Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord 30 peace be with you all. Amen. I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who 1 16 'Cr, deaconess is a 'servant of the church that is at Cenchrea: 'Or, Junia that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the 2 Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers 3 14 mother and mine. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren 15 that are with them. Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and 16 all the saints that are with them. Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you. 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the 'doctrine which ye 1Or, teaching 18 learned and turn away from them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the 19 innocent. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is 20 good, and simple unto that which is evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Timothy my fellow-worker saluteth you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. 22 I Tertius, who write the epistle, salute you in the 23 Lord. Gaius my host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the treasurer of the city saluteth you, and Quartus the brother.3 25 Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through 26 times eternal, but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience 27 faith; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever. Amen. Or, who write the epistle in the Lord, salute you 3 Some ancient authorities in sert here ver. 24 The grace Jesus Christ all men, and omit the of our Lord be with you like words in ver. 20. 7 Some ancient of authorities omit to whom. 8 Gr. unto the ages. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. 1 Gr. the brother. 2 Some ancient authorities omit my. 3 Gr. word. PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ 1 1 through the will of God, and Sosthenes 'our brother, unto the church of God which is at 2 Corinth, even them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their Lord and ours: Grace to you and 3 peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always concerning you, for 4 the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; that in every thing ye were enriched 5 in him, in all utterance and all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed 6 in you: so that ye come behind in no gift; 7 waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall also confirm you unto the 8 end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, through 9 whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Now I beseech you, brethren, through the 10 name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgement. For it hath been signified I unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them which are of the household of Chloe, that there 12 are contentions among you. Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 'Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? 14 or were ye baptized into the name of Paul? 21 thank God that I baptized none of you, save 15 Crispus and Gaius; lest any man should say 16 that ye were baptized into my name. And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any 17 other. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. 18 For the word of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness; but unto us which are 19 being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, reject. 3 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath Or, age not God made foolish the wisdom of the 21 world? For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that Gr. thing 22 believe. Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and preached. 23 Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach 6 4 5 Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, Or, a Messiah 24 and unto Gentiles foolishness; but unto them Gr. the called that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ themselves. the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1 Or, ye behold therein 8 For 'behold your calling, brethren, how that 26 not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, 3 2 Or, have part not many noble, are called: but God chose the 27 foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; and the base 28 things of the world, and the things that are Many ancient despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: that no flesh should glory 29 before God. But of him are ye in Christ 30 Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and and sanctifica. redemption: that, according as it is written, He 31 that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 4 authorities omit and • Or, both righteousness tion and redemption 6 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, 12 came not with excellency of speech or of Many ancient wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of 5 Or, word authorities read testimony. God. For I determined not to know any 2 thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, 3 and in fear, and in much trembling. And 4 my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your 5 faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the 'per- 6 fect yet a wisdom not of this 10 world, nor of the rulers of this 10 world, which are coming to nought: but we speak God's wisdom in a mys- 7 tery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory which none of the rulers of this 8 world knoweth for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory: but 9 as it is written, |