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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: + +9:22. 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. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 53 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8353.txt or 8353.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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