that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming. 24 Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father, when he shall have brought to naught all principality, and power, and virtue. 25 For he must reign, Until he hath put all his enemies under his feet. 26 And the enemy death shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith: 27 All things are put under him, undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put ail things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him: then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. 29 Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? why are they then baptized for them? 30 Why also are we in danger every hour? 31 I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ JESUS our Lord. 32 If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? 10 Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. 33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners. 34 Awake ye just, and sin not: for some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame. 35 But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? or with what manner of body shall they come? 36 Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first. 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest. 38 But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes. 40 And there are bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial: 41 One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory: 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory: it is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written: 45 The 11 first man Adam was made into a living soul: the last Adam into a quickening spirit. 46 Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, earthly the second man, from heav en, heavenly. 48 Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly. 49 Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly. 50 Now this I say, brethren: that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption. 51 Behold I tell you a mystery: We shall all indeed rise again, but we shall not all be changed. 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: 12 Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? 56 Now the sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But 13 thanks be to God who hath given us the victory through our Lord JESUS CHRIST. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and immovable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord. CHAP. 15.-1. Gal. 1, 11.-2. Isai. 53, 5. -3. Jonas 2, 1.-4. John 20, 19.-5. Acts 9, 3; Ephes. 3, 8.-6. Colos. 1, 18: Apoc. 1, 5.-7. 1 Thess. 4, 15.-8. Psal. 109, 1; Heb. 1, 13 and 10, 13.-9. Psal. 8, 6; Heb. 2, 8.-10. Wisd. 2, 6; Isai. 22, 13 and 56, 12.-11. Gen. 2, 7.-12. Osee 13, 14; Heb. 2, 14.-13. 1 John 5, 5. CHAPTER XVI. Of the collection of alms; admonitions and salutations. OW concerning the collections that are made for the saints, as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia, so do ye also. 2 On the first day of the week let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made. 3 And when I shall be with you; whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem. 4 And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me. 5 Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Mace. donia: for I shall pass through Macedonia. 6 And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go. 7 For I will not see you now by the way, for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit. 8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. 9 For a great door and evident is opened unto me; and many adversaries. 10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do. 11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct ye him on his way in peace, that he may come to me: for I look for him with the brethren. 12 And brother touching our Apollo, I give you to understand, that I much entreated him to come unto you with the brethren: and indeed it was not his will at all to come at this time: but he will come when he shall have leisure. 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, do manfully, and be strengthened; 14 Let all your things be done in charity. 15 And I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanas, and of Fortunatus, and of Achai cus: that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints: 16 That you also be subject to such, and to every one that worketh with us, and laboureth. 17 And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: because that which was wanting on your part, they have supplied: 18 For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them therefore that are such. 19 The Churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house: with whom I also lodge. 20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another in a holy kiss. 21 The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand. 22 If any man love not our Lord JESUS CHRIST, let him be anathema, maran atha. 23 The grace of our Lord JESUS CHRIST be with you. 24 My charity be with you all in Christ JESUS. Amen. THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS. [IN THIS EPISTLE St. Paul comforteth those who are now reformed by his admonitions to them in the former, and absolveth the incestuous man on doing penance, whom he had before excommunicated for his crime. Hence he treateth of true penance, and of the dignity of the ministers of the New Testament. He cautioneth the faithful against false teachers and the society of infidels. He giveth an account of his sufferings, and also of the favours and graces which God hath bestowed on him. This second Epistle was written in the same year with the first, and sent by Titus from some place in Macedonia.] CHAPTER I. 8 For we would not have you ig. He speaketh of his troubles in Asia.norant, brethren, of our tribulation, His not coming to them was not out which came to us in Asia, that we of levity. The constancy and sincer- were pressed out of measure above ity of his doctrine. our strength, so that we were weary even of life. Pay the of Jr, und AUL an Apostle of JESUS CHRIST othy our brother: to the Church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia. 2 Grace unto you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord JESUS CHRIST. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation: that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound. 6 Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation, or whether we be comforted it is for your consolation, or whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suf fer: 7 That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation. 9 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: 10 Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us, 11 You helping withal in prayer for us: that for this gift obtained for us, by the meaus of many per sons, thanks may be given by many in our behalf. 12 For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you. 13 For we write no other things to you, than what you have read and known.. And I hope that you shall know unto the end, 14 As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory, as you also are ours in the day of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. 15 And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace: 16 And to pass by you into Mace 17 Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, IT IS, and; IT IS NOT. 18 But God is faithful, for our preaching which was to you, was not, IT is, and IT is not. 19 For the Son of God JESUS CHRIST, who was preached among you by us, by me, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, was not, It Is, and, IT IS NOT, but, IT IS, was in him. 20 For all the promises of God are in him IT IS: therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glo anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know, the charity I have more abundantly towards you. 5 And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me: but in part, that I may not burden you all. 6 To him that is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, that is given by many: 7 So that contrariwise you should rather pardon and comfort him, lest perhaps such an one be swallowed up with over much sorrow. 8 For which cause I beseech you, that you would confirm your charity towards him. 9 For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things. 10 And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also: for, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ, 11 That we be not overreached by satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 12 And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in the Lord, 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia. 14 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ JESUS, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in ev He granteth a pardon to the incestuous in sorrow. 2 For if I make you sorrowful: who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me? 3 And I wrote this same to you, that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction, and CHAP. 2, ver. 10. I also. The Apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the person and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian, 15 For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish; 16 To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life And for these things who is so sufficient? 17 For we are not as many, adul terating the word of God, but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak. whom before he had put under penance: which pardon consisted in a releasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin, CHAPTER III. He needeth no commendatory letters. Testament. O we begin again to commend the Old Testament, remaineth nottaken away (because in Christ it is made void) 15 But even until this day when Moses is read, the veil is upon their Dowever do we need (as heart. some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you? 2 You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men: 3 Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in the fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such confidence we have, through Christ towards God: 5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves but our sufficiency is from God: 6 Who also hath made us fit ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter but in the spirit: for the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth. 7 Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly be hold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void: 8 How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather in glory? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory: much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory. 10 For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11 For if that which is done away, was glorious: much more that which remaineth is in glory. 12 Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence: 13 And not as Moses put a veil upon his face that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that, which is made void, 14 But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the self-same veil, in the reading of CHAP. 3, ver. 6. The letter. Not rightly understood, and taken without the spirit. 16 But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 17 Now 2 the Lord is a Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is: there is liberty. 18 But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. 24. CHAP, 3.-1. Exod. 34, 33.-2. John 4, CHAPTER IV. The sincerity of his preaching: his comfort in his afflictions. HEREFORE have this ministration, according, as we have obtained mercy, we faint not, 2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God. 3 And if our gospel be also hid: it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbeliev ers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but JESUS CHRIST Our Lord: and ourselves your servants through JE SUS: 6 For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, himself hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ JESUS. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels: that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us. 8 In all things we suffer tribulation, but are not distressed: we are straitened, but are not destitute; |