Rom    1: 1  Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for
Rom    1: 1  the gospel of God
Rom    1: 2  which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy
Rom    1: 2  scriptures,
Rom    1: 3  the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according
Rom    1: 3  to the flesh
Rom    1: 4  and designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness
Rom    1: 4  by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Rom    1: 5  through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the
Rom    1: 5  obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom    1: 6  including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ;
Rom    1: 7  To all God's beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints:
Rom    1: 7   Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom    1: 8   First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because
Rom    1: 8  your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
Rom    1: 9  For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his
Rom    1: 9  Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers,
Rom    1:10  asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming
Rom    1:10  to you.
Rom    1:11  For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to
Rom    1:11  strengthen you,
Rom    1:12  that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both
Rom    1:12  yours and mine.
Rom    1:13  I want you to know, brethren, that I have often intended to come to you
Rom    1:13  (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some
Rom    1:13  harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom    1:14  I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the
Rom    1:14  wise and to the foolish:
Rom    1:15  so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
Rom    1:16   For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for
Rom    1:16  salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the
Rom    1:16  Greek.
Rom    1:17  For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith;
Rom    1:17  as it is written, "He who through faith is righteous shall live."
Rom    1:18   For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
Rom    1:18  and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth.
Rom    1:19  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown
Rom    1:19  it to them.
Rom    1:20  Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his
Rom    1:20  eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that
Rom    1:20  have been made. So they are without excuse;
Rom    1:21  for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks
Rom    1:21  to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless
Rom    1:21  minds were darkened.
Rom    1:22  Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Rom    1:23  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling
Rom    1:23  mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
Rom    1:24   Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity,
Rom    1:24  to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Rom    1:25  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and
Rom    1:25  served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever!
Rom    1:25  Amen.
Rom    1:26   For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their
Rom    1:26  women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
Rom    1:27  and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were
Rom    1:27  consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts
Rom    1:27  with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their
Rom    1:27  error.
Rom    1:28   And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up
Rom    1:28  to a base mind and to improper conduct.
Rom    1:29  They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness,
Rom    1:29  malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are
Rom    1:29  gossips,
Rom    1:30  slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of
Rom    1:30  evil, disobedient to parents,
Rom    1:31  foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Rom    1:32  Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to
Rom    1:32  die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.
Rom    2: 1   Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge
Rom    2: 1  another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because
Rom    2: 1  you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
Rom    2: 2  We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such
Rom    2: 2  things.
Rom    2: 3  Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and
Rom    2: 3  yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?
Rom    2: 4  Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and
Rom    2: 4  patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to
Rom    2: 4  repentance?
Rom    2: 5  But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for
Rom    2: 5  yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be
Rom    2: 5  revealed.
Rom    2: 6  For he will render to every man according to his works:
Rom    2: 7  to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and
Rom    2: 7  immortality, he will give eternal life;
Rom    2: 8  but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey
Rom    2: 8  wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
Rom    2: 9  There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does
Rom    2: 9  evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
Rom    2:10  but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew
Rom    2:10  first and also the Greek.
Rom    2:11  For God shows no partiality.
Rom    2:12   All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law,
Rom    2:12  and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom    2:13  For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but
Rom    2:13  the doers of the law who will be justified.
Rom    2:14  When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires,
Rom    2:14  they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
Rom    2:15  They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while
Rom    2:15  their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts
Rom    2:15  accuse or perhaps excuse them
Rom    2:16  on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men
Rom    2:16  by Christ Jesus.
Rom    2:17   But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of
Rom    2:17  your relation to God
Rom    2:18  and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are
Rom    2:18  instructed in the law,
Rom    2:19  and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those
Rom    2:19  who are in darkness,
Rom    2:20  a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law
Rom    2:20  the embodiment of knowledge and truth --
Rom    2:21  you then who teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you
Rom    2:21  preach against stealing, do you steal?
Rom    2:22  You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery?
Rom    2:22  You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Rom    2:23  You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Rom    2:24  For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the
Rom    2:24  Gentiles because of you."
Rom    2:25   Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break
Rom    2:25  the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
Rom    2:26  So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will
Rom    2:26  not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Rom    2:27  Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will
Rom    2:27  condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the
Rom    2:27  law.
Rom    2:28  For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision
Rom    2:28  something external and physical.
Rom    2:29  He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of
Rom    2:29  the heart, spiritual and not literal. His praise is not from men but
Rom    2:29  from God.
Rom    3: 1   Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
Rom    3: 2  Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the
Rom    3: 2  oracles of God.
Rom    3: 3  What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the
Rom    3: 3  faithfulness of God?
Rom    3: 4  By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is
Rom    3: 4  written,
Rom    3: 4    "That thou mayest be justified in thy words,
Rom    3: 4    and prevail when thou art judged."
Rom    3: 5  But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we
Rom    3: 5  say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human
Rom    3: 5  way.)
Rom    3: 6  By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Rom    3: 7  But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory,
Rom    3: 7  why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
Rom    3: 8  And why not do evil that good may come? -- as some people slanderously
Rom    3: 8  charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
Rom    3: 9   What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have
Rom    3: 9  already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power
Rom    3: 9  of sin,
Rom    3:10  as it is written:
Rom    3:10    "None is righteous, no, not one;
Rom    3:11    no one understands, no one seeks for God.
Rom    3:12    All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong;
Rom    3:12    no one does good, not even one."
Rom    3:13    "Their throat is an open grave,
Rom    3:13    they use their tongues to deceive."
Rom    3:13    "The venom of asps is under their lips."
Rom    3:14    "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
Rom    3:15    "Their feet are swift to shed blood,
Rom    3:16    in their paths are ruin and misery,
Rom    3:17    and the way of peace they do not know."
Rom    3:18    "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Rom    3:19   Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are
Rom    3:19  under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world
Rom    3:19  may be held accountable to God.
Rom    3:20  For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law,
Rom    3:20  since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Rom    3:21   But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law,
Rom    3:21  although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,
Rom    3:22  the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who
Rom    3:22  believe. For there is no distinction;
Rom    3:23  since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom    3:24  they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which
Rom    3:24  is in Christ Jesus,
Rom    3:25  whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by
Rom    3:25  faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine
Rom    3:25  forbearance he had passed over former sins;
Rom    3:26  it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and
Rom    3:26  that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.
Rom    3:27   Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle?
Rom    3:27  On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.
Rom    3:28  For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.
Rom    3:29  Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also?
Rom    3:29  Yes, of Gentiles also,
Rom    3:30  since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of
Rom    3:30  their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith.
Rom    3:31  Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the
Rom    3:31  contrary, we uphold the law.
Rom    4: 1   What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the
Rom    4: 1  flesh?
Rom    4: 2  For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about,
Rom    4: 2  but not before God.
Rom    4: 3  For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was
Rom    4: 3  reckoned to him as righteousness."
Rom    4: 4  Now to one who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his
Rom    4: 4  due.
Rom    4: 5  And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly,
Rom    4: 5  his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
Rom    4: 6  So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons
Rom    4: 6  righteousness apart from works:
Rom    4: 7    "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins
Rom    4: 7      are covered;
Rom    4: 8    blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."
Rom    4: 9   Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised, or also upon
Rom    4: 9  the uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as
Rom    4: 9  righteousness.
Rom    4:10  How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been
Rom    4:10  circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
Rom    4:11  He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which
Rom    4:11  he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to
Rom    4:11  make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised and
Rom    4:11  who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,
Rom    4:12  and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely
Rom    4:12  circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which our father
Rom    4:12  Abraham had before he was circumcised.
Rom    4:13   The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit
Rom    4:13  the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness
Rom    4:13  of faith.
Rom    4:14  If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is
Rom    4:14  null and the promise is void.
Rom    4:15  For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no
Rom    4:15  transgression.
Rom    4:16   That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest
Rom    4:16  on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the
Rom    4:16  adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham,
Rom    4:16  for he is the father of us all,
Rom    4:17  as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" -- in the
Rom    4:17  presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and
Rom    4:17  calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom    4:18  In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of
Rom    4:18  many nations; as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be."
Rom    4:19  He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was
Rom    4:19  as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he
Rom    4:19  considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
Rom    4:20  No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew
Rom    4:20  strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Rom    4:21  fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
Rom    4:22  That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness."
Rom    4:23  But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake
Rom    4:23  alone,
Rom    4:24  but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that
Rom    4:24  raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom    4:25  who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our
Rom    4:25  justification.
Rom    5: 1   Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God
Rom    5: 1  through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom    5: 2  Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand,
Rom    5: 2  and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
Rom    5: 3  More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering
Rom    5: 3  produces endurance,
Rom    5: 4  and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Rom    5: 5  and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured
Rom    5: 5  into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.
Rom    5: 6   While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the
Rom    5: 6  ungodly.
Rom    5: 7  Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man -- though perhaps for a good
Rom    5: 7  man one will dare even to die.
Rom    5: 8  But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ
Rom    5: 8  died for us.
Rom    5: 9  Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we
Rom    5: 9  be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Rom    5:10  For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of
Rom    5:10  his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by
Rom    5:10  his life.
Rom    5:11  Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Rom    5:11  through whom we have now received our reconciliation.
Rom    5:12   Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death
Rom    5:12  through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned --
Rom    5:13  sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not
Rom    5:13  counted where there is no law.
Rom    5:14  Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were
Rom    5:14  not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was
Rom    5:14  to come.
Rom    5:15   But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through
Rom    5:15  one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift
Rom    5:15  in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
Rom    5:16  And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the
Rom    5:16  judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift
Rom    5:16  following many trespasses brings justification.
Rom    5:17  If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man,
Rom    5:17  much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free
Rom    5:17  gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Rom    5:18   Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one
Rom    5:18  man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.
Rom    5:19  For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one
Rom    5:19  man's obedience many will be made righteous.
Rom    5:20  Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace
Rom    5:20  abounded all the more,
Rom    5:21  so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through
Rom    5:21  righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom    6: 1   What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may
Rom    6: 1  abound?
Rom    6: 2  By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Rom    6: 3  Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus
Rom    6: 3  were baptized into his death?
Rom    6: 4  We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as
Rom    6: 4  Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too
Rom    6: 4  might walk in newness of life.
Rom    6: 5   For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall
Rom    6: 5  certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
Rom    6: 6  We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful
Rom    6: 6  body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
Rom    6: 7  For he who has died is freed from sin.
Rom    6: 8  But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live
Rom    6: 8  with him.
Rom    6: 9  For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die
Rom    6: 9  again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Rom    6:10  The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives
Rom    6:10  he lives to God.
Rom    6:11  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in
Rom    6:11  Christ Jesus.
Rom    6:12   Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey
Rom    6:12  their passions.
Rom    6:13  Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but
Rom    6:13  yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to
Rom    6:13  life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Rom    6:14  For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but
Rom    6:14  under grace.
Rom    6:15   What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under
Rom    6:15  grace? By no means!
Rom    6:16  Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient
Rom    6:16  slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which
Rom    6:16  leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Rom    6:17  But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become
Rom    6:17  obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were
Rom    6:17  committed,
Rom    6:18  and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Rom    6:19  I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For
Rom    6:19  just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and
Rom    6:19  greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for
Rom    6:19  sanctification.
Rom    6:20   When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Rom    6:21  But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now
Rom    6:21  ashamed? The end of those things is death.
Rom    6:22  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of
Rom    6:22  God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Rom    6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life
Rom    6:23  in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom    7: 1   Do you not know, brethren -- for I am speaking to those who know the
Rom    7: 1  law -- that the law is binding on a person only during his life?
Rom    7: 2  Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he
Rom    7: 2  lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law
Rom    7: 2  concerning the husband.
Rom    7: 3  Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another
Rom    7: 3  man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free
Rom    7: 3  from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
Rom    7: 4   Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of
Rom    7: 4  Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised
Rom    7: 4  from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Rom    7: 5  While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the
Rom    7: 5  law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Rom    7: 6  But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us
Rom    7: 6  captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new
Rom    7: 6  life of the Spirit.
Rom    7: 7   What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it
Rom    7: 7  had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not
Rom    7: 7  have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not
Rom    7: 7  covet."
Rom    7: 8  But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all
Rom    7: 8  kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
Rom    7: 9  I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin
Rom    7: 9  revived and I died;
Rom    7:10  the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.
Rom    7:11  For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it
Rom    7:11  killed me.
Rom    7:12  So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
Rom    7:13   Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was
Rom    7:13  sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might
Rom    7:13  be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful
Rom    7:13  beyond measure.
Rom    7:14  We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom    7:15  I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I
Rom    7:15  do the very thing I hate.
Rom    7:16  Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
Rom    7:17  So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
Rom    7:18  For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I
Rom    7:18  can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
Rom    7:19  For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I
Rom    7:19  do.
Rom    7:20  Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin
Rom    7:20  which dwells within me.
Rom    7:21   So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies
Rom    7:21  close at hand.
Rom    7:22  For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,
Rom    7:23  but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and
Rom    7:23  making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
Rom    7:24  Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Rom    7:25  Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself
Rom    7:25  serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of
Rom    7:25  sin.
Rom    8: 1   There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Rom    8: 1  Jesus.
Rom    8: 2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from
Rom    8: 2  the law of sin and death.
Rom    8: 3  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do:
Rom    8: 3  sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he
Rom    8: 3  condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom    8: 4  in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us,
Rom    8: 4  who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom    8: 5  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things
Rom    8: 5  of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their
Rom    8: 5  minds on the things of the Spirit.
Rom    8: 6  To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the
Rom    8: 6  Spirit is life and peace.
Rom    8: 7  For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not
Rom    8: 7  submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;
Rom    8: 8  and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom    8: 9   But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the
Rom    8: 9  Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of
Rom    8: 9  Christ does not belong to him.
Rom    8:10  But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin,
Rom    8:10  your spirits are alive because of righteousness.
Rom    8:11  If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he
Rom    8:11  who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal
Rom    8:11  bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.
Rom    8:12   So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
Rom    8:12  according to the flesh --
Rom    8:13  for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the
Rom    8:13  Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
Rom    8:14  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Rom    8:15  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
Rom    8:15  but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba!
Rom    8:15  Father!"
Rom    8:16  it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are
Rom    8:16  children of God,
Rom    8:17  and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,
Rom    8:17  provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with
Rom    8:17  him.
Rom    8:18   I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth
Rom    8:18  comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Rom    8:19  For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons
Rom    8:19  of God;
Rom    8:20  for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by
Rom    8:20  the will of him who subjected it in hope;
Rom    8:21  because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay
Rom    8:21  and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom    8:22  We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together
Rom    8:22  until now;
Rom    8:23  and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits
Rom    8:23  of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the
Rom    8:23  redemption of our bodies.
Rom    8:24  For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For
Rom    8:24  who hopes for what he sees?
Rom    8:25  But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Rom    8:26   Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how
Rom    8:26  to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with
Rom    8:26  sighs too deep for words.
Rom    8:27  And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the
Rom    8:27  Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the
Rom    8:27  will of God.
Rom    8:28   We know that in everything God works for good with those who love
Rom    8:28  him, who are called according to his purpose.
Rom    8:29  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the
Rom    8:29  image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many
Rom    8:29  brethren.
Rom    8:30  And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called
Rom    8:30  he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Rom    8:31   What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?
Rom    8:32  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he
Rom    8:32  not also give us all things with him?
Rom    8:33  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies;
Rom    8:34  who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised
Rom    8:34  from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes
Rom    8:34  for us?
Rom    8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
Rom    8:35  distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom    8:36  As it is written,
Rom    8:36    "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long;
Rom    8:36    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
Rom    8:37  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who
Rom    8:37  loved us.
Rom    8:38  For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
Rom    8:38  principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
Rom    8:39  nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able
Rom    8:39  to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom    9: 1   I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience
Rom    9: 1  bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,
Rom    9: 2  that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Rom    9: 3  For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ
Rom    9: 3  for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race.
Rom    9: 4  They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the
Rom    9: 4  covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;
Rom    9: 5  to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the
Rom    9: 5  flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom    9: 6   But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who
Rom    9: 6  are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
Rom    9: 7  and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants;
Rom    9: 7  but "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named."
Rom    9: 8  This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the
Rom    9: 8  children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as
Rom    9: 8  descendants.
Rom    9: 9  For this is what the promise said, "About this time I will return and
Rom    9: 9  Sarah shall have a son."
Rom    9:10  And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one
Rom    9:10  man, our forefather Isaac,
Rom    9:11  though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad,
Rom    9:11  in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of
Rom    9:11  works but because of his call,
Rom    9:12  she was told, "The elder will serve the younger."
Rom    9:13  As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
Rom    9:14   What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!
Rom    9:15  For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I
Rom    9:15  will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Rom    9:16  So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.
Rom    9:17  For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for the very
Rom    9:17  purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed
Rom    9:17  in all the earth."
Rom    9:18  So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart
Rom    9:18  of whomever he wills.
Rom    9:19   You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can
Rom    9:19  resist his will?"
Rom    9:20  But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say
Rom    9:20  to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?"
Rom    9:21  Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one
Rom    9:21  vessel for beauty and another for menial use?
Rom    9:22  What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power,
Rom    9:22  has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for
Rom    9:22  destruction,
Rom    9:23  in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of
Rom    9:23  mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,
Rom    9:24  even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the
Rom    9:24  Gentiles?
Rom    9:25  As indeed he says in Hose'a,
Rom    9:25    "Those who were not my people
Rom    9:25    I will call `my people,'
Rom    9:25    and her who was not beloved
Rom    9:25    I will call `my beloved.'"
Rom    9:26    "And in the very place where it was said to them, `You are not my
Rom    9:26      people,'
Rom    9:26    they will be called `sons of the living God.'"
Rom    9:27   And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the
Rom    9:27  sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will
Rom    9:27  be saved;
Rom    9:28  for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and
Rom    9:28  dispatch."
Rom    9:29  And as Isaiah predicted,
Rom    9:29    "If the Lord of hosts had not left us children,
Rom    9:29    we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomor'rah."
Rom    9:30   What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue
Rom    9:30  righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;
Rom    9:31  but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did
Rom    9:31  not succeed in fulfilling that law.
Rom    9:32  Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were
Rom    9:32  based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Rom    9:33  as it is written,
Rom    9:33    "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble,
Rom    9:33    a rock that will make them fall;
Rom    9:33    and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."
Rom   10: 1   Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they
Rom   10: 1  may be saved.
Rom   10: 2  I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not
Rom   10: 2  enlightened.
Rom   10: 3  For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and
Rom   10: 3  seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's
Rom   10: 3  righteousness.
Rom   10: 4  For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be
Rom   10: 4  justified.
Rom   10: 5   Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is
Rom   10: 5  based on the law shall live by it.
Rom   10: 6  But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart,
Rom   10: 6  "Who will ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down)
Rom   10: 7  or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from
Rom   10: 7  the dead).
Rom   10: 8  But what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your
Rom   10: 8  heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach);
Rom   10: 9  because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe
Rom   10: 9  in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom   10:10  For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses
Rom   10:10  with his lips and so is saved.
Rom   10:11  The scripture says, "No one who believes in him will be put to shame."
Rom   10:12  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is
Rom   10:12  Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him.
Rom   10:13  For, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."
Rom   10:14   But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And
Rom   10:14  how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how
Rom   10:14  are they to hear without a preacher?
Rom   10:15  And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How
Rom   10:15  beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!"
Rom   10:16  But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, "Lord, who
Rom   10:16  has believed what he has heard from us?"
Rom   10:17  So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the
Rom   10:17  preaching of Christ.
Rom   10:18   But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have; for
Rom   10:18    "Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
Rom   10:18    and their words to the ends of the world."
Rom   10:19  Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,
Rom   10:19    "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
Rom   10:19    with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
Rom   10:20  Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
Rom   10:20    "I have been found by those who did not seek me;
Rom   10:20    I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me."
Rom   10:21   But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a
Rom   10:21  disobedient and contrary people."
Rom   11: 1   I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an
Rom   11: 1  Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
Rom   11: 2  God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what
Rom   11: 2  the scripture says of Eli'jah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
Rom   11: 3  "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thy altars,
Rom   11: 3  and I alone am left, and they seek my life."
Rom   11: 4  But what is God's reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand
Rom   11: 4  men who have not bowed the knee to Ba'al."
Rom   11: 5  So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
Rom   11: 6  But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise
Rom   11: 6  grace would no longer be grace.
Rom   11: 7  What then? Israel failed to obtain what it sought. The elect obtained
Rom   11: 7  it, but the rest were hardened,
Rom   11: 8  as it is written,
Rom   11: 8    "God gave them a spirit of stupor,
Rom   11: 8    eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear,
Rom   11: 8    down to this very day."
Rom   11: 9   And David says,
Rom   11: 9    "Let their table become a snare and a trap,
Rom   11: 9    a pitfall and a retribution for them;
Rom   11:10    let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
Rom   11:10    and bend their backs for ever."
Rom   11:11   So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through
Rom   11:11  their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel
Rom   11:11  jealous.
Rom   11:12  Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure
Rom   11:12  means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion
Rom   11:12  mean!
Rom   11:13   Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle
Rom   11:13  to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
Rom   11:14  in order to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
Rom   11:15  For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will
Rom   11:15  their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
Rom   11:16  If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump; and
Rom   11:16  if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Rom   11:17   But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive
Rom   11:17  shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive
Rom   11:17  tree,
Rom   11:18  do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you
Rom   11:18  that support the root, but the root that supports you.
Rom   11:19  You will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
Rom   11:20  That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you
Rom   11:20  stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
Rom   11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare
Rom   11:21  you.
Rom   11:22  Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those
Rom   11:22  who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in
Rom   11:22  his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
Rom   11:23  And even the others, if they do not persist in their unbelief, will be
Rom   11:23  grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
Rom   11:24  For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and
Rom   11:24  grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much
Rom   11:24  more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive
Rom   11:24  tree.
Rom   11:25   Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this
Rom   11:25  mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the
Rom   11:25  full number of the Gentiles come in,
Rom   11:26  and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written,
Rom   11:26    "The Deliverer will come from Zion,
Rom   11:26    he will banish ungodliness from Jacob";
Rom   11:27    "and this will be my covenant with them
Rom   11:27    when I take away their sins."
Rom   11:28  As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake; but as
Rom   11:28  regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
Rom   11:29  For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
Rom   11:30  Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy
Rom   11:30  because of their disobedience,
Rom   11:31  so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to
Rom   11:31  you they also may receive mercy.
Rom   11:32  For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy
Rom   11:32  upon all.
Rom   11:33   O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How
Rom   11:33  unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Rom   11:34    "For who has known the mind of the Lord,
Rom   11:34    or who has been his counselor?"
Rom   11:35    "Or who has given a gift to him
Rom   11:35    that he might be repaid?"
Rom   11:36   For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be
Rom   11:36  glory for ever. Amen.
Rom   12: 1   I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to
Rom   12: 1  present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God,
Rom   12: 1  which is your spiritual worship.
Rom   12: 2  Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of
Rom   12: 2  your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and
Rom   12: 2  acceptable and perfect.
Rom   12: 3   For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think
Rom   12: 3  of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober
Rom   12: 3  judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned
Rom   12: 3  him.
Rom   12: 4  For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not
Rom   12: 4  have the same function,
Rom   12: 5  so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members
Rom   12: 5  one of another.
Rom   12: 6  Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use
Rom   12: 6  them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
Rom   12: 7  if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching;
Rom   12: 8  he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality;
Rom   12: 8  he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with
Rom   12: 8  cheerfulness.
Rom   12: 9   Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;
Rom   12:10  love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing
Rom   12:10  honor.
Rom   12:11  Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord.
Rom   12:12  Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Rom   12:13  Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.
Rom   12:14   Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Rom   12:15  Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Rom   12:16  Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with
Rom   12:16  the lowly; never be conceited.
Rom   12:17  Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the
Rom   12:17  sight of all.
Rom   12:18  If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all.
Rom   12:19  Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for
Rom   12:19  it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
Rom   12:20  No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him
Rom   12:20  drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head."
Rom   12:21  Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Rom   13: 1   Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there
Rom   13: 1  is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been
Rom   13: 1  instituted by God.
Rom   13: 2  Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has
Rom   13: 2  appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Rom   13: 3  For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have
Rom   13: 3  no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will
Rom   13: 3  receive his approval,
Rom   13: 4  for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid,
Rom   13: 4  for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to
Rom   13: 4  execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
Rom   13: 5  Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also
Rom   13: 5  for the sake of conscience.
Rom   13: 6  For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are
Rom   13: 6  ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Rom   13: 7  Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to
Rom   13: 7  whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom
Rom   13: 7  honor is due.
Rom   13: 8   Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his
Rom   13: 8  neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Rom   13: 9  The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill,
Rom   13: 9  You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment,
Rom   13: 9  are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as
Rom   13: 9  yourself."
Rom   13:10  Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of
Rom   13:10  the law.
Rom   13:11   Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for
Rom   13:11  you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we
Rom   13:11  first believed;
Rom   13:12  the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the
Rom   13:12  works of darkness and put on the armor of light;
Rom   13:13  let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and
Rom   13:13  drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling
Rom   13:13  and jealousy.
Rom   13:14  But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh,
Rom   13:14  to gratify its desires.
Rom   14: 1   As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for
Rom   14: 1  disputes over opinions.
Rom   14: 2  One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only
Rom   14: 2  vegetables.
Rom   14: 3  Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who
Rom   14: 3  abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him.
Rom   14: 4  Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before
Rom   14: 4  his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the
Rom   14: 4  Master is able to make him stand.
Rom   14: 5   One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man
Rom   14: 5  esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own
Rom   14: 5  mind.
Rom   14: 6  He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who
Rom   14: 6  eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he
Rom   14: 6  who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Rom   14: 7  None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
Rom   14: 8  If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so
Rom   14: 8  then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Rom   14: 9  For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both
Rom   14: 9  of the dead and of the living.
Rom   14:10   Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise
Rom   14:10  your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Rom   14:11  for it is written,
Rom   14:11    "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
Rom   14:11    and every tongue shall give praise to God."
Rom   14:12  So each of us shall give account of himself to God.
Rom   14:13   Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide
Rom   14:13  never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Rom   14:14  I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in
Rom   14:14  itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean.
Rom   14:15  If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer
Rom   14:15  walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom
Rom   14:15  Christ died.
Rom   14:16  So do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
Rom   14:17  For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and
Rom   14:17  peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;
Rom   14:18  he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Rom   14:19  Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Rom   14:20  Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is
Rom   14:20  indeed clean, but it is wrong for any one to make others fall by what
Rom   14:20  he eats;
Rom   14:21  it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes
Rom   14:21  your brother stumble.
Rom   14:22  The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God; happy is he who
Rom   14:22  has no reason to judge himself for what he approves.
Rom   14:23  But he who has doubts is condemned, if he eats, because he does not act
Rom   14:23  from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Rom   15: 1   We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and
Rom   15: 1  not to please ourselves;
Rom   15: 2  let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.
Rom   15: 3  For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The
Rom   15: 3  reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me."
Rom   15: 4  For whatever was written in former days was written for our
Rom   15: 4  instruction, that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the
Rom   15: 4  scriptures we might have hope.
Rom   15: 5  May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in
Rom   15: 5  such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Rom   15: 6  that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our
Rom   15: 6  Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom   15: 7   Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the
Rom   15: 7  glory of God.
Rom   15: 8  For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show
Rom   15: 8  God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the
Rom   15: 8  patriarchs,
Rom   15: 9  and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy.  As
Rom   15: 9  it is written,
Rom   15: 9    "Therefore I will praise thee among the Gentiles,
Rom   15: 9    and sing to thy name";
Rom   15:10  and again it is said,
Rom   15:10    "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people";
Rom   15:11  and again,
Rom   15:11    "Praise the Lord, all Gentiles,
Rom   15:11    and let all the peoples praise him";
Rom   15:12  and further Isaiah says,
Rom   15:12    "The root of Jesse shall come,
Rom   15:12    he who rises to rule the Gentiles;
Rom   15:12    in him shall the Gentiles hope."
Rom   15:13   May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so
Rom   15:13  that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Rom   15:14   I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are
Rom   15:14  full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one
Rom   15:14  another.
Rom   15:15  But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of
Rom   15:15  reminder, because of the grace given me by God
Rom   15:16  to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly
Rom   15:16  service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may
Rom   15:16  be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom   15:17  In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
Rom   15:18  For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has
Rom   15:18  wrought through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,
Rom   15:19  by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so
Rom   15:19  that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyr'icum I have fully
Rom   15:19  preached the gospel of Christ,
Rom   15:20  thus making it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has
Rom   15:20  already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation,
Rom   15:21  but as it is written,
Rom   15:21    "They shall see who have never been told of him,
Rom   15:21    and they shall understand who have never heard of him."
Rom   15:22   This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to
Rom   15:22  you.
Rom   15:23  But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and
Rom   15:23  since I have longed for many years to come to you,
Rom   15:24  I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be sped on my
Rom   15:24  journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a little.
Rom   15:25  At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem with aid for the saints.
Rom   15:26  For Macedo'nia and Acha'ia have been pleased to make some contribution
Rom   15:26  for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem;
Rom   15:27  they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them, for if
Rom   15:27  the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they
Rom   15:27  ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Rom   15:28  When therefore I have completed this, and have delivered to them what
Rom   15:28  has been raised, I shall go on by way of you to Spain;
Rom   15:29  and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fulness of the
Rom   15:29  blessing of Christ.
Rom   15:30   I appeal to you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love
Rom   15:30  of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my
Rom   15:30  behalf,
Rom   15:31  that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my
Rom   15:31  service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
Rom   15:32  so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in
Rom   15:32  your company.
Rom   15:33  The God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Rom   16: 1   I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at
Rom   16: 1  Cen'chre-ae,
Rom   16: 2  that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her
Rom   16: 2  in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many
Rom   16: 2  and of myself as well.
Rom   16: 3   Greet Prisca and Aq'uila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom   16: 4  who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the
Rom   16: 4  churches of the Gentiles give thanks;
Rom   16: 5  greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epae'netus, who
Rom   16: 5  was the first convert in Asia for Christ.
Rom   16: 6  Greet Mary, who has worked hard among you.
Rom   16: 7  Greet Androni'cus and Ju'nias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners; they
Rom   16: 7  are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.
Rom   16: 8  Greet Amplia'tus, my beloved in the Lord.
Rom   16: 9  Greet Urba'nus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
Rom   16:10  Greet Apel'les, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to
Rom   16:10  the family of Aristobu'lus.
Rom   16:11  Greet my kinsman Hero'dion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the
Rom   16:11  family of Narcis'sus.
Rom   16:12  Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphae'na and Trypho'sa. Greet the
Rom   16:12  beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
Rom   16:13  Greet Rufus, eminent in the Lord, also his mother and mine.
Rom   16:14  Greet Asyn'critus, Phlegon, Hermes, Pat'robas, Hermas, and the brethren
Rom   16:14  who are with them.
Rom   16:15  Greet Philol'ogus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olym'pas, and all
Rom   16:15  the saints who are with them.
Rom   16:16  Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet
Rom   16:16  you.
Rom   16:17   I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create
Rom   16:17  dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you
Rom   16:17  have been taught; avoid them.
Rom   16:18  For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites,
Rom   16:18  and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the
Rom   16:18  simple-minded.
Rom   16:19  For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I
Rom   16:19  would have you wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil;
Rom   16:20  then the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace
Rom   16:20  of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Rom   16:21   Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and
Rom   16:21  Sosip'ater, my kinsmen.
Rom   16:22   I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord.
Rom   16:23   Ga'ius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you.
Rom   16:23  Eras'tus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
Rom   16:25   Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and
Rom   16:25  the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
Rom   16:25  mystery which was kept secret for long ages
Rom   16:26  but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known
Rom   16:26  to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring
Rom   16:26  about the obedience of faith --
Rom   16:27  to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
1Cor    1: 1  Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and
1Cor    1: 1  our brother Sos'thenes,
1Cor    1: 2   To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in
1Cor    1: 2  Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every
1Cor    1: 2  place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and
1Cor    1: 2  ours:
1Cor    1: 3   Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Cor    1: 4   I give thanks to God always for you because of the grace of God which
1Cor    1: 4  was given you in Christ Jesus,
1Cor    1: 5  that in every way you were enriched in him with all speech and all
1Cor    1: 5  knowledge --
1Cor    1: 6  even as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you --
1Cor    1: 7  so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the
1Cor    1: 7  revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1Cor    1: 8  who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus
1Cor    1: 8  Christ.
1Cor    1: 9  God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his
1Cor    1: 9  Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Cor    1:10   I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
1Cor    1:10  all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that
1Cor    1:10  you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1Cor    1:11  For it has been reported to me by Chlo'e's people that there is
1Cor    1:11  quarreling among you, my brethren.
1Cor    1:12  What I mean is that each one of you says, "I belong to Paul," or "I
1Cor    1:12  belong to Apol'los," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ."
1Cor    1:13  Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in
1Cor    1:13  the name of Paul?
1Cor    1:14  I am thankful that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Ga'ius;
1Cor    1:15  lest any one should say that you were baptized in my name.
1Cor    1:16  (I did baptize also the household of Steph'anas. Beyond that, I do not
1Cor    1:16  know whether I baptized any one else.)
1Cor    1:17  For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not
1Cor    1:17  with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
1Cor    1:18   For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to
1Cor    1:18  us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1Cor    1:19  For it is written,
1Cor    1:19    "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
1Cor    1:19    and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart."
1Cor    1:20  Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of
1Cor    1:20  this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1Cor    1:21  For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through
1Cor    1:21  wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save
1Cor    1:21  those who believe.
1Cor    1:22  For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
1Cor    1:23  but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to
1Cor    1:23  Gentiles,
1Cor    1:24  but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of
1Cor    1:24  God and the wisdom of God.
1Cor    1:25  For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God
1Cor    1:25  is stronger than men.
1Cor    1:26   For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according
1Cor    1:26  to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble
1Cor    1:26  birth;
1Cor    1:27  but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose
1Cor    1:27  what is weak in the world to shame the strong,
1Cor    1:28  God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are
1Cor    1:28  not, to bring to nothing things that are,
1Cor    1:29  so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
1Cor    1:30  He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our
1Cor    1:30  wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
1Cor    1:31  therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord."
1Cor    2: 1   When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the
1Cor    2: 1  testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.
1Cor    2: 2  For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him
1Cor    2: 2  crucified.
1Cor    2: 3  And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;
1Cor    2: 4  and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but
1Cor    2: 4  in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1Cor    2: 5  that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of
1Cor    2: 5  God.
1Cor    2: 6   Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom
1Cor    2: 6  of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
1Cor    2: 7  But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed
1Cor    2: 7  before the ages for our glorification.
1Cor    2: 8  None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they
1Cor    2: 8  would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Cor    2: 9  But, as it is written,
1Cor    2: 9    "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
1Cor    2: 9    nor the heart of man conceived,
1Cor    2: 9    what God has prepared for those who love him,"
1Cor    2:10  God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches
1Cor    2:10  everything, even the depths of God.
1Cor    2:11  For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man
1Cor    2:11  which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except
1Cor    2:11  the Spirit of God.
1Cor    2:12  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which
1Cor    2:12  is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
1Cor    2:13  And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by
1Cor    2:13  the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the
1Cor    2:13  Spirit.
1Cor    2:14   The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God,
1Cor    2:14  for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them
1Cor    2:14  because they are spiritually discerned.
1Cor    2:15  The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no
1Cor    2:15  one.
1Cor    2:16  "For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we
1Cor    2:16  have the mind of Christ.
1Cor    3: 1   But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men
1Cor    3: 1  of the flesh, as babes in Christ.
1Cor    3: 2  I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and
1Cor    3: 2  even yet you are not ready,
1Cor    3: 3  for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife
1Cor    3: 3  among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?
1Cor    3: 4  For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to
1Cor    3: 4  Apol'los," are you not merely men?
1Cor    3: 5   What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
1Cor    3: 5  believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
1Cor    3: 6  I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.
1Cor    3: 7  So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God
1Cor    3: 7  who gives the growth.
1Cor    3: 8  He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his
1Cor    3: 8  wages according to his labor.
1Cor    3: 9  For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
1Cor    3:10   According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master
1Cor    3:10  builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let
1Cor    3:10  each man take care how he builds upon it.
1Cor    3:11  For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which
1Cor    3:11  is Jesus Christ.
1Cor    3:12  Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious
1Cor    3:12  stones, wood, hay, straw --
1Cor    3:13  each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it,
1Cor    3:13  because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort
1Cor    3:13  of work each one has done.
1Cor    3:14  If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will
1Cor    3:14  receive a reward.
1Cor    3:15  If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself
1Cor    3:15  will be saved, but only as through fire.
1Cor    3:16   Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit
1Cor    3:16  dwells in you?
1Cor    3:17  If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's
1Cor    3:17  temple is holy, and that temple you are.
1Cor    3:18   Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is
1Cor    3:18  wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
1Cor    3:19  For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He
1Cor    3:19  catches the wise in their craftiness,"
1Cor    3:20  and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."
1Cor    3:21  So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,
1Cor    3:22  whether Paul or Apol'los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the
1Cor    3:22  present or the future, all are yours;
1Cor    3:23  and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
1Cor    4: 1   This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards
1Cor    4: 1  of the mysteries of God.
1Cor    4: 2  Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
1Cor    4: 3  But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or
1Cor    4: 3  by any human court. I do not even judge myself.
1Cor    4: 4  I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby
1Cor    4: 4  acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
1Cor    4: 5  Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord
1Cor    4: 5  comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and
1Cor    4: 5  will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive
1Cor    4: 5  his commendation from God.
1Cor    4: 6   I have applied all this to myself and Apol'los for your benefit,
1Cor    4: 6  brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written,
1Cor    4: 6  that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
1Cor    4: 7  For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not
1Cor    4: 7  receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a
1Cor    4: 7  gift?
1Cor    4: 8   Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you
1Cor    4: 8  have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share
1Cor    4: 8  the rule with you!
1Cor    4: 9  For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men
1Cor    4: 9  sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to
1Cor    4: 9  angels and to men.
1Cor    4:10  We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are
1Cor    4:10  weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
1Cor    4:11  To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted
1Cor    4:11  and homeless,
1Cor    4:12  and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when
1Cor    4:12  persecuted, we endure;
1Cor    4:13  when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as
1Cor    4:13  the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
1Cor    4:14   I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my
1Cor    4:14  beloved children.
1Cor    4:15  For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many
1Cor    4:15  fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1Cor    4:16  I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
1Cor    4:17  Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the
1Cor    4:17  Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in
1Cor    4:17  every church.
1Cor    4:18  Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
1Cor    4:19  But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not
1Cor    4:19  the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
1Cor    4:20  For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
1Cor    4:21  What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a
1Cor    4:21  spirit of gentleness?
1Cor    5: 1   It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a
1Cor    5: 1  kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his
1Cor    5: 1  father's wife.
1Cor    5: 2  And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has
1Cor    5: 2  done this be removed from among you.
1Cor    5: 3   For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present,
1Cor    5: 3  I have already pronounced judgment
1Cor    5: 4  in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing.
1Cor    5: 4  When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our
1Cor    5: 4  Lord Jesus,
1Cor    5: 5  you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
1Cor    5: 5  that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Cor    5: 6   Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven
1Cor    5: 6  leavens the whole lump?
1Cor    5: 7  Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really
1Cor    5: 7  are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.
1Cor    5: 8  Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the
1Cor    5: 8  leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
1Cor    5: 8  and truth.
1Cor    5: 9   I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral men;
1Cor    5:10  not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and
1Cor    5:10  robbers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
1Cor    5:11  But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the
1Cor    5:11  name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an
1Cor    5:11  idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber -- not even to eat with such a one.
1Cor    5:12  For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside
1Cor    5:12  the church whom you are to judge?
1Cor    5:13  God judges those outside. "Drive out the wicked person from among you."
1Cor    6: 1   When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to
1Cor    6: 1  law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
1Cor    6: 2  Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world
1Cor    6: 2  is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1Cor    6: 3  Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters
1Cor    6: 3  pertaining to this life!
1Cor    6: 4  If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are
1Cor    6: 4  least esteemed by the church?
1Cor    6: 5  I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise
1Cor    6: 5  enough to decide between members of the brotherhood,
1Cor    6: 6  but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
1Cor    6: 7   To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not
1Cor    6: 7  rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
1Cor    6: 8  But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.
1Cor    6: 9   Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of
1Cor    6: 9  God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor
1Cor    6: 9  adulterers, nor sexual perverts,
1Cor    6:10  nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers
1Cor    6:10  will inherit the kingdom of God.
1Cor    6:11  And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified,
1Cor    6:11  you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the
1Cor    6:11  Spirit of our God.
1Cor    6:12   "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All
1Cor    6:12  things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
1Cor    6:13  "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will
1Cor    6:13  destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality,
1Cor    6:13  but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1Cor    6:14  And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
1Cor    6:15  Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I
1Cor    6:15  therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a
1Cor    6:15  prostitute? Never!
1Cor    6:16  Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one
1Cor    6:16  body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."
1Cor    6:17  But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
1Cor    6:18  Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the
1Cor    6:18  body; but the immoral man sins against his own body.
1Cor    6:19  Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within
1Cor    6:19  you, which you have from God? You are not your own;
1Cor    6:20  you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1Cor    7: 1   Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a
1Cor    7: 1  man not to touch a woman.
1Cor    7: 2  But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his
1Cor    7: 2  own wife and each woman her own husband.
1Cor    7: 3  The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise
1Cor    7: 3  the wife to her husband.
1Cor    7: 4  For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does;
1Cor    7: 4  likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
1Cor    7: 5  Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season,
1Cor    7: 5  that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again,
1Cor    7: 5  lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.
1Cor    7: 6  I say this by way of concession, not of command.
1Cor    7: 7  I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift
1Cor    7: 7  from God, one of one kind and one of another.
1Cor    7: 8   To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to
1Cor    7: 8  remain single as I do.
1Cor    7: 9  But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is
1Cor    7: 9  better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
1Cor    7:10   To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife
1Cor    7:10  should not separate from her husband
1Cor    7:11  (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her
1Cor    7:11  husband) -- and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
1Cor    7:12   To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who
1Cor    7:12  is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not
1Cor    7:12  divorce her.
1Cor    7:13  If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to
1Cor    7:13  live with her, she should not divorce him.
1Cor    7:14  For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the
1Cor    7:14  unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your
1Cor    7:14  children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.
1Cor    7:15  But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in
1Cor    7:15  such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us
1Cor    7:15  to peace.
1Cor    7:16  Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how
1Cor    7:16  do you know whether you will save your wife?
1Cor    7:17   Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him,
1Cor    7:17  and in which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1Cor    7:18  Was any one at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not
1Cor    7:18  seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was any one at the time of
1Cor    7:18  his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.
1Cor    7:19  For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but
1Cor    7:19  keeping the commandments of God.
1Cor    7:20  Every one should remain in the state in which he was called.
1Cor    7:21  Were you a slave when called? Never mind. But if you can gain your
1Cor    7:21  freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.
1Cor    7:22  For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord.
1Cor    7:22  Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
1Cor    7:23  You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
1Cor    7:24  So, brethren, in whatever state each was called, there let him remain
1Cor    7:24  with God.
1Cor    7:25   Now concerning the unmarried, I have no command of the Lord, but I
1Cor    7:25  give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.
1Cor    7:26  I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to
1Cor    7:26  remain as he is.
1Cor    7:27  Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a
1Cor    7:27  wife? Do not seek marriage.
1Cor    7:28  But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not
1Cor    7:28  sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare
1Cor    7:28  you that.
1Cor    7:29  I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now on,
1Cor    7:29  let those who have wives live as though they had none,
1Cor    7:30  and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who
1Cor    7:30  rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though
1Cor    7:30  they had no goods,
1Cor    7:31  and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with
1Cor    7:31  it. For the form of this world is passing away.
1Cor    7:32   I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious
1Cor    7:32  about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;
1Cor    7:33  but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his
1Cor    7:33  wife,
1Cor    7:34  and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is
1Cor    7:34  anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and
1Cor    7:34  spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to
1Cor    7:34  please her husband.
1Cor    7:35  I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but
1Cor    7:35  to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
1Cor    7:36   If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his
1Cor    7:36  betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as
1Cor    7:36  he wishes: let them marry -- it is no sin.
1Cor    7:37  But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no
1Cor    7:37  necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this
1Cor    7:37  in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
1Cor    7:38  So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains
1Cor    7:38  from marriage will do better.
1Cor    7:39   A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband
1Cor    7:39  dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
1Cor    7:40  But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think
1Cor    7:40  that I have the Spirit of God.
1Cor    8: 1   Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess
1Cor    8: 1  knowledge." "Knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
1Cor    8: 2  If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he
1Cor    8: 2  ought to know.
1Cor    8: 3  But if one loves God, one is known by him.
1Cor    8: 4   Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an
1Cor    8: 4  idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."
1Cor    8: 5  For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth -- as
1Cor    8: 5  indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords" --
1Cor    8: 6  yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and
1Cor    8: 6  for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all
1Cor    8: 6  things and through whom we exist.
1Cor    8: 7   However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through being
1Cor    8: 7  hitherto accustomed to idols, eat food as really offered to an idol;
1Cor    8: 7  and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1Cor    8: 8  Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat,
1Cor    8: 8  and no better off if we do.
1Cor    8: 9  Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling
1Cor    8: 9  block to the weak.
1Cor    8:10  For if any one sees you, a man of knowledge, at table in an idol's
1Cor    8:10  temple, might he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat
1Cor    8:10  food offered to idols?
1Cor    8:11  And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for
1Cor    8:11  whom Christ died.
1Cor    8:12  Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when
1Cor    8:12  it is weak, you sin against Christ.
1Cor    8:13  Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat
1Cor    8:13  meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.
1Cor    9: 1   Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?
1Cor    9: 1  Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
1Cor    9: 2  If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the
1Cor    9: 2  seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1Cor    9: 3   This is my defense to those who would examine me.
1Cor    9: 4  Do we not have the right to our food and drink?
1Cor    9: 5  Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other
1Cor    9: 5  apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
1Cor    9: 6  Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working
1Cor    9: 6  for a living?
1Cor    9: 7  Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard
1Cor    9: 7  without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some
1Cor    9: 7  of the milk?
1Cor    9: 8   Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same?
1Cor    9: 9  For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when
1Cor    9: 9  it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
1Cor    9:10  Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake,
1Cor    9:10  because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope
1Cor    9:10  of a share in the crop.
1Cor    9:11  If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap
1Cor    9:11  your material benefits?
1Cor    9:12  If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more?
1Cor    9:12   Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure
1Cor    9:12  anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
1Cor    9:13  Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get
1Cor    9:13  their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in
1Cor    9:13  the sacrificial offerings?
1Cor    9:14  In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel
1Cor    9:14  should get their living by the gospel.
1Cor    9:15   But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this
1Cor    9:15  to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have any one
1Cor    9:15  deprive me of my ground for boasting.
1Cor    9:16  For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For
1Cor    9:16  necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
1Cor    9:17  For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own
1Cor    9:17  will, I am entrusted with a commission.
1Cor    9:18  What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may make the
1Cor    9:18  gospel free of charge, not making full use of my right in the gospel.
1Cor    9:19   For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all,
1Cor    9:19  that I might win the more.
1Cor    9:20  To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the
1Cor    9:20  law I became as one under the law -- though not being myself under the
1Cor    9:20  law -- that I might win those under the law.
1Cor    9:21  To those outside the law I became as one outside the law -- not being
1Cor    9:21  without law toward God but under the law of Christ -- that I might win
1Cor    9:21  those outside the law.
1Cor    9:22  To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all
1Cor    9:22  things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1Cor    9:23  I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its
1Cor    9:23  blessings.
1Cor    9:24   Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one
1Cor    9:24  receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
1Cor    9:25  Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to
1Cor    9:25  receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
1Cor    9:26  Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;
1Cor    9:27  but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I
1Cor    9:27  myself should be disqualified.
1Cor   10: 1   I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the
1Cor   10: 1  cloud, and all passed through the sea,
1Cor   10: 2  and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
1Cor   10: 3  and all ate the same supernatural food
1Cor   10: 4  and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the
1Cor   10: 4  supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
1Cor   10: 5  Nevertheless with most of them God was not pleased; for they were
1Cor   10: 5  overthrown in the wilderness.
1Cor   10: 6   Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did.
1Cor   10: 7  Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people
1Cor   10: 7  sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance."
1Cor   10: 8  We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three
1Cor   10: 8  thousand fell in a single day.
1Cor   10: 9  We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were
1Cor   10: 9  destroyed by serpents;
1Cor   10:10  nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
1Cor   10:11  Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written
1Cor   10:11  down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.
1Cor   10:12  Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
1Cor   10:13  No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is
1Cor   10:13  faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but
1Cor   10:13  with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may
1Cor   10:13  be able to endure it.
1Cor   10:14   Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols.
1Cor   10:15  I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say.
1Cor   10:16  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the
1Cor   10:16  blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in
1Cor   10:16  the body of Christ?
1Cor   10:17  Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all
1Cor   10:17  partake of the one bread.
1Cor   10:18  Consider the people of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices
1Cor   10:18  partners in the altar?
1Cor   10:19  What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that
1Cor   10:19  an idol is anything?
1Cor   10:20  No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to
1Cor   10:20  God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
1Cor   10:21  You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot
1Cor   10:21  partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
1Cor   10:22  Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
1Cor   10:23   "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things
1Cor   10:23  are lawful," but not all things build up.
1Cor   10:24  Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
1Cor   10:25  Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on
1Cor   10:25  the ground of conscience.
1Cor   10:26  For "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."
1Cor   10:27  If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to
1Cor   10:27  go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the
1Cor   10:27  ground of conscience.
1Cor   10:28  (But if some one says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice,"
1Cor   10:28  then out of consideration for the man who informed you, and for
1Cor   10:28  conscience' sake --
1Cor   10:29  I mean his conscience, not yours -- do not eat it.) For why should my
1Cor   10:29  liberty be determined by another man's scruples?
1Cor   10:30  If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for
1Cor   10:30  which I give thanks?
1Cor   10:31  So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory
1Cor   10:31  of God.
1Cor   10:32  Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1Cor   10:33  just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own
1Cor   10:33  advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1Cor   11: 1   Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
1Cor   11: 2   I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the
1Cor   11: 2  traditions even as I have delivered them to you.
1Cor   11: 3  But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the
1Cor   11: 3  head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
1Cor   11: 4  Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his
1Cor   11: 4  head,
1Cor   11: 5  but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors
1Cor   11: 5  her head -- it is the same as if her head were shaven.
1Cor   11: 6  For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair;
1Cor   11: 6  but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
1Cor   11: 6  wear a veil.
1Cor   11: 7  For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory
1Cor   11: 7  of God; but woman is the glory of man.
1Cor   11: 8  (For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
1Cor   11: 9  Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.)
1Cor   11:10  That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the
1Cor   11:10  angels.
1Cor   11:11  (Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of
1Cor   11:11  woman;
1Cor   11:12  for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all
1Cor   11:12  things are from God.)
1Cor   11:13  Judge for yourselves; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her
1Cor   11:13  head uncovered?
1Cor   11:14  Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is
1Cor   11:14  degrading to him,
1Cor   11:15  but if a woman has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to
1Cor   11:15  her for a covering.
1Cor   11:16  If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other
1Cor   11:16  practice, nor do the churches of God.
1Cor   11:17   But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when
1Cor   11:17  you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
1Cor   11:18  For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that
1Cor   11:18  there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it,
1Cor   11:19  for there must be factions among you in order that those who are
1Cor   11:19  genuine among you may be recognized.
1Cor   11:20  When you meet together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.
1Cor   11:21  For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry
1Cor   11:21  and another is drunk.
1Cor   11:22  What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the
1Cor   11:22  church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to
1Cor   11:22  you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
1Cor   11:23   For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the
1Cor   11:23  Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
1Cor   11:24  and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body
1Cor   11:24  which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
1Cor   11:25  In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the
1Cor   11:25  new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in
1Cor   11:25  remembrance of me."
1Cor   11:26  For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the
1Cor   11:26  Lord's death until he comes.
1Cor   11:27   Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in
1Cor   11:27  an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of
1Cor   11:27  the Lord.
1Cor   11:28  Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
1Cor   11:29  For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and
1Cor   11:29  drinks judgment upon himself.
1Cor   11:30  That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
1Cor   11:31  But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged.
1Cor   11:32  But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not
1Cor   11:32  be condemned along with the world.
1Cor   11:33   So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one
1Cor   11:33  another --
1Cor   11:34  if any one is hungry, let him eat at home -- lest you come together to be
1Cor   11:34  condemned. About the other things I will give directions when I come.
1Cor   12: 1   Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be
1Cor   12: 1  uninformed.
1Cor   12: 2  You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols,
1Cor   12: 2  however you may have been moved.
1Cor   12: 3  Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit
1Cor   12: 3  of God ever says "Jesus be cursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord"
1Cor   12: 3  except by the Holy Spirit.
1Cor   12: 4   Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
1Cor   12: 5  and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
1Cor   12: 6  and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires
1Cor   12: 6  them all in every one.
1Cor   12: 7  To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1Cor   12: 8  To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to
1Cor   12: 8  another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
1Cor   12: 9  to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the
1Cor   12: 9  one Spirit,
1Cor   12:10  to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the
1Cor   12:10  ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of
1Cor   12:10  tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1Cor   12:11  All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to
1Cor   12:11  each one individually as he wills.
1Cor   12:12   For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members
1Cor   12:12  of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1Cor   12:13  For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- Jews or Greeks,
1Cor   12:13  slaves or free -- and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1Cor   12:14   For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1Cor   12:15  If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to
1Cor   12:15  the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1Cor   12:16  And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to
1Cor   12:16  the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1Cor   12:17  If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole
1Cor   12:17  body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
1Cor   12:18  But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as
1Cor   12:18  he chose.
1Cor   12:19  If all were a single organ, where would the body be?
1Cor   12:20  As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1Cor   12:21  The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the
1Cor   12:21  head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
1Cor   12:22  On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are
1Cor   12:22  indispensable,
1Cor   12:23  and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest
1Cor   12:23  with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with
1Cor   12:23  greater modesty,
1Cor   12:24  which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so
1Cor   12:24  composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
1Cor   12:25  that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have
1Cor   12:25  the same care for one another.
1Cor   12:26  If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored,
1Cor   12:26  all rejoice together.
1Cor   12:27   Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
1Cor   12:28  And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets,
1Cor   12:28  third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers,
1Cor   12:28  administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.
1Cor   12:29  Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work
1Cor   12:29  miracles?
1Cor   12:30  Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all
1Cor   12:30  interpret?
1Cor   12:31  But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
1Cor   12:31   And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1Cor   13: 1   If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I
1Cor   13: 1  am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Cor   13: 2  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
1Cor   13: 2  knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have
1Cor   13: 2  not love, I am nothing.
1Cor   13: 3  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but
1Cor   13: 3  have not love, I gain nothing.
1Cor   13: 4   Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
1Cor   13: 5  it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is
1Cor   13: 5  not irritable or resentful;
1Cor   13: 6  it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
1Cor   13: 7  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
1Cor   13: 7  all things.
1Cor   13: 8   Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for
1Cor   13: 8  tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1Cor   13: 9  For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
1Cor   13:10  but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
1Cor   13:11  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I
1Cor   13:11  reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
1Cor   13:12  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in
1Cor   13:12  part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully
1Cor   13:12  understood.
1Cor   13:13  So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is
1Cor   13:13  love.
1Cor   14: 1   Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts,
1Cor   14: 1  especially that you may prophesy.
1Cor   14: 2  For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one
1Cor   14: 2  understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
1Cor   14: 3  On the other hand, he who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding
1Cor   14: 3  and encouragement and consolation.
1Cor   14: 4  He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies
1Cor   14: 4  edifies the church.
1Cor   14: 5  Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. He
1Cor   14: 5  who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some
1Cor   14: 5  one interprets, so that the church may be edified.
1Cor   14: 6   Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how shall I
1Cor   14: 6  benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy
1Cor   14: 6  or teaching?
1Cor   14: 7  If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not
1Cor   14: 7  give distinct notes, how will any one know what is played?
1Cor   14: 8  And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for
1Cor   14: 8  battle?
1Cor   14: 9  So with yourselves; if you in a tongue utter speech that is not
1Cor   14: 9  intelligible, how will any one know what is said? For you will be
1Cor   14: 9  speaking into the air.
1Cor   14:10  There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is
1Cor   14:10  without meaning;
1Cor   14:11  but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a
1Cor   14:11  foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
1Cor   14:12  So with yourselves; since you are eager for manifestations of the
1Cor   14:12  Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
1Cor   14:13   Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to
1Cor   14:13  interpret.
1Cor   14:14  For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
1Cor   14:15  What am I to do? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the
1Cor   14:15  mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind
1Cor   14:15  also.
1Cor   14:16  Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how can any one in the
1Cor   14:16  position of an outsider say the "Amen" to your thanksgiving when he
1Cor   14:16  does not know what you are saying?
1Cor   14:17  For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
1Cor   14:18  I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;
1Cor   14:19  nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind,
1Cor   14:19  in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
1Cor   14:20   Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but
1Cor   14:20  in thinking be mature.
1Cor   14:21  In the law it is written, "By men of strange tongues and by the lips of
1Cor   14:21  foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not
1Cor   14:21  listen to me, says the Lord."
1Cor   14:22  Thus, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while
1Cor   14:22  prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
1Cor   14:23  If, therefore, the whole church assembles and all speak in tongues, and
1Cor   14:23  outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
1Cor   14:24  But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is
1Cor   14:24  convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
1Cor   14:25  the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so, falling on his face, he
1Cor   14:25  will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
1Cor   14:26   What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a
1Cor   14:26  lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be
1Cor   14:26  done for edification.
1Cor   14:27  If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and
1Cor   14:27  each in turn; and let one interpret.
1Cor   14:28  But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in
1Cor   14:28  church and speak to himself and to God.
1Cor   14:29  Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
1Cor   14:30  If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent.
1Cor   14:31  For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be
1Cor   14:31  encouraged;
1Cor   14:32  and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
1Cor   14:33  For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.
1Cor   14:33   As in all the churches of the saints,
1Cor   14:34  the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not
1Cor   14:34  permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.
1Cor   14:35  If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands
1Cor   14:35  at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
1Cor   14:36  What! Did the word of God originate with you, or are you the only ones
1Cor   14:36  it has reached?
1Cor   14:37   If any one thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should
1Cor   14:37  acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.
1Cor   14:38  If any one does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
1Cor   14:39  So, my brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid
1Cor   14:39  speaking in tongues;
1Cor   14:40  but all things should be done decently and in order.
1Cor   15: 1   Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the
1Cor   15: 1  gospel, which you received, in which you stand,
1Cor   15: 2  by which you are saved, if you hold it fast -- unless you believed in
1Cor   15: 2  vain.
1Cor   15: 3   For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received,
1Cor   15: 3  that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,
1Cor   15: 4  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance
1Cor   15: 4  with the scriptures,
1Cor   15: 5  and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
1Cor   15: 6  Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most
1Cor   15: 6  of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
1Cor   15: 7  Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
1Cor   15: 8  Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
1Cor   15: 9  For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle,
1Cor   15: 9  because I persecuted the church of God.
1Cor   15:10  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not
1Cor   15:10  in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it
1Cor   15:10  was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
1Cor   15:11  Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
1Cor   15:12   Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of
1Cor   15:12  you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1Cor   15:13  But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been
1Cor   15:13  raised;
1Cor   15:14  if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your
1Cor   15:14  faith is in vain.
1Cor   15:15  We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of
1Cor   15:15  God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the
1Cor   15:15  dead are not raised.
1Cor   15:16  For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.
1Cor   15:17  If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still
1Cor   15:17  in your sins.
1Cor   15:18  Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
1Cor   15:19  If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most
1Cor   15:19  to be pitied.
1Cor   15:20   But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of
1Cor   15:20  those who have fallen asleep.
1Cor   15:21  For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of
1Cor   15:21  the dead.
1Cor   15:22  For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Cor   15:23  But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming
1Cor   15:23  those who belong to Christ.
1Cor   15:24  Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father
1Cor   15:24  after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
1Cor   15:25  For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
1Cor   15:26  The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
1Cor   15:27  "For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it
1Cor   15:27  says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain that he
1Cor   15:27  is excepted who put all things under him.
1Cor   15:28  When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be
1Cor   15:28  subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be
1Cor   15:28  everything to every one.
1Cor   15:29  Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead?
1Cor   15:29  If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their
1Cor   15:29  behalf?
1Cor   15:30  Why am I in peril every hour?
1Cor   15:31  I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus
1Cor   15:31  our Lord, I die every day!
1Cor   15:32  What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus?
1Cor   15:32  If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
1Cor   15:33  Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."
1Cor   15:34  Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of
1Cor   15:34  God. I say this to your shame.
1Cor   15:35   But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of
1Cor   15:35  body do they come?"
1Cor   15:36  You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
1Cor   15:37  And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel,
1Cor   15:37  perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
1Cor   15:38  But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its
1Cor   15:38  own body.
1Cor   15:39  For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for
1Cor   15:39  animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
1Cor   15:40  There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the
1Cor   15:40  glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is
1Cor   15:40  another.
1Cor   15:41  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
1Cor   15:41  another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
1Cor   15:42   So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is
1Cor   15:42  perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
1Cor   15:43  It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness,
1Cor   15:43  it is raised in power.
1Cor   15:44  It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is
1Cor   15:44  a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Cor   15:45  Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the
1Cor   15:45  last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Cor   15:46  But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then
1Cor   15:46  the spiritual.
1Cor   15:47  The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from
1Cor   15:47  heaven.
1Cor   15:48  As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the
1Cor   15:48  man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
1Cor   15:49  Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear
1Cor   15:49  the image of the man of heaven.
1Cor   15:50  I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom
1Cor   15:50  of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1Cor   15:51   Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
1Cor   15:51  changed,
1Cor   15:52  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the
1Cor   15:52  trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we
1Cor   15:52  shall be changed.
1Cor   15:53  For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this
1Cor   15:53  mortal nature must put on immortality.
1Cor   15:54  When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on
1Cor   15:54  immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is
1Cor   15:54  written:
1Cor   15:54    "Death is swallowed up in victory."
1Cor   15:55    "O death, where is thy victory?
1Cor   15:55    O death, where is thy sting?"
1Cor   15:56  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
1Cor   15:57  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
1Cor   15:57  Christ.
1Cor   15:58   Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always
1Cor   15:58  abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor
1Cor   15:58  is not in vain.
1Cor   16: 1   Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the
1Cor   16: 1  churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
1Cor   16: 2  On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside
1Cor   16: 2  and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be
1Cor   16: 2  made when I come.
1Cor   16: 3  And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to
1Cor   16: 3  carry your gift to Jerusalem.
1Cor   16: 4  If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
1Cor   16: 5   I will visit you after passing through Macedo'nia, for I intend to
1Cor   16: 5  pass through Macedo'nia,
1Cor   16: 6  and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you
1Cor   16: 6  may speed me on my journey, wherever I go.
1Cor   16: 7  For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to spend some
1Cor   16: 7  time with you, if the Lord permits.
1Cor   16: 8  But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
1Cor   16: 9  for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many
1Cor   16: 9  adversaries.
1Cor   16:10  When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is
1Cor   16:10  doing the work of the Lord, as I am.
1Cor   16:11  So let no one despise him. Speed him on his way in peace, that he may
1Cor   16:11  return to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren.
1Cor   16:12   As for our brother Apol'los, I strongly urged him to visit you with
1Cor   16:12  the other brethren, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will
1Cor   16:12  come when he has opportunity.
1Cor   16:13   Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.
1Cor   16:14  Let all that you do be done in love.
1Cor   16:15   Now, brethren, you know that the household of Steph'anas were the
1Cor   16:15  first converts in Acha'ia, and they have devoted themselves to the
1Cor   16:15  service of the saints;
1Cor   16:16  I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and
1Cor   16:16  laborer.
1Cor   16:17  I rejoice at the coming of Steph'anas and Fortuna'tus and Acha'icus,
1Cor   16:17  because they have made up for your absence;
1Cor   16:18  for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such
1Cor   16:18  men.
1Cor   16:19   The churches of Asia send greetings. Aq'uila and Prisca, together
1Cor   16:19  with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
1Cor   16:20  All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
1Cor   16:21   I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.
1Cor   16:22  If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord,
1Cor   16:22  come!
1Cor   16:23  The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
1Cor   16:24  My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
2Cor    1: 1  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our
2Cor    1: 1  brother.
2Cor    1: 1   To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are
2Cor    1: 1  in the whole of Acha'ia:
2Cor    1: 2   Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2Cor    1: 3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
2Cor    1: 3  mercies and God of all comfort,
2Cor    1: 4  who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to
2Cor    1: 4  comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we
2Cor    1: 4  ourselves are comforted by God.
2Cor    1: 5  For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we
2Cor    1: 5  share abundantly in comfort too.
2Cor    1: 6  If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we
2Cor    1: 6  are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you
2Cor    1: 6  patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.
2Cor    1: 7  Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our
2Cor    1: 7  sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
2Cor    1: 8   For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we
2Cor    1: 8  experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we
2Cor    1: 8  despaired of life itself.
2Cor    1: 9  Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was
2Cor    1: 9  to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead;
2Cor    1:10  he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him
2Cor    1:10  we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
2Cor    1:11  You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our
2Cor    1:11  behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.
2Cor    1:12   For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have
2Cor    1:12  behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and
2Cor    1:12  godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.
2Cor    1:13  For we write you nothing but what you can read and understand; I hope
2Cor    1:13  you will understand fully,
2Cor    1:14  as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can
2Cor    1:14  be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus.
2Cor    1:15   Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that
2Cor    1:15  you might have a double pleasure;
2Cor    1:16  I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedo'nia, and to come back to you
2Cor    1:16  from Macedo'nia and have you send me on my way to Judea.
2Cor    1:17  Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a
2Cor    1:17  worldly man, ready to say Yes and No at once?
2Cor    1:18  As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.
2Cor    1:19  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silva'nus
2Cor    1:19  and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No; but in him it is always Yes.
2Cor    1:20  For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter
2Cor    1:20  the Amen through him, to the glory of God.
2Cor    1:21  But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has
2Cor    1:21  commissioned us;
2Cor    1:22  he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a
2Cor    1:22  guarantee.
2Cor    1:23   But I call God to witness against me -- it was to spare you that I
2Cor    1:23  refrained from coming to Corinth.
2Cor    1:24  Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for
2Cor    1:24  you stand firm in your faith.
2Cor    2: 1   For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit.
2Cor    2: 2  For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom
2Cor    2: 2  I have pained?
2Cor    2: 3  And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from
2Cor    2: 3  those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you,
2Cor    2: 3  that my joy would be the joy of you all.
2Cor    2: 4  For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with
2Cor    2: 4  many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love
2Cor    2: 4  that I have for you.
2Cor    2: 5   But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in
2Cor    2: 5  some measure --not to put it too severely -- to you all.
2Cor    2: 6  For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough;
2Cor    2: 7  so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be
2Cor    2: 7  overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
2Cor    2: 8  So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
2Cor    2: 9  For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are
2Cor    2: 9  obedient in everything.
2Cor    2:10  Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I
2Cor    2:10  have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of
2Cor    2:10  Christ,
2Cor    2:11  to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not
2Cor    2:11  ignorant of his designs.
2Cor    2:12   When I came to Tro'as to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was
2Cor    2:12  opened for me in the Lord;
2Cor    2:13  but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus
2Cor    2:13  there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedo'nia.
2Cor    2:14   But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and
2Cor    2:14  through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
2Cor    2:15  For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved
2Cor    2:15  and among those who are perishing,
2Cor    2:16  to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from
2Cor    2:16  life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2Cor    2:17  For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of
2Cor    2:17  sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in
2Cor    2:17  Christ.
2Cor    3: 1   Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some
2Cor    3: 1  do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
2Cor    3: 2  You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your
2Cor    3: 2  hearts, to be known and read by all men;
2Cor    3: 3  and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written
2Cor    3: 3  not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of
2Cor    3: 3  stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2Cor    3: 4   Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
2Cor    3: 5  Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from
2Cor    3: 5  us; our competence is from God,
2Cor    3: 6  who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a
2Cor    3: 6  written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the
2Cor    3: 6  Spirit gives life.
2Cor    3: 7   Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came
2Cor    3: 7  with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face
2Cor    3: 7  because of its brightness, fading as this was,
2Cor    3: 8  will not the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater
2Cor    3: 8  splendor?
2Cor    3: 9  For if there was splendor in the dispensation of condemnation, the
2Cor    3: 9  dispensation of righteousness must far exceed it in splendor.
2Cor    3:10  Indeed, in this case, what once had splendor has come to have no
2Cor    3:10  splendor at all, because of the splendor that surpasses it.
2Cor    3:11  For if what faded away came with splendor, what is permanent must have
2Cor    3:11  much more splendor.
2Cor    3:12   Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,
2Cor    3:13  not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites
2Cor    3:13  might not see the end of the fading splendor.
2Cor    3:14  But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old
2Cor    3:14  covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ
2Cor    3:14  is it taken away.
2Cor    3:15  Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds;
2Cor    3:16  but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed.
2Cor    3:17  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there
2Cor    3:17  is freedom.
2Cor    3:18  And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are
2Cor    3:18  being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another;
2Cor    3:18  for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2Cor    4: 1   Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose
2Cor    4: 1  heart.
2Cor    4: 2  We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice
2Cor    4: 2  cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the
2Cor    4: 2  truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight
2Cor    4: 2  of God.
2Cor    4: 3  And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are
2Cor    4: 3  perishing.
2Cor    4: 4  In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the
2Cor    4: 4  unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the
2Cor    4: 4  glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
2Cor    4: 5  For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with
2Cor    4: 5  ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
2Cor    4: 6  For it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has
2Cor    4: 6  shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of
2Cor    4: 6  God in the face of Christ.
2Cor    4: 7   But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the
2Cor    4: 7  transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.
2Cor    4: 8   We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not
2Cor    4: 8  driven to despair;
2Cor    4: 9  persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
2Cor    4:10  always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of
2Cor    4:10  Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
2Cor    4:11  For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus'
2Cor    4:11  sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
2Cor    4:12  So death is at work in us, but life in you.
2Cor    4:13   Since we have the same spirit of faith as