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you as my spiritual children, by preaching to you the Gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be imitators of me. And to this end I have sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every Church. Now some are puffed up, as though I would not venture to come to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and I will know not the speech of those who are puffed up, but their inward power. For the kingdom of God does not manifest itself in Speech, but in spiritual Power. Which choose ye? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and the spirit of mildness?"

PART II.

(CHAPS. V.-XI.)

THE IMMORALITIES AND PERPLEXITIES OF THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH.

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V. 1. It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that a man should have his father's 2 wife. And you are puffed up! and have not rather mourned that he that hath done this thing might be 3 taken away from among you. For I, verily, as present in spirit, though absent in body, have judged already as if I was present, him that hath so done this thing, 4- In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you

and my spirit are gathered together, with the power 5 of our Lord Jesus Christ, to commit such an one to Satan for the extinction of the flesh, that the spirit 6 may be delivered in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven

7 leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out the old leaven that ye may be a new lump, inasmuch as ye are unleavened, since our Passover, Christ, is slain for us. 8 Wherefore let us keep Passover, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

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I wrote to you in an epistle not to company with for10 nicators, not indeed absolutely, as including the fornicators

of this world, or the covetous, the rapacious, and the idola11 trous, for then must ye have gone out of the world; but

now I have written to you, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with such an one not to keep com12 pany, not even to eat. For what have I to do with judg13 ing those without? Do not ye judge those within? But those without, God will judge. Put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

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VI. 1. DARE any of you, having a suit against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? not know that the saints shall judge the world, and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge 3 the smallest cases? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, do ye appoint those to judge who have no place in the 5 Church? I speak this to your shame. Is it that there is

not even one wise man among you who is able to judge 6 between brother and brother, but brother goeth to law 7 with brother, and that at the bar of unbelievers? Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, that ye go to law with one another. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? 8 why are ye not rather defrauded? Whereas ye wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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