Of the incestuous person. 1 CORINTH., V, VI. 21 What will ye shall r I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? CHAPTER V. A. D. 59. r 2Co. 13. 10. (CHAP. 5.) 1 Of the incestuous person. 6 Of ne-a De.27.20. cessity the old leaven must be purged b2Co.7.7. out, etc. Iss fornication among you, and IT is reported commonly that there such fornication as is not so much 3 For I verily, as absent c in body, but present in spirit, have 1 judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed; 4 In the named of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power e of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliverƒ such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the g spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. c Col.2.5. 1 or, determined. d 2Co.2.9,10. e Mat. 16. 19. Jno.20.23. f1Ti. 1.20. g ch.11.32. h Ja.4.16. i Lu. 13.21. k Is.53.7. 1 Pe. 1.19. Re.5.6, 12. or, slain. 3 or, holy 2 day. m Mat. 16.6, 12. n Ep.5.11. 2Th.3.14. o Ro. 16. 17. 2J no. 10. 6 Your gloryingh is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven 2p Mar.4.11. leaveneth the whole lump? q Mat. 18.17. 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ k our passover is 2 sacrified) for us: a (CHAP. 6.) Da.7.22. Mat. 19.28. Jude 14, 15. Re.20.4. b Pr.20.22. Mat.5.39,40. Ro. 12. 17, 19. 1Th.5.15. 8 Therefore let us keep the 3feast,/ not with old leaven, neither with them leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle nd not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if o any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?p do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away q from among yourselves that wicked per son. CHAPTER VI. 10fbringing controversies before heathen judges. 7 How law suits may be avoided. ARE any of you, having a mat c 1Th.4.6. Ga.5. 19-21. Ep.5.4.5. He. 12. 14, 18. 13.4. Re.22.15. e Ep.2.1,2. 5.8. Col.3.7. Tit.3.3-6. fHe. 10.22. g He.2.11. i ch.9.27. Of going to law. before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints a 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 things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take b wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and c defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither d fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such e were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, g but ye are justified h in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power i of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: m and the Lord n for the body. 14 And God o hath both raised up Mat. 15,17, the Lord, and will also raise up us 20. by his own power. Ro. 14.17. I 1Th.4.3,7. m Ro.12.1. n Ep.5.23. o Ro.6.5,8. P Ep.5.30. q Ge.2.24. Mat. 19.5. r Juo. 17.21 Ep.4.4. 23. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members p of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, q saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is oner spirit. Paul treats 1 CORINTH., VII. 18 Flees fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 What! know ye not that your t body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not u your Own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify w God in your body, and in your spirit,which are God's. CHAPTER VII. $ Pr.6.25-32. t 2Co.6.16. u Ro. 14.7,8. b Joel.2.16. c 1Th.3.5. d Mat. 19.11, e 1Ti.5.14. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornica-f tion, let every man have his own. wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the a husband render unto the wife due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband. Mat. 19.6,9. g Ezr. 10.11, &c. h Mal.2.15. 14.19. He.12.14. 4 The wife hath not power of her i Ro. 12. 18. own body, but the husband and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. in. k 1 Pe.3.1,2. of marriage. he be pleased to dwell with her. let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now h are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save k thy husband? or 2 how knowest thou, man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk And m so ordain I in all churches. 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision?n let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision o is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping p of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? carer not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, 22 For he that is called m the except it be b with consent for a 2 what. Lord, being a servant, is s the Lord's time, that ye may give yourselves 1 ver.20-24. 3 free-man: likewise also he that is to fasting and prayer; and come tocalled, being free, ist Christ's serm ch.4.17. gether again, that c Satan tempt vant. 2Co.11.28. you not for your incontinency. 6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. n Ac.15.1.&c. 11 But and if she depart, let her v ver. 17,20. remain unmarried, or be reconciled w ver.6,10,40. to her husband: and let not the x 1Ti. 1. 12. husband put away his wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not gor,necessity the Lord: If any brother hath a y ver. 1.8. wife that believeth not, and she be z He. 13.4. pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. a 1Pe.4.7. 13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if 2 Pe.3.8,9. 23 Ye are bought u with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let v every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment w of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.x 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present 4 distress; I say, that y it is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bound unto a wife! seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh but I spare you. 29 But this I say, brethren, the timea is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be us though they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that re Of meats offered to idols. Paul showeth his liberty. world, and that there is none other h God but one. 1 CORINTH., VII., IX. joice, as though they rejoiced not; | A. D. 59. and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion b of this world passeth away. 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cs careth for the things 5 that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is marriedd careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. b Ps.39.6. 1Juo.2.17. as ver.34. e ver.28. f Ro.7.2. 42. g 2C6.6.14. h ver.25. i 2Pe.3.15, 19. b Ro. 14. 14,22. c Is.47.10. d ch. XIII. e Ro.11.25. 35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth 8 Is.41.24. not: let them marry. 37 Nevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. f Na.1.7. 2T1.2.19. h De.4.39. i Jno. 10.34. 1 Jno.1.3. He. 1.2. 38 So then, e he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. 39 The wife f is bound by the law m Ro.14.17. as long as her husband liveth; but 2 or, have we if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only g in the Lord. the more. 3 or, have we 4 or, power. 40 But she is happier if she so NOW CHAPTER VIII. 20. Ga.5. 13. o Mat.25.40, 45. p ch.9.22. 1 Charity preferable to knowledge. 45 edified. ch.4.15. c 2Th.3.8,9. d 1Ti. i. 18. 4 As concerning therefore the eat-e De.20.6. ing of those things that are offered Pr.27.18. in sacrifice unto idols, we know ƒ 1Pe.5.2. that an idolg is nothing in the 5 For though there be that are i called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 6 But to us k there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom I are all things, and we by him. 7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some, with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8 But meat m commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, 2 are we the better; neither, if we eat not, 3 are we the worse. 9 But take heed lest by any means this 4 liberty n of your's become a stumbling-block to them that are weak. 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be 5 emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But o when ye sin so against the brethren,and wound their weak conscience ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest p I make my brother to offend. CHAPTER IX. 1 Paul asserteth his apostolical character, 3 and right to a maintenance: 24 he striveth to obtain an incorruptible crown. MI not an apostle? am I not A free! have I not seen a Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work b in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this; 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a 1 wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we c power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare d any time at his own charges? who planteth e a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth f Our life is like a race. a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 1 CORINTH., X. A. D. 59. 8 Say I these things as a man? or g De.25.4. saith not the law the same also? 9 For it is writteng in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen ? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written:that he h that plougheth should plough in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. ITi.5.18. h 2Ti.2.6. i Ro, 15.27. k 2Co.11.7-9. 12.14. 2 or, feed. Nu. 18.8,&c. De. 18. 1. m Lu. 10.7. n Ga.6.6. o Ac. 20.34. 2Th.3.8. 20.9. 11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing p 2Co. 11.10. if we shall reap your carnal things? q Je. 1.17. 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?r Col.1.25. Nevertheless k we have not used $ Ro. 1.14. this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospelt of Christ. 13 Do ye not know, that they which minister about holy things 2 live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Ga.5. 13. Ac. 16.3. 21.23-26. u ch.7.22. v Ro.15.1. 2Co. 11.29. w ch.10.33. x Ro.11.14. 14 Even so hath the Lord m ordained, that they n which preach the gospel should live of the gos-y Phi.2.16. pel. 15 But I o have used none of these things neither have 1 written these things, that it should be so done unto me forp it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 3.14. 1 Ti.6.12. 2Ti.2.5. 2Ti.4.8. Ja. 1.12. 3.11. a Ro.8.13. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for a necessity is laid upon me; (CHAP. 10.) yea, wo is unto me, if I preach not a Ex. 13.21, the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation r of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servants unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews t I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might 22. Nu.9. 18-22. bEx. 14. 1922,29. c Ex. 16. 15, 35. Ne.9.15,20. Ps.78.24,25. d Ex. 17.6. Nu.20.11. or, went with. eNu. 14.29-35. 26.64,65. He.3.17. Jude 5. gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not u with- Ex. 17.2,7. out law to God, but under the lawk Nu.21.6. to Christ,) that I might gain them 7 Nu. 14.2,29. that are without law. m 2Sa.24.16. 3 or, types. 22 To the weak v became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: Sacraments of the Jews. lw am made all things to all men, that x I might by all means save some. 23 And this 1 do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, y that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.z 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But Ia keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: les: that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-way. CHAPTER X. 1 The Jews had sacraments typical of ours. 6 Christians must not lust after evil things: 7 They must avoid idolatry: 13 God will in affliction make a way for them to escape, etc. M that ye should be ignorOREOVER, brethren, I would ant, how that all our fathers were under a the cloud, and b all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;c 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink; d for they drank of that spiritual Rock that I followed them and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased; for they were overthrowne in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were 200 examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they! also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, g The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit formication, as some h of them committed, and fell in one day three and twen ty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempti Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, l' and were destroyed of the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened unto them for 3 ensamples; and they are written for our admontion, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread v De.32.38. which we break, is it not the com w De.32.21. Job 9.4. Eze.22.14. munion of the body of Christ? 17 For we, being many, are one bread, and one body: for we are x ch.6.12. all partakers of that one bread. y Phi.2.4,21. 18 Behold Israel after r the flesh: 82 1Ti.4.4. are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What say I then? that the idol t is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? a De. 10.14. Ps. 24.1. 50.12. b Lu. 10.7. c ch.8.10, 12. d ver.26. 5 or, thanksgiving. e Ro. 14.6. 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, u and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the f Col.3.17. Lord, and the cupe of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do wew provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. 24 Let y no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. 25 Whatsoever z is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience' sake: 26 For a the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. 1 Pe.4.11. g Lo. 14.13. 2Co.6.3. 6 Greeks. (CHAP. 11.) a Ep.5.1. 1Th. 1.6. ch.4. 17. c Lu. 1.6. traditions. d Ep.5.23. G.3. 16. IPe.3. 1,5,6. f ch.15.27.28. Jno.14.28. g Ac.21.9. 27 If any of them that believe noth Nu.5.18. bid you to a feast, and ye be dispos- De.21.12. ed to go; whatsoever b is set be-i Ge.5. 1. fore you, eat, asking no question k Ge.2.18,22, for conscience' sake. 23. 23 But if any man say unto you, 2 i. e. a coThis is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not, c for his sake that showed it, and for conscience' sake: ford the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: 29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other; for why is my liberty judged of another man's Conscience? 30 For if I by grace be a parta vering in sign that she is under the power of her husband, Ge.21.65. R.11.36. 3 or, veil. 31 Whetherƒ therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give g none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the 6 Gentiles, nor to the church of God; 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. CHAPTER XI. 1 Of covering heads in praying. 21 Of profaning the Lord's supper: 23 the apostle's account of the institution of it. Bye followers a of me, even as am of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that b ye remember me in all things; and keep c the 1 ordinances, as 1 delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head d of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; f and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 5 But every woman g that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: h but if it be 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, forasmuch as he is the image i and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 Fork the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man; 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman to have 2 power on her head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a 3 covering. |