hath done this deed might be taken
away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body,
but present in spirit, have judged
already, as though I were present,
concerning him that hath so done
this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered togethMatt. 16. 19. er, and my spirit, with 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. 1 Acts 26. 18.

k ver. 2 ch.

3. 21. & 4.

19. James

4. 16.

1 ch. 15. 33. Gal. 5, I

2 Tim. 2. 17.

Or, is slain. Or, holiday. m Is. 53. 7. John 1. 29. ch. 15. 3.

1 Pet. 1. 19. Rev. 5. 6, 12.

5 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.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our "passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, "not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread

John 19. 14. of sincerity and truth.

Litigation with brethren.

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.

d

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7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye a Prov. 20. 22. not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: 'neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, por effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Matt. 5. 39, 40. Luke 6. 29. Rom. 12. 17, 19. 1 Thess. 5. 15.

e 1 Thess. 4.

6.

ch. 15, 50. Eph. 5. 5.

Gal. 5. 21.

1 Tim. 1. 9. Heb. 12. 14. & 13. 4. Rev. 22. 15.

g ch. 12. 2. Eph. 2. 2. & 4. 22. & 5. 3. Col. 3. 7. Tit. 3. 3.

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 Spiritch. 1. 30. of our God.

Heb. 10, 22. i ch. 10. 23.

able.

12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: Or, profitall things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Rom. 14. 17. Col. 2. 22, 23,

13 Meats for the belly, and the k Matt. 15. 17. belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the ver. 15, 19, body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

CHAPTER VI.

The apostle reproveth them for going to law with each other before unbelievers, 8 and for defrauding one another. 12 All things are not expedient. 15 Their bodies are the members of Christ, 19 and temples of the Holy Ghost.

ARE any of you, having a mat

before the unjust, and not before the

saints?

14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

20. 1 Thess. 4. 3, 7. m Eph. 5. 23.

n Rom. 6. 5,
2 Cor. 4. 14.

8. & 8. 11.

15 Know ye not that Pyour bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and Ep. 4. 12, make them the members of a harlot ? God forbid.

16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one

flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

15, 16. & 5. 30.

q Gen. 2. 24. Matt. 19. 5. Eph. 5. 31.

r John 17. 21, 22, 23. Eph. 4. 4. & 5, 30. Rom. 6. 12,

4.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; 13. Heb. 13. but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19 What! "know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

t Rom. 1. 21. 1 Thess. 4. 4. u ch 3, 16. 2 Cor. 6. 16.

x Rom. 14. 7, 8.

o Mal. 2. 15.

6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

h

7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But 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, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn.

10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord," Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

12 But to the rest speak I," not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her

away.

13 And the woman which hath a husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

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 & 14. 19. ch. him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us P† to peace.

p Rom. 12. 18.

14. 33. Heb. 12. 14.

+ Gr. in peace.

Directions about virgins.

16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? orthow knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

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+ Gr. schat

q1 Pet. 3. L

17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And 'sor ch. 4. 17. ordain I in all churches.

2 Cor. 11 2

18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the Gal. 5.&& keeping of the commandments of

God.

20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Acts 15 1,5, 19, 24, Gal 5, 2

6.15.

Joba 15. 14. 1 John 2â & S. 24

21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be John 1 made free, use it rather.

Rea, f 1 22. Philem

16.

free.

22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's + free-t Gr. made man likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

y ch. 9. 21.
Gal. 5, 1S.
Eph. 6.6.
1 Pet. 2. 16.
2 ch. 6. 20
1 Pet. 1. 18.
19. See Lev.
25.42.

a ver. 20.

bver. 6, 10,40 2 Cor. & &, 14, 1 Tim. 1. 16. ' 4 ch. 4. 2. 1 Tim. 1. 12

ty.

26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, 1 Or, secessi that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not 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.

e ver. 1, 8.

1 Pet. 4.7.

2 Pet 38,1

29 But this I say, brethren, the Rom. 1 L 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;

Of meats offered to idols.

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Luke 10, 40, &c.

1 Heb. 13. 4.

Im Rom. 7. 2.

0

35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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.

38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will;

n

a 2 Cor. 6. 14. only in the Lord.

D ver. 25.

8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not," are we the worse.

9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be†emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

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o Rom. 14. 14, 23.

I Or, have we the more.

Or, have we the less.

p Rom. 14. 17. I Or, power. q Gal. 5. 13. r Rom. 14. 13, 20.

s ch. 10. 28, 32.

+ Gr. edified.

20.

11 And through thy knowledge Rom. 14. 15, shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

a Acts 15, 20,

29. ch. 10. 19.

b Rom. 14. 14, 22.

e Rom. 14. 3, 10.

4 ch. 13. 8, 9,

CHAPTER VIII.

Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

u Matt. 25. 40, 45.

x Rom. 14. 21. 2 Cor. 11. 29.

a Acts 9. 15. & 13. 2. & 26. 17.

2 Cor. 12. 12. Gal. 2. 7, 8.

1 Tim. 2. 7.

2 Tim. 1. 11.

2 And if any man think that he 12. Gal. 6. 3. knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

1 Tim. 6. 4.

• Ex. 33. 12, 17. Nah. 1.7. Matt. 7. 23. Gl. 4. 9.

2 Tim. 2. 19. f Is. 41. 24. ch. 10. 19.

* Deut. 4. 39. & 6. 4. Is. 44.8. Mark 12. 29. ver. 6. Eph. 4. 6.

1 Tim. 2. 5. b John 10, 34. i Mal. 2. 10. Eph. 4. 6.

k Acts 17. 28.

e

3 But if any man love God, 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 an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as there be gods many, and lords many, Rom. 11. 36. | 6 But to us there is but one God, Or, for him. the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apos-Or, woman. tles, 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 saith not the law the same also?

Paul's great selfdenial.

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Gal. 6. 6.

P Acts 20. 33. ver. 15, 18.

that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

o Rom. 15. 27. | 11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13' Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

2 Cor. 11. 7, 9. & 12. 13. I Thess. 2. 6.

#Or, feed. 42 Cor. 11. 12.

r Lev. 6. 16, 26. & 7. 6, &c. Num. 5.

9, 10. & 18.

8-20. Deut.

t

The danger of idolatry.

Certain miracles in the Old Testament used as types of our sacraments. 5 The punishment of the rebellious Jews a warning to us to avoid the like sins, 15 especially in partaking of the Lord's supper. 24 In things indifferent we must have regard to our brethren and the glory of God.

OREOVER, brethren, I would

Matt. 10. 10. Luke 10. 7.

t Gal. 6. 6.

1 Tim. 5. 17. Acts 18. 3. &

a ver. 12.

15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my x2 Cor. 11.10. glorying void.

20. 34. ch. 4. 12. Thess. 2. 9. 2 Thess. 3. 8.

y Rom. 1. 14.

z ch. 3. 8, 14. a ch. 4. 1. GAL. 2. 7. Phil. 1. 17. Col. 1. 25.

b ch. 10, 33. 2 Cor. 4. 5. & 11. 7.

c ch. 7. 31.

d ver. 1.

e Gal. 5. 13.

f Matt. 18. 15. 1 Pet. 3. 1.

Acts 16. 3. & 18. 18. & 21. 23, &c.

h Gal. 3. 2. i Rom. 2. 12, 14.

k ch. 7. 22.

1 Rom. 15. 1. 2 Cor. 11. 29. m ch. 10. 33. n Rom. 11. 14. ch. 7. 16.

o Gal. 2. 2. &

16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity 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 dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

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

19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, 'that I might gain the

more.

20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to 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 Christ,) 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 save some.

23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker there

5. 7. Phil. 2. of with you.

" Jer. 6. 50

2 Cor. 13 5

6.

a Ex. 13.21
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& 14. 14.
Deut. 1. SS.
Neh. 9. 12,
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14. & 105, 50
b Ex. 14. 2
Num. G. &
Josh. 4. 23.
Ps. 78. 1S.
© Ex. 16. 15
Neh. 9. 15,
20. Ps. 78.
24.

Ex. 17. 6.
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Ps. 78. 15.

Or, went

with them.
Deut. 9, 21.

Ps. 105, 41. e Num 14. 29, 32. $5 & 26.64.63 Ps. 106, Heb. S. 17. Jude 5.

6 Now these things were four examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also re lusted.

figures.

f Num. 11. 4, 53. 34. Ps. 106. 14.

g ver. 14.

7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and Ex. 32, 6. rose up to play.

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and *fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

10 Neither murmur ye, as "some of them also murmured, and destroyed of the destroyer.

were

11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are

come.

12 Wherefore 'let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, "who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

'i ch. 6. 18. Rev. 2 14

Num. 23.1.

Ps. 165. 29

Ex. 17. 2, 7.

Nom 21.5.
Dest. 6. 16
Ps. 18,
5. & 95, 9. &
106. 14.

m Num. 21.6.

n Ex. 16. 2. 1

&17. 2
Num. 14. 2
29. & 16. 41.
• Num. 14.
57. & 16. 49.

Or, types.
PEx 12 3

2 Sami 24 15.
1 Chr. 21. 15.
9 Rom. 15 to
ch. 9. 10.

r ch. 7. 29. Phil. 4. 5. Heb. 10, 23 1 John 2 18 Or, moderate. Rom. 11. 20. t ch. 1. 9.

15 I speak as to wise men; judge John 5. 21. ye what I say.

I ch. 8. 1.

A. D. 59. 16 The cup of blessing which we !

b

Improprieties in worship.

CHAPTER XI.

17 For we being many are one

with their heads covered, and of women with theirs uncovered. 17 He rebuketh them for their divisions, 20 and for profaning the Lord's supper. 23 His account of its institution.

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partakers of that one bread.

18 Behold Israel after the flesh: fare not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice | to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

also of Christ.

am

b

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

с

3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and e the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dis- f John 14. 23. honoureth his head.

ch. 3. 23. & 15. 27, 28. Phil. 2. 7, 8, 9.

23. & 14. 1,
&c.

h Acts 21. 9. Deut. 21. 12.

5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered ch. 12. 10, dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

ak Num. 5. 18.

Deut. 22. 5.

7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is 1 Gen. 1. 26, the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

8 For the man is not of the wo

27. & 5. 1. & 9.6.

m Gen. 2. 21, 22.

| 28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience' sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for "why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for

IT.m. 4.3, 4. which I give thanks?

12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering.

o Gen. 24. 65.

covering, in sign that she is under the poicer of her husband.

p Ecc. 5. 6. q Gal. 3, 28.

Rom. 11. 36.

|| Or, vail. s1 Tim. 6. 4.

t ch. 7. 17. & 14. 33.

16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 17 Now in this that I declare unto you u ch. 1. 10, 11, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, "I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

12. & 3. 3. x Matt. 18. 7. Luke 17. 1. Acts 20, 30.

1 Tim. 4. 1.

2 Pet. 2. 1, 2. Or, schisms.

Or, sects. y Luke 2. 35.

1 John 2. 19. Deut. 13. 3.