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Is it Paul who was crucified on + your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents? +001:014 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except + Crispus and Gaius-- +001:015 for fear people should say that you were baptized to + be my adherents. +001:016 I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also: + but I do not think that I baptized any one else. +001:017 Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; + and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should + be deprived of its power. +001:018 For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on + the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom + He is saving. +001:019 For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of + the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent + I will bring to nought." +001:020 Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your + investigator of the questions of this present age? + Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness? +001:021 For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained-- + had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, + by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, + to save those who accepted it. +001:022 Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom, +001:023 while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews + a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness, +001:024 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews + or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. +001:025 Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser + than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God + is mightier than men's might. +001:026 For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise + with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, + not many of noble birth have been called. +001:027 But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, + in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen + the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, + in order to put its powerful things to shame; +001:028 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which + it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence-- + God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist; +001:029 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God. +001:030 But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has + become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of + righteousness and sanctification and deliverance; +001:031 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts-- + let his boast be in the Lord." +002:001 And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was + not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom + that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded + me to bear witness to. +002:002 For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, + of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as + having been crucified. +002:003 And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious + feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety. +002:004 And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not + adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended + upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home; +002:005 so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on + the power of God. +002:006 Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; + a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor + to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away. +002:007 But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of + God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, + God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us; +002:008 a wisdom which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses, + for if they had possessed it, they would never have crucified + the Lord of glory. +002:009 But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which + eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered + the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them + that love Him. +002:010 For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil through the + teaching of the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, + including the depths of the divine nature. +002:011 For, among human beings, who knows a man's inner thoughts except + the man's own spirit within him? In the same way, also, + only God's Spirit is acquainted with God's inner thoughts. +002:012 But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit + which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings + that have been so freely given to us by God. +002:013 Of these we speak--not in language which man's wisdom teaches us, + but in that which the Spirit teaches--adapting, as we do, + spiritual words to spiritual truths. +002:014 The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, + and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they + are spiritually judged. +002:015 But the spiritual man judges of everything, although he is + himself judged by no one. +002:016 For who has penetrated the mind of the Lord, and will + instruct Him? But *we* have the mind of Christ. +003:001 And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak + to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings-- + mere babes in Christ. +003:002 I fed you with milk and not with solid food, since for this + you were not yet strong enough. And even now you are + not strong enough: +003:003 you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife + continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual + and are living and acting like mere men of the world? +003:004 For when some one says, "I belong to Paul," and another says, + "I belong to Apollos," is not this the way men of the world speak? +003:005 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just + God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted + power to each, you accepted the faith. +003:006 I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, + all the time, giving the increase. +003:007 So that neither the planter nor the waterer is of any importance. + God who gives the increase is all in all. +003:008 Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; + and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to + his own special work. +003:009 Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, + and you are *God's* field--God's* building. +003:010 In discharge of the task which God graciously entrusted to me, I-- + like a competent master-builder--have laid a foundation, + and others are building upon it. But let every one be careful + how and what he builds. +003:011 For no one can lay any other foundation in addition to that + which is already laid, namely Jesus Christ. +003:012 And whether the building which any one is erecting on that + foundation be of gold or silver or costly stones, of timber + or hay or straw-- +003:013 the true character of each individual's work will become manifest. + For the day of Christ will disclose it, because that day is + soon to come upon us clothed in fire, and as for the quality + of every one's work--the fire is the thing which will test it. +003:014 If any one's work--the building which he has erected-- + stands the test, he will be rewarded. +003:015 If any one's work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it; + yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were, + by passing through the fire. +003:016 Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit + of God has His home within you? +003:017 If any one is marring the Sanctuary of God, him will God mar; + for the Sanctuary of God is holy, which you all are. +003:018 Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, + compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, + let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise. +003:019 This world's wisdom is "foolishness" in God's sight; for it + is written, "He snares the wise with their own cunning." +003:020 And again, "The Lord takes knowledge of the reasonings of the wise-- + how useless they are." +003:021 Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers. +003:022 For everything belongs to you--be it Paul or Apollos or Peter, + the world or life or death, things present or future-- + everything belongs to you; +003:023 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. +004:001 As for us Apostles, let any one take this view of us-- + we are Christ's officers, and stewards of God's secret truths. +004:002 This being so, it follows that fidelity is what is + required in stewards. +004:003 I however am very little concerned at undergoing your scrutiny, + or that of other men; in fact I do not even scrutinize myself. +004:004 Though I am not conscious of having been in any way unfaithful, + yet I do not for that reason stand acquitted; but He whose + scrutiny I must undergo is the Lord. +004:005 Therefore form no premature judgements, but wait until + the Lord returns. He will both bring to light the secrets + of darkness and will openly disclose the motives that have + been in people's hearts; and then the praise which each man + deserves will come to him from God. +004:006 In writing this much, brethren, with special reference to + Apollos and myself, I have done so for your sakes, in order + to teach you by our example what those words mean, which say, + "Nothing beyond what is written!"--so that you may cease to take + sides in boastful rivalry, for one teacher against another. +004:007 Why, who gives you your superiority, my brother? + Or what have you that you did not receive? And if you really + did receive it, why boast as if this were not so? +004:008 Every one of you already has all that heart can desire; + already you have grown rich; without waiting for us, you have + ascended your thrones! Yes indeed, would to God that you + had ascended your thrones, that we also might reign with you! +004:009 God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, + as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle + to all creation--alike to angels and to men. +004:010 We, for Christ's sake, are labeled as "foolish"; you, as Christians, + are men of shrewd intelligence. We are mere weaklings: + you are strong. You are in high repute: we are outcasts. +004:011 To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, + with scanty clothing and many a blow. +004:012 Homes we have none. Wearily we toil, working with our own hands. + When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we bear it patiently; +004:013 when slandered, we try to conciliate. We have come + to be regarded as the mere dirt and filth of the world-- + the refuse of the universe, even to this hour. +004:014 I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you + advice as my dearly-loved children. +004:015 For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors-- + for all that you could not have several fathers. + It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through + the Good News. +004:016 I entreat you therefore to become like me. +004:017 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you. + Spiritually he is my dearly-loved and faithful child. + He will remind you of my habits as a Christian teacher-- + the manner in which I teach everywhere in every Church. +004:018 But some of you have been puffed up through getting the idea + that I am not coming to Corinth. +004:019 But, if the Lord is willing, I shall come to you without delay; + and then I shall know not the fine speeches of these + conceited people, but their power. +004:020 For Apostolic authority is not a thing of words, but of power. +004:021 Which shall it be? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in a + loving and tender spirit? +005:001 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, + and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has + his father's wife! +005:002 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man + who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency! +005:003 I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent + in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him + who has so acted. +005:004 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are all assembled and my + spirit is with you, together with the power of our Lord Jesus, +005:005 I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction + of his body, that his spirit may be saved on the day of + the Lord Jesus. +005:006 It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. + Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole + of the dough? +005:007 Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; + for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb + has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ. +005:008 Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with + the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free + from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth. +005:009 I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to + associate with fornicators; +005:010 not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from + such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious + and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. + For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out + of the world altogether. +005:011 But what I meant was that you were not to associate with + any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted + to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language + or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought + not even to eat. +005:012 For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? + Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church +005:013 while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? + Remove the wicked man from among you. +006:001 If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare + to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people? +006:002 Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon + the world? And if you are the court before which the world is + to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters? +006:003 Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels-- + to say nothing of things belonging to this life? +006:004 If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need + to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church-- + is it *they* whom you make your judges? +006:005 I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, + that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent + to decide between a man and his brother, +006:006 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? +006:007 To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you + have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? + Why not rather submit to being defrauded? +006:008 On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, + and upon brethren too. +006:009 Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit + God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, + nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty + of unnatural crime, +006:010 nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted + to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, + will inherit God's Kingdom. +006:011 And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had + every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: + now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name + of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God. +006:012 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. + Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I + become a slave. +006:013 Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach + is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. + Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, + but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body; +006:014 and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He + will also raise us up. +006:015 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I + then take away the members of Christ and make them the members + of a prostitute? No, indeed. +006:016 Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is + one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one." +006:017 But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit. +006:018 Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits + lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins + against his own body. +006:019 Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary + of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you + have from God? +006:020 And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at + infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies. +007:001 I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. + It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage. +007:002 But because there is so much fornication every man should have + a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband. +007:003 Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay + her husband his. +007:004 A married woman is not mistress of her own person: + her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man + is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights. +007:005 Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time + and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves + to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary + begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control. +007:006 Thus much in the way of concession, not of command. +007:007 Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us + has his own special gift from God--one in one direction + and one in another. +007:008 But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it + is well for them to remain as I am. +007:009 If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let + them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion. +007:010 But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, + but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband; +007:011 or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she + is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send + away his wife. +007:012 To the rest it is I who speak--not the Lord. If a brother has + a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, + let him not send her away. +007:013 And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents + to live with her, let her not separate from him. +007:014 For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is-- + holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving + wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. + Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they + have a place among God's people. +007:015 If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him + or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man + or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace. +007:016 For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you + will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, + as to whether you will save your wife? +007:017 Only, whatever be the condition in life which the Lord has + assigned to each individual--and whatever the condition in which + he was living when God called him--in that let him continue. +007:018 This is what I command in all the Churches. Was any one + already circumcised when called? Let him not have recourse + to the surgeons. Was any one uncircumcised when called? + Let him remain uncircumcised. +007:019 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: + obedience to God's commandments is everything. +007:020 Whatever be the condition in life in which a man was, + when he was called, in that let him continue. +007:021 Were you a slave when God called you? Let not that weigh + on your mind. And yet if you can get your freedom, + take advantage of the opportunity. +007:022 For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's + freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, + becomes the slave of Christ. +007:023 You have all been redeemed at infinite cost: do not become + slaves to men. +007:024 Where each one stood when he was called, there, brethren, let him + still stand--close to God. +007:025 Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from + the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, + through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence. +007:026 I think then that, taking into consideration the distress + which is now upon us, it is well for a man to remain as he is. +007:027 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. + Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife. +007:028 Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, + she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have + outward trouble. But I am for sparing you. +007:029 Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened-- + so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though + they had none, +007:030 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice + as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they + did not possess, +007:031 and those who use the world as not using it to the full. + For the world as it now exists is passing away. +007:032 And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. + An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business-- + how he shall please the Lord; +007:033 but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world-- + how he shall please his wife. +007:034 There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. + She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business-- + that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married + woman concerns herself with the business of the world-- + how she shall please her husband. +007:035 Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, + but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait + on the Lord without distraction. +007:036 If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his + still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, + and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; + he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry. +007:037 But if a father stands firm in his resolve, being free from + all external constraint and having a legal right to act + as he pleases, and in his own mind has come to the decision + to keep his daughter unmarried, he will do well. +007:038 So that he who gives his daughter in marriage does well, + and yet he who does not give her in marriage will do better. +007:039 A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period + that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty + to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian. +007:040 But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she + remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God. +008:001 Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. + This is a subject which we already understand--because we + all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make + people conceited; it is love that builds us up. +008:002 If any one imagines that he already possesses any true knowledge, + he has as yet attained to no knowledge of the kind to which + he ought to have attained; +008:003 but if any one loves God, that man is known by God. +008:004 As to eating things which have been sacrificed to idols, + we are fully aware that an idol is nothing in the world, + and that there is no God but One. +008:005 For if so-called gods do exist, either in Heaven or on earth-- + and in fact there are many such gods and many such lords-- +008:006 yet *we* have but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things + and for whose service we exist, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, + through whom we and all things exist. +008:007 But all believers do not recognize these facts. Some, from force + of habit in relation to the idol, even now eat idol sacrifices + as such, and their consciences, being but weak, are polluted. +008:008 It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us + into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we + abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it. +008:009 But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance + to the progress of weak believers. +008:010 For if any one were to see you, who know the real truth + of this matter, reclining at table in an idol's temple, + would not his conscience (supposing him to be a weak believer) + be emboldened to eat the food which has been sacrificed + to the idol? +008:011 Why, your knowledge becomes the ruin of the weak believer-- + your brother, for whom Christ died! +008:012 Moreover when you thus sin against the brethren and wound their + weak consciences, you are, in reality, sinning against Christ. +008:013 Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again + to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, + for fear I should cause my brother to fall. +009:001 Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I + have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work + in the Lord? +009:002 If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; + for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal + of my Apostleship. +009:003 That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me. +009:004 Have we not a right to claim food and drink? +009:005 Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian + sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do-- + and the Lord's brothers and Peter? +009:006 Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty + to give up working with our hands? +009:007 What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants + a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? + Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk? +009:008 Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? + Does not the Law speak in the same tone? +009:009 For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle + an ox while it is treading out the grain." +009:010 Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our + interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, + because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, + and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing + that which comes as the result. +009:011 If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great + thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you? +009:012 If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess + it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, + but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in + the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ. +009:013 Do you not know that those who perform the sacred rites have + their food from the sacred place, and that those who serve + at the altar all alike share with the altar? +009:014 In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim + the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News. +009:015 But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full + rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that + object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather + die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one. +009:016 If I go on preaching the Good News, that is nothing for me + to boast of; for the necessity is imposed upon me; and alas + for me, if I fail to preach it! +009:017 And if I preach willingly, I receive my wages; but if against + my will, a stewardship has nevertheless been entrusted to me. +009:018 What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News + which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot + be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher. +009:019 Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave + of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible. +009:020 To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; + to men under the Law as if I were under the Law--although I am not-- + in order to win those who are under the Law; +009:021 to men without Law as if I were without Law--although I am not + without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law-- + in order to win those who are without Law. +009:022 To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak. + To all men I have become all things, in the hope that in every + one of these ways I may save some. +009:023 And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I + may share with my hearers in its benefits. +009:024 Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, + but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, + in order to win with certainty. +009:025 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices + abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for + the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake + of securing one that will not perish. +009:026 That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. + I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air, +009:027 but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off + into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, + I should myself be rejected. +010:001 For I would have you remember, brethren, how our forefathers + were all of them sheltered by the cloud, and all got safely + through the Red Sea. +010:002 All were baptized in the cloud and in the sea to be + followers of Moses. +010:003 All ate the same spiritual food, +010:004 and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank + the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them-- + and that rock was the Christ. +010:005 But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they + were laid low in the Desert. +010:006 And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to + be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil. +010:007 And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. + For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, + and stood up to dance." +010:008 Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed + fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead. +010:009 And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested + Him and were destroyed by the serpents. +010:010 And do not be discontented, as some of them were, and they + were destroyed by the Destroyer. +010:011 All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; + but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom + the ends of the Ages have come. +010:012 So then let him who thinks he is standing securely beware of falling. +010:013 No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to + human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be + tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, + He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be + able to bear it. +010:014 Therefore, my dear friends, avoid all connection with the + worship of idols. +010:015 I speak as to men of sense: judge for yourselves of what I say. +010:016 The cup of blessing, which we bless, does it not mean + a joint-participation in the blood of Christ? The loaf of + bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation + in the body of Christ? +010:017 Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, + share in that one loaf. +010:018 Look at the Israelites--the nation and their ritual. + Are not those who eat the sacrifices joint-partakers + in the altar? +010:019 Do I mean that a thing sacrificed to an idol is what it claims + to be, or that an idol is a real thing? +010:020 No, but that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice + to demons, not to God; and I would not have you have fellowship + with one another through the demons. +010:021 You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons: + you cannot be joint-partakers both in the table of the Lord + and in the table of demons. +010:022 Or are we actually arousing the Lord to jealousy. + Are we stronger than He is? +010:023 Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. + Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up. +010:024 Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek + that of his fellow man. +010:025 Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask + no questions for conscience' sake; +010:026 for the earth is the Lord's, and all that it contains. +010:027 If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed + to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no + questions for conscience' sake. +010:028 But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice;" + abstain from eating it--out of respect for him who warned you, + and, as before, for conscience' sake. +010:029 But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground," + you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action + to be decided by a conscience not my own? +010:030 If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, + why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for + which I give thanks?" +010:031 Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you + are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God. +010:032 Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, + nor to the Church of God. +010:033 That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval + of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, + in the hope that they may be saved. +011:001 Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ. +011:002 Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, + and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I + have taught them to you. +011:003 I would have you know, however, that of every man, + Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, + and that God is Christ's Head. +011:004 A man who wears a veil when praying or prophesying dishonors his Head; +011:005 but a woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered + dishonors her Head, for it is exactly the same as if she + had her hair cut short. +011:006 If a woman will not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair. + But since it is a dishonor to a woman to have her hair cut + off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil. +011:007 For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is + the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man. +011:008 Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes + hers from man. +011:009 For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's. +011:010 That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol + of subjection, because of the angels. +011:011 Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man + independent of woman. +011:012 For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes + into existence through woman, but everything springs + originally from God. +011:013 Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman + to pray to God when she is unveiled? +011:014 Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair + it is a dishonor to him, +011:015 but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory, because her + hair was given her for a covering? +011:016 But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, + we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God. +011:017 But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing + I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather + than good results. +011:018 for, in the first place, when you meet as a Church, + there are divisions among you. This is what I am told, + and I believe that there is some truth in it. +011:019 For there must of necessity be differences of opinion among you, + in order that it may be plainly seen who are the men of sterling + worth among you. +011:020 When, however, you meet in one place, there is no eating + the Supper of the Lord; +011:021 for it is his own supper of which each of you is in a hurry + to partake, and one eats like a hungry man, while another has + already drunk to excess. +011:022 Why, have you no homes in which to eat and drink? + Or do you wish to show your contempt for the Church + of God and make those who have no homes feel ashamed? + What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter + I certainly do not praise you. +011:023 For it was from the Lord that I received the facts which, + in turn, I handed on to you; how that the Lord Jesus, + on the night He was to be betrayed, took some bread, +011:024 and after giving thanks He broke it and said, "This is my body + which is about to be broken for you. Do this in memory of me." +011:025 In the same way, when the meal was over, He also took the cup. + "This cup," He said, "is the new Covenant of which my blood + is the pledge. Do this, every time that you drink it, + in memory of me." +011:026 For every time that you eat this bread and drink from the cup, + you are proclaiming the Lord's death--until He returns. +011:027 Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread + or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body + and blood of the Lord. +011:028 But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, + then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup. +011:029 For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement + to himself, if he fails to estimate the body aright. +011:030 That is why many among you are sickly and out of health, + and why not a few die. +011:031 If, however, we estimated ourselves aright, we should + not be judged. +011:032 But when we are judged by the Lord, chastisement follows, + to save us from being condemned along with the world. +011:033 Therefore, brethren, when you come together for this meal, + wait for one another. +011:034 If any one is hungry, let him eat at home; so that your coming + together may not lead to judgement. The other matters I + will deal with whenever I come. +012:001 It is important, brethren, that you should have clear knowledge + on the subject of spiritual gifts. +012:002 You know that when you were heathens you went astray after + dumb idols, wherever you happened to be led. +012:003 For this reason I would have you understand that no one + speaking under the influence of The Spirit of God ever says, + "Jesus is accursed," and that no one is able to say, "Jesus is Lord," + except under the influence of the Holy Spirit. +012:004 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but there is one and + the same Spirit; +012:005 various forms of official service, and yet one and the same Lord; +012:006 diversities in work, and yet one and the same God--He who in + each person brings about the whole result. +012:007 But to each of us a manifestation of the Spirit has been + granted for the common good. +012:008 To one the utterance of wisdom has been granted through the Spirit; + to another the utterance of knowledge in accordance with + the will of the same Spirit; +012:009 to a third man, by means of the same Spirit, special faith; + to another various gifts of healing, by means of the one Spirit; +012:010 to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another + the gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating + between prophetic utterances; to another varieties of the gift + of `tongues;' to another the interpretation of tongues. +012:011 But these results are all brought about by one and the same Spirit, + who bestows His gifts upon each of us in accordance with + His own will. +012:012 For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, + and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, + so it is with the Church of Christ. +012:013 For, in fact, in one Spirit all of us--whether we are Jews + or Gentiles, slaves or free men--were baptized to form but one body; + and we were all nourished by that one Spirit. +012:014 For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many. +012:015 Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part + of the body," that would not make it any the less a part + of the body. +012:016 Or were the ear to say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not + a part of the body," that would not make it any the less + a part of the body. +012:017 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? + If the whole body were an ear, where would the nostrils be? +012:018 But, as a matter of fact, God has arranged the parts in the body-- + every one of them--as He has seen fit. +012:019 If they were all one part, where would the body be? +012:020 But, as a matter of fact, there are many parts and but one body. +012:021 It is also impossible for the eye to say to the hand, + "I do not need you;" or again for the head to say to the feet, + "I do not need you." +012:022 No, it is quite otherwise. Even those parts of the body + which are apparently somewhat feeble are yet indispensable; +012:023 and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more + abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have + a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have + everything they need. +012:024 But it was God who built up the body, and bestowed more abundant + honor on the part that felt the need, +012:025 that there might be no disunion in the body, but that all + the members might entertain the same anxious care for + one another's welfare. +012:026 And if one part is suffering, every other part suffers with it; + or if one part is receiving special honor, every other part + shares in the joy. +012:027 As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you + are members of it. +012:028 And by God's appointment there are in the Church-- + first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. + Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure + diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, + or varieties of the gift of `tongues.' +012:029 Are all Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all teachers? +012:030 Have all miraculous powers? Have all ability to cure diseases? + Do all speak in `tongues'? Do all interpret? +012:031 But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will + point out to you a way of life which transcends all others. +013:001 If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am + destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet + or a clanging cymbal. +013:002 If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries + and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can + remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing. +013:003 And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, + and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, + it profits me nothing. +013:004 Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. + Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited. +013:005 She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, + nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs. +013:006 She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully + sides with the truth. +013:007 She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, + full of patient endurance. +013:008 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be + done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; + if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end. +013:009 For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying; +013:010 but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is + imperfect will be brought to an end. +013:011 When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, + reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from + me childish ways. +013:012 For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; + but then we shall see them face to face. For the present + the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, + even as I am fully known. +013:013 And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; + and of these the greatest is Love. +014:001 Be eager in your pursuit of this Love, and be earnestly ambitious + for spiritual gifts, but let it be chiefly so in order + that you may prophesy. +014:002 For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men, + but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit + he is speaking secret truths. +014:003 But he who prophesies speaks to men words of edification, + encouragement and comfort. +014:004 He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself, + but he who prophesies does good to the Church. +014:005 I should be right glad were you all to speak in `tongues,' + but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact, + the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in `tongues,' + except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church + may get a blessing. +014:006 But, brethren, as things are, if I come to you speaking in `tongues,' + what benefit shall I confer on you, if the utterance is neither + in the form of a revelation nor of additional knowledge nor + of prophecy nor of teaching? +014:007 Even inanimate things--flutes or harps, for instance-- + when yielding a sound, if they make no distinction in the notes, + how shall the tune which is played on the flute or the + harp be known? +014:008 If the bugle--to take another example--gives an uncertain sound, + who will prepare for battle? +014:009 And so with you; if with the living voice you fail to utter + intelligible words, how will people know what you are saying? + You will be talking to the winds. +014:010 There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages + in the world, and no creature is without a language. +014:011 If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, + I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely + talking some foreign tongue. +014:012 Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, + seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church. +014:013 Therefore let a man who has the gift of tongues pray for the power + of interpreting them. +014:014 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my + understanding is barren. +014:015 How then does the matter stand? I will pray in spirit, + and I will pray with my understanding also. I will praise God + in spirit, and I will praise Him with my understanding also. +014:016 Otherwise, if you bless God in spirit only, how shall he who is + in the position of an ungifted man say the `Amen' to your giving + of thanks, when he does not know what your words mean? +014:017 Rightly enough you are giving thanks, and yet your neighbor + is not benefited. +014:018 I speak in a tongue, thank God, more than all of you; +014:019 but in the Church I would rather speak five words with + my understanding--so as to instruct others also--than ten + thousand words in an unknown tongue. +014:020 Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. + As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards + your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years. +014:021 In the Law it stands written, "`By men of unknown tongues and + by the lips of an unknown nation will I speak to this People, + but even then they will not listen to Me', says the Lord." +014:022 This shows that the gift of tongues is intended as a sign + not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but prophecy + is intended not for unbelievers but for those who believe. +014:023 Accordingly if the whole Church has assembled and all are speaking + in `tongues,' and there come in ungifted men, or unbelievers, + will they not say that you are all mad? +014:024 If, on the other hand, every one is prophesying and an unbeliever + or an ungifted man comes in, he is convicted by all and closely + examined by all, +014:025 and the hidden evils of his heart are brought to light. + And, as the result, he will fall on his face and worship God, + and will report to others that of a truth God is among you. +014:026 What then, brethren? Whenever you assemble, there is not + one of you who is not ready either with a song of praise, + a sermon, a revelation, a `tongue,' or an interpretation. + Let everything be done with a view to the building up + of faith and character. +014:027 If there is speaking in an unknown tongue, only two or at the most + three should speak, and they should do so one at a time, + and one should interpret; +014:028 or if there is no interpreter, let the man with the gift + be silent in the Church, speaking to himself and to God. +014:029 But if there are Prophets, let two or three speak and let + the rest judge. +014:030 And if anything is revealed to some one else who is seated there, + let the first be silent. +014:031 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn + and all be encouraged: +014:032 and the spirits of Prophets yield submission to Prophets. +014:033 For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace, as He is in all + the Churches of His people. +014:034 Let married women be silent in the Churches, for they are not + permitted to speak. They must be content with a subordinate place, + as the Law also says; +014:035 and if they wish to ask questions, they should ask their own + husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a married woman + to speak at a Church assembly. +014:036 Was it from you that God's Message first went forth, or is it + to you only that it has come? +014:037 If any one deems himself to be a Prophet or a man with + spiritual gifts, let him recognize as the Lord's command + all that I am now writing to you. +014:038 But if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant. +014:039 The conclusion, my brethren, is this. Be earnestly ambitious + to prophesy, and do not check speaking with tongues; +014:040 only let everything be done in a becoming and orderly manner. +015:001 But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I + brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing, +015:002 through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear + in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed + your faith has been unreal from the very first. +015:003 For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I + had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance + with the Scriptures; +015:004 that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third + day in accordance with the Scriptures, +015:005 and was seen by Peter, and then by the Twelve. +015:006 Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren + at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them + have now fallen asleep. +015:007 Afterwards He was seen by James, and then by all the Apostles. +015:008 And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared + to me also. +015:009 For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called + an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God. +015:010 But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace + bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored + more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, + but God's grace working with me. +015:011 But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and + the way that you came to believe. +015:012 But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, + how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing + as a resurrection of the dead? +015:013 If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, + then Christ Himself has not risen to life. +015:014 And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach + is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion. +015:015 Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false + witness about God, because we have testified that God raised + Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none + of the dead are raised. +015:016 For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ + has not risen; +015:017 and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing-- + you are still in your sins. +015:018 It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in + Christ have perished. +015:019 If in this present life we have a *hope* resting on Christ, + and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest + of the world. +015:020 But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, + being the first to do so of those who are asleep. +015:021 For seeing that death came through man, through man comes + also the resurrection of the dead. +015:022 For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all + will be made alive again. +015:023 But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having + been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising + at His return. +015:024 Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship + to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other + government and all other authority and power. +015:025 For He must continue King until He shall have put all His + enemies under His feet. +015:026 The last enemy that is to be overthrown is Death; +015:027 for He will have put all things in subjection under His feet. + And when He shall have declared that "All things are in subjection," + it will be with the manifest exception of Him who has reduced + them all to subjection to Him. +015:028 But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, + then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has + made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be + all in all. +015:029 Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves + baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, + why are these baptized for them? +015:030 Why also do we Apostles expose ourselves to danger every hour? +015:031 I protest, brethren, as surely as I glory over you-- + which I may justly do in Christ Jesus our Lord--that I die + day by day. +015:032 If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts + in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, + let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die. +015:033 Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships + corrupt good morals." +015:034 Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; + for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order + to move you to shame. +015:035 But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? + And with what kind of body do they come back?" +015:036 Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it + unless it first dies; +015:037 and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be + that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be) + or of something else, and God gives it a body as He has seen fit, +015:038 and to each kind of seed a body of its own. +015:039 All flesh is not the same: there is human flesh, and flesh + of cattle, of birds, and of fishes. +015:040 There are bodies which are celestial and there are bodies which + are earthly, but the glory of the celestial ones is one thing, + and that of the earthly ones is another. +015:041 There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another + of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. +015:042 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body + is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay; +015:043 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown + in weakness, it is raised in power; +015:044 an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised. + As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also + a spiritual body. +015:045 In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became + a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit. +015:046 Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, + but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards. +015:047 The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man + is from Heaven. +015:048 What the earthy one is, that also are those who are earthy; + and what the heavenly One is, that also are those who are heavenly. +015:049 And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us + see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One. +015:050 But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot + inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable + inherit what is imperishable. +015:051 I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, + but we shall all be changed, +015:052 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding + of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead + will be raised incapable of decay, and *we* shall be changed. +015:053 For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself + with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe + itself with immortality. +015:054 But when this perishable nature has put on what is imperishable, + and this mortality has put on immortality, then will the words + of Scripture be fulfilled, "Death has been swallowed + up in victory." +015:055 "Where, O death, is thy victory? Where, O death, is thy sting?" +015:056 Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power + from the Law; +015:057 but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our + Lord Jesus Christ! +015:058 Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied + at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil + is not fruitless in the Lord. +016:001 As to the collection for God's people, what I have directed + the Churches of Galatia to do, you must do also. +016:002 On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side + and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; + so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on. +016:003 And when I am with you, whatever brethren you accredit by letter + I will send to carry your kind gift to Jerusalem. +016:004 And if it is worth while for me also to make the journey, + they shall go as my companions. +016:005 I shall come to you after passing through Macedonia; + for my plan will be to pass through Macedonia; +016:006 and I shall make some stay with you perhaps, or even spend + the winter with you, in order that you may help me forward, + whichever way I travel. +016:007 For I do not wish to see you on this occasion merely in passing; + but if the Lord permits, I hope to remain some time with you. +016:008 I shall remain in Ephesus, however, until the time of + the Harvest Festival, +016:009 for a wide door stands open before me which demands great efforts, + and we have many opponents. +016:010 If Timothy pays you a visit, see that he is free from fear + in his relations with you; for he is engaged in the Master's + work just as I am. +016:011 Therefore let no one slight him, but all of you should help + him forward in peace to join me; for I am waiting for him + and others of the brethren. +016:012 As for our brother Apollos, I have repeatedly urged + him to accompany the brethren who are coming to you: + but he is quite resolved not to do so at present. + He will come, however, when he has a good opportunity. +016:013 Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves + like men; be strong. +016:014 Let all that you do be done from motives of love. +016:015 And I beseech you, brethren--you know the household of Stephanas, + how they were the earliest Greek converts to Christ, + and have devoted themselves to the service of God's people-- +016:016 I beseech you, on your part, to show deference to such men, + and to every one who participates in their work and toils hard. +016:017 It is a joy to me that Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus + have now arrived, because what was wanting so far as you + are concerned they have supplied. +016:018 They have refreshed my spirit, and yours. Acknowledge such + men as these. +016:019 The Churches in the province of Asia send you greetings; + and Aquila and Prisca, in hearty Christian love, do the same, + together with the Church which meets at their house. +016:020 The brethren all send greetings to you. Greet one another + with a holy kiss. +016:021 The final greeting of me--Paul--with my own hand. +016:022 If any one is destitute of love to the Lord, let him be accursed. + OUR LORD IS COMING. +016:023 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. +016:024 My love in Christ Jesus be with you all. + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians *** + +This file should be named wnt0710.txt or wnt0710.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, wnt0711.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, wnt0710a.txt + +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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