1 Corinthians 10 Cross References - Mace

¹ I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that all our fathers were under the Cloud, all passed thro' the sea: ² and were all baptized into the Mosaical institution by the cloud, and by the sea; ³ they all eat the same spiritual meat, ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.) ⁵ but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness. ⁶ now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did. ⁷ be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." ⁸ neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day. ⁹ neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel. ¹¹ All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. ¹² wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall. ¹³ you have met with no trials yet, but such as are common to men: and God who is faithful, will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, by enabling you to bear it. ¹⁴ wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. ¹⁵ I speak as to knowing men: be you your selves the judges of what I say. ¹⁶ the cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? ¹⁷ for the bread being one, as many as we are, we are one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. ¹⁸ consider the custom of the Jews by descent, are not they which eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? what say I then? ¹⁹ that the idol, or that what is offered in sacrifice to the idol, is a matter of consequence? ²⁰ no, but that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not have you partake of the sacrifices of demons. ²¹ you should not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you should not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons. ²² Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? ²³ are all things lawful for me? yet all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? yet all things do not edify. ²⁴ Let no man consult barely his own interest: but every man that of others. ²⁵ whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, without making any scrupulous enquiry. ²⁶ for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. ²⁷ if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and you are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, without asking any question out of a scruple of conscience. ²⁸ but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake. ²⁹ when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience? ³⁰ if I am thankful for what I have, why should I chuse to be evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? ³¹ whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. ³² give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God. ³³ thus I endeavour to be acceptable to all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of others, so as they may be saved.

²⁰ our fathers worshipped upon this mountain; and you say, that Jerusalem is the place where we ought to perform our worship.

¹¹ and he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the justification by that faith, which the uncircumcised have: that he might be the father of all those who believe, tho' they are uncircumcised, that it might be accounted to them also for righteousness:

²¹ lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches.

¹ Now concerning those who are spiritual, my brethren, I would not have you be mistaken.

³⁸ but if he will be blind, I leave him to his blindness.

²⁹ and if you belong to Christ, you are Abraham's offspring, and his heirs by virtue of the promise.

²⁹ By faith they passed thro' the red sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting to do, were drowned.

² and I saw as it were a sea of glass, mingled with fire; and those that had been victorious over the beast, and over his image, and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, with their divine harps in their hands. ³ and they sung the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the lamb, saying, "great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou king of ages.

²⁸ then they reviled him, and said, thou art his disciple; but we are Moses disciples. ²⁹ we know that God commission'd Moses: as for this fellow, we don't know who sent him.

³ don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.

¹³ and I of Christ." is the school of Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized into the name of Paul? ¹⁴ I thank God, I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius: ¹⁵ lest any should say, I had baptized into mine own name. ¹⁶ true, I baptized the family of Stephanas: but I don't know that I baptized any other besides.

²⁷ for as many of you as have been baptized into christianity, have been invested as christians.

² who was faithful to him that constituted him such, as Moses likewise was faithful in all his administration of God's house. ³ but as the architect is of much greater dignity than the house he has made; so the glory which Christ received was greater than that of Moses.

²² The day following, the people who stay'd on the other side of the sea, perceiving that there had been only that single vessel in which his disciples were embark'd, that Jesus did not embark with his disciples, but that his disciples were gone away alone: (however, ²³ there came other barks from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks.) ²⁴ the people likewise seeing that Jesus was not in those barks, nor his disciples, went on board them, and cross'd to Capernaum in quest of Jesus. ²⁵ And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, master, when did you arrive here? ²⁶ Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, you seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye had loaves to eat, and were filled. ²⁷ work not for the food which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life, and which the son of man shall give unto you, for to him it is that the father, that is God, has given his credentials. ²⁸ then said they to him, what shall we do, that our works may he agreeable to God? ²⁹ Jesus answered them, the work which God requires is to believe on him whom he hath sent. ³⁰ but said they, what miracle then will you let us see to make us believe you? what strange work will you perform? ³¹ our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, "he gave them bread from heaven to eat." ³² Jesus answer'd, I assure you, Moses did not give you the celestial bread; but my father gives you the true celestial bread. ³³ for he who is descended from heaven, and gives life to the world, is the bread that is truely divine. ³⁴ then said they, Lord, evermore give us this bread. ³⁵ Jesus answer'd, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me, shall never thirst. ³⁶ but I have already told you, that tho' you have seen me, you do not believe. ³⁷ all those whom my father gives me, shall come to me; and I will not reject any that come to me. ³⁸ for I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. ³⁹ and the will of him who sent me is this, that I should not lose any one of those he has given me, but should raise them again at the last day: this, ⁴⁰ I say, is the will of him that sent me, that every one who observes the son, and believeth on him, should have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴¹ The Jews then murmured against him, for having said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven." ⁴² is not this, said they, Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how comes he then to say, I came down from heaven? ⁴³ Jesus therefore replied, murmur not among your selves. ⁴⁴ no man can come to me, except the father who hath sent me, conduct him: and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁵ it is written in the prophets, "they shall be all taught of God." every man therefore that hath heard the father, and been instructed by him, cometh unto me. ⁴⁶ not that any man hath seen the father, except him who is come from God, he hath seen the father. ⁴⁷ I declare unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life, ⁴⁹ your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and there they died. ⁵⁰ but this is the bread which came down from heaven, that he who eats thereof should not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread, that is come down from heaven: whosoever shall eat of this bread, shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. ⁵² Upon this the Jews disputed among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³ but Jesus answer'd, I assure you, except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye will have no life in you. ⁵⁴ he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ for my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. ⁵⁶ he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ as the father who is the source of life hath sent me, and I live by the father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. ⁵⁸ this is that bread which came down from heaven: very different from that manna, which your fathers did eat but died nevertheless: he that eateth of this bread, shall live for ever.

³⁸ the field is the world: the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one: ³⁹ the enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the conclusion of the age: and the reapers are the angels.

²⁶ While they were yet eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, take, eat; this represents my body. ²⁷ and he took the cup, and having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink ye all of it: ²⁸ for this represents my blood, the blood of the new covenant which is shed for mankind for the remission of sins.

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, if you knew the dispensation of God, and who it is that says to you, give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

¹⁴ but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: for the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a fountain springing up to everlasting life.

³⁷ In the last day, the most solemn day of the feast, Jesus being there, raised his voice, and said, if any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, "take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me." ²⁵ in the same manner he took the cup, after supper, and said, "this cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me."

²⁵ this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children:

¹⁷ for these were only the shadows of future things, prefiguring Christ, who is the substance.

¹ For the law being only an allusion to a future dispensation that was more excellent, and not an exact imitation of such a state, cannot by the anniversary sacrifices, which are offered, entirely purify those that present themselves.

¹⁷ the spirit and the bride say, come. let him that heareth, say, come. let him that is a-thirst, come: and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

¹⁷ but with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the desert?

⁵ Now, I would call to your remembrance what you once were inform'd of, that when the Lord had delivered the people from the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those that were disobedient.

¹⁴ nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned by violating a positive law, as did Adam, who is

¹¹ All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

¹¹ Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

²⁴ for Christ is not entred into a sanctuary made by human art, such as is only representative of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear from henceforth in the presence of God on our behalf:

²¹ thus baptism, which corresponds to the deluge, does now save us, not as it is a cleansing from external filth, but as it is an engagement to lead a divine life, from the belief of the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

⁶ since he condemn'd the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to an entire subversion, and reduc'd them to ashes, to make them serve for examples to future impiety:

⁷ so it was with Sodom, Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, who abandoning themselves to the same licentiousness and abominable passions, were made examples by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

¹¹ but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

⁷ But every one has not this knowledge: for some still imagine the idol represents a deity: and eat the meat under the notion of an offering to such a being: by which erroneous opinion they are infected with idolatry.

¹⁴ wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

²⁰ Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men. ²¹ in the law it is written, " with men of other tongues and other lips, will I speak unto this people: and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord." ²² wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers: but expounding the prophets, not for unbelievers so much as for those who believe.

²¹ dear children, keep yourselves from idols. AMEN.

¹⁸ flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

¹⁴ but I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who counselled Balac to ensnare the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

⁸ harden not your hearts, as at Meriba and Massa in the desart: ⁹ where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works. ¹⁰ wherefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, they do alway err in their hearts; and they have not known my ways. ¹¹ so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

²⁸ He that by two or three witnesses was convicted of violating Moses's law, was put to death without mercy. ²⁹ don't you think then that he deserves a much greater punishment, who hath despised the son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant wherewith be was sanctified, to have been justly shed, thereby offering an indignity to the spirit of grace? ³⁰ for we know who it is that has said, "vengeance belongeth unto me, I will repay." and again, "the Lord shall revenge his people."

³⁹ the enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the conclusion of the age: and the reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰ as then the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire; so shall it be at the conclusion of the age. ⁴¹ the son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all that make others offend, and those who do iniquity; ⁴² and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

²³ but at the instant an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not glorify God: so that he became a prey to worms and died. In the mean time, the

¹⁴ do every thing without murmuring and disputes:

⁷ and that you, who are distress'd, should obtain your repose, together with us, when the Lord Jesus, with his angels, the ministers of his power, shall descend from heaven, ⁸ in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those, who know not God, and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

²⁸ through faith he celebrated the passover, and sprinkled blood, that the destroying angel might pass by the first-born.

¹⁶ These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain.

¹ THEN I heard a terrible voice from the temple, crying to the seven angels, "go pour out the VIALS of divine vengeance upon the earth."

²³ now this saying, "that it was accounted to him," was not written for his sake alone,

¹¹ Consider likewise the present season, that now it is high time to rouse out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

⁴ now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope.

²⁹ This I say, brethren, because the time is coming, when they who have wives will be as those that have none;

¹⁰ or is it said, no doubt, for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope; and that he who thresheth should expect the advantage.

⁵ let your meekness be known unto all men.

²⁵ as some do; but encourage one another: even so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

³⁷ only wait but a little while, and he that is to come, will come without delay.

¹⁸ Dear children, the last time is come: as ye have heard that antichrist was to come, accordingly many antichrists have already appeared; whereby we know that we are now in the last times.

³³ Peter thereupon said, tho' all the rest should abandon you, I never will. ³⁴ Jesus replied, I tell you for certain, that this night before the time of cock-crowing, thou shalt abjure me thrice.

⁴⁰ then returning to the disciples, and finding them asleep, he said to Peter, what, could ye not watch by me one hour? ⁴¹ watch and pray that ye may not sink under the trial: the mind indeed is vigorous, but the flesh is weak.

²⁰ well, be it so, for their incredulity they were broken off, and you by faith stand firm: be not then elated, but let this be your fear,

⁶ These things, my brethren, I have represented to you in my own person, and that of Apollos, out of respect to you: to show you how to moderate your esteem by the rule prescrib'd, that you may not be transported in favour of one rather than another. ⁷ for who has distinguish'd thee above another? or what have you, that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory as if you had not received it? ⁸ You have already a sufficiency, you already abound, you live like princes in our absence: and would to God you did reign, that we too might have the advantage of your administration.

² and if any man be conceited of his own knowledge, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.

¹⁷ Do you then, my dear brethren, being thus forewarn'd, take care not to be seduc'd by those prophane impostors, and so lose the reward of your constancy.

¹⁷ you say you are rich, and have increased your gain, and have need of nothing; but you do not consider that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel thee to purchase of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayst be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayst be cloathed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and an ointment for thine eyes to make you see clear.

²¹ for the desolation will be so dreadful, the like was never seen since the beginning of the world, no, nor ever shall be again. ²² for unless the time was to be short, very few could escape, but for the sake of the converts the time shall be short. ²³ Then if any shall cry, the Messiah is here, or he is there: give no credit to it. ²⁴ for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves.

⁴ and forgive us our sins: since we forgive every one that has offended us. and leave us not under temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."

²⁶ besides this, there is an unalterable chasm between us and you, so that the passage from one place to the other is impracticable to those who should attempt it.

³¹ Then said Jesus, Simon, Simon, satan has demanded to shake you, and my disciples, like wheat in a sieve. ³² but as for thee, I have pray'd that you faith may not fail. do you in return establish thy brethren.

⁴⁶ said he, rise, and pray that you may withstand the trial.

²⁸ it is I that give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any one force them out of my hand. ²⁹ my father who gave them me, is greater than all: so that no one is able to force them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ I and my father are one.

⁴⁴ and the rest to get upon the planks, or other pieces of the wreck: and by this means it happen'd that they all came safe to land.

²⁸ We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them: ²⁹ for whom he before approv'd, he predispos'd to follow the example of his son, who was to conduct them all as their elder brother; ³⁰ but whom he predispos'd, he calls: and whom he has call'd, he justifies: and whom he has justified, he glorifies. ³¹ What shall we conclude then from this? if God be for us, who can be against us? ³² he that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him likewise freely give us all things? ³³ who shall plead against God's elect? shall God who justifieth them? ³⁴ who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us? ³⁵ what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ for as it is written, "for thy sake we are sacrificed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter:" ³⁷ yet after all we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. ³⁸ for I am fully persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ neither the high, nor the low, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God by Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ for he, who has called you to the communication of his son Jesus Christ our Lord, will make good his promise. ¹⁰ and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially,

²³ so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death. ²⁴ from the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one. ²⁵ thrice was I whip'd with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I was shipwreck'd; a night and a day I was floating on the deep: ²⁶ in my voyages I have been frequently in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the country, in perils at sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury. ²⁸ besides these troubles from without, that which crouds upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

⁸ I besought the Lord thrice, to make him leave me. ⁹ but he said to me, "my favour is sufficient for thee: for my strength is shown to be perfect by thy weakness." with pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may be seen to dwell in me. ¹⁰ I take pleasure then in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am afflicted, then it is I have fortitude.

¹² for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits. ¹³ wherefore invest yourselves with the set of divine armour, that ye may be able to withstand in the difficult day, and having overcome all to maintain your ground.

²⁴ he that has called you, is faithful, and this he will effect.

³ but as for you, the Lord, who is faithful, will establish you, and protect you from the malicious one.

¹¹ it is an undoubted truth, that if we die for him, we shall live with him: ¹² if we suffer, we shall also reign: if we renounce him, ¹³ he will renounce us likewise: tho' we are diffident, he is still faithful, and will not retract his word.

¹⁸ and the Lord will deliver me from every malicious design, and preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. to him be glory to endless ages. amen.

¹⁸ that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to deceive us, we, who have no other refuge to fly to, but to maintain our present hopes,

²³ Let us stedfastly maintain the hope which we have avow'd, since he is faithful that has promised:

¹¹ 'Twas likewise through faith that Sara, though barren, received the power of becoming pregnant, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

³⁵ women recovered their children, tho' dead, by their being raised to life again: some expired under torments, refusing to be delivered; that they might obtain a better deliverance at the resurrection. ³⁶ others suffer'd cruel indignities and scourgings, besides chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandred about in sheepskins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented: ³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy) they wandred in desarts, and in mountains, having no retreat but the dens and caves of the earth.

⁴ You have not yet resisted unto death, striving against sin.

¹⁰ let the prophets, my brethren, who were commission'd by the Lord, be your examples; suffer persecution with constancy like them. ¹¹ we pronounce those happy, who have so endur'd. you have heard of the constancy of Job, you know with what success he was crown'd by the Lord, who is all mercy and compassion.

⁵ whom the divine power preserves through faith for that salvation, which is going to be made manifest in the latter time. ⁶ This it is that fills you with joy, notwithstanding the various tryals, which still necessarily afflict you, ⁷ that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:

¹⁹ let those then, whom God calls to sufferings, by virtue recommend their souls to him, as to a creator, who will make good his promise.

⁸ Be temperate, be vigilant: for your adversary the Devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. ⁹ resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do.

⁹ I say, the Lord will deliver those, who fear him, from their affliction, and reserve the wicked to be punish'd at the day of judgment.

⁹ if we confess our sins, as he is faithful and just, he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all iniquity.

¹⁰ fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

¹⁰ because you have kept my precept about patience, I also will keep you in the time of persecution, which shall happen to all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

¹¹ Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse appear'd; and he that sat upon him was called the faithful and the true: in righteousness he judges and makes war:

¹⁹ dear brethren, avenge not yourselves, but leave that to the resentment of another: for it is written, "vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."

⁷ be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

²⁰ no, but that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not have you partake of the sacrifices of demons. ²¹ you should not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you should not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

¹⁷ wherefore come out from among them, be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

¹ since then, we have these promises, my dear brethren, let us cleanse our selves from all impurity, whether of body or mind, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹¹ why so? is it because I love you not? far otherwise, God knows.

¹⁵ I shall be glad to sacrifice myself and all I have for your service, even tho' it should happen that the more I love you, the less I should be beloved.

¹⁹ do you think I have been making excuses for not coming? as I am a christian, in the presence of God, I have, my beloved, in every thing consulted your advantage.

¹ Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, my joy and my crown, whom I long to see, continue firm in your christian profession, my beloved.

¹ Paul a prisoner for Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow-labourer,

¹¹ but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

⁸ all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain.

⁸ but the fearful, and incredulous, the abominable, the murderer, the licentious, the poisoner, the idolater, and every lyar shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: this is the second death."

¹⁵ "but without are the execrable, the poisoners, the licentious, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who are pleas'd with, or practise deceit.

¹⁰ we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt.

⁵ what, is there not a man of experience amongst you, capable of being arbitrator between his brethren?

¹ Now as to things offered to idols, 'tis certain that the knowledge you all pretend to have, swells you with pride, but 'tis charity that edifieth.

¹³ Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil?

²⁰ Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men.

²¹ bring every thing to the test: if it be proof, abide by that:

²² When they had been eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, and said, take it, this represents my body. ²³ and he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. ²⁴ and he said to them, this represents the effusion of my blood (the sanction of the new covenant) for mankind. ²⁵ but this I tell you, I will never more drink of this fruit of the vine, from this time forth to that day, when I shall drink with you of the spiritual wine in the kingdom of God.

¹⁹ then he took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, saying, this represents my body which is given for you: do this in remembrance of me. ²⁰ and after supper he likewise gave the cup, saying, this cup is the new testament sealed by my blood, which is shed for you.

⁴² they continued stedfastly in the apostolical doctrine of a community, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

⁴⁶ and continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they did eat their meals with gladness, and simplicity of heart,

⁷ on the first day of the week we assembled to break bread, when Paul, who was to depart on the morrow, gave them a sermon, which lasted till midnight.

¹¹ then Paul went up again, and having broken bread and eaten, he reassumed his discourse till break of day, and then departed.

²³ For I received it from the Lord, and I inform'd you of it: that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread: ²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, "take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me." ²⁵ in the same manner he took the cup, after supper, and said, "this cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me." ²⁶ As often then as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye make a declaration of the Lord's death till he come. ²⁷ so that whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup without respect to the Lord, does make a criminal use of the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ Let a man then sift and approve himself, and accordingly let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. ²⁹ for he that eats and drinks in a disrespectful manner, not discriminating the Lord's body, eateth and drinketh to his own punishment.

¹³ for by one spirit we have all been baptized, to be form'd into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and have been all made to drink of one spirit.

¹⁴ for we were receiv'd into the communion of Christ, upon condition of inviolably maintaining the hope we had at the beginning even unto the end,

³ what we have seen and heard, we declare unto you, that ye also may be of the same society with us: and truly associated with the father, and with his son Jesus Christ.

⁷ but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have society one with another, and the blood of his son Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.

⁵ so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another.

³ they all eat the same spiritual meat, ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.)

²¹ you should not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you should not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

²⁶ As often then as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye make a declaration of the Lord's death till he come. ²⁷ so that whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup without respect to the Lord, does make a criminal use of the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ Let a man then sift and approve himself, and accordingly let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

¹² For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.

²⁷ Thus you are the body of Christ, being the particular members of it.

²⁶ for you are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ for as many of you as have been baptized into christianity, have been invested as christians. ²⁸ there is now no distinction of Jew or Greek, of bond or free, of male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

²² for he has subjected all things to him, and constituted him supreme head of the church, ²³ which is his body, a work compleatly finished in all its parts.

¹⁵ (which kept us at variance) by abolishing the dogmatical injunctions of the law, that having made the peace, he might incorporate the two into one new body under himself; ¹⁶ that he might reconcile both in one body unto God by the cross, wherefore he destroyed the enmity that was between them:

⁶ "that the Gentiles should be heirs as well as the Jews, make one body together, and partake of the divine promise in Christ by the gospel."

⁴ Being one body, acted by one spirit, since you all have but one expectation in view;

¹² thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ: ¹³ till being united in a perfect belief, and acknowledgment of the son of God, we grow up to that full state of maturity required by Christ:

¹⁶ from which the whole body fitly framed, and compacted by the entire adherence and contribution of every part performing its respective function, increases and improves itself by the mutual concern of the parts.

²⁵ Wherefore leave off the practice of lying, and let every man speak truth to his neighbour: for we are all members of one society.

¹⁹ not adhering to the head, from which all the parts of the body derive its nutrition, and being firmly united together by its joints and ligaments, receives a divine increase.

¹¹ by which there is now neither Greek, or Jew; circumcised, or uncircumcised; Barbarian, or Scythian; slave, or freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

¹⁵ may the peace of Christ, to which you are called to be but one body, influence your hearts, to be benevolent.

³ with relation to his son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was of the lineage of David as to his body,

¹ How then can we assert, "that Abraham our father obtained this from circumcision?"

¹² and the father of the circumcised, that is of those who are not barely circumcised, but who imitate that faith which our father Abraham had, being yet uncircumcised.

³ for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self, ⁴ who are Israelites; who had the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the form of divine worship, and the promises; ⁵ who are the offspring of the patriarchs, and of whom as to the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. ⁶ However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect. for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel: ⁷ neither are they who are the race of Abraham, all children: but 'tis said, "in Isaac shall thy posterity be called." ⁸ that is, the children by natural descent are not thereby the children of God: but the children of the promise are alone considered as his posterity.

¹³ don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?

¹⁸ since many glory in outward advantages, I will glory too. ¹⁹ for as wise as you are your selves, you easily bear with the folly of others. ²⁰ if a man impose upon you, if he preys upon you, if he makes a gain of you, if a man insults you, if he disgracefully assaults you, I mean it as to their reproaches, you take it all; ²¹ as if I was inferior to them. but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like. ²² Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they of the race of Abraham?

¹⁶ as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon the Israel of God.

¹¹ Wherefore remember that you were heretofore Gentiles, being denominated the uncircumcised, by those who are the circumcised by a manual operation; ¹² that at that time ye were without all knowledge of the Messiah, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and living in the world without any true knowledge of God.

³ for we are the genuine sons of Abraham, who worship God in the spiritual manner, and value no other dependance than that on Jesus Christ, without confiding in any external advantages: ⁴ which I might do more justly than any other man can pretend to: ⁵ being circumcised the eighth day, of the family of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew by descent, by sect a Pharisee.

²⁸ those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.

⁷ so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase.

⁴ As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God.

² and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

¹¹ Am I become vain? 'tis you have forc'd me to it: for I ought to have been commended by you: since I am not inferior to the chiefest of the apostles, tho' in myself I am nothing.

⁴ to those unbelievers, whose minds the God of this world has so blinded, that the glorious lustre of the gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

²⁰ As for the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, they did not repent of their evil actions, so as to forbear worshipping demons, and idols of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

²⁴ no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will be attach'd to the one, and neglectful of the other. ye cannot serve God and Mamon.

¹⁰ for if any man see you who have a just notion of idols, sitting at table in their temple, will not the person who is wrong in his notions be incouraged to eat what is offered to idols, tho' contrary to his own opinion?

¹⁶ the cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

¹⁵ what concord can Christ maintain with Belial? what concern has a believer with an infidel? ¹⁶ and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I will dwell with, and walk among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ¹⁷ wherefore come out from among them, be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

³¹ it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

¹⁵ now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died?

¹⁹ Let us therefore pursue those things which tend to peace, and mutual edification. ²⁰ do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence.

¹ I add, we that are better inform'd ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not study our own pleasure. ² let every one of us consult the good of his neighbour to his edification.

¹² Are all things lawful for me? however, all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? however, I will not be a slave to any.

⁹ but take care that this liberty of yours does not prove a scandal to the weak.

³ but he that expounds, speaks to the edification, exhortation, and comfort of men. ⁴ he that speaks in an unknown tongue, edifies himself alone: but he that expounds, edifies the church. ⁵ I wish you all had the gift of languages, but rather that you expounded: for greater is he that expounds, than he that speaks unknown languages, except he interpret what he says, that the church may be edified by it.

¹² But since there is emulation among you concerning spiritual gifts, seek to abound in the exercise of such gifts as tend most to the edification of the church.

¹⁷ thy thanksgiving indeed is right, but the other is not all edified by it.

²⁶ what is then to be done, my brethren? when you come together, one of you with a psalm, another with a doctrine, another with a strange tongue, another with a revelation, another with an interpretation: let the whole be done to edification.

²⁹ let no obscene language defile your mouth, use only such as tends to edification, that it may be beneficial to the hearers.

¹¹ wherefore comfort and edify one another, as you have hitherto done.

⁴ or trouble their heads with fables and endless genealogies, which rather promote disputes than the gospel-dispensation:

¹⁹ for tho' I am independent of all men, yet have I subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more. ²⁰ to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; ²¹ to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law. ²² to the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might save all sorts of men. ²³ and I do all for the gospel's sake, that I may share in the benefits thereof.

³³ thus I endeavour to be acceptable to all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of others, so as they may be saved.

⁵ is not self-interested, is not easily provoked, nor suspects any ill;

¹⁴ This is the third time I purposed to come to you; but I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you: since it is not expected children should lay up for their parents, but parents for their children: on the contrary,

⁴ let no man consult only his private interest, but let every man consult likewise the interest of others. ⁵ for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus:

²¹ the most consult their private advantage, and neglect the dispensation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ and the voice spake to him again the second time, don't call that common, which God calls clean.

⁵ wherefore you ought to submit not only from an apprehension of punishment, but

¹⁴ I know, being fully assured by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: it is only so to him that thinks it is unclean.

²⁷ if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and you are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, without asking any question out of a scruple of conscience. ²⁸ but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake. ²⁹ when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

⁴ for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:

¹⁵ to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted.

²⁸ but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake.

¹⁷ Charge those that are rich in this world, not to be elated, not to depend upon their perishable wealth, but upon the God of life, who furnishes us with every thing in plenty for our enjoyment;

²⁹ Levi having prepared a handsom entertainment in his own house for him, a great number of publicans, and others, were likewise at table. ³⁰ but the Scribes and Pharisees of that place reproach'd his disciples, and said, why do ye eat and drink with publicans and scandalous people?

⁷ continue in the same house, and eat and drink whatever it affords: for a labourer deserves his wages: therefore don't shift from family to family. ⁸ when you come to any city, where they receive you, eat without scruple, whatever food is set before you,

²³ take the fatted calf, and kill it: let us eat and be merry:

⁷ upon seeing this, they all murmur'd, saying, he is going to be treated by a dissolute person.

⁹ When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious: ¹⁰ I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world. ¹¹ but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.

²⁵ whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, without making any scrupulous enquiry.

¹³ In reality, we writ nothing to you, but what you may perceive by the reading, and I trust you ever will perceive.

² renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God.

¹¹ Shall I then, who know this terrible judgment of the Lord, endeavour to appease men? as for God, I am approved by him, and I trust also you are convinced of my being so approved.

³¹ therefore make no such sollicitous enquiries, as what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or how shall we be clothed? ³² things which the Gentiles are so thoughtful about, and which your heavenly Father knows that you want.

¹⁰ for if any man see you who have a just notion of idols, sitting at table in their temple, will not the person who is wrong in his notions be incouraged to eat what is offered to idols, tho' contrary to his own opinion? ¹¹ so that your notions may endanger the life of thy weak brother, for whom Christ died. ¹² but when you thus offend against the brethren, by wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ wherefore if my eating makes my brother offend, I will never eat flesh rather than make my brother offend.

²⁶ for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

¹⁵ now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died? ¹⁶ Don't let our religion then be expos'd to reproach. ¹⁷ for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy. ¹⁸ for he that thus pays his allegiance to Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men. ¹⁹ Let us therefore pursue those things which tend to peace, and mutual edification. ²⁰ do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence. ²¹ it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.

⁹ but take care that this liberty of yours does not prove a scandal to the weak.

¹⁹ for tho' I am independent of all men, yet have I subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.

³² give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.

²¹ always considering what is virtuous, with respect to God, and with respect to men.

²² if it has the least appearance of evil, reject it.

⁶ he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

³ interdicting marriage; and the use of animal food; which God created for the repast of the faithful, who embrace the truth with thankfulness. ⁴ for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:

⁴¹ be but charitable to the utmost of your ability, and every thing will be pure to you.

³⁴ there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband.

¹⁷ let your discourse and your actions be all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.

²³ and whatever you do, do it heartily, as serving the Lord, and not men:

¹¹ let a speaker deliver nothing but what is agreeable to the divine oracles: and let him that attends the poor, be active in proportion to the strength God has given him. amen.

²⁸ be therefore upon your guard to secure your selves, and the whole flock over which the holy spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

¹⁶ and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men.

¹³ let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall.

¹³ wherefore if my eating makes my brother offend, I will never eat flesh rather than make my brother offend.

²² what, have you no houses to eat and drink in? or have ye a contempt for the church of God, or is it to insult those who are in want? what shall I say to you? shall I commend such behaviour? I do not approve of it.

³ as for us, we give no occasion of offence, that our ministry may not be blamed:

¹⁰ that being capable to distinguish what is best, you may remain stedfastly sincere until the day of Christ,

⁵ for if a man is incapable of governing his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

¹⁵ you may know how to conduct yourself in the house of God, that is, in the church of the true God.

¹⁴ if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some.

² let every one of us consult the good of his neighbour to his edification. ³ for even Christ did not consult his own satisfaction; but as it is written, "the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."

²⁴ Let no man consult barely his own interest: but every man that of others.

²⁸ besides these troubles from without, that which crouds upon me daily, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ who is afflicted, and I not suffer? who is offended, and I not inflam'd?

¹⁰ for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.