The First Epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the CORINTHIANS. CHAP. I. A. D. 59. PAUL, called a to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and a Ro.1.1. Bosthenes c our brother, b Mat.12.38, 2 Unto the church of God which is at &c. Corinth, e to them f that are sanctified c Ac. 18.17. g in Christ Jesus, called h to be saints, d Is.8.14. with all that in every place call i upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both e Ac.18.1,&c. theirs and ours: f Jude 1. 3 Grace I be unto you, and peace, from g Jno.17.19. God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank m my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, p and in all Knowledge; 6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you. 7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting q for the 1 coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1 Pe.2.8. h 2Ti.1.9. 1Pe.1.15. i 2Ti.2.22. k ver. 18. 7 1Pe.1.2. m Ro.1.8. n Zeph.3.12. Jno.7.48. o Ps.8.2. Mat.11.25. p 2Co.8.7. q Ti.2.13. 2Pe.3.12. 8 Who shall also confirm r you unto the 1 revelation. end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship u of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. r 1Th.3.13. 5.23,24. s Ro.3.27. t 2Co.5.17. Ep.1.3,10. 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the u 1Jno.1.3. name of our Lord Jesus Christ, z that yeu Ep.1.17. all speak the same thing, and that there Col.2.3. De no 2 divisions among you; but that ye w Is.45.24. be perfectly joined together in the same Je.23.5,6. mind and in the same judgment. Ro.4.25. 11 For it hath been declared unto me x Jno.17.19. of you, my brethren, by them which are y Ep.1.7. of the house of Chloe, that there are con-z 2Cor.13.11, tentions among you. 1 Pe.3.8. 12 Now this I say, that every one of you a Je.9.23,24, saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; d2 schisms. and I of Cephas; e and I of Christ. b ver.4,13. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul cruci-c Ga.6.14. fied for you? or were ye baptized in the d Ac.19.1. name of Paul? e Jno.1.42. 3 or, persuasible. 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you but Crispus h and Gaius; i 15 Lest any should say that I had bap-f 2Pe.1.16. tized in mine own name. g 1Th.1.5. 16 And I baptized also the household h Ac.18.8. of Stephanas: k besides, I know not whe-i Ro.16.23. ther I baptized any other. 22 For the Jews require a sign, b and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, d and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the k power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not n many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God o hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are; 29 That s no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus. who of God is made unto us v wisdom, and righteousness, w and sanctification, and redemption: y 31 That, according as it is written, a He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. CHAP. II. AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not b with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save c Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with 3 enticing words of f man's wisdom, but in demonstration g of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not 4 stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them I that are perfect: yet not the wis3Jno.1,&c.dom of this world, nor of the princes of this world that come to m nought: 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, 4 be. but to preach the gospel: not with wisk c.16.15,17. dom n of 5 words, lest the cross of Christ Ph.3.15. should be made of none effect. m Ps.33.10. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to n c.2.1,4,13, them p that perish foolishness; but unto o Ep.3.5,9. us which are saved it is the power q of or, speech. God. p2Co.2.15. 19 For it is written, s I will destroy the q Ro.1.16. wisdom of the wise, and will bring tor Lu.23.34. nothing the understanding of the pru-s Is.29.14. dent. Je.8.9. 20 Where u is the wise? where is the t Is.64.4 scribe? where is the disputer of this u Is.38.18. world? hath not God made foolish v the v Is.44.25. wisdom of this world? w Jno.16.13. 21 For x after that, in the wisdom of xLu.10.21. God, the world by wisdom knew not Ro.1.20,22,28 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden o wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for r had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. 9 But, as it is written, t Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But w God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep y things of God. God, it pleased God by the foolishnessy Ro.11.33. 11 For what z man knoweth the things of of preaching to save them, that believe.lz Pr.14.10. la man, save the spirit of man which is 119 The spiritual foundation. him? even so a the things of God knoweth co man, but the Spirit of God. 1 CORINTH. IV. A. D. 59. 12 Now we have received, not c the aRo.11.33,34. spirit of the world, but the Spirit which b Ps.94.11, is of God; that e we might know the e Ro.8.15. things that are freely given to us of God. d Je.9.23,24. 13 Which things also we speak, not fin e 1Jno.5.20. the words which man's wisdom teacheth, f c.1.17. but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; com- Ro.14.8. paring spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth h noth Mat.13.11, the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he I that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is 2 judged of &c. k Lu.12.42. m Is.40.13. 3 Je.23.18. day. shall. AND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as p unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes r in Christ. n Jno.17.8. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not o Ps. 143.2. with meat: for hitherto t ye were not able p c.2.14,15. to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. q Mat.7.1. 3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there r He.5.12,1. is among you envying, and strife, & divisi 1 Pe.2.2. ons, are ye not carnal, & walk 6 as men 73 Ro.2.16. 4 For while one saith, I vam of Paul; and Re.20.2. another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? t Jno.16.12. 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, u Ja.3.16. Stewardship of the Apostles taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, & The Lord knoweth the the ughts of the wise, that they are vain, 21 Therefore let d no man glory in men: for all things are yours; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours 23 And ye g are Christ's; and Christ i God's. LE CHAP. IV. ET a man so account of us, as of the ministers i of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required in stewards, k that a man be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's 3 judgment; yea, I judge not mine own self: 4 For I know nothing by myself; o yel am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge q nothing before the time, until the Lord conie, who s both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shal every man have praise of God. 6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apol los for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed but ministers by whom ye believed, even 5 or, factions.up for one against another." x as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God z gave the increase. 7 So then neither a is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that) watereth are one: and every man c shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 6 according to man. v c.1.12. 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what y hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst rex Ro.12.3,6.ceive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou 1 Pe.4.11. hadst not received it? distinguish 9 or, tillage. ed thee. y Ja.1.17. z c.15.10. a Jno.15.5. 9 For we are labourers together d with 2Co. 12.9-11. God: ye are God's 9 husbandry, ye are b Re.3.17. God's building.f c Ps.62.12. 10 According g to the grace of God which Re.22.12. is given unto me, as a wise master-build-d 2Co.6.1. er, I have laid the foundation, and ano-8 or, the last ther buildeth thereon. But let every man apostles. take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay e He.10.33. than that is laid, i which is Jesus Christ. 10 theatre. 12 Now if any man build upon this f He.3.6. foundation gold, silver, precious stones, 1 Pe.2.5. wood, hay, stubble; g Ro. 12.3. 13Every man's work shall be made mani-h Ro.8.35. fest: for the day shall declare it, because it i Is.28.16. shall 11 be revealed by fire; &the l fire shall Mat.16.18. try every man's work, of what sort it is. Ep.2.20. 141fany man's work abide which he hath 21'i.2.19, built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. j Ac.20.34. 15 If any man's work shall be burned,k Mat.5.44. he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall Ac.7.60. 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, b ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the 8 apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we e are made a 10 spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to inen. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst,& are naked,h & are buffeted,and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 And labour, j working with our own hands: being reviled, k we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: 13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the off-scouring m of all things unto this day 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons n I warn you. 15 For though ye have ten thousand in structors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begot ten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every-where in every church. 1s Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if r the Lordwill; and will know,not the speech of 1 CORINTH. VII. Exhortation to Christian purity. them which are puffed up,but a thepower. 20 For the kingdom bof God is not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? shall e I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? CHAP. V. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, h that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent k in body, but present in spirit, have 1 judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed; A. D. 59. a Ga.2.6. h i Law of Marriage. with another. Why do ye not rather take c wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? d 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Mat.5.39.40. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous Ro.12.17,19. shall not inherit the kingdom of God? 1Th.5.15. Be not deceived; neither f fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effemi nate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, IT is reported commonly that there is 4 In the name o of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power p of our Lord Jesus Christ, 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ bour passover is 3 sacrificed for us: 1 20. Ro.14.17. 1Ti.1.20. 8 Therefore let us keep 4 the feast, c not t 1Th.4.3,7. with old leaven, neither with the e leaven u c.11.32. of malice and wickedness, but with the v Rom.12.1. unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. w Ep.5.23. 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle h not x Ro.6.5,8. to company with fornicators: y Ja.4.16. 10 Yet not altogether with the forni-z Lu. 13.21. cators of this world, or with the covetous, a Ep.5.30. or extortioners, or with idolaters; for b Is.53.7. then must ye needs go out of the world. 1Pe.1.19. 11 But now I have written unto you Re.5.6,12. not to keep company, if I any man that 3 or, slain. is called a brother be a fornicator, or co- 4 or,holy day. vetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a c Ex.13.6. drunkard, or an extortioner; with such d Ge.2.24. an one no not to eat. Mat. 19.5. 12 For what have I to do to judge them e Mat.16.6,12 also that are without? o do not ye judge fJno.17.21-23 them that are within? Ep.4.4. 13 But them that are without God g Pr.6.25-32. judgeth. Therefore put away p from 7.24-27. among yourselves that wicked person. h Ep.5.11. 2Th.3.14. CHAP. VI. DARE any of you, having a matter i 2Co.6.16. m Ac.20.28. Re.5.9. 1Pe.3.7. 3 Know ye not that we shall judge an-n 1Pe.2.9. gels? how much more things that per- o Mar.4.11. tain to this life? p Mat.18.17. 4 If then ye have judgments of things q Ex.21.10. pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no. not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? r Da.7.22. 8 Joel 2.16. 6 But brother goeth to law with bro-t 1Th.3.5. ther, and that before the unbelievers. u Mat.19.11, 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law onelv ITi.5.14.. 11 12. 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such i were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,mbut ye are justified n in the name of the Lord 12 All things are lawful unto me, but Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. all things are not 2 expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power q of any. 13 Meats r for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it. and them. Now the body is not for t fornication, but for the Lord, v and the Lord w for the body. 14 And God r hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members a of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid! 16 What! know ye not that he which two, d saith he, shall be one flesh. is joined to an harlot is one body? for 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one ƒ spirit. 18 Flee g fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 What! know ye not that your i body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not k your own? therefore glorify n God in your body, NOW concerning the things whereof every nian have his own wife, and let 3 Let the q husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be s with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that I Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. 7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But u every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let v them marry:for it isbetter to marry than toburn 121 * F Inviolability of the Marriage-bond. 1. CORINTH. VIII. 10 And unto the married I command, get not I, but the Lord, Let a not the wife depart from her husband: A. D. 59. aMal.2.14-16. 11 But and if she depart, let her remain Mat.19.6,9. unmarried, or be reconciled to her hus-b Ezr.10.11, band: and let not the husband put away &c. his wife. c Lu.10.40-42. 12 But to the rest speak I, not the d Mal.2.15,16 Lord: If any brother hath a wife that e Ro.12.18. believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell 14.19. with him, let him not put her away. He.12.14. 13 And the woman which hath an hus-1 in. hand that believeth not, and if he be f 1Pe.3.1,2. pleased to dwell with her, let her not what. leave him. g ver.28. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanc-h v.20,24. tified by the wife, and the unbelieving i Ro.7.2. wife is sanctified by the husband; else k c.4.17. were your children unclean; but now 2Co.11.28. d are they holy. 1 2Co.6.14. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let mAc.15.1,&c. him depart. A brother or a sister is not Ga.5.2,&c. under bondage in such cases: but God n ver.25. hath called e us 1 to peace. o2Pe.3.15,16. 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, p Ga.5.6. 6.15 whether thou shalt save f thy husband ?qAc.15.10,19. or how 2 knowest thou, Ŏ man, whether r Jno.15.14. thou shalt save thy wife? 1Jno.2.3. 17 But as God hath distributed to every s Pr.27.8. man, as h the Lord hath called every one, t Ro.14.14,22. so let him walk. And k so ordain I in u Is.47.10. all churches. vc.13. 18 Is any man called being circum-w Ro.11.25. cised? let him not become uncircum- Ga.6.3. cised. Is any called in uncircumcision? Ti.6.3,4. m let him not be circumcised. x He.13.5. 19 Circumcision p is nothing, and un-y Jno.8.36. circumcision is nothing, but the keeping Ro.6.18,22. 3 made free. z Na.1.7. of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide s in the same calling wherein he was called. 2Ti.2.19. 21 Art thou called being a servant? a Ps.116.16. care x not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 1Pe.2.16. b c.6.20. Of eating Meats offered to Idore. how he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried wo man careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married.c careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 And this I speak for your own profit not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction 36 But if any man think that he be haveth himself uncomely toward his vir gin, if she pass the flower of her age, an need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. 37 Nevertheless he that standeth sted fast in his heart, having no necessity, bu hath power over his own will, and hatb so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 38 So then, g he that giveth her in mar riage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. 39 The wife i is bound by the few as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after n my judgment: and I think o also that I have the Spirit of God. CHAP. VIII. NOW as touching things offered q unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge.t Knowledge u puffeth up, but charity v edifieth. 2 And if w any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. known z of him. 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol c is no thing in the world, and that there is none other e God but one. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, 1Pe.1.18,19.3 But if any man love God, the same is being a servant, is y the Lord's 3 free-c Is.41.24. man: likewise also he that is called, be-d ver.17,20. ing free, is a Christ's servant. e De.4.39. Is.44.8.24. fJno.10.34,35 g ver.6,10,40. h Mal.2.10. Ep.4.6. i 1Ti.1.12. 4 or, for. For, necessity. k ver.1,8. Jno.1.3. He.1.2. 23 Ye are bought b with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let d every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment g of the Lord, yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. i 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present 5 distress; I say, that kit is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek m He.13.4. not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from an Ro.14.17. wife? seek not a wife. 6 or, have we 28 But and if thou marry, thou m hast the more. not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she 7 or, have we nath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall the less. have trouble in the flesh but I spare you. o 1Pe.4.7. 29 But this I say, brethren, the time o is 2Pe.3.8,9. short it remaineth that both they that 8 or, power. bave wives be as though they had none; pRo.14.13,20, 30 And they that weep, as though they Ga.5.13. wept not; and they that rejoice, as 9 edified. though they rejoiced not; and they that q Ps.39.6. buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it for the fashion q of this world passeth away. 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that 10 belong to the Lord, 122 Ja.4.14. 5 For though there be that are ƒ called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many and lords many,) 6 But to us h there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in 4 him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some, with conscience of the idol unto this hour, eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8 But meat n commendeth us not to God. for neither if we eat, 6 are we the better; neither if we eat not, are we the worse. 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty p of yours become a stumbling. block to them that are weak. 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idols temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be 9 emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But s when ye sin so against the bre thren, and wound their weak conscience, Rights of a Christian minister. ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest d I make my brother to offend. CHAP. IX. 1 CORINTH. X. A. D. 59. a Ro.15.1. AMI not an apostle? am I not free? d c.9.22. have I not seen e Jesus Christ our e Ac.9.3,17. Lord? are not ye my work f in the Lord? fc.4.15. 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet gPh.2.16.3.14 doubtless I am to you: for the seal of Ti 6.12. mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 2T1.2.5. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine h 2Ti.4.8. me is this; 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a 1 wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we k power to forbear working? Ja.1.12. 7 Who goeth a warfare l any time at his own charges? who planteth m a vine-n Ex. 13.21,22 yard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Nu.9.18-22. or who feedeth o a flock, and eateth not o 1Pe.5.2. of the milk of the flock? p Ex.14.19. 22.29. 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? q Ex.16.15,35 9 For it is written r in the law of Mo-Ne.9.15,20. ses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of Ps.78.24,25. the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth r De.25.4. God take care for oxen? 1Ti.5.18. 10 Or saith he it altogether for ours Ex.17.6. Bakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is Nu.20.11. written: that he t that ploweth should 2 or, went plow in hope; and that he that thresheth with. in hope should be partaker of his hope. I 2Ti.2.6. 11 If v we have sown unto you spiritual uNu.14.29-35 things, is it a great thing if we shall reap 26.64,65. your carnal things? He.3.17. 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Neverthe-3 the figures. lessy we have not used this power; but v Ro.15.27. uffer all things, lest we should hinder w Nu.11.4, the gospel of Christ. 33,34. Admonitions and Warnings. 22 To the weak a became I as weak, that I might gain the weak; Ib am made all things to all men, that c I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run ail, but one receiveth the prize? So run, g that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. h 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I i keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, myself should be a cast-away. CHAP. X. I MOREOVER, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under n the cloud, and p all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3And did all eat the same spiritualmeat;? 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that 2 followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with inany of them God was not well pleased; for they were overthrownu in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were 3 our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they w also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, z The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some z of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt a Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. b 13 Do ye not know, that they which mi-x Ex.32.6. nister about holy things 4 live of the things y 2Co.11.7-9. of the temple? and they c which wait at 12.14. 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of the altar are partakers with the altar? z Nu.25.1-9. them also murmured, d and were de 14 Even so hath the Lord e ordained, a Ex.17.2,7.stroyed of the destroyer. f that they g which preach the gospel or, feed. should live of the gospel. b Nu.21.6. 15 But I have used none of these c Nu.18.8,&c. things: neither have I written these things, De.18.1. that it should be so done unto me: for iitd Nu.14.2,29. were better for me to die than that any e Lu. 10.7. man should make my glorying void. f25a. 24.16. 16 For though I preach the gospel, Ig Ga.6.6. have nothing to glory of: for I necessity 5 or, types. is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me ifh Ac.20.33. I preach not the gospel. 2Th.3.8. 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have i 2Co.11.10. a reward: but if against my will, a dispen-k Pr.28.14. sation o of the gospel is committed unto me. Ro.11.20. 18 What is my reward then? Verily for,moderate, that, when I preach the gospel, I may Je.1.17.20.9. make the gospel of Christ without charge; m Da.3.17. that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 2Pe.2.9. 19 For though I be free from all men, n Ja.5.11. yet have I made myself servantq unto o Co.1.25. all, that I might gain the more. p 1Jno.5.21. 20 Aud unto the Jews r I became as aJew, Ro.1.14. that I might gain the Jews; to them that Ga.5.13. are under the law, as under the law, that Ir Ac. 16.3. night gain them that are under the law; 21.23-26. 21 To them that are without law, ass Ro.4.1,12. without law, (being not u without law to t c.9.13. God, but under the law to Christ,) that I u c.7.22. might gain them that are without law. v c.8.4. 11 Now all these things happened unto them for 5 ensamples: and they are writ. ten for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12 Wherefore k let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 13 There hath no temptation taken you but 6 such as is common to man: but God is faithful, whom will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; n but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, p flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we, being many, are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of that one bread. 18 Behold Israel after s the flesh: tare not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What say I then? that the idol v is Jany thing? or that which is offered in |