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abroad to all; I therefore rejoice on your account, and wish -you to be indeed wise for good, and without any mixture of 20 evil. And the God of peace will soon bruise satan under your feet.

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The favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Timothy, my fellow labourer, and Lucius, and Jason, and 22 Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. I, Tertius, the writer of 23 this letter, salute you in the Lord. Gaius, who entertaineth me and the whole congregation, saluteth you. Erastus, the chamberlain of the city, saluteth you: so doth Quartus the brother. The favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my glad tidings and the proclamation of Jesus Christ-according 26 to the disclosure of a secret which was concealed in times of

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old, but which is now laid open, and by prophetic writings made known to all the nations, according to an order of the 27 everlasting God, for the obedience of belief-to the only wise God be the glory forever, through Jesus Christ. Amen.

THE FIRST EPISTLE

OF THE

APOSTLE PAUL

TO THE

CORINTHIANS.

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PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will 2 of God, and Sosthenes the brother, to the congregation of God which is at Corinth-to them who are hallowed by Christ Jesus-called to be holy, together with all those in every place 3 who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: favour be to you, and peace from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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I thank my God always with respect to you, for the favour of God which is granted you by Christ Jesus, that in every 5 thing you have been enriched by him with all doctrine and 6 with all knowledge, in the same manner as the, testimony of

Christ was confirmed among you; so that you are not deficient 7 in any gift during your waiting for the full manifestation of 8 our Lord Jesus Christ, who will confirm you to the end, exempt from accusation in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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God is faithful by whom you have been called to a fellowship in his son, Jesus Christ our Lord. And I intreat you, brethren, 10 by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same sen11 timent. For I am informed respecting you, my brethren, by

some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you; 12 I mean this, that every one of you saith, I am for Paul; and I 13 am for Apollos'; and I for Cephas; and I for Christ. Is the

Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you

14 baptized to the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized

none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, that none might say 15 that I baptized to my own name. I baptized also the house16 hold of Stephanas. I do not recollect that I baptized any other. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the

glad tidings, not with wisdom of speech, that the cross of the 18 Christ might not be rendered useless. For this doctrine (the

doctrine of the cross) is foolishness to them who perish; but 19 to us who are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,

And abolish the understanding of the prudent."*

20 Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be 21 folly? For when, amidst the wisdom of God, the world did not,

by means of that wisdom, know God; it pleased God by the 22 foolishness of this proclamation to save them who believe; so

when the Jews demand a sign and the Greeks seek wisdom, 23 as for us, we proclaim a crucified Christ-to the Jews indeed 24 a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them 25 who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of

God and the wisdom of God; because this foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and this weak thing of God is stronger 26 than men. For observe, brethren, this call of you, that there

are not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many 27 of illustrious birth; but God hath chosen the foolish things of

the world to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the 28 world God hath made choice of to put to shame the strong

and the ignoble of this world, and those of no account, God 29 hath chosen-nay, the very nothings, to put a stop to the ope

ration of the things which are, that no flesh might boast in 30 his presence. And it is owing to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who hath been made to us wisdom from God, namely, 31 righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, so that as it is written, Let him who boasteth boast in the Lord."+

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Now as for me, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come with a pomp of language or of wisdom, announcing to

*Es. 29. 14: † Jer. 9. 24.

2 you the testimony of God; for I determined to know nothing 3 among you but Jesus Christ, even that crucified person; and 4 with regard to myself, I was among you in weakness and in 5 fear, and in great trembling; and my discourse and my pro. clamation was not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, that your belief 6 might not be by the wisdom of men, but by the power of God.

We, however, speak wisdom among them who are perfect, 7 but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the chiefs of this age to whose operations a stop is put; but we speak a mysterious wisdom of God* that hidden (wisdom) which God determinately marks out for the benefit of the ages, to our glory8 which none of the chiefs of this age knew (for had they known 9 it they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory)—things

indeed, which as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived;"+ which God hath pre10 pared for them who love him; and which God hath revealed

to us by his spirit. For this spirit searcheth all things, even 11 the depths of God. For who of mankind knoweth the things of

a man, but only the spirit of the man which is in him? So no 12 one knoweth the things of God, but the spirit of God only. Now we have not received the spirit of this world, but the spirit which is from God, that we may know the things which 13 God hath freely granted to us; which things we indeed speak,

not in set words of human wisdom, but in the dictated words 14 of a holy spirit, explaining spiritual things by spiritual words. Now an animal man receiveth not those dictates of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know 15 them, because they are to be spiritually examined; but the 16 spiritual man examineth all things, and is himself examined.

by no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Who can instruct him? As for us we have the mind of Christ. III. Now with regard to myself, I could not, brethren, speak 1 to you as spiritual, but as carnal men, as babes in Christ. I fed

you with milk, and not with strong food, because you were not arrived at strength; nor are you indeed yet strong, even

*Literally, wisdom of God in a mystery. + Es. 64, 4.

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3 now. For you are yet carnal; for while there is among you

envy and strife and divisions, are you not carnal and walking 4 in the ways of man? For when one saith, I am for Paul; and

another, I am for Apollos, are you not carnal? Who then is Paul? And who is Apollos? Are they any thing but mere dispensers of another's bounty, by whose means you have be6 lieved? Even as the Lord hath given to each, I planted; Apol7 los watered; but God gave the increase. So that neither the planter nor the waterer is any thing; it is God only who giveth 8 growth. Now he who planteth and he who watereth are all

one; and each shall receive his peculiar reward according to 9 his peculiar labour. For we are fellow labourers belonging 10 to God; you are God's field; you are his building. Ac

cording to the favour of God granted to me, I, like a skilful 11 architect, have laid a foundation, and another buildeth upon it. But let every one take heed how he buildeth thereon. For no one can lay any other foundation than that which is laid, 12 which is JESUS THE CHRIST. Now if upon this foundation any one buildeth gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, 13 stubble; the work of every one will be made manifest; for the

day will shew it: Because it is revealed with fire, therefore 14 the fire will prove every one's work of what sort it is. If any 15 one's work which he hath built upon it, shall stand the test,

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he will receive a reward. If any one's work be consumed he will lose that; but he shall himself be saved but so as through fire.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that 17 the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any one corrupt the temple of God, him God will destroy; for the temple of God is holy.

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Whosoever you are, let no one deceive himself. If any one among you seemeth to be wise in this age, let him be19 come a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He en20 tangleth the wise in their craft."* And again, "The Lord 21 knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain."+ So let 22 no one boast in men; for all things are yours: whether Paul, 23 or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things

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