(21)For these causes the Jews, seizing me in the temple, attempted to kill me. (22)Having therefore obtained help from God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except those things which the prophets and Moses said should come; (23)whether the Christ should suffer, whether he, the first of the resurrection from the dead, shall show light to the people and to the Gentiles.

(24)And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice: Paul, thou art mad; much learning makes thee mad.

(25)But he said: I am not mad, most noble Festus; but utter words of truth and soberness. (26)For the king knows well concerning these things, to whom also I speak boldly; for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this has not been done in a corner. (27)King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

(28)And Agrippa said to Paul: With little pains[26:28a] thou persuadest[26:28b] me to become a Christian. (29)And Paul said: I could pray God, that with little or much[26:29], not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, may become such as I am, except these bonds.

(30)And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they who sat with them. (31)And having withdrawn, they talked together, saying: This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds. (32)And Agrippa said to Festus: This man could have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.



XXVII.

AND when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. (2)And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, about to sail along the coasts of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. (3)And on the second day we landed at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul humanely, and permitted him to go to his friends and receive their care. (4)And thence having put to sea, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary, (5)And having sailed over the sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. (6)And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy; and he put us on board of it. (7)And sailing slowly many days, and having come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us to put in[27:7], we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; (8)and coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city Lasa.

(9)And much time having been spent, and the voyage being now dangerous, because also the fast had already passed by, Paul exhorted them, (10)saying: Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with violence and much loss, not only of the lading and the ship, but also of our lives. (11)But the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than the things spoken by Paul. (12)And as the haven was not well situated for wintering, the greater number advised to sail thence also, if by any means they might reach Phoenix, a haven of Crete, looking toward the southwest and northwest, and there winter.

(13)And a south wind beginning to blow moderately, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor, and coasted along close by Crete. (14)But not long after, there struck against it a tempestuous wind, called Euracylon. (15)And the ship being caught, and unable to face the wind, we yielded to it, and were driven along. (16)And running under a certain small island called Clauda, we were hardly able to come by the boat; (17)which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast away on the quicksand, they lowered the sail, and so were driven.

(18)And we being violently tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship; (19)and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. (20)And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest lying on us, thenceforward all hope that we should be saved was utterly taken away. (21)But after much abstinence, then Paul, standing up in the midst of then, said: Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me and not put to sea from Crete, and so have escaped this violence and loss. (22)And now I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there shall be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. (23)For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, (24)saying: Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and, lo, God has given thee all those who sail with thee. (25)Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it will be even so, as it has been told me. (26)But we must be cast away upon a certain island.

(27)And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven onward in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the seamen suspected that they were near to some country; (28)and sounding, they found twenty fathoms; and having gone a little further, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. (29)Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for day.

(30)And as the seamen were seeking to flee out of the ship, and had let down the boat into the sea, under color as if they were about to extend anchors out of the foreship, (31)Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Except these abide in the ship, ye can not be saved. (32)Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

(33)And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take food, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that ye have waited, and continued fasting, having taken nothing. (34)Wherefore I pray you to take food; for this is for your safety; for there shall not a hair fall from the head of one of you.

(35)And having thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and having broken it, he began to eat. (36)Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took food. (37)And we were in all in the ship two hundred and seventy-six souls. (38)And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting out the grain into the sea.

(39)And when it was day, they knew not the land; but they perceived a certain creek, having a beach, on which they determined, if they were able, to drive the ship ashore. (40)And cutting the anchors entirely away, they abandoned them to the sea, at the same time unfastening the bands of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made toward the beach. (41)And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the prow sticking fast remained immovable, but the stern was broken by the violence of the waves. (42)And it was the plan of the soldiers, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim out, and escape. (43)But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land, (44)and the rest, some on boards, and others on some of the pieces from the ship. And so it came to pass, that all escaped safe to land.



XXVIII.

AND having escaped, they then learned that the island is called Melita. (2)And the barbarians showed us no little kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

(3)And Paul having gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came out a viper from the heat, and fastened on his hand. (4)And when the barbarians saw the animal hanging from his hand, they said among themselves: No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though escaped from the sea, justice suffered not to live. (5)He, however, shaking off the animal into the fire, suffered no harm. (6)But they were expecting that he would become inflamed, or suddenly fall down dead; but after looking a great while, and seeing no harm befall him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

(7)In the region around that place, there were lands of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius, who received and entertained us kindly three days. (8)Now it happened, that the father of Publius was lying sick with a fever and a bloody flux; to whom Paul entered in, and having prayed, laid his hands on him and healed him. (9)And this having been done, the others also, who had diseases in the island, came and were healed; (10)who also honored us with many honors; and when we put to sea, they loaded us with such things as were necessary.

(11)And after three months, we put to sea in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the island, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. (12)And landing at Syracuse, we remained three days. (13)And from thence, making a circuit[28:13], we came to Rhegium. And after one day, a south wind arose, and we came on the second day to Puteoli; (14)where we found brethren, and were entreated to remain with them seven days; and so we went toward Rome. (15)And from thence, the brethren, having heard of us, came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns; whom when Paul saw, he gave thanks to God, and took courage.

(16)And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the commander of the camp; but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with the soldier who guarded him.

(17)And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called together those who were the chief men of the Jews; and when they were come together, he said to them: Men, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans; (18)who, when they had examined me, wished to release me, because there was no cause of death in me. (19)But as the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have anything to charge against my nation. (20)For this cause therefore I called for you, to see and to speak with you; for on account of the hope of Israel I am compassed with this chain.

(21)And they said to him: We neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor did any one of the brethren that came, report or speak any evil concerning thee. (22)But we desire to hear from thee what thou thinkest; for concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against.

(23)And having appointed a day for him, they came to him in greater numbers to his lodging; to whom he expounded, testifying fully the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening. (24)And some believed the things spoken, and some believed not. (25)And disagreeing among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, (26)saying:

Go to this people, and say; With the hearing ye will hear, and will not understand, And seeing ye will see, and will not perceive. (27)For the heart of this people is become gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn, and I shall heal them.

(28)Be it known to you, therefore, that to the Gentiles the salvation of God was sent; they, moreover, will hear.[28:29]

(30)And Paul remained two whole years in his own hired house, and gladly received all that came in to him; (31)preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no one hindering him.



THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

I.

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart unto the gospel of God, (2)which he before announced through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, (3)concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, (4)who was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord; (5)through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all the nations, for his name's sake; (6)among whom are ye also, called of Jesus Christ; (7)to all the beloved of God that are in Rome, called to be saints: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(8)First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of in all the world. (9)For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; (10)making request, if haply now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. (11)For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; (12)that is, to be comforted together among you, by each other's faith, both yours and mine.

(13)Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that often-times I purposed to come to you (but was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit among you also, as among the rest of the Gentiles. (14)I am debtor both to Greeks and Barbarians; both to wise and unwise. (15)So, as far as lies in me, I am ready to preach the good news to you also who are at Rome. (16)For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (17)For therein is revealed a righteousness of God, from faith to faith; as it is written: The just shall live by faith.

(18)For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness[1:18]; (19)because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it to them. (20)For, from the creation of the world, his invisible things are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are[1:20] without excuse. (21)Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, nor gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened. (22)Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools; (23)and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

(24)Wherefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies among themselves; (25)who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

(26)For this cause God gave them up to vile passions; for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature; (27)and in like manner the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet.

(28)And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not becoming; (29)being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (30)slanderers, haters of God, overbearing, proud, boasters, devisers of evil things, disobedient to parents, (31)without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful; (32)who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those who do them.



II.

WHEREFORE thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. (2)Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those who commit such things. (3)And reckonest thou this, O man, that judgest those who do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? (4)Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance; (5)and after thy hardness and impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God; (6)who will render to every man according to his deeds; (7)to those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; (8)but to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, (9)tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; (10)but glory, and honor, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

(11)For there is no respect of persons with God. (12)For as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned with law shall be judged by law; (13)(for not the hearers of law are just before God, but the doers of law shall be justified: (14)for when Gentiles, who have no law, do by nature the things required by law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves; (15)who show the work of law written in their hearts, their conscience witnessing therewith, and their thoughts alternately accusing, or also excusing[2:15];) (16)in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

(17)But if thou art called a Jew, and restest upon law, and makest thy boast in God, (18)and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; (19)and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, (20)an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law; (21)thou then, that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? Thou that preachest, a man should not steal, dost thou steal? (22)Thou that sayest, a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege[2:22]? (23)Thou that makest thy boast in law, through the transgression of the law dishonorest thou God? (24)For, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.

(25)For circumcision indeed profits, if thou keep the law; but if thou art a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision. (26)If then the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? (27)And shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of law? (28)For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh. (29)But he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.



III.

WHAT then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? (2)Much every way; first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God. (3)For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make void the faithfulness of God? (4)Far be it! Yea, let God be true and every man a liar; as it is written:

That thou mayest be justified in thy words, And mayest overcome when thou art judged.

(5)But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man.) (6)Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world? (7)For if the truth of God through my lie, abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? (8)And why not, as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say: Let us do evil, that good may come? Whose judgment is just.

(9)What then? Are we better? No, in no wise; for we before charged, that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin. (10)As it is written: There is none righteous, no, no one; (11)there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. (12)They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one. (13)Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; (14)whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. (15)Their feet are swift to shed blood. (16)Destruction and misery are in their ways; (17)and the way of peace they have not known. (18)There is no fear of God before their eyes.

(19)Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (20)Because by works of law no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.

(21)But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (22)a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe; (for there is no difference; (23)for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;) (24)being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; (25)whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith by his blood, for the exhibition of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins before committed in the forbearance of God; (26)for the exhibition of his righteousness in this present time, that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.

(27)Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. (28)Therefore we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law. Is he the God of Jews only? (29)Is he not also of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also; (30)seeing that God is one, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith. (31)Do we then make void law through the faith? Far be it! Yea, we establish law.



IV.

WHAT then shall we say that Abraham our father found, as pertaining to the flesh? (2)For if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting; but not before God. (3)For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. (4)Now to him that works, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as a debt. (5)But to him that works not, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. (6)As also David speaks of the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons righteousness, apart from works:

(7)Happy they, whose iniquities were forgiven, And whose sins were covered; (8)Happy the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin!

(9)Comes this happiness then on the circumcision, or also on he uncircumcision? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. (10)How then was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. (11)And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all that believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them also, (12)and father of circumcision to those who are not only of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while in uncircumcision.

(13)For not through law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. (14)For if they that are of law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. (15)For the law works wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression. (16)For this cause it is of faith, that it may be by grace; in order that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (17)(as it is written: A father of many nations have I made thee,) before God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things that are not as though they were; (18)who against hope believed in hope, that he should become father of many nations, according to that which was spoken: So shall thy seed be. (19)And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. (20)And in respect to the promise of God he wavered not through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, (21)and being fully persuaded, that what he has promised he is able also to perform. (22)Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

(23)And it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him; (24)but for ours also, to whom it shall be reckoned, if we believe on him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; (25)who was delivered up for our offenses, and was raised for our justification.



V.

BEING justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; (2)through whom also we obtained the access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (3)And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; knowing that affliction works patience; (4)and patience approval; and approval hope; (5)and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God has been poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which was given to us.

(6)For when we were yet without strength, in due season Christ died for the ungodly. (7)For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; though, for the good man, perhaps some one does even dare to die. (8)But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (9)Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath through him. (10)For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son; much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life; (11)and not only so, but also rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

(12)Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all sinned; (13)(for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. (14)But yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who was to come.

(15)But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; for if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

(16)And not as through one that sinned, is the gift; for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification. (17)For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more they who receive the abundance of the grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.)

(18)So then, as through one trespass it came upon all men unto condemnation; so also through one righteous act it came upon all men unto justification of life. (19)For as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one will the many be constituted righteous.

(20)Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; (21)that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.



VI.

WHAT then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? (2)Far be it! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer therein? (3)Know ye not, that all we who were immersed into Jesus Christ were immersed into his death? (4)We were buried therefore with him by the immersion into his death; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. (5)For if we have become united with the likeness of his death, we shall be also with that of his resurrection, (6)knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, in order that we should no longer be in bondage to sin. (7)For he that died has been justified from sin. (8)And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; (9)knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no more. (10)For in that he died, he died to sin once; but in that he lives, he lives to God. (11)So also reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ.

(12)Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof; (13)nor yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. (14)For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace.

(15)What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Far be it! (16)Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (17)But thanks be to God, that ye were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart that form of teaching which was delivered to you[6:18]; (18)and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

(19)I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto sanctification. (20)For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free as to righteousness. (21)What fruit therefore had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. (22)But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end everlasting life. (23)For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.



VII.

KNOW ye not, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for so long a time as he lives? (2)For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if the husband die, she is loosed from the law of the husband. (3)So then if, while the husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

(4)Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. (5)For when we were in the flesh, the emotions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. (6)But now we are delivered from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

(7)What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, if the law had not said: Thou shalt not covet. (8)But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For without law, sin is dead.

(9)And I was alive without law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. (10)And the commandment, which was for life, that I found to be for death. (11)For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

(12)So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

(13)Has then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

(14)For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15)For what I perform, I know not; for not what I desire, that do I; but what I hate, that I do. (16)But if what I desire not, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

(17)Now then, it is no longer I that perform it, but the sin that dwells in me.

(18)For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to desire is present with me; but to perform that which is good I find not. (19)For the good that I desire, I do not; but the evil that I desire not, that I do. (20)But if what I desire not, that I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that dwells in me.

(21)I find then the law, that, when I desire to do good, evil is present with me. (22)For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. (23)But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. (24)Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? (25)I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.



VIII.

THERE is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. (2)For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and death. (3)For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; (4)that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (5)For they that are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6)For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (7)Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it does not submit itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it; (8)and they that are in the flesh can not please God.

(9)But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (10)And if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (11)And if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwells in you.

(12)So that, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. (13)For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (14)For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. (15)For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (16)The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God; (17)and if children, also heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

(18)For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are of no account, in comparison with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19)For the earnest longing of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God. (20)For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly (but by reason of him who made it subject), in hope (21)that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (22)For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. (23)And not only so, but ourselves also, though we have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

(24)For we were saved in hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man sees, why does he also hope for? (25)But if we hope for that we see not, we with patience wait for it. (26)And in like manner does the Spirit also help our weakness; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. (27)And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

(28)And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. (29)Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. (30)And whom he predestined, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

(31)What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who shall be against us? (32)He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? (33)Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's chosen? God is he that justifies; (34)who is he that condemns? Christ is he that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. (35)Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (36)As it is written:

For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for slaughter.

(37)Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (38)For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, (39)neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.



IX.

I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, (2)that I have great grief and continual anguish in my heart. (3)For I myself could wish to be accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh; (4)who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises; (5)whose are the fathers, and of whom as to the flesh is Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

(6)Not as though the word of God has failed. For not all they are Israel, who are of Israel; (7)neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. (8)That is, not they who are the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed. (9)For the word of promise is this: At this season I will come, and Sarah shall have a son. (10)And not only so; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, our father Isaac (11)(for they being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls), (12)it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger. (13)As it is written:

Jacob I loved, But Esau I hated.

(14)What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be it! (15)For he says to Moses: I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion. (16)So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy, (17)For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: Even for this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be declared in all the earth. (18)So that, on whom he will he has mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

(19)Thou wilt say then to me: Why then does he yet find fault? For who resists his will? (20)Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it: Why didst thou make me thus?

(21)Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? (22)And what if God, willing to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; (23)and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory; (24)whom he also called, even us, not from among the Jews only, but also from among the Gentiles? (25)As also he says in Hosea:

I will call them my people, who were not my people; And her beloved, who was not beloved.

(26)And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called, Sons of the living God. (27)And Isaiah cries concerning Israel:

Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant shall be saved; (28)For he will finish the work[9:28a], And cut it short in righteousness; Because a short work[9:28b] will the Lord make upon the earth.

(29)And as Isaiah has said before:

Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, And been made like to Gomorrah.

(30)What then shall we say? That Gentiles, who were not following after righteousness, obtained righteousness, the righteousness which is of faith; (31)but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, attained not to [such] a law. (32)Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as being by works of law. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling; (33)as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and he that believes on him shall not be put to shame.



X.

BRETHREN, it is my heart's desire and prayer to God on their behalf, that they might be saved. (2)For I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. (3)For not knowing the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God. (4)For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believes.

(5)For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law: The man that has done them, shall live by them.[10:5] (6)But the righteousness which is of faith says thus: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down;) (7)or, Who shall descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring up Christ from the dead.) (8)But what says it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that is, the word of faith, which we preach; (9)because, if thou shalt profess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (10)For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth profession is made unto salvation. (11)For the Scripture says: Whoever believes on him shall not be put to shame. (12)For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same is Lord of all, rich toward all that call upon him; (13)for every one who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

(14)How then shall they call on him on whom they believed not? And how shall they believe on him of whom they heard not? And how shall they hear without a preacher? (15)And how shall they preach, unless they are sent forth? As it is written:

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!

(16)But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah says: Lord, who believed our report? (17)So then faith comes of hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

(18)But I say, did they not hear? Yes verily;

Their sound went forth into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

(19)But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says:

I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are no people, By a foolish nation I will move you to anger.

(20)But Isaiah is very bold, and says:

I was found by those who sought me not; I became manifest to those who asked not after me.

(21)But of Israel he says:

All the day long, I stretched forth my hands, To a disobedient and gainsaying people.



XI.

I SAY then, did God cast away his people? Far be it! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (2)God did not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah; how he pleads with God against Israel, saying: (3)Lord they killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I was left alone, and they seek my life. (4)But what says the answer of God to him? I reserved to myself seven thousand men, who bowed not the knee to Baal.

(5)Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace. (6)And if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise, grace becomes no longer grace. [11:6][But if of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise, work is no longer work.]

(7)What then? What Israel seeks after, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened. (8)According as it is written: God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day. (9)And David says:

Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them; (10)Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow down their back alway.

(11)I say then, did they stumble in order that they should fall? Far be it! But by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. (12)But if their fall is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness?

(13)For I am speaking to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office; (14)if by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. (15)For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? (16)And if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and if the root is holy, so also are the branches. (17)And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, wert grafted in among them, and became a partaker with them of the root and the fatness of the olive-tree; (18)boast not over the branches. But if thou boast, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.

(19)Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. (20)Well; because of their want of faith they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not high-minded, but fear; (21)for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

(22)Behold then the goodness and severity of God; toward those who fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness; otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off. (23)And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in. (24)For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

(25)For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that hardness has come upon Israel in part, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. (26)And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written: There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; (27)and this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall take away their sins. (28)As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes; but as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. (29)For unrepented are the gifts and the calling of God. (30)For as ye in times past disobeyed God, but now obtained mercy through their disobedience; (31)so also they now disobeyed through the mercy shown to you, that they also might obtain mercy. (32)For God included all in disobedience[11:32], that he might have mercy upon all.

(33)Oh, the depth of the riches, and wisdom, and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (34)For,

Who knew the mind of the Lord? Or who became his counselor?

(35)Or who first gave to him, and it shall be given back to him again? (36)For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things; to him be the glory forever. Amen.



XII.

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service. (2)And be not conformed to this world; but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may discern what is the will of God, the good, and well pleasing, and perfect.

(3)For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God imparted to each one the measure of faith. (4)For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office; (5)so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another. (6)And having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith; (7)or ministry, [let us wait] on the ministry; or he that teaches, on the teaching; (8)or he that exhorts, on the exhortation; he that gives, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that presides, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

(9)Let love be unfeigned. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. In brotherly love, (10)be kindly affectioned one to another; in honor, preferring one another; (11)in diligence, not slothful; in spirit, fervent, serving the Lord; (12)in hope, rejoicing; in affliction, patient; in prayer, persevering; (13)communicating to the necessities of the saints[12:13]; given to hospitality. (14)Bless those who persecute you; bless, and curse not. (15)Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. (16)Be of the same mind one toward another. Aspire not to things that are high, but condescend to the lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits. (17)Recompense to no one evil for evil. Provide things honorable in the sight of all men. (18)If it be possible, as far as depends on you, be at peace with all men. (19)Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath [of God]. For it is written: To me belongs vengeance; I will recompense, saith the Lord. (20)Therefore,

If thy enemy hungers, feed him; If he thirsts, give him drink.

For, in doing this,

Thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head.

(21)Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.



XIII.

LET every soul submit himself to the higher powers. For there is no power but from God; the powers that be have been ordained by God. (2)So that he who resists the power, resists the ordinance of God; and they that resist will receive to themselves condemnation. (3)For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. And dost thou wish not to be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou wilt have praise from it; (4)for he is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil. (5)Wherefore it is necessary to submit yourselves, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

(6)For, for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually to this very thing. (7)Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. (8)Owe no one anything, but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. (9)For this: Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (10)Love works no ill to one's neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (11)And that, knowing the time, that it is high time that we already were awaked out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. (12)The night is far advanced, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. (13)Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envying; (14)but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.



XIV.

HIM that is weak in faith receive; not for the decision of disputes. (2)For one believes, that he may eat all things; but he that is weak eats herbs. (3)Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God received him. (4)Who art thou that judgest another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for God is able to make him stand.

(5)One man esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully persuaded in his own mind. (6)He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives thanks to God.

(7)For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. (8)For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. (9)For to this end Christ died, and lived, that he might be Lord of both the dead and living.

(10)But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. (11)For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God.[14:11] (12)So then, each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

(13)Let us therefore no longer judge one another; but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in a brother's way. (14)I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. (15)But if because of food thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest in accordance with love. Destroy not him by thy food, for whom Christ died. (16)Let not then your good be evil spoken of. (17)For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. (18)For he that in these things serves Christ, is well pleasing to God, and approved by men.

(19)So then, let us follow after the things which make for peace, and things by which one may edify another. (20)For the sake of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense. (21)It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbles, or is made to offend, or is weak. (22)Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that judges not himself in that which he allows. (23)And he that doubts is condemned if he eat, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.



XV.

NOW we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. (2)Let each one of us please his neighbor, for his good, to edification. (3)For also Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written: The reproaches of those who reproached thee, fell on me. (4)For whatever things were written afore-time were for our instruction, that we through patience and consolation of the Scriptures may have hope. (5)And the God of patience and consolation grant you to be of the same mind one with another, according to Christ Jesus; (6)that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(7)Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. (8)For I say that Jesus Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision, for the sake of God's truth, in order to confirm the promises made to the fathers; (9)and that the Gentiles should glorify God for his mercy; as it is written:

For this cause I will give thee praise among Gentiles. And to thy name will sing.

(10)And again he says:

Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

(11)And again:

Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; And extol him, all ye peoples.

(12)And again, Isaiah says:

There shall be the root of Jesse, And he who rises up to rule the Gentiles; On him will Gentiles hope.

(13)And the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

(14)And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. (15)But I wrote the more boldly to you, brethren, in part as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God; (16)that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest in the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. (17)I have therefore my glorying in Christ Jesus, as to things pertaining to God. (18)For I will not dare to speak of any of the things which Christ wrought not through me, to bring the Gentiles to obedience, by word and deed, (19)in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the good news of Christ; (20)being emulous so to preach the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another's foundation; (21)but as it is written:

They to whom it was not announced concerning him shall see, And they that have not heard shall understand.

(22)For which cause also, for the most part, I was hindered from coming to you. (23)But now having no longer place in these regions, and having a great desire these many years to come to you, (24)whenever I go into Spain, I hope to see you in my journey, and to be sent forward thither by you, if first I shall be satisfied in a measure with your company.

(25)But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. (26)For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good, to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who were at Jerusalem. (27)For they thought it good; and their debtors are they. For if the Gentiles shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things. (28)When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain. (29)And I know that, when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

(30)And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; (31)that I may be delivered from the unbelieving in Judaea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints; (32)that with joy I may come to you by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. (33)And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.



XVI.

I COMMEND to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is at Cenchraea; (2)that ye receive her in the Lord as becomes saints, and assist her in whatever business she may have need of you; for she has been a helper of many, and of myself.

(3)Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus (4)(who for my life laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles), (5)and salute the church that is in their house.

Salute Epenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia unto Christ.

(6)Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on us[16:6].

(7)Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

(8)Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

(9)Salute Urbanus, our fellow-laborer in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

(10)Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ.

Salute those of the household of Aristobulus.

(11)Salute Herodion my kinsman.

Salute those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

(12)Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord.

Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

(13)Salute Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

(14)Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hernias, and the brethren who are with them.

(15)Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

(16)Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

(17)Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the teaching which ye learned, and avoid them. (18)For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. (19)For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you; but I would have you wise as to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil. (20)And the God of peace will shortly bruise Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

(21)Timothy, my fellow-laborer, salutes you, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

(22)I, Tertius, who wrote the letter, salute you in the Lord.

(23)Gaius my host, and of the whole church, salutes you.

Erastus the chamberlain of the city salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

(24)The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (25)Now to him who is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept in silence during eternal ages (26)but now made manifest, and through the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith, (27)to God only wise, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.



THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS.

I.

PAUL, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, (2)to the church of God which is at Corinth, those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: (3)Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(4)I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; (5)that in everything ye were made rich in him, in all utterance and all knowledge; (6)according as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you; (7)so that ye are behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; (8)who will also confirm you unto the end, unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (9)God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

(10)But I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be made complete in the same mind, and in the same judgment. (11)For it was made known to me concerning you, my brethren; by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. (12)And I mean this, that each of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. (13)Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye immersed in the name of Paul? (14)I thank God that I immersed none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; (15)that no one may say that I immersed in my own name. (16)And I immersed also the household of Stephanas; besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.

(17)For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to preach the glad tidings; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. (18)For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God. (19)For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And will bring to nothing the prudence of the prudent.

(20)Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of the world? (21)For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom knew not God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe; (22)since Jews require signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom, (23)but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to Gentiles foolishness, (24)but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. (25)Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

(26)For see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; (27)but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things which are strong; (28)and the base things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, and the things which are not, that he might bring to naught things that are; (29)that no flesh should glory before God. (30)But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God was made wisdom to us, both righteousness and sanctification, and redemption; (31)that, according as it is written: He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.



II.

I ALSO, when I came to you, brethren, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. (2)For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. (3)And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. (4)And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit and of power; (5)that your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

(6)But we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; but a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to naught. (7)But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the worlds unto our glory; (8)which no one of the rulers of this world has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; (9)but (as it is written) things which eye saw not, nor ear heard, and which entered not into the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love him; (10)but to us God revealed them by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. (11)For who among men knows the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? So also the things of God no one knows, but the Spirit of God. (12)And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. (13)Which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit; comparing spiritual things with spiritual[2:13].

(14)But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he can not know them, because they are spiritually judged. (15)But he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one. (16)For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.



III.

I ALSO, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. (2)I fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able. (3)For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men? (4)For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? (5)Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each one? (6)I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. (7)So then neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God that gives the increase. (8)And he that plants and he that waters are one; and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

(9)For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, God's building. (10)According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master-builder I laid a foundation, and another builds thereon. But let each one take heed how he builds thereon. (11)For other foundation can no one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (12)And if any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; (13)the work of each one will be made manifest; for the day will show it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire itself will prove of what sort is each one's work. (14)If any one's work which he built thereon remains, he will receive reward. (15)If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.

(16)Know ye not that ye are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? (17)If any one defiles[3:17] the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, the which are ye.

(18)Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. (19)For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: He that takes the wise in their craftiness. (20)And again:

The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, That they are vain.

(21)So then, let no one glory in men. For all things are yours; (22)whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours; (23)and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.



IV.

SO let a man account us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. (2)Moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. (3)But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's day[4:3]; nay, neither do I judge myself. (4)For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet am I not hereby justified, but he that judges me is the Lord. (5)So then judge not anything before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have his praise of God.

(6)And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond that which is written, that ye be not puffed up each for one against another. (7)For who makes thee to differ? And what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? (8)Already ye are filled full, already ye became rich, without us ye reigned as kings; and I would ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

(9)For I think that God set forth us the apostles last, as condemned to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. (10)We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised. (11)Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; (12)and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; (13)being defamed, we entreat; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things unto this day.

(14)I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I admonish you. (15)For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel. (16)I beseech you therefore, be followers of me[4:16].

(17)For this cause I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

(18)Now some were puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. (19)But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. (20)For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. (21)What will ye? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of meekness?



V.

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. (2)And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from among you. (3)For I verily, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, concerning him who has so done this; (4)in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (5)to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

(6)Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (7)Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For our passover, Christ, was sacrificed for us; (8)therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

(9)I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators; (10)yet not, altogether, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters; for then ye must needs go out of the world. (11)But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep company, if any one called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.

(12)For what have I to do with judging those also who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within? (13)But those who are without God judges. Therefore put away that wicked man from among yourselves.



VI.

DARE any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? (2)Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? (3)Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more the things of this life? (4)If then ye have judgments about things of this life, set those to judge who are of no esteem in the church.

(5)I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one that shall be able to judge between his brethren; (6)but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? (7)Now therefore, it is altogether a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? (8)Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. (9)Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (10)nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (11)And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

(12)All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything. (13)Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. (14)And God both raised the Lord, and will also raise up us by his power.

(15)Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? Far be it! (16)Know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh. (17)But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. (18)Flee fornication. Every sin that a man commits is without the body; but he that commits fornication, sins against his own body. (19)Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom ye have from God, and ye are not your own? (20)For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.



VII.

NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman; (2)but because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. (3)Let the husband render to the wife her due; and in like manner the wife also to the husband. (4)The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband also has not power over his own body, but the wife. (5)Defraud not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and come again together, that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

(6)But this I say by way of permission, not of command. (7)But I would that all men were as myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

(8)And I say to the unmarried and the widows, it is good for them if they remain as I also am. (9)But if they have not self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

(10)And the married not I command, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from the husband. (11)But if she have departed, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband; and let the husband not put away his wife.

(12)But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. (13)And a woman who has a husband that believes not, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. (14)For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband; else your children are unclean; but now they are holy.

(15)But if the unbelieving departs, let him depart. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases; but God has called us to peace. (16)For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? (17)Only, as the Lord apportioned to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

(18)Was any one called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. (19)Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

(20)Let each one abide in the same calling wherein he was called. (21)Wast thou called being a servant? Care not for it; but if thou canst become free, use it rather. (22)For he that was called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman, being called, is Christ's servant. (23)Ye were bought with a price; become not servants of men. (24)Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

(25)Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. (26)I consider therefore that this is good on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be. (27)Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. (28)But if also thou marry, thou sinnedst not; and if a virgin marry, she sinned not. But such shall have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you[7:28].

(29)But this I say, brethren, the time that remains is short; that both they who have wives may be as though they had none; (30)and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; (31)and they that use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world is passing away.

(32)But I would have you without cares. He that is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; (33)but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife. (34)There is a difference also between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

(35)And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. (36)But if any one thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin, if she be past the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry. (37)But he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has determined this in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well. (38)So that both he that gives her in marriage does well, and he that gives her not in marriage does better.

(39)A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. (40)But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment; and I too think that I have the Spirit of God.



VIII.

NOW concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. (2)If any one thinks that he knows anything, he has known nothing yet as he ought to know. (3)But if any one loves God, the same is known by him.

(4)As concerning then the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. (5)For though there are gods so-called, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many), (6)yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

(7)But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a consciousness till now of the idol, eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. (8)But food commends us not to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor, if we eat not, are we the worse. (9)But take heed, lest haply this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak. (10)For if any one sees thee, who hast knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat the things offered to idols? (11)And through thy knowledge he that is weak perishes, the brother for whom Christ died! (12)But when ye so sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. (13)Wherefore, if food cause my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh for ever more, that I may not cause my brother to offend.



IX.

AM I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord? (2)If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord. (3)This is my answer to those who examine me. (4)Have we not power to eat and to drink? (5)Have we not power to lead about a sister as a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? (6)Or have only I and Barnabas not power to forbear working? (7)Who ever goes to war at his own charges? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

(8)Say I these things as a man? Or does not the law also say these things? (9)For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out the grain. Is it for the oxen that God cares? (10)Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For, for our sakes it was written; that he who plows ought to plow in hope; and he who threshes, in hope of partaking. (11)If we sowed for you, the things that are spiritual, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? (12)If others partake of this power over you, do not we still more? But we used not this power; but we bear all things, that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

(13)Do ye not know that they who minister about the holy things eat of the temple, and they who wait at the altar partake with the altar? (14)So also did the Lord appoint to those who preach the gospel, to live by the gospel. (15)But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it should be so done to me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make my glorying void. (16)For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel! (17)For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

(18)What then is my reward? That, in preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, that I use not to the full my power in the gospel. (19)For being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more. (20)And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, that I might gain those under law; (21)to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law. (22)To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all, that I may by all means save some. (23)And all things I do for the gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others[9:23].

(24)Know ye not that they who run in a race, all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. (25)And every one who contends for the prize is temperate in all things; they indeed to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. (26)I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; I so fight, as not beating the air. (27)But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest haply, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.



X.

FOR I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (2)and were all immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; (3)and all ate the same spiritual food, (4)and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. (5)But in the most of them God had no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

(6)Now these things were examples to us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. (7)Nor be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. (8)Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (9)Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents. (10)Nor murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

(11)Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. (12)Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. (13)There has no temptation taken you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

(14)Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. (15)I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. (16)The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? The loaf which we break, is it not a partaking of the body of Christ? (17)Because we, the many, are one loaf, one body; for we all share in that one loaf.

(18)Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

(19)What then do I say? That an idol is anything, or that what is offered to idols is anything? (20)Nay; but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should be partakers of the demons. (21)Ye can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons; ye can not share in the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.

(22)Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? (23)All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful, but not all things edify. (24)Let no one seek his own, but his neighbor's good.

(25)Whatever is sold in the market eat, asking no question for conscience sake'; (26)for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

(27)If any of the unbelieving bids you to a feast, and ye choose to go, whatever is set before you eat, asking no question for conscience' sake. (28)But if any one say to you: This is a thing sacrificed to a god, eat it not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience' sake. (29)Conscience, I say, not thine own, but that of the other; for why is my liberty judged by another's conscience? (30)If I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

(31)Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (32)Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the church of God; (33)as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved. (1)BE ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

(2)Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and, hold fast the traditions[11:2], as I delivered them to you.

(3)And I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. (4)Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. (5)But every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, dishonors her head; for it is one and the same as if she were shaven. (6)For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. (7)For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. (8)For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. (9)And the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man. (10)For this cause ought the woman to have [the token of] authority on her head, because of the angels.