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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. 14 If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon: he shall receive a reward.

15 If any man's work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.

17 But if any man violate the temple of God; him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy; which you are.

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.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.

20 And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

21 Let no man therefore glory in

men.

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:

23 And you are Christ's: and Christ is God's.

CHAP. IV.
God's ministers are not to be judged.
LET a man so account of us as

of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God. 2 Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man bé found faithful.

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 For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am. I not hereby justified: but he that judg eth me, is the Lord.

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.

6 But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to niyself 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.

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?

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.

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,

10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.

11 Even unto this hour we both

hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode,

12 And we labour working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

13 We are blasphemed, and we

of God's judgment shall try every man's works: And they, whose works, like wood, hay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works being found to be of no va lue: 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 much 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.

intreati: 1: we are made as the refuse the spirit may be saved in the day of this world, the off-scouring of all of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. even until now.

14 I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children:

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.

16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

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. 18 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

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.

20 For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

21 What will you? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness? CHAP. V.

He excommunicates the incestuous.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our pasch, is sacrificed.

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.

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.

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 an one not so much as to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within? 13 For them, that are without,

IT is absolutely heard that there God will judge. Put away the evil is fornication among you, and one from among yourselves. such fornication, as the like is not CHAP. VI. among the heathens; that one He blames them for going to law bęshould have his father's wife. fore unbelievers.

2 And you are puffed up; and DARE any of you, having a

have not rather mourned, that he matter against another, go to might be taken away from among be judged before the unjust, and you, that hath done this deed. not before the saints?

3 I indeed absent in body, but 2. Know you not that the saints present in spirit, have already judg-shall judge this world? And if the ed, as though I were present, him world shall be judged by you are that hath so done, you unworthy to judge the smallest matters ?

4 In the name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, you being gathered to- 3 Know you not that we shall gether and my spirit, with the judge angels? how much more power of our Lord JESUS ; things of this world. 5 To deliver such a one to satan 4 If therefore you have judgments for the destruction of the flesh, that of things pertaining to this world,

set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

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 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers?

Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot ? God forbid.

16 Or know you not, that he who is joined to an harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

17 But he, who is joined to the Already indeed there is plainly Lord, is one spirit.

a fault among you, that you have 18 Fly fornication. Every sin lawsuits one with another. Why that a man doth, is without the bodo you not rather take wrong? dy but he that committeth forni why do you not rather suffer your cation, sinneth against his own selves to be defrauded!

8 But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren.

9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God: Do not err: Neither fornicaters, nor idolators, nor adulterers.

10 Nor the effeminate, nor liars with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.

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.

12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but 1 Il not be brought under the power f any,

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.

14 Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by his power.

body.

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?

20 For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

CHAP. VII.

Lessons relating to marriage, &c.

NOW concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2 But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

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.

5 Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer and return together 15 Know you not, that your bo- again, lest satan tempt you for your dies are the members of Christ? incontinency.

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Ver. 7. A fault. Lawsuits can hardly ever be without a fault on one side or the other; and oftentimes on both sides.

Ver. 2. 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, v. 8. But he speaks here to them that are already married; who must not depart from one another, nor refuse the marriage debt one to another.

6. But I speak this by indulgence, whether thou shalt save thy wife? not by commandment,

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. 8 But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: it is good for them if they so continue, even as I.

9 But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

10 But to them, that are married, not I, but the Lord commandet!, that the wife depart not from her husband.

11 And if she depart, that she remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.

12 For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother have a wife that believeth not, and she consent to dwell with him; let him not put her away,

13 And if any woman have a husband that believeth not, and he consent to dwell with her; let her not put away her husband.

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.

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.

16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, Ŏ man,

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.

18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observation of the commandments of God.

20 Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called. 21 Wast thou called,being a bondman? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a bond-man, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called being free, is the bond-man of Christ.

23 You are bought with a price, be not made the bond slaves of men.

24 Brethren, let every man wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

: 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.

26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.

27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

28 But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: never

Ver. 6. By indulgence. That is, by a condescension to your weakness.

Ver. 9. If they do not contain, &c. 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. The Protestants have corrupted this text, by rendering it, if they cannot contain.

Ver. 12. I speak, not the Lord, viz. By an express commandment or ordinance.

Ver. 14. Is sanctified. The meaning is not that the faith of the husband or the wife is o itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace and sa vation: but that it is very often an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to thes true faith.

theless, such shall have tribulation in his heart, to keep his virgin, of the flesh. But 1 spare you.

doth well.

29 This therefore I say,brethren: 38 Therefore both he that giveth the time is short: it remaineth, his virgin in marriage, doth well: that they also who have wives, be and he that giveth her not, doth as if they had none : better.

30 And they that weep, as though| they wept not and they that reoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as thougn tney possessed not:

31 And they that use this world, as if they used it not for the fashion of this world passeth away. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CHAP. VIII.

Things offered to idols not to be eaten.

NOW concerning those things

that are sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up; but charity edifieth.

2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know.

3 But if any man love God, the same is known by him.

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.

5 For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven, or on earth (for there be gods many, and

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 impe-lords many :) diment.

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.

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.

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,

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 is defiled.'.

Ver. 36. Let him do what he will, he sinneth not, &c. 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.

Ver. 1. Knowledge puffeth up, &c. Knowledge, without charity and humility, serveth only to puff persons up.

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