ceffity of faints; given to much as lieth in you, live hofpitality... peaceably with all men. 14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, faith the Lord. 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 17 Recompense to no man 21 Be not overcome of evil for evil. Provide things evil, but overcome evil with honeft in the fight of all men. good. 18 If it be possible, as A From the First Epistle of PAUL to the CHAP. III. ND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Chrift. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divifions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one faith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then, neither 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 shall F4 receive receive his own reward, according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye God's building. are 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wife master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. II For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, filver, precious slones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest. For the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what fort 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 shall be burned, he shall fuffer loss; but he himself shall be faved; yet so as by fire. 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wife. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wife in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wife that they are vain. 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's; 23 And ye are Chrift's; and Chrift is God's. that do examine me is this, 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a fifter, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?. 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things as a man? or faith not the law the fame also ? 9 For it is written in the law of Mofes, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the Doth God take care corn. for oxen? 10 Or faith he it altogether for our fakes? for our fakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. II If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 12 If others be partakers e of this power over you, ar not we rather? nevertheless. we have not used this power; but fuffer all things, left we should hinder the gospel of Chrift. 13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 15 But I have ufed none of these things: neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me : for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for neceffity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward : but if against my will, a difpensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Chrift without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For though I be free not as one that beateth the from all men, yet have I air: made myself fervant unto all, that I might gain the more. 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into fubjection; left that by any 20 And unto the Jews I means, when I have preachbecame as a Jew, that I ed to others, I myself should might gain the Jews; to be a cast-away. them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; N T CHAP. XIII. HOUGH I speak with the tongues of men 21 To them that are with- and of angels, and have not out law, as without law, be- charity, I am become as ing not without law to God, founding brass, or a tinkling but under the law to Christ, cymbal. that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means fave fome. 23 And this I do for the gospel's fake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize? so run 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. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth 7 Beareth all things, be- what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. lieveth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. II When I was a child, I fpake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we fee through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Chrift died for our fins, according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the scriptures: 5 And that he was feen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6 After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain unto this prefent, but fome are fallen afleep. 7 After that he was feen of James; then of all the apostles. 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 9 For I am the leaft of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I perfecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. II Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and |