1 Pet. 4. 11. k Acts 18. 4, 1 Acts 18. 24, 2 Cor 3 5. 12 Cor. 12. 11. Gal. 6. 3. "Ps. 62 12. ch. 4. 5. P Acts 15. 4. 1 ye believed, even as the Lord A. D. 59. ich. 1. 12. & 4.6 I. CORINTHIANS. All distinctions are from God. 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: and1 every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For Pwe are labourers to gether with God: ye are God's 1 Or, tillage. ing. 1 Eph. 2. 20. Col. 2. 7. Heb. 3. 3,4. 1 Pet. 2. 5. 12.3. Rom. 1.5.& ver. 6 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, Matt. 16. 18. is Jesus Christ. "Is. 28. 16. 2 Cor. 11. 4. Gal. 1. 7. * Eph. 2. 20. 3 ch. 4. 5. 4. 12. which CHAPTER IV. and In what account the ministers ought to be had. 7 We have nothing which we have k2 Cor. 4. 5, 15. 1 Rom. 14. 8. (h. 3. 5. & 9. ET a man so account of L' us, as of athe ministers of Matt. 24. 45. Christ, b and stewards of the mysteries of God. 17 2 Cor 6. 4. Col. 1. 25. 2 Moreover it is required in b Luke 12. 42. stewards, that a man be found faithful. Tit 1.7. 12 Now if any man build upon 13 y Every man's work shall be 21 Pet. 1.7.& made manifest: for the day 2 shall declare it, because ait tshall be revealed by fire; and the fire is revealed. shall try every man's work of what sort it is. a Luke 2. 35. + Gr. b ch. 4. 5. © Jude 23. d ch. 6 19. e Prov. 3. 7. Is. 5. 21. fcl. 1. 20. & 2.6. 3 Job 5. 13. l Ps. 94. 11. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, bhe shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be 16 d Know ye not that ye are 18 Let no man deceive him- 6 And these things, brethren, I h. 1. 12. & have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against ich. 3. 21. & another. 7 For who + maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 5.2, 6. + Gr. distinguisheth thee. John 3 27. James 1. 17. 1 Pet. 4. 10. Rev. 3. 17. Othe last apos ties, as m Ps. 44. 22. 9 For I think that God hath set 10 We are Pfools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; Rom. 8. 36, ch. 15. 30, 31. 2 Cor. 4. 11. & 6. 9. Heb. 10. 33. Gr. theatre. "ch. 2. 3. P Acts 17. 18. & 26, 24. ch 1. 18, &c. & 2. 14. & 3. a Acts 18. 11. Rom. 15 20. ch. 3 6. Gal. 4. 19. Philem. 10. James 1. 18. b ch. 11. 1. Phil. 3. 17. 1 Thess. 1.6. Acts 19. 22. 2 Thess. 3. 9. ch. 16. 10. Phil. 2. 19. 1 Thess. 3. 2. d1 Tim. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 1. 2. e ch. 11.2. f ch. 7. 17. ch. 14. 33. h ch. 5. 2. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but zas my beloved sons I warn you. 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for a in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, bbe ye followers of me. c 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you e into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as If teach every where s in every church. 18 h Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. 19 But I will come to you i Acts 19. 21. shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. ch. 16. 5. 2 Cor. 1. 15, k Acts 18. 21. Rom. 15. 32. Heb. 6. 3. James 4. 15. I ch. 2. 4. 1 Thess. 1. 5. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? m shall I come m2 Cor. 10.2. unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? & 13. 10. a Eph. 5. 3. b Lev. 18.8. Dent. 22, 30 & 27. 20. CHAPTER V. 1 The incestuous person 6 is cause rather of shame unto them, than of rejoicing. 7 The old learen is to be purged out. 10 Heinous offenders are to be shunned and avoided.. Ithere is fornication among you, T is reported commonly that and such fornication as is not so much as a named among the Gentiles, that one should have his b c wife. € 2 Cor. 7. 12. dch. 4. 18. e 2 Cor. 7. 7, 10. If Col. 2. 5. incest reproved. were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, A. D. 59. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with Matt. 16, 19. the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, & 18. 18. John 20. 23. 2 Cor. 2. 10. & 13. 3, 10. h Job 2. 6. Ps. 109. 6. 1 Tim. 1. 20. i Acts 26. 18. 5 h To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6k Your glorying is not good. ver. 2. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? ch. 3. 21. & 4. 19. James 4. 16. Gal. 5. 9. 2 Tim. 2. 17. 7 Purge out therefore the old ch 15. 33. leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even m Christ our a passover ism Is. 53. 7. sacrificed for us: John 1. 29. ch. 15. 3. 1 Pet. 1. 19. Rev. 5, 6, 12. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, Pnot with old leaven, nei-n John 19. 14. ther 4 with the leaven of malice or, and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. is slain. Ex. 12. 15. & 13. 6. 1 Or, holiday. 9 I wrote unto you in an epistler Deut. 16. 3. not to company with fornica-Matt. 16. 6, tors: 12. Mark 8. 15. Luke 12. 1. 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators t of this world, or with See ver.2.7. the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. if 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one y no not to eat. 2 Cor. 6. 14. 8 ch. 10. 27. ch. 1. 20. "John 17.15. 1 John 5. 19. "Matt. 18. 17. Rom. 16. 17. 2 Thess. 3, 6, 14. 2 John 10. 5 Gal. 2. 12. father's wife are puffed up, and D matter against another, go have not rather e mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have determined. I judged already, as though I 1 Or. to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Col. 4. 5. 1 Thess. 4.12. I Tim. 3. 7. ch. 6. 1, 2, 3, 4. ↳ Deut. 13.5. & 17.7. & 21.21. & 22. 21, 22, 24. Against going to law. I. CORINTHIANS. 3 Know ye not that we shall bjudge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Duties of the married state. 18 s Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. Nay, ye do wrong, and de1 Thess. 4.6. fraud, and that your brethren. 9 Know ye not that the unright-a eous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: fneither fornicators, nor idolaters, for adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, fch. 15. 50. Gal. 5. 21. Eph. 5. 5. 1 Tim. 1. 9. Heb. 12. 14. & 13. 4. Rev. 22. 15. 5 ch. 12. 2. Eph. 2. 2. & 4. 22. & 5.8. Col. 3. 7. Tit. 3. 3. h ch. 1. 30. Heb. 10. 22. i ch. 10. 23. 1 Or, profitable. k Matt. 15. 17. Rom. 14. 17. 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the Col. 2. 22, 23. belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; mand the 1 Thess. 4.3, Lord for the body. 1 ver. 15, 19, 20. 7. 14 And a God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that Pyour bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. 16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for a two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. CHAPTER VII. 2 He treateth of marriage, 4 shewing it to be a remedy against fornication: 10 and that the bond thereof ought not lightly to be dissolred. 18, 20 Every man must be content with his vocation. 25 Virginity wherefore to be embraced. 35 And for what respects we may either marry, or abstain from marrying. whereof ye wrote unto me: OW concerning the things It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. A. D. 59. Rom. 6. 12, 13. Rom. 1. 24. 1 Thess. 4.4. ch. 3. 16. 2 Cor. 6. 16, 8. Rom. 14. 7, y Acts 20. 28. 2 Pet. 2. 1. a ver. 8, 26. 1 Pet. 3. 7. 3 b Let the husband render unto b Ex. 21. 10. the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Zech. 7. 3. 15. 5 Defraud ye not one the oth-Joel 2.16. er, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that dSatan di Thess. 3. 5. tempt you not for your incontinency. 6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. ver. 12, 25. 7 For fI would that all men were seven as I myself. h every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, iIt is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But kif they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. Acts 26. 29. gch. 9. 5. h Matt. 19. 12. ch. 12. 11. iver. 1, 26. k1 Tim. 5. 14. 1 See ver. 12, 25,40. 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, m Mal. 2. 14, m Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be recon 16. Matt. 5.32. & 19.6.9. Mark 10. 11. 12. Luke 16. 18. Directions concerning A. D. 59. n ver. 6. • Mal. 2. 15. P Rom. 12.18. & 14. 19. ch. 14. 33. Heb. 12. 14. † Gr. Ich. 4. 17. 2 Cor. 11. 28. I. CORINTHIANS. ciled to her husband: and let not 13 And the woman which hath 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us ptto peace. 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt a save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? the marriage of virgins. I say, that it is good for a man 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. A. D. 59. e ver. 1, 8. 1 Pet. 4. 7. 29 But f this I say, brethren, the f Rom. 13. 11. time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fash- 5 ch. 9. 18. ion of this world passeth away. h Ps. 39. 6. 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things † that belong to the Lord, how 11 Tim. 5. 5. he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. Acts 15. 1,5, uncircumcision? let him not between a wife and a virgin. The 19, 24, 28. Gal. 5. 2. t Gal. 5. 6. & 6. 15. circumcised. + Gr. of the Lord, as ver. 34. &c. 17 But as God hath distributed 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, John 15. 14. but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 22 For he that is called in the 23 z Ye are bought with a price; 25 Now concerning virgins I 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present I distress, 36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. 37 Nevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 381 So then he that giveth her 1 Heb. 13. 4. in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. 39 m The wife is bound by them Rom. 7. 2. 3 But if any man love God, e the same is known of him. 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that fan idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. 5 For though there be that are h called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods h John 10. 34. many, and lords many,) i Mal. 2. 10. Eph. 4. 6. k Acts 17. 28. Rom. 11. 36. 1 John 13. 13. ch. 10. 28, 29. Rom. 14. 14, 23. PRom. 14. 17. 6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, kof whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, mby whom are all things, and we by him. 7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some n with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing of fered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we 1Or, have we eat, lare we the better; neither, if we eat not, Iare we the the more. 1 Or, have we the less. 9 Gal. 5. 13. | Or, power. worse. 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours beRom. 14. 13, come ra stumblingblock to them 20. ch. 10.28, 32. † Gr. edified. tRom. 14. 15, 20. Paul's Christian liberty. shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? A. D. 59. 45. 12 But when ye sin so against "Matt. 25, 40, the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 2 Cor. 11. 29. 13 Wherefore, if meat make Rom. 14.21. my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. CHAPTER IX. 1 He sheweth his liberty, 7 and that the minister ought to live by the gospel: 15 yet that himself hath of his own accord abstained, 18 to be either chargeable unto them, 22 or offensive unto any, in matters indifferent. 24 Our life is like unto a race. a not free?b have I not seen M I not an apostle? am I Acts 9.15. & 13.2. & 26.17. 2 Cor. 12. 12. Gal. 2. 7, 8, 1 Tim. 2. 7. 2 Tim. 1. 11. Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle unto Acts 9.3.17 others, yet doubtless I am to you: for d the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this: & 18.9. & 22. 14, 18. & 23. 11. ch. 15. 8. c ch. 3. 6. & 4. 15. d 2 Cor. 3. 2. & 12. 12. 4 e Have we not power to eat ver. 14. and to drink? 1 Thess. 2. 6. 2 Thess. 3. 9. Or, woman. 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a I wife, as well as other apostles, and as f the breth-Matt. 13 55. ren of the Lord, and & Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? Mark 6, 3. Luke 6, 15. Gal. 1. 19. Matt. 8. 14. h2 Thess. 3.8, 9. 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, m Thou shalt not muzzle Deut. 25. 4. the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that nhe 2 Tim. 2. 6. that plougheth should plough in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11 off we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? Rom. 15. 27. Gal, 6, 6. P Acts 20. 33. ver. 15, 18. 2 Cor. 11. 7, 9. & 12. 13. 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have Thess. 2.6. |