1 Corinthians 10 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ For I would have you know this, my brothers, that while our fathers all lived under the cloud, all crossed through the sea, ² all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea, ³ all ate the same supernatural food, ⁴ and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them — and that Rock was Christ), ⁵ still with most of them God was not satisfied; they were laid low in the desert. ⁶ Now this took place as a warning for us, to keep us from craving for evil as they craved. ⁷ And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport. ⁸ Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did — and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell. ⁹ Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did — only to be destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ And you must not murmur, as some of them did — only to be destroyed by the destroying angel. ¹¹ It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world. ¹² So let anyone who thinks he stands secure, take care in case he falls. ¹³ No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it. ¹⁴ Shun idolatry, then, my beloved. ¹⁵ I am speaking to sensible people; weigh my words for yourselves. ¹⁶ The cup of blessing, which we bless, is that not participating in the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is that not participating in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ (for many as we are, we are one Bread, one Body, since we all partake of the one Bread). ¹⁸ Look at the rites of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? ¹⁹ Do I imply, you ask, that 'food offered to an idol has any meaning, or that an idol itself means any thing'? ²⁰ No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons! ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons. ²² What! do we intend to rouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he is? ²³ 'All things are lawful'? Yes, but not all are good for us. 'All things are lawful'? Yes, but not all are edifying. ²⁴ Each of us must consult his neighbour's interests, not his own. ²⁵ Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it; ²⁶ the earth and all its contents belong to the Lord. ²⁷ When an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you agree to go, eat whatever is put before you, instead of letting scruples of conscience induce you to ask any questions about it. ²⁸ But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account — ²⁹ his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience? ³⁰ If one partakes of food after saying a blessing over it, why should one be denounced for eating what one has given thanks to God for? ³¹ So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God. ³² Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God. ³³ Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number — at their salvation.

²⁴ No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other — you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

³¹ Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?' ³² (pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that.

³⁸ the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one; ³⁹ the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels.

³⁹ the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ Well then, just as the weeds are gathered and burnt in the fire, so will it be at the end of the world; ⁴¹ the Son of man will despatch his angels, and they will gather out of his Realm all who are hindrances and who practise iniquity, ⁴² and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

²¹ for there will be sore misery then, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now — no and never shall be. ²² Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short. ²³ If anyone tells you at that time, 'Here is the Christ!' or, 'there he is!' do not believe it; ²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible.

²⁶ As they were eating he took a loaf and after the blessing he broke it; then he gave it to the disciples saying, "Take and eat this, it means my body." ²⁷ He also took a cup and after thanking God he gave it to them saying, "Drink of it, all of you; ²⁸ this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

³³ Peter answered, "Supposing they are all disconcerted over you, I will not be disconcerted." ³⁴ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you will disown me three times this very night, before the cock crows."

⁴⁰ Then he went to the disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "So the three of you could not watch with me for a single hour? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

²² And as they were eating he took a loaf, and after the blessing he broke and gave it to them, saying, "Take this, it means my body." ²³ He also took a cup and after thanking God he gave it to them, and they all drank of it; ²⁴ he said to them, "This means my covenant-blood which is shed for many; ²⁵ truly I tell you, I will never drink the produce of the vine again till the day I drink it new within the Realm of God."

²⁹ Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another. ⁸ Wherever you are received on entering any town, eat what is provided for you,

⁴ and forgive us our sins for we do forgive everyone who has offended us; and lead us not into temptation."

⁴¹ Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you.

²³ and bring the fatted calf, kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

²⁶ Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

⁷ But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

¹⁹ Then he took a loaf, and after thanking God he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This means my body given up for your sake; do this in memory of me." ²⁰ So too he gave them the cup after supper, saying, "This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood shed for your sake.

³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat, ³² but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

⁴⁶ He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not slip into temptation."

¹⁰ Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

²⁰ Now our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, whereas you Jews declare the proper place for worship is at Jerusalem."

²² Next day the crowd which had been left standing on the other side of the sea bethought them that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, who had left by themselves. ²³ So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving, ²⁴ and as the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they embarked in the boats themselves and made for Capharnahum in search of Jesus. ²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" ²⁶ Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill. ²⁷ Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him." ²⁸ Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" ²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent." ³⁰ "Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show? ³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat." ³² Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven — ³³ for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." ³⁴ "Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always." ³⁵ Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again. ³⁶ But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe. ³⁷ All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them; ³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me, ³⁹ and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day. ⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day." ⁴¹ Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven." ⁴² They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?" ⁴³ Jesus replied to them, "Stop murmuring to yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day). ⁴⁵ In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me. ⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father — he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly I tell you, the believer has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died; ⁵⁰ the bread that comes down from heaven is such that one eats of it and never dies. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." ⁵² The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you. ⁵⁴ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day), ⁵⁵ for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me. ⁵⁸ Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

²⁸ Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses! ²⁹ We know God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

⁴² They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

⁴⁶ Day after day they resorted with one accord to the temple and broke bread together in their own homes; they ate with a glad and simple heart,

¹⁵ A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

²³ and in a moment an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given due glory to God; he was eaten up by worms and so expired.

⁷ On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread; Paul addressed them, as he was to leave next day, and he prolonged his address till midnight

¹¹ Then he went upstairs, broke bread, and ate; finally, after conversing awhile with them till the dawn, he went away.

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

¹⁶ Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

⁴⁴ while the rest were to manage with planks or pieces of wreckage. In this way it turned out that the whole company got safe to land.

³ concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent

¹ But if so, what can we say about Abraham, our forefather by natural descent?

¹¹ He only got circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which belonged to his faith as an uncircumcised man. The object of this was to make him the father of all who believe as uncircumcised persons and thus have righteousness counted to them, ¹² as well as a father of those circumcised persons who not only share circumcision but walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had as an uncircumcised man.

²³ And these words counted to him have not been written for him alone

¹⁴ Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned even over those whose sins were not like Adam's transgression. Adam prefigured Him who was to come,

³ Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death!

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything. ²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood. ³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified. ³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides! ³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us! ³⁵ What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? ³⁶ (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.) ³⁷ No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, ³⁹ no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen; ⁴ for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises; ⁵ the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.) ⁶ It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel; ⁷ they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned — ⁸ meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring.

¹⁴ in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them.

²⁰ Granted. They were broken off — for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

⁵ so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another.

¹⁹ Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital — the Lord has said it. No,

⁵ You must be obedient, therefore, not only to avoid the divine vengeance but as a matter of conscience,

¹¹ And then you know what this Crisis means, you know it is high time to waken up; for Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

⁶ the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God.

¹³ So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way. ¹⁴ I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

¹⁵ If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Your rights must not get a bad name. ¹⁷ The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit; ¹⁸ he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men. ¹⁹ Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

¹⁹ Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at. ²⁰ You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats;

²⁰ You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats; ²¹ the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

¹ We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves. ² Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

² Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith. ³ Christ certainly did not please himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those who denounced Thee have fallen upon me. — ⁴ All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

⁹ Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹³ Has Christ been parcelled out? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized? ¹⁴ I am thankful now that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ so that no one can say you were baptized in my name. ¹⁶ (Well, I did baptize the household of Stephanas, but no one else, as far as I remember.)

²⁸ God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world — things which are not, to put down things that are;

⁷ So neither planter nor waterer counts, but God alone who makes the seed grow.

⁶ Now I have applied what has been said above to myself and Apollos, to teach you ... that you are not to be puffed up with rivalry over one teacher as against another. ⁷ Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given? ⁸ You Corinthians have your heart's desire already, have you? You have heaven's rich bliss already! You have come into your kingdom without us! I wish indeed you had come into your kingdom, so that we could share it with you!

¹⁰ We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

⁹ In my letter I wrote that you were not to associate with the immoral. ¹⁰ I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether. ¹¹ What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!

¹¹ What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!

⁵ I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could decide a dispute between members of the brotherhood,

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

¹² 'All things are lawful for me'? Yes, but not all are good for me. 'All things are lawful for me'? Yes, but I am not going to let anything master me.

¹⁸ Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

²⁹ I mean, brothers, — the interval has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

³⁴ so he is torn in two directions. The unmarried woman or the maid is also anxious about the Lord's affairs, how to be consecrated, body and spirit; once married, she is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy her husband.

¹ With regard to food that has been offered to idols. Here, of course, 'we all possess knowledge'! Knowledge puffs up, love builds up. ² Whoever imagines he has attained to some degree of knowledge, does not possess the true knowledge yet;

⁴ Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'

⁷ But remember, it is not everyone who has this 'knowledge.' Some who have hitherto been accustomed to idols eat the food as food which has been really offered to an idol, and so their weaker conscience is contaminated.

⁹ But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

⁹ But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols?

¹⁰ Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols? ¹¹ He is ruined, this weak man, ruined by your 'enlightened mind,' this brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

¹³ Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

¹⁰ Or is he speaking purely for our sakes? Assuredly for our sakes. This word was written for us, because the ploughman needs to plough in hope, and the thresher to thresh in the hope of getting a share in the crop.

¹³ Do you not know that as men who perform temple-rites get their food from the temple, and as attendants at the altar get their share of the sacrifices,

¹⁹ Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could.

¹⁹ Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could. ²⁰ To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves — though I am not under the Law myself — to win over those under the Law; ²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law; ²² to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means. ²³ And I do it all for the sake of the gospel, to secure my own share in it.

³ all ate the same supernatural food, ⁴ and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them — and that Rock was Christ),

⁷ And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.

¹¹ It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

¹⁴ Shun idolatry, then, my beloved.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing, which we bless, is that not participating in the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is that not participating in the body of Christ?

²⁰ No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons! ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons.

²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons.

²⁴ Each of us must consult his neighbour's interests, not his own. ²⁵ Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it; ²⁶ the earth and all its contents belong to the Lord. ²⁷ When an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you agree to go, eat whatever is put before you, instead of letting scruples of conscience induce you to ask any questions about it. ²⁸ But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account —

²⁸ But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account — ²⁹ his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience?

³² Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God. ³³ Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number — at their salvation.

¹³ Judge for yourselves; is it proper for an unveiled woman to pray to God?

²² What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this. ²³ I passed on to you what I received from the Lord himself, namely, that on the night he was betrayed the Lord Jesus took a loaf, ²⁴ and after thanking God he broke it, saying, 'This means my body broken for you; do this in memory of me.'

²⁴ and after thanking God he broke it, saying, 'This means my body broken for you; do this in memory of me.' ²⁵ In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.'

²⁵ In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.' ²⁶ For as often as you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

²⁶ For as often as you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. ²⁷ Hence anyone who eats the loaf or drinks the cup of the Lord carelessly, will have to answer for a sin against the body and the blood of the Lord.

²⁷ Hence anyone who eats the loaf or drinks the cup of the Lord carelessly, will have to answer for a sin against the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ Let a man test himself; then he can eat from the loaf and drink from the cup.

²⁸ Let a man test himself; then he can eat from the loaf and drink from the cup. ²⁹ For he who eats and drinks without a proper sense of the Body, eats and drinks to his own condemnation.

¹ But I want you to understand about spiritual gifts, brothers.

¹² As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit.

²⁷ Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

² I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

⁵ is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful;

³ On the other hand, he who prophesies addresses men in words that edify, encourage, and console them. ⁴ He who speaks in a 'tongue' edifies himself, whereas he who prophesies edifies the church. ⁵ Now I would like you all to speak with 'tongues,' but I would prefer you to prophesy. The man who prophesies is higher than the man who speaks with 'tongues' — unless indeed the latter interprets, so that the church may get edification.

¹² So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.

¹⁷ Your thanksgiving may be all right, but then — the other man is not edified!

²⁰ Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.

²⁰ Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence. ²¹ It is written in the Law, By men of alien tongues and by the lips of aliens I will speak to this People; but even so, they will not listen to me, saith the Lord. ²² Thus 'tongues' are intended as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; whereas prophesying is meant for believers, not for unbelievers.

²⁶ Very well then, brothers; when you meet together, each contributes something — a song of praise, a lesson, a revelation, a 'tongue,' an interpretation? Good, but let every thing be for edification.

³⁸ Anyone who disregards this will be himself disregarded.

¹⁰ he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.

¹³ You don't have to read between the lines of my letters; you can understand them. Yes, I trust you will understand the full meaning of my letters

² I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

¹¹ If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.

³ I put no obstacle in the path of any, so that my ministry may not be discredited;

¹⁵ What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people. ¹⁷ Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,

¹⁷ Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,

¹ As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

²¹ I aim at being above reproach not only from God but also from men.

¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

¹⁸ Since many boast on the score of the flesh, I will do the same.) ¹⁹ You put up with fools so readily, you who know so much! ²⁰ You put up with a man who assumes control of your souls, with a man who spends your money, with a man who dupes you, with a man who gives himself airs, with a man who flies in your face. ²¹ I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!). ²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Israelites? so am I. Descended from Abraham? so am I. ²³ Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death; ²⁴ five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews, ²⁵ three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day; ²⁶ I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers — ²⁷ through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it. ²⁸ And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

²⁸ And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation?

⁸ three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me, ⁹ but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life. ¹⁰ It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak. ¹¹ Now this is playing the fool! But you forced me to it, instead of coming forward yourselves and vouching for me. That was what I deserved; for, 'nobody' as I am, I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles.'

¹⁴ Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children. ¹⁵ And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

¹⁹ You think all this time I am defending myself to you? No, I am speaking in Christ before the presence of God, and speaking every word, beloved, in order to build you up.

¹⁰ Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

²⁶ you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus ²⁷ (for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).

²⁷ (for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ). ²⁸ There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

²⁵ for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children.

¹⁶ On all who will be guided by this rule, may peace and mercy rest, even upon the Israel of God.

²² he has put everything under his feet and set him as head over everything for the church, ²³ the church which is his Body, filled by him who fills the universe entirely.

¹¹ Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh — ¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

¹⁵ in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties, ¹⁶ so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

⁴ For there is one Body and one Spirit — as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call —

¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ, ¹³ till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ —

¹⁶ as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

²⁵ Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

²⁹ Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

¹² For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere. ¹³ So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

¹⁰ so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

⁴ and each with an eye to the interests of others as well as to his own. ⁵ Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing,

²¹ Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

³ We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege. ⁴ Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him. ⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,

¹ So then, my brothers, for whom I cherish love and longing, my joy and crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, O my beloved.

⁵ Let your forbearance be known to everyone; the Lord is at hand.

¹⁷ All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

¹⁹ instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

¹¹ In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

¹⁵ Also, let the peace of Christ be supreme within your hearts — that is why you have been called as members of the one Body. And you must be thankful.

¹⁷ Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

²³ Whatever be your task, work at it heartily, as servants of the Lord and not of men;

¹¹ Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other — as indeed you are doing.

²¹ but test them all, retaining what is good ²² and abstaining from whatever kind is evil.

²⁴ He who calls you is faithful, he will do this.

⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power ⁸ in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

³ However, the Lord is faithful; he will be sure to strengthen you and protect you from the Evil one.

⁴ and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

⁵ (if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

¹⁵ in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. ⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

¹¹ It is a sure word, that "If we have died with him, we shall live with him, ¹² if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us, ¹³ if we are faithless, he remains faithful" — for he cannot be untrue to himself.

¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from every assault of evil, he will bring me safe to his own realm in heaven. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

¹⁵ For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

¹ Paul a prisoner of Christ Jesus and brother Timotheus, to our beloved fellow-worker Philemon,

² he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house, ³ Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.

⁸ harden not your hearts as at the Provocation, on the day of the Temptation in the desert, ⁹ where your fathers put me to the proof, and for forty years felt what I could do. ¹⁰ Therefore I grew exasperated with that generation, I said, 'They are always astray in their heart': They would not learn my ways; ¹¹ so I swore in my anger, 'they shall never enter my Rest.'

¹⁴ For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started,

¹⁷ And with whom was he exasperated for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

¹¹ Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

²⁴ For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

¹ For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

²³ let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);

²⁵ not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

²⁸ Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. ²⁹ How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ We know who said, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital: and again, The Lord will pass sentence on his people. ³¹ It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³⁷ For in a little, a very little now, The Coming One will arrive without delay.

¹¹ It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it — because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise.

²⁸ It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born. ²⁹ It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea like dry land — and when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned.

³⁵ Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection; ³⁶ others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment — ³⁷ they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated ³⁸ (men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies.

⁴ You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.

¹⁰ As an example of fortitude and endurance, brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.

⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour. ⁶ You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials; ⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹¹ Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

²¹ Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

¹¹ If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

¹⁹ So let those who are suffering by the will of God trust their souls to him, their faithful Creator, as they continue to do right.

⁸ Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour. ⁹ Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

⁶ if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,

⁹ then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

¹⁷ Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

³ it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

⁹ if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared — which makes us sure it is the last hour.

²¹ My dear children, keep clear of idols.

⁵ Now I want to remind you of what you are perfectly aware, that though the Lord once brought the People safe out of Egypt, he subsequently destroyed the unbelieving,

⁷ just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.

¹⁶ For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life — they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

¹⁰ Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

¹⁴ But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

¹⁷ You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' — not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked. ¹⁸ I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see.

²⁰ But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshipping daemons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or stir;

⁸ and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

² And I saw what was like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and, standing beside the sea of glass, those who came off conquerors from the Beast and his statue and the cipher of his name; they had harps of God ³ and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb — "Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations!

¹ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on earth."

¹¹ Then I saw heaven open wide — and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.

⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

¹⁵ Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the Bride: let the hearer too say, "Come"; and let the thirsty come, let anyone who desires it, take the water of Life without price.