1 Corinthians 7 Cross References - Anderson

¹ Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. ² But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. ³ Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband; likewise, also, the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife. ⁵ Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence. ⁶ But this I say by permission, not by commandment: ⁷ for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that. ⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself. ⁹ But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. ¹⁰ But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband: ¹¹ but if she leave him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and, let not the husband put away his wife. ¹² But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, wife, but that you may save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, but that you may save your wife? ¹⁷ But as God has assigned a place to every one, as the Lord has called every one, so let him continue to live: and so do I command in all the churches. ¹⁸ Has any one been called that had been circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the mark of circumcision. Has any one been called that had not been circumcised? Let him not be circumcised, ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God is our aim. ²⁰ Let every one remain in that condition in which he was, when called. ²¹ Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom. ²² For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant. ²³ You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men. ²⁴ Brethren, let every one, in whatever condition he is called, abide in this with God. ²⁵ But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. ²⁶ I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. ²⁸ But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you. ²⁹ Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not; ³⁰ and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not: ³¹ and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away. ³² But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: ³³ but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. ³⁴ There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵ I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction. ³⁶ But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry. ³⁷ But he that stands firm in his purpose, having no necessity to give his daughter in marriage, but has liberty with respect to his own will, and has thus decided in his own heart, that he will keep his daughter a virgin, does well. ³⁸ So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better. ³⁹ The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him: Get behind me, Satan, for it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.

¹⁹ Whoever, there fore, shall make void one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

³² But I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, unless on account of lewdness, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced, commits adultery.

²⁵ For this reason I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat, and what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not your life a greater gift than food, and your body than clothing? ²⁶ Observe the birds of the air, that they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into granaries. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? ²⁷ Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life? ²⁸ And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor do they spin. ²⁹ But I say to you, That Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these. ³⁰ If then, God so clothes the herb of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith? ³¹ Therefore, be not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed? ³² For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you in addition. ³⁴ Therefore, be not anxious about the morrow, for the morrow will have anxieties of its own. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.

⁵⁰ For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

²² He that received seed among the thorns, is he that hears the word; and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

³ And the Pharisees came to him to tempt him, and said to him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? ⁴ He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female, ⁵ and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh? ⁶ So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man put asunder. ⁷ They said to him: Why, then, did Moses command us to give a bill of divorce and put her away? ⁸ He said to them: Moses, on account of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹ But I say to you, That whoever puts away his wife, unless for lewdness, and marries another, commits adultery; and he that marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

⁹ But I say to you, That whoever puts away his wife, unless for lewdness, and marries another, commits adultery; and he that marries her that is put away, commits adultery. ¹⁰ His disciples said to him: If the relation of man and wife be such, it is not good to marry. ¹¹ But he said to them: All can not accept this saying; only those to whom it is given.

¹¹ But he said to them: All can not accept this saying; only those to whom it is given.

¹¹ But he said to them: All can not accept this saying; only those to whom it is given. ¹² For there are eunuchs that were born such from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs that have been made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs that have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it that is able to accept it.

¹² For there are eunuchs that were born such from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs that have been made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs that have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it that is able to accept it.

⁸ But you must not be called Rabbi; for one is your leader, and all of you are brethren. ⁹ And call no man on earth your father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰ And be not called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ. ¹¹ And the greatest among you shall be your minister.

¹⁹ But alas for those who are with child, and those who give suck in those days!

⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant shall say in his heart, My master delays his coming; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to strike his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come in a day in which he looks not for him, and at an hour which he knows not,

¹⁴ For as a man, on leaving his country, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods: ¹⁵ To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one; to each one, according to his own ability, and immediately left his country. ¹⁶ Then he that had received the five talents, went and traded with them, and made other five talents. ¹⁷ In like manner also, he that had received the two, gained other two. ¹⁸ But he that had received the one, went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. ¹⁹ After a long time, the lord of those servants came and settled with them. ²⁰ And he that had received the five talents came and brought other five talents, and said: Lord, you delivered to me five talents: see, I have gained other five talents in addition to them. ²¹ His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord. ²² And he also that had received the two talents came, and said: Lord, you delivered to me two talents; see, I have gained other two talents in addition to them. ²³ His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord. ²⁴ But he that had received the one talent came, and said: Lord, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. ²⁵ And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the earth; see, you have yours. ²⁶ His lord answered and said to him: Wicked and slothful servant; did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? ²⁷ Therefore, you ought to have put my money with the bankers; and, when I came, I could have received my own with interest. ²⁸ Therefore, take from him the talent, and give it to him that has the ten talents. ²⁹ For to every one that has, it shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken away.

² And the Pharisees came to him, and that they might tempt him, asked him the question: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?

¹¹ And he said to them: Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her; ¹² and if a woman puts away her husband, and is married to another, she commits adultery.

⁷⁴ that he would grant to us, that being delivered from the hands of our enemies, we might serve him without fear, ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him, all our days.

³⁶ And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher; she was of great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity: ³⁷ and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, and she departed not from the temple, but served, day and night, with fastings and prayers.

¹⁰ And the multitudes asked him, saying: What, then, shall we do? ¹¹ He answered and said to them: He that has two coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise. ¹² And the publicans also came to be immersed, and they said to him: Teacher, what shall we do? ¹³ And he said to them: Exact no more than that which is appointed you. ¹⁴ And soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Take nothing from any one by extortion, nor by false accusation, and be content with your pay.

²¹ Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.

²⁵ Alas for you that are full! for you shall be hungry. Alas for you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

¹⁴ That which fell among thorns are those who hear, and so conduct them selves, that they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

⁴⁰ But Martha made herself busy with much serving; and she came to him, and said: Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore, that she help me.

⁴⁰ But Martha made herself busy with much serving; and she came to him, and said: Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore, that she help me. ⁴¹ But Jesus answered and said to her: Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things:

⁴¹ But Jesus answered and said to her: Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things: ⁴² one thing is needful; and Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.

¹⁵ And he said to them: Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life depends not on the abundance of his possessions. ¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying: The farm of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. ¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself, saying: What shall I do? for I have no place in which I can store my fruits. ¹⁸ And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and I will build larger ones; and there I will store ail my produce, and my good things; ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him: Senseless man, this night shall your soul be required of you; and who shall have the things which you have provided? ²¹ So is he that lays up treasure for him self, and is not rich toward God. ²² And he said to his disciples: For this reason I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall put on.

²⁹ And seek not what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, and be not in anxious suspense.

¹⁰ So, I say to you, There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.

¹ And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his goods. ² And he called him, and said to him: What is this that I hear of you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer act as steward.

¹⁸ Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced, commits adultery.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Son, remember that, in your lifetime, you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus his evil things. But now he is comforted, and you are tormented.

¹⁷ And he said to him: Well done, good servant; because you have been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities. ¹⁸ And the second came and said: Lord, your pound has gained five pounds. ¹⁹ And he said to him also: And be you over five cities. ²⁰ And another came and said: Lord, behold your pound, which I have kept laid away in a napkin. ²¹ For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man; you take up that which you did not lay down, and reap that which you did not sow. ²² Then he said to him: Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a hard man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow. ²³ And why then did you not put my money into the bank, that, when I came, I could have collected it with inter est? ²⁴ And he said to those who stood by: Take from him the pound, and give it to him that has ten pounds. ²⁵ And they said to him: Lord, he has ten pounds. ²⁶ For I say to you, To every one that has, it shall be given; but from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken away.

²³ But alas for them that are with child, and for them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath upon this people.

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become heavy with reveling and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day come upon you when you look not for it.

²⁸ But Jesus turned, and said to them, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹ For, behold, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck.

³² and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ³³ They answered him: We are the posterity of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How say you, You shall be made free? ³⁴ Jesus answered them: Verily, verily I say to you, whoever works sin is the servant of sin. ³⁵ The servant continues not in the house forever; but the Son continues forever. ³⁶ Therefore, if the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

²² You, therefore, have sorrow now; but I shall see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

²³ Then he called them in, and lodged them. On the morrow he arose, and went with them; and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

¹ And certain men came down from Judea, and taught the brethren, saying: Unless you be circumcised, according to the custom of Moses, you can not be saved. ² Therefore, after Paul and Barnabas had no little dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from among them, should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.

⁵ But some of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, arose, saying, that it was necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

¹⁹ For these reasons, my judgment is, that we give no trouble to those who, from among the Gentiles, have turned to God;

²⁴ Inasmuch as we have heard that certain persons went out from us and troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, That you must be circumcised, and keep the law, to whom we gave no commandment,

²⁸ For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

²⁸ Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

²⁹ And Paul replied: I could pray to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me to day, were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

²⁵ Now, circumcision is indeed profitable, if you keep the law: but, if you transgress the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. ²⁶ If, then, he who is uncircumcised keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ²⁷ And shall not he whose want of circumcision is owing to his birth, if he keeps the law, condemn you, who, by the literal circumcision, transgress the 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.

³⁰ since there is one God, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

¹³ and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

¹⁸ and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness. ²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness. ²¹ What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.

² For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband. ³ So then, if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband die, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

¹⁴ if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

¹⁶ Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.

¹ I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect. ³ For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, that he must not think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but that he be disposed to think modestly, as God has distributed to each a 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 members one of another. ⁶ Since, then, we have gifts which differ according to the grace that is given to us, whether we have the gift of prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

⁶ Since, then, we have gifts which differ according to the grace that is given to us, whether we have the gift of prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; ⁷ or, if we have a ministry, let us be active in our ministry; if any one teaches, let him attend to his teaching; ⁸ or, if any exhorts, let him attend to exhortation; if any one gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

¹⁸ If possible, as far as may be in your power, be at peace with all men.

¹¹ And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed: ¹² the night is far advanced, the day draws near. Let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

¹⁹ Therefore, let us seek those things which belong to peace, and those which tend to mutual edification.

² Now it is required in stewards, that each one be found faithful.

¹⁷ For. this reason have I sent to you Timothy, who is my son, beloved and faithful in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways that are in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.

¹⁵ Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? It must not be. ¹⁶ Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh. ¹⁷ But he that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. ¹⁸ Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

²⁰ For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

¹ Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

¹ Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. ² But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

² But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. ³ Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband.

⁵ Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence. ⁶ But this I say by permission, not by commandment:

⁶ But this I say by permission, not by commandment: ⁷ for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that.

⁷ for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that. ⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself.

⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself. ⁹ But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

⁹ But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. ¹⁰ But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband:

¹² But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

¹² But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.

¹⁷ But as God has assigned a place to every one, as the Lord has called every one, so let him continue to live: and so do I command in all the churches. ¹⁸ Has any one been called that had been circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the mark of circumcision. Has any one been called that had not been circumcised? Let him not be circumcised,

²⁰ Let every one remain in that condition in which he was, when called.

²⁰ Let every one remain in that condition in which he was, when called. ²¹ Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom.

²¹ Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom. ²² For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant. ²³ You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men. ²⁴ Brethren, let every one, in whatever condition he is called, abide in this with God.

²⁴ Brethren, let every one, in whatever condition he is called, abide in this with God. ²⁵ But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

²⁵ But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. ²⁶ I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is.

²⁶ I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is.

²⁶ I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. ²⁸ But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

³¹ and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away. ³² But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

³² But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

³² But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: ³³ but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

³³ but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. ³⁴ There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

³⁴ There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

³⁴ There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

³⁴ There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵ I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

³⁵ I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

³⁵ I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

³⁵ I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction. ³⁶ But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry.

³⁶ But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry.

³⁶ But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry. ³⁷ But he that stands firm in his purpose, having no necessity to give his daughter in marriage, but has liberty with respect to his own will, and has thus decided in his own heart, that he will keep his daughter a virgin, does well.

³⁷ But he that stands firm in his purpose, having no necessity to give his daughter in marriage, but has liberty with respect to his own will, and has thus decided in his own heart, that he will keep his daughter a virgin, does well. ³⁸ So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better. ³⁹ The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

⁸ But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord-? Are you not my work in the Lord? ² If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord. ³ My answer to those who examine me is this:

⁵ Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

¹⁵ But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

¹⁸ What, then, is my reward? That, while I preach, I may make the gospel of Christ to be without charge, in order that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel. ¹⁹ For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more.

²² to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

³¹ Whether, therefore, you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

⁴ Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit;

¹¹ But all these, the one and the same Spirit makes effectual, distributing to each, respectively, as he wills.

¹³ For by one Spirit we all were immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and we all have been made to drink of one Spirit.

³³ for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

³⁶ Has the word of God come forth from you? or did it come to you only? ³⁷ If any one has the reputation of being a prophet, or spiritual man, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

¹⁰ But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹ As it respects the collection which is for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so also do you.

²³ But I call on God as a witness against my soul, that wishing to spare you, I did not go to Corinth;

¹⁷ For we do not, as the many, adulterate the word of God; but, as from sincerity, but, as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

¹ Wherefore, having this ministry, inasmuch as we have received mercy, we faint not; ² but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

¹⁴ Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness? ¹⁵ What agreement has Christ with Belial? What connection has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What has a temple of God in common with one of idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹¹ For behold this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner; what earnestness it produced in you; what defense of yourselves; what indignation; what fear; what strong affection; what zeal; what assertion of right. In all respects you have shown yourselves to be blame less in this matter. ¹² Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor on account of him who received the wrong; but that our diligent care for you, in the sight of God, might be made manifest to you.

⁸ I do not speak this as a commandment, but on account of the zeal of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

⁸ I do not speak this as a commandment, but on account of the zeal of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet, for your sakes, he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich. ¹⁰ And I give my judgment in this matter; for this is profitable for you, who began not only to do, but to show a willing mind, a year ago.

¹⁶ But thanks be to God, who put the same earnest care for you in the heart of Titus:

¹⁸ And we have sent with him the brother whose praise in the gospel is in all the churches;

⁸ For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed: ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. ¹⁰ For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.

¹⁷ What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

²⁸ besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches.

¹¹ I have become of no understanding; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: I am in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles, although I am nothing.

¹¹ Finally, brethren, farewell; be perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace; and the God of love and of peace will be with you.

¹⁰ For, do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? or do I strive to please men? If, indeed, I would still please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

⁴ I acted thus indeed on account of false brethren, stealthily brought in, who stole in to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondman nor free man, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹ Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.

¹ Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ I testify indeed again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to do the whole law.

⁶ For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.

¹³ For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness,

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision is any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

³ But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

²⁸ So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church: ³⁰ because we are members of his body, being of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. ³² Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church. ³³ But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

³³ But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

⁵ Servants, be subject to your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; ⁶ not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but with all boldness, as at all times, so even now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God:

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, or any praise, think of these things.

¹¹ I do not speak in respect to want: for I have learned, in whatever condition I am, to be content.

¹¹ in which new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all and in all.

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but with simplicity of heart, fearing God. ²³ And whatever you do, do from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men; ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you; he always strives earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

⁵ For this reason, when I could no longer contain my self, I sent to know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

⁸ Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.

¹¹ and that you earnestly endeavor to live quietly, and that you attend to your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

¹¹ and that you earnestly endeavor to live quietly, and that you attend to your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you; ¹² in order that you may walk with propriety toward those who are without, and may have need of nothing.

²³ Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² Now we command such, and exhort them by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness, and eat their own bread.

¹⁰ for lewd persons, for sodomites, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and for whatever other thing is opposed to sound teaching,

¹² And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, because he counted me faithful, and put me into the ministry; ¹³ me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief: ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord was very abundant with faith, and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Assuredly true and worthy of all acceptation is this saying: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. ¹⁶ But for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long-suffering, for an example to those who might afterward believe on him in order to life eternal.

⁵ for if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

³ who forbid to marry, and command to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe, and know the truth.

⁵ for it is sanctified by the word of God, and by prayer.

¹⁶ Take heed to yourself, and to your teaching; continue in them; for by doing this, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.

⁵ But she that is a widow indeed, and left alone, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

⁸ And if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house hold, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹¹ But the younger widows reject: for when they become wanton against the Christ, they desire to marry,

¹⁴ I will, therefore, that the younger widows marry, bear children, man age the house, and thus give no occasion to the adversaries to speak reproachfully.

¹ Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God, and his teaching, be not reviled. ² And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren: but rather let them serve them, because they who partake of the benefit of their service, are believers and beloved brethren. These things enforce in your teaching and exhortation. ³ If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,

¹⁷ Charge those who are rich in this age, that they be not proud, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us all things richly for our enjoyment, ¹⁸ that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, liberal,

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure: but to the denied and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and their conscience are denied.

³ that the aged women likewise be, in deportment, as it becomes holy women, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things,

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁸ This saying is true, and in respect to these things, I will that you affirm strongly, in order that those who have believed in God may be careful to practice good works: these are the things that are honorable and profitable for men.

¹⁶ no longer as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, especially by me, and how much more by you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

¹⁴ Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord;

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let there be no money-loving disposition; be content with such things as you have. For he has said: I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you.

¹³ Therefore, let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. ¹⁴ For here we have no abiding city, but we seek one to come.

¹⁰ but he that is rich, in his humiliation; because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. ¹¹ For the sun rises with its burning heat, and withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its form perishes. So, also, shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And those who cultivate peace, sow for themselves a harvest of righteousness in peace.

¹³ Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain; ¹⁴ and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away?

¹⁴ and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away? ¹⁵ Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. ¹⁶ But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil.

¹ Come, now, you rich men, weep and lament for your miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten: ³ your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

¹⁹ Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who turns back a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

¹⁸ because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without spot and blemish,

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; the grass withers, and its flower fails away: but the word of the Lord abides forever: and this is the word which has been preached as gospel to you.

¹⁶ as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.

¹⁸ Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse. ¹⁹ For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience to ward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what praise is due, if, when you are punished for your faults, you endure it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you endure it patiently, this is praiseworthy in the- sight of God. ²¹ To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps. ²² He did no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled, he did not revile again; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. ²⁴ He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. By his stripes you were healed.

¹ Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives, ² by observing your blameless and reverential conduct.

⁷ Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, bestowing honor on the wife as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

¹⁸ For Christ also once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, having been put to death in flesh, but made alive in spirit;

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.

¹⁰ As each has received a gift, minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ¹¹ If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man acts as a deacon, let him do this as from the strength which God supplies; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and strength from age to age. Amen.

¹⁷ For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

⁷ Cast all your cares on him, for he cares for you.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained faith, equally as precious as our own, in the plan of justification revealed by our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

⁸ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord does not delay concerning his promise, as some men count delay, but he is long-suffering toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

¹⁵ and count the long-suffering of our Lord, salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, has written to you; ¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

³ And by this we know that we do know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

¹⁷ And the world and its desire passes away: but he that does the will of God, abides forever.

²² and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his commandment: That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one an other, as he gave us commandment. ²⁴ And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome.

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

⁹ And they sung a new song, saying: Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation:

¹⁷ For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and will lead them to living fountains of water: and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

⁷ As much glory and voluptuousness as she has given to herself, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they may go through the gates into the city.