sensual pleasures, with
         carnal and worldly affections; or he who measureth divine
         mysteries by natural reason, sense, and human wisdom only.
         Now such a man has little or no notion of the things of
         God. Whereas the spiritual man is he who, in the mysteries
         of religion, takes not human sense for his guide: but
         submits his judgment to the decisions of the church, which
         he is commanded to hear and obey. For Christ hath promised
         to remain to the end of the world with his church, and to
         direct her in all things by the Spirit of truth.

         2:15. But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he
         himself is judged of no man.

         2:16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may
         instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 3

         They must not contend about their teachers, who are but
         God's ministers and accountable to him. Their works shall
         be tried by fire.

         3:1. And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto
         spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in
         Christ.

         3:2. I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not
         able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you
         are yet carnal.

         3:3. For, whereas there is among you envying and
         contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according
         to man?

         3:4. For while one saith: I indeed am of Paul: and
         another: I am of Apollo: are you not men? What then is
         Apollo and what is Paul?

         3:5. The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to
         every one as the Lord hath given.

         3:6. I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the
         increase.

         3:7. Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor
         he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

         3:8. Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one.
         And every man shall receive his own reward, according to
         his own labour.

         3:9. For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry:
         you are God's building.

         3:10. According to the grace of God that is given to me, as
         a wise architect, I have laid the foundation: and another
         buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he
         buildeth thereupon.

         3:11. For other foundation no man can lay, but that which
         is laid: which is Christ Jesus.

         3:12. Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold,
         silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

         Upon this foundation... The foundation is Christ and his
         doctrine: or the true faith in him, working through
         charity. The building upon this foundation gold, silver,
         and precious stones, signifies the more perfect preaching
         and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and stubble,
         such preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who
         affected the pomp of words and human eloquence) and such
         practice as is mixed with much imperfection, and many
         lesser sins. Now the day of the Lord, and his fiery trial,
         (in the particular judgment immediately after death,) shall
         make manifest of what sort every man's work has been: of
         which, during this life, it is hard to make a judgment. For
         then the fire of God's judgment shall try every man's work.
         And they, whose works, like wood, hay, and stubble, cannot
         abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works being found
         to be of no value; yet they themselves, having built upon
         the right foundation, (by living and dying in the true
         faith and in the state of grace, though with some
         imperfection,) shall be saved yet so as by fire; being
         liable to this punishment, by reason of the wood, hay, and
         stubble, which was mixed with their building.

         3:13. Every man's work shall be manifest. For the day of
         the Lord shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in
         fire. And the fire shall try every man's work, of what sort
         it is.

         3:14. If any man's work abide, which he hath built
         thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

         3:15. If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he
         himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

         3:16. Know you not that you are the temple of God and that
         the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

         3:17. But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall
         God destroy.  For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

         3:18. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem
         to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he
         may be wise.

         3:19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
         For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own
         craftiness.

         3:20. And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise,
         that they are vain.

         3:21. Let no man therefore glory in men.

         3:22. For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or
         Apollo or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or
         things present, or things to come. For all are yours.

         3:23. And you are Christ's. And Christ is God's.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 4

         God's ministers are not to be judged. He reprehends their
         boasting of their preachers and describes the treatment the
         apostles every where met with.

         4:1. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of
         Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.

         4:2. Here now it is required among the dispensers that a
         man be found faithful.

         4:3. But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by
         you or by man's day. But neither do I judge my own self.

         4:4. For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am
         I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

         4:5. Therefore, judge not 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 shall every man have praise from God.

         4:6. But these things, brethren, I have in a figure
         transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that
         in us you may learn that one be not puffed up against the
         other for another, above that which is written.

         4:7. For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that
         thou hast not received, and if thou hast received, why dost
         thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

         4:8. You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign
         without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also
         might reign with you.

         4:9. For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the
         last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a
         spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

         4:10. We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in
         Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are
         honourable, but we without honour.

         4:11. Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are
         naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.

         4:12. And we labour, working with our own hands. We are
         reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.

         4:13. We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the
         refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until
         now.

         4:14. I write not these things to confound you: but I
         admonish you as my dearest children.

         4:15. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ,
         yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I
         have begotten you.

         4:16. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I
         also am of Christ.

         4:17. For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my
         dearest son and faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in
         mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus: as I teach
         every where in every church.

         4:18. As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

         4:19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and
         will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but
         the power.

         4:20. For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in
         power.

         4:21. What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in
         charity and in the spirit of meekness?

         1 Corinthians Chapter 5

         He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer and admonishes
         them to purge out the old leaven.

         5:1. It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among
         you and such fornication as the like is not among the
         heathens: that one should have his father's wife.

         5:2. And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned:
         that he might be taken away from among you that hath done
         this thing.

         5:3. I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have
         already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so
         done,

         5:4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being
         gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord
         Jesus:

         5:5. To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of
         the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our
         Lord Jesus Christ.

         5:6. Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little
         leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

         5:7. Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste,
         as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

         5:8. Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor
         with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the
         unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

         9. I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with
         fornicators.

         5:10. I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with
         the covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols:
         otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

         5:11. But now I have written to you, not to keep company,
         if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or
         covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or
         an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

         5:12. For what have I to do to judge them that are without?
         Do not you judge them that are within?

         5:13. For them that are without, God will judge. Put away
         the evil one from among yourselves.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 6

         He blames them for going to law before unbelievers. Of sins
         that exclude from the kingdom of heaven. The evil of
         fornication.

         6:1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go
         to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?

         6:2. Know you not that the saints shall judge this world?
         And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy
         to judge the smallest matters?

         6:3. Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more
         things of this world?

         6:4. If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining
         to this world, set them to judge who are the most despised
         in the church.

         6:5. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not
         among you any one wise man that is able to judge between
         his brethren?

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

         6:7. Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you,
         that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not
         rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves
         to be defrauded?

         A fault... Lawsuits can hardly ever be without a fault, on
         the one side or the other; and oftentimes on both sides.

         6:8. But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your
         brethren.

         6:9. Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the
         kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor
         idolaters nor adulterers:

         6:10. Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves
         nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners
         shall possess the kingdom of God.

         6:11. And such some of you were. But you are washed: but
         you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of
         our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God.

         6:12. All things are lawful to me: but all things are not
         expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be
         brought under the power of any.

         All things are lawful, etc... That is, all indifferent
         things are indeed lawful, inasmuch as they are not
         prohibited; but oftentimes they are not expedient; as in
         the case of lawsuits, etc. And much less would it be
         expedient to be enslaved by an irregular affection to any
         thing, how indifferent soever.

         6:13. Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but
         God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for
         fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

         6:14. Now God hath raised up the Lord and will raise us up
         also by his power.

         6:15. Know you not that your bodies are the members of
         Christ?  Shall I then take the members of Christ and make
         them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

         6:16. Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is
         made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one
         flesh.

         6:17. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

         6:18. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without
         the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth
         against his own body.

         6:19. Or know you not that your members are the temple of
         the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and
         you are not your own?

         6:20. For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and
         bear God in your body.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 7

         Lessons relating to marriage and celibacy. Virginity is
         preferable to a married state.

         7:1. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It
         is good for a man not to touch a woman.

         7:2. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his
         own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

         Have his own wife... That is, keep to his wife, which he
         hath.  His meaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry:
         on the contrary, he would have them rather continue as they
         are, (Ver.  7:8.) But he speaks here to them that are
         already married; who must not depart from one another, but
         live together as they ought to do in the marriage state.

         7:3. Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the
         wife also in like manner to the husband.

         7:4. The wife hath not power of her own body: but the
         husband.  And in like manner the husband also hath not
         power of his own body: but the wife.

         7:5. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent,
         for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and
         return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your
         incontinency.

         7:6. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

         By indulgence... That is, by a condescension to your
         weakness.

         7:7. For I would that all men were even as myself. But
         every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this
         manner, and another after that.

         7:8. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is
         good for them if they so continue, even as I.

         7:9. But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry.
         For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

         If they do not contain, etc... This is spoken of such as
         are free, and not of such as, by vow, have given their
         first faith to God; to whom if they will use proper means
         to obtain it, God will never refuse the gift of continency.
         Some translators have corrupted this text, by rendering it,
         if they cannot contain.

         7:10. But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord,
         commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband.

         7:11. And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be
         reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away
         his wife.

         7:12. For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother
         hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell
         with him: let him not put her away.

         I speak, not the Lord... Viz., by any express commandment,
         or ordinance.

         7:13. And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not
         and he consent to dwell with her: let her not put away her
         husband.

         7:14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the
         believing wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by
         the believing husband. Otherwise your children should be
         unclean: but now they are holy.

         Is sanctified... The meaning is not, that the faith of the
         husband or the wife is of itself sufficient to put the
         unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace
         and salvation; but that it is very often an occasion of
         their sanctification, by bringing them to the true faith.

         7:15. But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a
         brother or sister is not under servitude in such cases. But
         God hath called us in peace.

         7:16. For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save
         thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt
         save thy wife?

         7:17. But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God
         hath called every one: so let him walk. And so in all
         churches I teach.

         7:18. Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not
         procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in
         uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

         7:19. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is
         nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.

         7:20. Let every man abide in the same calling in which he
         was called.

         7:21. Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it:
         but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

         7:22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman,
         is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called,
         being free, is the bondman of Christ.

         7:23. You are bought with a price: be not made the
         bondslaves of men.

         7:24. Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called,
         therein abide with God.

         7:25. Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the
         Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the
         Lord, to be faithful.

         7:26. I think therefore that this is good for the present
         necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

         7:27. Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art
         thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

         7:28. But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if
         a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such
         shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

         7:29. This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It
         remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had
         none:

         7:30. And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they
         that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as
         if they possessed not:

         7:31. And they that use this world, as if they used it not.
         For the fashion of this world passeth away.

         7:32. But I would have you to be without solicitude. He
         that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that
         belong to the Lord: how he may please God.

         7:33. But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the
         things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is
         divided.

         7:34. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on
         the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body
         and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the
         things of the world: how she may please her husband.

         7:35. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare
         upon you, but for that which is decent and which may give
         you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment.

         7:36. But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with
         regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it
         must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she
         marry.

         Let him do what he will; he sinneth not, etc... The meaning
         is not, as libertines would have it, that persons may do
         what they will and not sin, provided they afterwards marry;
         but that the father, with regard to the giving his virgin
         in marriage, may do as he pleaseth; and that it will be no
         sin to him if she marry.

         7:37. For he that hath determined, being steadfast in his
         heart, having no necessity, but having power of his own
         will: and hath judged this in his heart, to keep his
         virgin, doth well.

         7:38. Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage
         doth well: and he that giveth her not doth better.

         7:39. A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband
         liveth: but if her husband die, she is at liberty. Let her
         marry to whom she will: only in the Lord.

         7:40. But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain,
         according to my counsel. And I think that I also have the
         spirit of God.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 8

         Though an idol be nothing, yet things offered up to idols
         are not to be eaten, for fear of scandal.

         8:1. Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to
         idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up:
         but charity edifieth.

         Knowledge puffeth up, etc... Knowledge, without charity and
         humility, serveth only to puff persons up.

         8:2. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he
         hath not yet known as he ought to know.

         8:3. But if any man love God, the same is known by him.

         8:4. But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we
         know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is
         no God but one.

         8:5. For although there be that are called gods, either in
         heaven or on earth (for there be gods many and lords many):

         Gods many, etc... Reputed for such among the heathens.

         8:6. Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom
         are all things, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ,
         by whom are all things, and we by him.

         8:7. But there is not knowledge in every one. For some
         until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a
         thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being
         weak, is defiled.

         8:8. But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if
         we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall
         we have the less.

         8:9. But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a
         stumblingblock to the weak.

         8:10. For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat
         in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak,
         be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to
         idols?

         8:11. And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother
         perish, for whom Christ hath died?

         8:12. Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound
         their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

         8:13. Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will
         never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

         If meat scandalize... That is, if my eating cause my
         brother to sin.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 9

         The apostle did not make use of his power of being
         maintained at the charges of those to whom he preached,
         that he might give no hindrance to the gospel. Of running
         in the race and striving for the mastery.

         9:1. Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen
         Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

         9:2. And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you
         I am.  For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

         9:3. My defence with them that do examine me is this.

         9:4. Have not we power to eat and to drink?

         9:5. Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as
         well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the
         Lord and Cephas?

         A woman, a sister... Some erroneous translators have
         corrupted this text by rendering it, a sister, a wife:
         whereas, it is certain, St. Paul had no wife (chap. 7 ver.
         7, 8) and that he only speaks of such devout women, as,
         according to the custom of the Jewish nation, waited upon
         the preachers of the gospel, and supplied them with
         necessaries.

         9:6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?

         9:7. Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own
         charges?  Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the
         fruit thereof?  Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the
         milk of the flock?

         9:8. Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the
         law also say; these things?

         9:9. For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not
         muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth
         God take care for oxen?

         9:10. Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these
         things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth,
         should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to
         receive fruit.

         9:11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a
         great matter if we reap your carnal things?

         9:12. If others be partakers of this power over you, why
         not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power:
         but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance
         to the gospel of Christ.

         9:13. Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat
         the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve
         the altar partake with the altar?

         9:14. So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the
         gospel should live by the gospel.

         9:15. But I have used none of these things. Neither have I
         written these things, that they should be so done unto me:
         for it is good for me to die rather than that any man
         should make my glory void.

         9:16. For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for
         a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach
         not the gospel.

         It is no glory... That is, I have nothing to glory of.

         9:17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward:
         but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me.

         9:18. What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I
         may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my
         power in the gospel.

         9:19. For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the
         servant of all, that I might gain the more.

         9:20. And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the
         Jews:

         9:21. To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law,
         (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them
         that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if
         I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God,
         but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were
         without the law.

         9:22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the
         weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save
         all.

         9:23. And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may
         be made partaker thereof.

         9:24. Know you not that they that run in the race, all run
         indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may
         obtain.

         9:25. And every one that striveth for the mastery
         refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that
         they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an
         incorruptible one.

         9:26. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so
         fight, not as one beating the air.

         9:27. But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection:
         lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself
         should become a castaway.

         I chastise, etc... Here St. Paul shews the necessity of
         self-denial and mortification, to subdue the flesh, and its
         inordinate desires.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 10

         By the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not
         to build too much upon favours received but to avoid their
         sins and fly from the service of idols and from things
         offered to idols.

         10:1. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our
         fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through
         the sea.

         10:2. And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in
         the sea:

         In Moses... Under the conduct of Moses, they received
         baptism in figure, by passing under the cloud, and through
         the sea; and they partook of the body and blood of Christ
         in figure, by eating of the manna, (called here a spiritual
         food because it was a figure of the true bread which comes
         down from heaven,) and drinking the water, miraculously
         brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual rock,
         because it was also a figure of Christ.

         10:3. And did all eat the same spiritual food:

         10:4. And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they
         drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the
         rock was Christ.)

         10:5. But with most of them God was not well pleased: for
         they were overthrown in the desert.

         10:6. Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we
         should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

         10:7. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it
         is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose
         up to play.

         10:8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them
         that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three
         and twenty thousand.

         10:9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted
         and perished by the serpent.

         10:10. Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and
         were destroyed by the destroyer.

         10:11. Now all these things happened to them in figure: and
         they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of
         the world are come.

         The ends of the world... That is, the last ages.

         10:12. Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let
         him take heed lest he fall.

         10:13. Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is
         human.  And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
         tempted above that which you are able: but will make also
         with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

         Or... no temptation hath taken hold of you... or come upon
         you as yet, but what is human, or incident to man. Issue...
         or a way to escape.

         10:14. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service
         of idols.

         10:15. I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I
         say.

         10:16. The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not
         the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which
         we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

         Which we bless... Here the apostle puts them in mind of
         their partaking of the body and blood of Christ in the
         sacred mysteries, and becoming thereby one mystical body
         with Christ.  From whence he infers, ver. 21, that they who
         are made partakers with Christ, by the eucharistic
         sacrifice and sacrament, must not be made partakers with
         devils by eating of the meats sacrificed to them.

         10:17. For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all
         that partake of one bread.

         One bread... or, as it may be rendered, agreeably both to
         the Latin and Greek, because the bread is one, all we,
         being many, are one body, who partake of that one bread.
         For it is by our communicating with Christ, and with one
         another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are formed into
         one mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread,
         compounded of many grains of corn, closely united together.

         10:18. Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they
         that eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

         10:19. What then? Do I say that what is offered in
         sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any
         thing?

         10:20. But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they
         sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that
         you should be made partakers with devils.

         10:21. You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the
         chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of
         the Lord and of the table of devils.

         10:22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger
         than he?  All things are lawful for me: but all things are
         not expedient.

         10:23. All things are lawful for me: but all things do not
         edify.

         10:24. Let no man seek his own, but that which is
         another's.

         10:25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no
         question for conscience' sake.

         10:26. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.

         10:27. If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you
         be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you,
         asking no question for conscience' sake.

         10:28. But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to
         idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for
         conscience' sake.

         10:29. Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For
         why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

         10:30. If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken
         of for that for which I give thanks?

         10:31. Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever
         else you do, do all to the glory of God.

         10:32. Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles
         and to the church of God:

         10:33. As I also in all things please all men, not seeking
         that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they
         may be saved.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 11

         Women must have a covering over their heads. He blameth the
         abuses of their love feasts and upon that occasion treats
         of the Blessed Sacrament.

         11:1. Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

         11:2. Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you
         are mindful of me and keep my ordinances as I have
         delivered them to you.

         11:3. But I would have you know that the head of every man
         is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the
         head of Christ is God.

         11:4. Every man praying or prophesying with his head
         covered disgraceth his head.

         11:5. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head
         not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if
         she were shaven.

         11:6. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But
         if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let
         her cover her head.

         11:7. The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because
         he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the
         glory of the man.

         11:8. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the
         man.

         11:9. For the man was not created for the woman: but the
         woman for the man.

         11:10. Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her
         head, because of the angels.

         A power... that is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she
         is under the power of her husband: and this, the apostle
         adds, because of the angels, who are present in the
         assemblies of the faithful.

         11:11. But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor
         the woman without the man, in the Lord.

         11:12. For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man
         by the woman: but all things of God.

         11:13. You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray
         unto God uncovered?

         11:14. Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man
         indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

         11:15. But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to
         her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.

         11:16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no
         such custom, nor the Church of God.

         11:17. Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come
         together, not for the better, but for the worse.

         11:18. For first of all I hear that when you come together
         in the church, there are schisms among you. And in part I
         believe it.

         11:19. For there must be also heresies: that they also, who
         are approved may be made manifest among you.

         There must be also heresies... By reason of the pride and
         perversity of man's heart; not by God's will or
         appointment; who nevertheless draws good out of this evil,
         manifesting, by that occasion, who are the good and firm
         Christians, and making their faith more remarkable.

         11:20. When you come therefore together into one place, it
         is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

         The Lord's supper... So the apostle here calls the charity
         feasts observed by the primitive Christians; and reprehends
         the abuses of the Corinthians, on these occasions; which
         were the more criminal, because these feasts were
         accompanied with the celebrating of the eucharistic
         sacrifice and sacrament.

         11:21. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat.
         And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

         11:22. What, have you no houses to eat and to drink in? Or
         despise ye the church of God and put them to shame that
         have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this
         I praise you not.

         11:23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I
         delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in
         which he was betrayed, took bread,

         11:24. And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat:
         This is my body, which shall be delivered for you. This do
         for the commemoration of me.

         11:25. In like manner also the chalice, after he had
         supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my
         blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the
         commemoration of me.

         11:26. For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink
         the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he
         come.

         11:27. Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink
         the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the
         body and of the blood of the Lord.

         Or drink... Here erroneous translators corrupted the text,
         by putting and drink (contrary to the original) instead of
         or drink.

         Guilty of the body, etc., not discerning the body, etc...
         This demonstrates the real presence of the body and blood
         of Christ, even to the unworthy communicant; who otherwise
         could not be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, or
         justly condemned for not discerning the Lord's body.

         11:28. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of
         that bread and drink of the chalice.

         Drink of the chalice... This is not said by way of command,
         but by way of allowance, viz., where and when it is
         agreeable to the practice and discipline of the church.

         11:29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth
         and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body
         of the Lord.

         11:30. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you:
         and many sleep.

         11:31. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be
         judged.

         11:32. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the
         Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

         11:33. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to
         eat, wait for one another.

         11:34. If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you
         come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in
         order, when I come.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 12

         Of the diversity of spiritual gifts. The members of the
         mystical body, like those of the natural body, must
         mutually cherish one another.

         12:1. Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would
         not have you ignorant.

         12:2. You know that when you were heathens, you went to
         dumb idols, according as you were led.

         12:3. Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man,
         speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And
         no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

         12:4. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same
         Spirit.

         12:5. And there are diversities of ministries. but the same
         Lord.

         12:6. And there are diversities of operations, but the same
         God, who worketh all in all.

         12:7. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
         man unto profit.

         12:8. To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of
         wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to
         the same Spirit:

         12:9. To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the
         grace of healing in one Spirit:

         12:10. To another the working of miracles: to another,
         prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to
         another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another,
         interpretation of speeches.

         12:11. But all these things, one and the same Spirit
         worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

         12:12. For as the body is one and hath many members; and
         all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are
         one body: So also is Christ.

         12:13. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one
         body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and
         in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.

         12:14. For the body also is not one member, but many.

         12:15. If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I
         am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the Body?

         12:16. And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye,
         I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the body?

         12:17. If the whole body were the eye, where would be the
         hearing?  If the whole were hearing, where would be the
         smelling?

         12:18. But now God hath set the members, every one of them,
         in the body as it hath pleased him.

         12:19. And if they all were one member, where would be the
         body?

         12:20. But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.

         12:21. And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy
         help.  Nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of
         you.

         12:22. Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more
         feeble members of the body are more necessary

         12:23. And such as we think to be the less houourable
         members of the body, about these we put more abundant
         honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more
         abundant comeliness.

         12:24. But our comely parts have no need: but God hath
         tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the
         more abundant honour.

         12:25. That there might be no schism in the body: but the
         members might be mutually careful one for another.

         12:26. And if one member suffer any thing, all the members
         suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members
         rejoice with it.

         12:27. Now you are the body of Christ and members of
         member.

         12:28. And God indeed hath set some in the church; first
         apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that
         miracles: then the graces of healings, helps, governments,
         kinds of tongues, interpretations of speeches.

         12:29. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors?

         12:30. Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of
         healing?  Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

         12:31. But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto
         you yet a more excellent way.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 13

         Charity is to be preferred before all gifts.

         13:1. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
         have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
         tinkling cymbal.

         13:2. And if I should have prophecy and should know all
         mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all
         faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not
         charity, I am nothing.

         13:3. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the
         poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and
         have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

         13:4. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not,
         dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,

         13:5. Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not
         provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

         13:6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the
         truth:

         13:7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
         things, endureth all things.

         13:8. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall
         be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be
         destroyed.

         13:9. For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.

         13:10. But when that which is perfect is come, that which
         is in part shall be done away.

         13:11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood
         as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man,
         I put away the things of a child.

         13:12. We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but
         then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall
         know even as I am known.

         13:13. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these
         three: but the greatest of these is charity.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 14

         The gift of prophesying is to be preferred before that of
         speaking strange tongues.

         14:1. Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts;
         but rather that you may prophesy.

         Prophesy... That is, declare or expound the mysteries of
         faith.

         14:2. For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto
         men, but unto God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he
         speaketh mysteries.

         Not unto men... Viz., so as to be heard, that is, so as to
         be understood by them.

         14:3. But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto
         edification and exhortation and comfort.

         14:4. He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he
         that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

         14:5. And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but
         rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than
         he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret,
         that the church may receive edification.

         14:6. But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with
         tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you
         either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in
         doctrine?

         14:7. Even things without life that give sound, whether
         pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how
         shall it be known what is piped or harped?

         14:8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall
         prepare himself to the battle?

         14:9. So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain
         speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall
         be speaking into the air.

         14:10. There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in
         this world: and none is without voice.

         14:11. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall
         be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh
         a barbarian to me.

         14:12. So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of
         spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.

         Of spirits... Of spiritual gifts.

         14:13. And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him
         pray that he may interpret.

         14:14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth: but my
         understanding is without fruit.

         14:15. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, I will
         pray also with the understanding, I will sing with the
         spirit, I will sing also with the understanding.

         14:16. Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall
         he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to
         thy blessing? Because he knoweth not what thou sayest.

         Amen... The unlearned, not knowing that you are then
         blessing, will not be qualified to join with you by saying
         Amen to your blessing. The use or abuse of strange tongues,
         of which the apostle here speaks, does not regard the
         public liturgy of the church, (in which strange tongues
         were never used,) but certain conferences of the faithful,
         ver. 26, etc., in which, meeting together, they discovered
         to one another their various miraculous gifts of the
         Spirit, common in those primitive times; amongst which the
         apostle prefers that of prophesying before that of speaking
         strange tongues, because it was more to the public
         edification. Where also not, that the Latin, used in our
         liturgy, is so far from being a strange or unknown tongue,
         that it is perhaps the best known tongue in the world.

         14:17. For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is
         not edified.

         14:18. I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.

         14:19. But in the church I had rather speak five words with
         my understanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten
         thousand words in a tongue.

         14:20. Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in
         malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

         14:21. In the law it is written: In other tongues and other
         lips I will speak to this people: and neither so will they
         hear me, saith the Lord.

         14:22. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers
         but to unbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but
         to believers.

         14:23. If therefore the whole church come together into one
         place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in
         unlearned persons or infidels, will they not say that you
         are mad?

         14:24. But if all prophesy, and there come in one that
         believeth not or an unlearned person, he is convinced of
         all: he is judged of all.

         14:25. The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so,
         falling down on his face, he will adore God, affirming that
         God is among you indeed.

         14:26. How is it then, brethren? When you come together,
         every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a
         revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all
         things be done to edification.

         14:27. If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at
         the most by three, and in course: and let one interpret.

         14:28. But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his
         peace in the church and speak to himself and to God.

         14:29.  And let the prophets speak, two or three: and let
         the rest judge.

         14:30. But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let
         the first hold his peace.

         14:31. For you may all prophesy, one by one, that all may
         learn and all may be exhorted.

         14:32. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the
         prophets.

         14:33. For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace:
         as also I teach in all the churches of the saints.

         14:34. Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is
         not permitted them to speak but to be subject, as also the
         law saith.

         14:35. But if they would learn anything, let them ask their
         husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in
         the church.

         14:36. Or did the word of God come out from you? Or came it
         only unto you?

         14:37. If any seem to be a prophet or spiritual, let him
         know the things that I write to you, that they are the
         commandments of the Lord.

         14:38. But if any man know not, he shall not be known.

         14:39. Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy: and
         forbid not to speak with tongues.

         14:40. But let all things be done decently and according to
         order.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 15

         Christ's resurrection and ours. The manner of our
         resurrection.

         15:1. Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which
         I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein
         you stand.

         15:2. By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after
         what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed
         in vain.

         15:3. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also
         received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to
         the scriptures:

         15:4. And that he was buried: and that he rose again
         according to the scriptures:

         15:5. And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the
         eleven.

         15:6. Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren
         at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some
         are fallen asleep.

         15:7. After that, he was seen by James: then by all the
         apostles.

         15:8. And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one
         born out of due tine.

         15:9. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not
         worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
         church of God.

         15:10. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his
         grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more
         abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God
         with me:

         15:11. For whether I or they, so we preach: and so you have
         believed.

         15:12. Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from
         the dead, how do some among you say that there is no
         resurrection of the dead?

         15:13. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then
         Christ is not risen again.

         15:14. And if Christ be not risen again, then is our
         preaching vain: and your faith is also vain.

         15:15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God:
         because we have given testimony against God, that he hath
         raised up Christ, whom he hath not raised up, if the dead
         rise not again.

         15:16. For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ
         risen again.

         15:17. And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is
         vain: for you are yet in your sins.

         15:18. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are
         perished.

         15:19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are
         of all men most miserable.

         15:20. But now Christ is risen from the dead, the
         firstfruits of them that sleep:

         15:21. For by a man came death: and by a man the
         resurrection of the dead.

         15:22. And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall
         be made alive.

         15:23. But every one in his own order: the firstfruits,
         Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in
         his coming.

         15:24. Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up
         the kingdom to God and the Father: when he shall have
         brought to nought all principality and power and virtue.

         15:25. For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies
         under his feet.

         15:26. And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For
         he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he
         saith:

         15:27. All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is
         excepted, who put all things under him.

         15:28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then
         the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all
         things under him, that God may be all in all.

         The Son also himself shall be subject unto him... That is,
         the Son will be subject to the Father, according to his
         human nature, even after the general resurrection; and also
         the whole mystical body of Christ will be entirely subject
         to God, obeying him in every thing.

         15:29. Otherwise, what shall they do that are baptized for
         the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? Why are they
         then baptized for them?

         That are baptized for the dead... Some think the apostle
         here alludes to a ceremony then in use; but others, more
         probably, to the prayers and penitential labours, performed
         by the primitive Christians for the souls of the faithful
         departed; or to the baptism of afflictions and sufferings
         undergone for sinners spiritually dead.

         15:30. Why also are we in danger every hour?

         15:31. I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren,
         which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

         15:32. If (according to man) I fought with beasts at
         Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not
         again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

         Let us eat and drink, etc... That is, if we did not believe
         that we were to rise again from the dead, we might live
         like the impious and wicked, who have no belief in the
         resurrection.

         15:33. Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good
         manners.

         15:34. Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the
         knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

         15:35. But some man will say: How do the dead rise again?
         Or with what manner of body shall they come?

         15:36. Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not
         quickened, except it die first.

         15:37. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body
         that shall be: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of
         the rest.

         15:38. But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every
         seed its proper body.

         15:39. All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the
         flesh of men, another of beasts, other of birds, another of
         fishes.

         15:40. And there are bodies celestial and bodies
         terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and
         another of the terrestrial.

         15:41. One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of
         the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star
         differeth from star in glory.

         15:42. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown
         in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

         15:43. It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It
         is sown in weakness: it shall rise in power.

         15:44. It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual
         body.  If there be a natural body, there is also a
         spiritual body, as it is written:

         15:45. The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the
         last Adam into a quickening spirit.

         15:46. Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that
         which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual.

         15:47. The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second
         man, from heaven, heavenly.

         15:48. Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly:
         and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that are
         heavenly.

         15:49. Therefore, as we have borne the image of the
         earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

         15:50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood
         cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption
         possess incorruption.

         15:51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed
         rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

         15:52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
         trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall
         rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed.

         15:53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and
         this mortal must put on immortality.

         15:54. And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then
         shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is
         swallowed up in victory.

         15:55. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy
         sting?

         15:56. Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin
         is the law.

         15:57. But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory
         through our Lord Jesus Christ.

         15:58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and
         unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord,
         knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

         1 Corinthians Chapter 16

         Of collection of alms. Admonitions and salutations.

         16:1. Now concerning the collections that are made for the
         saints: as I have given order to the churches of Galatia,
         so do ye also.

         16:2. On the first day of the week, let every one of you
         put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please
         him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be
         made.

         16:3. And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall
         approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to
         Jerusalem.

         16:4. And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with
         me.

         16:5. Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed
         through Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.

         16:6. And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the
         winter: that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I
         shall go.

         16:7. For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust
         that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

         16:8. But I will tarry at Ephesus, until Pentecost.

         16:9. For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and
         many adversaries.

         16:10. Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without
         fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

         16:11. Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct ye him
         on his way in peace, that he may come to me. For I look for
         him with the brethren.

         16:12. And touching our brother Apollo, I give you to
         understand that I much entreated him to come unto you with
         the brethren: and indeed it was not his will at all to come
         at this time. But he will come when he shall have leisure.

         16:13. Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and
         be strengthened.

         16:14. Let all your things be done in charity.

         16:15. And I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of
         Stephanus, and of Fortunatus, and of Achaicus, that they
         are the firstfruits of Achaia, and have dedicated
         themselves to the ministry of the saints:

         16:16. That you also be subject to such and to every one
         that worketh with us and laboureth.

         16:17. And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanus and
         Fortunatus and Achaicus: because that which was wanting on
         your part, they have supplied.

         16:18. For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours.
         Know them, therefore, that are such.

         16:19. The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and
         Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that
         is in their house, with whom I also lodge.

         16:20. All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with
         a holy kiss.

         16:21. The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.

         16:22. If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him
         be anathema, maranatha.

         Let him be anathema, maranatha... Anathema signifies here a
         thing accursed. Maran-atha, which, according to St. Jerome
         and St. Chrysostom, signify, `The Lord is come' already,
         and therefore is to be taken as an admonition to those who
         doubted of the resurrection, and to put them in mind that
         Christ, the judge of the living and the dead, is come
         already. Others explain Maran-atha: `May our Lord come',
         that is, to judge and punish those with exemplary judgments
         and punishments, that do not love the Lord Jesus Christ.

         16:23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

         16:24. My charity be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

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