a Or, who that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their write the own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they the Lord, beguile the hearts of the innocent. 19 For your salute you obedience is come abroad unto all men. epistle in I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is thorities evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan your feet shortly. Some an cient au insert here ver. 24 under The grace of our Lord Fesus Christ be with The 20 grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 21 Timothy my fellow-worker saluteth you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. "I the like Tertius, "who write the epistle, salute you in the you all. Amen, and omit words in ver. 20. • Some ancient authori ties omit ver. 25-27. Compare ch. xiv. Lord. Gaius my host, and of the whole church, saluteth you, and Quartus the brother." 25 Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus the end of Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through 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 of faith; to the only Or to the Wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever. Amen. a Gr. through. faith Some ancient a hri ties (mit to tohom. • Gr. unto the ages. A Gr the brother. The First Epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the CORINTHIANS. I. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes "our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, even them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that call upon the name of our @ Some Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father ancient and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank "my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 'so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful. through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. authorities omit my. Gr.word. . Or, divided. Was Paul for your 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, through the 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 unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them which are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I Christ is mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius; lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name. 16And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides I know not whether I baptized any 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 mad void. "an int 18 For the word of the cross is to them that are ties read perishing foolishness; but unto us which are being thanks saved it is the power of God. For it is written, 4 Some authori I give that. a Or, age Gr. thing e Or, a I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the prudence of the prudent will I reject. 20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this "world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? "For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through Messiah the foolishness of the 'preaching to save them that believe. Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom: 23but we preach 'Christ Gr the crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness; but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. called themselves. Or, ye behold have part therein Many ancient authorties omit 26 For behold your calling, brethren, how that fOr, not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, fare called: "but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things aent of the world, that he might put to shame the things and that are strong; and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring Or both to nought the things that are: that no flesh should and glory before God. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, demption and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that gloOr, word rieth, let him glory in the Lord. righteous ness sanctifi cation and re Many ancient ahori жа II. And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God. 2For I terad determined not to know any thing among you, save testimony Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with • Or, word you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. *And my "speech and my 'preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power preached of God. Gr. thing "Gr. be grown 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among the "perfect: yet a wisdom not of this 'world, nor of the rulers of this 'world, which are coming to nought: "but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom Or. fullthat hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory: which none of the rulers of this world knoweth: for had they known Or, age: it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory: 'but as it is written, and so in ver. 7, 8; but not in ver. 12. Some Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, 13 ancient ties read For. f Or, it bining preting 10/But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. "For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none Or, com knoweth, save the Spirit of God. "But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely for, intergiven to us by God. Which things also we speak, spiritual not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but spiritual which the Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. "Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they "Gamined are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. "But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is Or, ex judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the things to men amineth Gr. tilled land. mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. III. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able; for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men? For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men? What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him. I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are God's fellowworkers: ye are God's "husbandry, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon. "For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. "But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; Beach man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work man's shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive what surt a reward. "If any man's work shall be burned, he Or, and each work, of it is, the fire shall shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet prove it. so as through fire. |