and the comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. 5 Now may the God of patience and of comfort grant to you to be of the same mind one toward another according to Christ Jesus, 6 that with one mind you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also received way. 14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself, but to him that thinks that anything is unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest according to love. Do not by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died. 16 Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of. 17 For the king-you, to the glory of God. 8 For I dom of God is not eating and drink- say that Christ became a minister ing, but righteousness and peace and of the circumcision for the truth of joy in the Holy Spirit; 18 for he God, that he might confirm the that in this serves Christ is accepta- promises made to the fathers, 9 and ble to God and approved by men. that the Gentiles might glorify God 19 So, then, let us pursue the things for his mercy, as it is written: For of peace, and things by which we this cause will I give thanks to thee may edify one another. 20 Do not among the Gentiles, and to thy name for the sake of meat overthrow the will I sing. 10 And again he says: work of God. All things, indeed, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his peoare clean; but it is evil for the man ple. 11 And again: Praise the Lord, that eats so as to give offense: 21 it all you Gentiles, and applaud him, is good not to eat flesh, neither to all you peoples. 12 And again Isaiah drink wine, nor anything by which says: There shall be a root of Jesse, thy brother stumbles. 22 The faith and he that rises to rule the Genthat thou hast, have thou to thyself tiles; in him shall Gentiles hope. 13 in the sight of God. Blessed is he Now may the God of hope fill you that judges not himself in that with all joy and peace in believwhich he allows; 23 but he that ing, in order that you may abound doubts is condemned if he eat, be- in hope in the power of the Holy cause he eats not from faith; and Spirit. everything that is not from faith is sin. 14 Now, my brethren, I am persuaded, even I myself, concerning you, that you also yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15 I have, however, written more boldly to you, brethren, in some measure, as putting you in mind because of the grace that is given to me by God, 16 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest in the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gen tiles might become acceptable, being ing to you I shall come in the fulsanctified in the Holy Spirit. 17 Iness of the blessing of Christ. 30 have, therefore, my boasting in But I beseech you, brethren, through Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God; 18 for I will not dare to speak of any of the things that Christ did not work through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. 20 But so making it a point of honor, I have preached the gospel not where Christ was named, that I might not build on another's foundation, 21 but as it is written: They to whom no message came concerning him, shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand. no our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me, 31 that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32 that, coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed. 33 The God of peace be with you all. Amen. 161 I commend to you Phebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church that is in Cenchrea, 2 that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she has been a helper of many, of myself also. 22 For which cause also I have been hindered many times from coming to you; 23 but now, 3 Salute Prisca and Aquila, my longer having a place in these parts, fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus, 4 and having for many years a strong who for my life laid down their desire to come to you, 24 whenever own necks, to whom not I only give I take my journey into Spain; for thanks, but all the churches of the I hope, in passing through, to see Gentiles: 5 salute also the church you, and by you to be sent forward that is in their house. Salute Epethither, if first I may be in some netus, my beloved, who is the firstmeasure filled with you. 25 But now fruits of Asia to Christ. 6 Salute I am going to Jerusalem, minister- Mary, who labored much for us. ing to the saints. 26 For Macedonia 7 Salute Andronicus and Junias, and Achaia have been pleased to my kinsmen and my fellow-prisonmake a contribution for the poor of ers, who are well known among the the saints that are in Jerusalem. 27 apostles, who also were in Christ For they have been pleased, and before me. 8 Salute Amplias, my their debtors they are; for, if the beloved in the Lord. 9 Salute UrGentiles have shared in their spirit- banus, my fellow-laborer in Christ, ual things, they ought also to min- and Stachys, my beloved. 10 Salute ister to them in carnal things. 28 Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute Having, therefore, performed this, those who are of the household of and having secured to them this Aristobulus. 11 Salute Herodion fruit, I will return through you into my kinsman. Salute those who are Spain; 29 but I know that in com- of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. 12 Salute Try-gard to that which is evil. 20 And phæna and Tryphosa, who labored in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord. 13 Salute Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 14 SaluteAsyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren that are with them. 15 Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with them. 16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you. 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those that cause divisions and offenses contrary to the teaching that you learned, and turn away from them; 18 for such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and through good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19 For your obedience has come abroad to all; I therefore rejoice over you: I desire, however, that you be wise in regard to that which is good, but harmless in re 1 the God of peace will bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 21 Timothy my fellow-laborer salutes you: Lucius also, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsman. 22 I Tertius, who wrote the letter, salute you in the Lord. 23 Gaius my host, and the host of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you; and Quartus, our brother. 25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my_gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept in silence during eternal times, 26 but is now made manifest, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith among all nations, 27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ: to whom be glory through the ages. Amen. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS-I. 1 Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes my brother, 2 to the church of God that is in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God always on your account for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge. 6 inasmuch as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son. Jesus Christ our Lord. 10 But I exhort you, brethren, through 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 perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 And I say this, that each of you says: I am of Paul, and, I of Apollos, and, I of Cephas, and, I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized into the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized no one of you except Crispus and Gaius: 15 that no one might say that you were baptized into my name. 16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides I know not whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to those that perish foolishness, but to those that are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the prudence of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world, through wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those that believe: 22 since Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek for wisdom, 23 we, however, preach Christ crucified, to Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to these the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom; 25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 27 but the foolish things of the world has God chosen, that he may shame the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may shame the strong, 28 and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, things that are not, that he may bring to nought things that are, 29 to the end that no flesh should glory in the sight of God. 30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption, 31 that as it is written: He that glories, in the Lord let him glory. 21 And I, brethren, on coming to you, came not according to excellence of speech or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in great trembling; 4 and my speech and what I preached was not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 Wisdom, however, we do speak among the perfect, yet wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are brought to naught; 7 3 able; 3 for you are yet carnal. For whereas there is among you envy and strife, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to man? 4 For when one says: I am of Paul; and another: I of Apollos, are you not men? 5 Who, then, is Apollos? and who is Paul? Ministers through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God made to grow: 7 so, then, neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters, but he that makes to grow, who is God. 8 Now, he that plants and he that waters are one, but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow-laborers: God's field, God's building are you. 10 According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon it. But let each one take heed how he builds upon it. 11 For other foundation no one can lay beside that which is laid. which is Christ Jesus. 12 Now, if any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 each man's work shall become manifest; for the day shall make it known, because it is revealed in fire; and each one's work, what kind it is, the fire itself 16 shall prove. 14 If any one's work shall abide, which he has built on this, he shall receive a reward: 15 if any one's work shall be burned.. he shall suffer loss, but himself shall be saved, so, however, as through fire. 1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to flesh, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not 16 Know you not that you are with meat; for you were not yet the temple of God, and the Spirit able No, not even yet now are you of God dwells in you? 17 If any |