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peaceably with all men.

14 Bless them which per- 19 Dearly beloved, fecute you: blefs, and curfe avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, faith the Lord.

15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

16 Be of the fame mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condefcend to men of low eftate. Be not wife in your own

conceits.

17 Recompenfe to no man evil for evil. Provide things honeft in the fight of all men. 18 If it be poffible, as

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20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in fo doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

From the First Epiftle of PAUL to the
CORINTHIANS.

CHAP. III.

ND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto fpiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Chrift.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

3¶For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and ftrife, and divifions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

4 For while one faith, I

am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

7 So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive

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receive his own reward, ac- | temple of God, him fhall

cording to his own labour.
9 For we are labourers
together with God: ye are
God's husbandry, ye are
God's building.

10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wife mafter builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

II For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jefus Chrift.

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, filver, precious flones, wood, hay, ftubble;

13 Every man's work shall be made manifeft. For the day fhall declare it, because it fhall be revealed by fire; and the fire fhall try every man's work of what fort it is.

14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he fhall receive a reward.

15 If any man's work fhall be burned, he fhall fuffer lofs; but he himself fhall be faved; yet fo as by fire.

16 ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

17 If any man defile the

God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you feemeth to be wife in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wife.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wife in their own craftiness.

20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wife that they are vain.

21 Therefore let no man

glory in men. For all things are your's;

22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things prefent, or things to come; all are your's;

23 And ye are Chrift's; and Chrift is God's.

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that do examine me is this,

4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?

5 Have we not power to lead about a fifter, a wife, as well as other apoftles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?.

7¶ Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

8 Say I these things as a man? or faith not the law the fame alfo ?

9 For it is written in the law of Mofes, Thou fhalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

10 Or faith he it altogether for our fakes? for our fakes, no doubt, this is written that he that ploweth fhould plow in hope; and that he that threfheth in hope fhould be partaker of his hope.

11 If we have fown unto you fpiritual things, is it a great thing if we fhall reap your carnal things?

12 If others be partakers

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of this power over you, ar not we rather? nevertheless we have not used this power; but fuffer all things, left we fhould hinder the gofpel of Chrift.

13 Do ye not know that they which minifter about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

14. Even fo hath the Lord. ordained, that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

15 But I have used none of these things neither have I written thefe things that it fhould be fo done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man fhould make my glorying void.

16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for neceffity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me if I preach not, the gospel!

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a difpenfation of the gospel is committed unto me.

18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gofpel of Chrift without charge, that I abufe not my power in the gospel.

not as one that beateth the

19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I air: made myself fervant unto all, that I might gain the

more.

27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into fubjection; left that by any

20 And unto the Jews Imeans, when I have preachbecame as a Jew, that Ied to others, I myself should might gain the Jews; to be a caft-away.

them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

21 To them that are without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but under the law to Chrift, that I might gain them that are without law.

22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means fave fome.

23 And this I do for the gofpel's fake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

24 Know ye not that they which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize? fo run that ye may obtain.

25 And every man that ftriveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

26 I therefore fo run, not as uncertainly; fo fight I,

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CHAP. XIII. HOUGH I fpeak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as founding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and underftand all myfteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4¶ Charity fuffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itfelf, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself unfeemly, feeketh not her own, is not eafily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth 1; 7 Beareth

what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. vain. 8 Charity never faileth: 3 For I delivered unto but whether there be pro- you first of all that which I phecies, they fhall fail; whe-alfo received, how that Chrift ther there be tongues, they died for our fins, according fhall ceafe; whether there to the fcriptures;

be knowledge, it fhall vanish

away.

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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part fhall be done away.

II When I was a child, I fpake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we fee through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then fhall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, thefe three; but the greateft of thefe is charity.

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4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the fcriptures:

5 And that he was feen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6 After that he was feen of above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain unto this prefent, but fome are fallen afleep.

7 After that he was feen of James; then of all the apostles.

8 And laft of all he was feen of me alfo, as of one born out of due time.

9 For I am the least of the apoftles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, becaufe I perfecuted the church of God.

10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

II Therefore whether it were I or they, fo we preach,

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