Hovv S. Paul planted the Church at Corinth, c&obar;tinuing there a yere and an halfe together, vve reade Act. 18. After that, vvhen he vvas at Ephesus Act. 19, about the end of the three yeres that he abode there, he vvrote this first Epistle to the Corinthians. For euen as S. Luke there vvriteth, ^note vvhen these things vvere ended, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had gone ouer Macedonia and Achaia, to goe to Hierusalem: so likevvise doth S. Paul himselfe vvrite here: ^note I vvil come to you in Achaia, when I shal haue gone ouer Macedonia, for I vvill go ouer Macedonia. but I vvil tarie at Ephesus vntil Pentecost,

The matter that he vvriteth of, is not one, as in the Epistle to the Romanes, but diuers. partly such faultes of theirs, as vvere signified vnto him by them that vvere of Chloè 1 Cor. 1, 11. partly such questions as them selues vvrote to him of, And concerning the things that you vvrote to me. 1 Cor. 7, 1. for so vve may (as it seemeth) deuide the Epistle into these tvvo partes. Or, to put al together he vvriteth of eight things: 1 Of certaine Schismes beginning among them, by occasion of certaine preachers, vvhom in the Second Epistle he toucheth more plainely as being False apostles. chap. 1. 2. 3. 4. 2 Of an incestuous fornicator, and some that vvent to lavv before infidel iudges. chap. 5. 6. 3 Of Matrimonie and Continencie. chap. 7. 4 Of meates sacrificed to Idols. chap. 8, 9. 10. 5 Of his Traditions. chap. 11. 6. Of the Giftes of the Holy Ghost. chap. 12. 13. 14. 7 of the Resurrection. chap. 15. 8 of the Contributions that he gathered of the Gentiles, to succour the Christian Ievves at Hierusalem, chap. 16.

THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAVL TO THE CORINTHIANS. Chap. I. ^noteAfter salutation, 4 hauing acknovvledged the graces of their Churche, 10 he dehorteth them from their Schismatical boasting against one an other in their baptizers (telling them that they must boast onely in Christ for their Baptisme) 17 and in their preachers, vvho had the vvisedom of vvordes: telling them that it is the preaching of the Crosse, vvhereby God saueth the vvorld, and vvherein onely Christians should boast: 26 seing God of purpose chose the contemptible, that so him self might haue the glorie.

1   Pavl called to be an Apostle of Iesvs Christ, by the vvil of God, and Sóofthenes a brother,

2   to the Church of God that is at Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Iesvs, called to be saincts, vvith al that inuocate the name of our Lord Iesvs Christ in euery place of theirs and ours.

3   Grace to you and peace from God our father and our Lord Iesvs Christ.

4   I giue thankes to my God alvvaies for you for the grace of God that is giuen you in Christ Iesvs,

5   that in al things you be made riche in him, in al vtterance, and09Q1048in al knovvledge,

6   (as the testimonie of Christ is confirmed in you,)

7   so that nothing is vvanting to you in any grace, expecting the reuelation of our Lord Iesvs Christ,

8   vvho also vvil confirme you vnto the end vvithout crime, in the day of the comming of our Lord Iesvs Christ.

9   God is faithful: by vvhom you are called into the societie of his sonne Iesvs Christ our Lord.

10   And I beseeche you brethren by the name of our Lord Iesvs Christ, that you al say one thing, and that there be no schismes among you: but that you be perfect in one sense, &

in one knovvledge.

11   For it is signified vnto me (my brethren) of you, by them that are of Chloè, that there be contentions among you.

12   And I meane this, for that euery one of you saith, ^note I certes am Paules, & I Apollos, but I Cephas, and I Christs.

13   Is Christ deuided? Vvhy, vvas Paul crucified for you? or in the name of Paul vvere you baptized?

14   I giue God thankes, that I baptized none of you, but ^note Crispus and Caius:

15   lest any man say that in my name you vvere baptized.

16   And I baptized also the house of Stéphanas. But I know not if I haue baptized any other.

17   For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to euangelize: not in vvisedom of speache, that the crosse of Christ be not made void.

18   For the vvord of the crosse, to them in deede that perish, is folishnes: but to them that are saued, that is, to vs, it is the povver of God.

19   For it is vvritten, I vvil destroy the vvisedom of the vvise: and the prudence of the prudent I vvil reiecte. ^note

20   Vvhere is the vvise? vvhere is the Scribe? vvhere is the disputer of this vvorld? Hath not God made the vvisedom of this vvorld folish?

21   For because in the vvisedom of God the vvorld did not by vvisedom knovv God: it pleased God by the folishnes of the preaching to saue them that beleeue.

22   For both the Ievves aske signes, and the Greekes seeke vvisedom:

23   but vve preach Christ crucified, to the Ievves certes a scandal, and to the Gentiles, folishnes:

24   but to the called Ievves & Greekes, Christ the povver of God and the vvisedom of God.

25   For that vvhich is the folish of God, is vviser then men: and that vvhich is the infirme of God, is stronger then men. ^note

26   For see your vocation brethren, that not many vvise according to the flesh, not many mightie, not many noble:

27   but the folish things of the vvorld hath God chosen, that he may confound the vvise: and the vveake things of the vvorld hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong:

28   and the base things of the vvorld and the contemptible hath God chosen, and those things vvhich are not, that he might destroy those things vvhich are:

29   that no flesh may glorie in his sight.

30   And of him you are in Christ Iesvs,09Q1049vvho is made vnto vs vvisedom from God, & iustice, & sanctificati&obar;, and redemption:

31   that as it is vvritten, He that doth glorie, may glorie in our Lord. ^note &cross4;

^{note note} Chap. II. That his ovvne preaching among them, vvas in humble maner in the sight of man. 3 Hovvbeit it is most profound vvisedom (as they should and vvould perceiue, if they vvere not carnal) vvhich is taught in the Church of Christ.

1   And I (brethren) vvhen I came to you, I came not in loftinesse of speache or of vvisedom, preaching to you the testimonie of Christ.

2   For I iudged not my self to knovv any thing among you but Iesvs Christ, and him crucified.

3   And ^note I vvas vvith you in infirmitie, and feare and much trembling:

4   and my speache and my preaching vvas not in the persuasible vvordes of humane vvisedom, but in shevving of spirit and povver:

5   that your faith might not be in the vvisedom of men, but in the povver of God.

5   But vve speake vvisedom among the perfect.

6   but the vvisedom not of this vvorld, neither of the princes of this vvorld, that come to naught:

7   but vve speake the vvisedom of God in a mysterie, which is hid, vvhich God did predestinate before the worlds, vnto our glorie:

8   vvhich none of the princes of this vvorld did knovv: for if they had knovven, they vvould neuer haue crucified the Lord of glorie.

9   But as it is vvritten, That vvhich eie hath not seen, nor eare hath heard, neither hath it ascended into the hart of m&abar;, vvhat things God hath prepared for them that loue him. ^note

10   but to vs God hath reuealed by his Spirit. For the

Spirit searcheth al things, yea the profoundities of God.

11   For vvhat man knovveth the things of a man, but09Q1050the spirit of a man that is in him? so the things also that are of God no man knovveth, but the spirit of God.

12   And vve haue receiued not the spirit of this vvorld, but the spirit that is of God:09Q1051that vve may knovv the things that of God are giuen to vs.

13   vvhich also vve speake not in learned vvordes of humane vvisedom: but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things to the spiritual.

14   But 09Q1052the sensual man perceiueth not those things that are of the spirit of God. for it is folishnes to him, and he can not vnderstand: because he is spiritually examined.

15   But the spiritual man iudgeth al things: and him self is iudged of no man.

16   For ^note vvho hath knovven the sense of our Lord that may instructe him? But vve haue the sense of Christ. ^{note note note}

Chap. III. If they vvil not be carnal stil, they must boast in God only, & not in their preachers, which are but his ministers, 10 and neede to looke vvel hovv they preach: 12 because not al preaching, though it be Catholike, is meritorious: but rather it buildeth matter to be purged by fire, vvhen it is vaine and vnfruitful (as also any other like vvorkes of other Catholikes.) marie if it be heretical, destroying the temple of God, then it vvorketh damnation. 18 The remedie is, to humble them selues and referre al to God.

1   And I, brethren, could not speake to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal. As it vvere to litle ones in Christ,

2   I gaue you ^note milke to drinke, not meate: for you could not as yet, but neither can you novv verely, for yet you are carnal.

3   For vvhereas there is among you emulation and contention, are you not carnal, and vvalke according to man?

4   For when one saith, I certes am Paules, & an other, I Apollos: are you not ^note men? Vvhat is Apollo then? and vvhat is Paul?

5   The ministers of him vvhom you haue beleeued, & to euery one as our Lord hath giuen.

6   I planted, Apollo vvatered: but God gaue the increase.

7   Therfore neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that vvatereth: but he that giueth the increase, God.

8   And he that planteth and he that vvatereth are one. And09Q1053euery one shal receiue his owne reward according to his ovvne labour.

9   For vve are Gods ^{note note} coadiutors: you are Gods husbandrie, you are Gods building.

10   According to the grace that is giuen me, as a vvise vvorkemaster haue I laid the foundation: and an other buildeth therevpon. but let euery one looke hovv he buildeth thereon.

11   For other foundation no man can lay, beside that vvhich is laid: vvhich is Christ Iesvs.

12   And if any man build09Q1054vpon this foundation, gold, siluer, pretious stones, vvood, hay, stubble,

13   the vvorke of euery one09Q1055shal be manifest: for09Q1056the day of our Lord vvil declare, because it shal be reuealed in fire: and the vvorke of euery one of vvhat

kinde it is, the fire shal trie.

14   If any mans vvorke abide, vvhich he built therevpon: he shal receiue revvard.

15   If any mans vvorke burne, he shal suffer detriment: but him self shal be saued: yet so09Q1057as by fire.

16   Knovv you not that you are the temple of God: and the Spirit of God dvvelleth in you?

17   But if any violate the temple of God, God vvil destroy him. For the temple of God is holy: vvhich you are.

18   Let no man seduce him self: if any man seeme to be vvise among you in this world, let him become a foole that he may be vvise.

19   For the vvisedom of this vvorld is folishnes vvith God. For it is vvritten, I vvil compasse the vvise in their subteltie. ^note

20   And againe, Our Lord knovveth the cogitations of the vvise that they be vaine. ^note

21   Let no man therfore glorie in men. For al things are yours:

22   vvhether it be Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the vvorld, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, for al are yours:

23   and you are Christs, and Christ is Gods. ^{note note}

^{note note note} Chap. IIII. He requireth to be esteemed for his office, but regardeth not to be praised of man for his vertue: considering that neither his ovvne conscience is a sufficient iudge thereof, but onely God vvho seeth al. 8. He toucheth them for contemning in their pride, the Apostles them selues as miserable: 18 threatening to come to those proude Falseapostles vvho vvere the authors of al these schismes.

1    ^noteSo let a man esteeme vs as the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.

2   Here novv is required among the dispensers that a man be found faithful.

3   But to me it is a thing of lest account, to be iudged of you, or of mans day: but I iudge not my self neither.

4   For I am not guilty in conscience of any thing:09Q1058but I am not iustified herein: but he that iudgeth me, is our Lord.

5   Therfore iudge not before the time: vntil our Lord do come, vvho also wil lighten the hidd&ebar; things of darkenes, and vvil manifest the counsels of the hartes: & then the praise shal be to euery man of God. &cross4;

6   But these things, brethren, ^note I haue transfigured into my self and Apollo, for you: that in vs you may learne, one not to be puffed vp against an other, aboue that is vvritten.

7   For vvho discerneth thee? Or vvhat hast thou that thou hast not receiued? And if thou hast receiued, what doest thou glorie as though thou hast not receiued?

8   Now you are filled, now are you become riche: without vs you reigne: & I would to God you did reigne, that vve also might reigne vvith you.

9    ^noteFor I thinke that God hath shevved vs Apostles the last, as it vvere deputed to death: because ^note vve are made a spectacle to the vvorld, and to Angels and men.

10   Vve are fooles for Christ: but you vvise in Christ. vve vveake: but you strong. you noble, but vve base.

11   Vntil this houre we doe both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are beaten vvith buffets, and are vvanderers,

12   and labour vvorking vvith our ovvne handes. vve are cursed: and do blesse. vve are persecuted: and susteine it.

13   vve are blasphemed: and vve beseeche. vve are made the refuse of this vvorld, the drosse of al euen vntil novv.

14   Not to confound you, do I vvrite these things: but as my deerest children I admonish you. &cross4;

15   For ^note if you haue ten thousand pædagoges in Christ: yet not many fathers. For in Christ Iesvs by the Gospel I begat you. &cross4;

16   I beseeche you therfore be folovvers of me.

17   Therfore haue I sent to you Timothee, vvho is my deerest sonne and faithful in our Lord: vvho vvil put you in minde of my vvaies that are in Christ Iesvs, as euery vvhere in euery Church I teach.

18   As though I vvould not come to you, so certaine are puffed vp.

19   But I vvil come to you quickly, if our Lord vvil: and vvil knovv not the vvordes

of them that be puffed vp, but the povver.

20   For the kingdom of God is not in vvordes, but in povver.

21   Vvhat vvil you?09Q1059in rodde that I come to you: or in charitie, and the spirit of mildnes? ^{note note} Chap. V. ^noteSharply rebuking their Clergies negligence, 3 him self absent excommunicateth that publike incestuous person: 6 commaunding that hereafter no Christian be so tolerated in any open crime, but excommunicated.

1   There is plainely heard fornication among you, and such fornication, as the like is not among the heathen, so that one hath his ^note fathers vvife.

2   And you are puffed vp: and ^note haue not mourned rather, that he might be taken avvay from am&obar;g you, that hath done this deede.

3   09Q1060I in deede absent in body, but present in spirit, haue already iudged, as present, him that hath so done,

4   in the name of our Lord Iesvs Christ, 09Q1061you being gathered together and my spirit,09Q1062vvith the vertue of our Lord Iesvs

5   to deliuer such an one09Q1063to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saued in the day of our Lord Iesvs Christ.

6   Your glorying is not good. Knovv you not that a litle leauen corrupteth the vvhole paste?

7   Purge the old leauen, that you may be a nevv paste, as you are azymes. For our Pasche, Christ, is immolated. ^note

8   Therfore09Q1064let vs feast, not in the old leauen, nor in the leauen of malice and vvickednes, but in the azymes of sinceritie and veritie. &cross4;

9   I vvrote to you in ^note an epistle, Not to keepe companie vvith fornicatours.

10   I meane not the fornicatours of this

vvorld, or the couetous, or the extorsioners, or seruers of Idols: othervvise you should haue gone out of this vvorld.

11   But novv I vvrote to you, not to keepe companie, if he that is named a brother, be a fornicatour, or a couetous person, or ^note a seruer of Idols, or a railer, or a drunkarde, or an extorsioner: vvith such an one09Q1065not so much as to take meate.

12   For vvhat is it to me to iudge of them that are vvithout? Do not you iudge of them that are vvithin?

13   for them that are vvithout, God vvil iudge. Take away09Q1066the euil-one from among your selues. ^{note note note note note note}

^note Chap. VI. He rebuketh them for going to lavv before Iudges that vvere not Christians, 9 telling that extorsion (as many other offenses likevvise) is a mortal sinne. 12 And vvith diuers reasons he inueigheth against fornication, bidding also to flee al occasion thereof.

1   Dare any of you hauing a matter against an other, to be iudged before the vniust, and not before the saincts?

2   Or knovv you not that ^note the saincts shal iudge of the vvorld? And if the vvorld shal be iudged by you: are you vnvvorthie to iudge of the lest things?

3   Knovv you not that vve shal iudge Angels? hovv much more secular things?

4   If therfore you haue secular iudgements: the contemptible that are in the Church, set them to iudge.

5   I speake to your shame. So is there not among you any vvise man, that can iudge betvvene his brother?

6   but brother vvith brother 09Q1067contendeth in iudgement: and that before infidels?

7   Novv certes there is plainely09Q1068a fault in you, that you haue iudgements am&obar;g you. Vvhy do you not rather take vvrong? vvhy do you not rather suffer fraude?

8   But your selues doe vvrong and defraude: and that to the brethren.

9   Knovv you not that the vniust shal not possesse the kingdom of God? Do not erre, Neither fornicatours, nor ^note seruers of Idols, nor aduouterers, nor the effeminat, nor the liers vvith mankinde,

10   nor theeues, nor the couetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extorsioners shal possesse the kingdom of God.

11   And these things certes you vvere: but you are vvashed, but you are sanctified, but you are iustified in the name of our Lord Iesvs Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

12   Al things are lavvful for me, but al things are not expedient. Al things are lavvful for me, but I vvil be brought vnder the povver of none.

13   The meate to the belly, and

the belly to the meates: but God vvil destroy both it and them: and the body not to fornication, but to our Lord, and our Lord to the body.

14   But God both hath raised vp our Lord, and vvil raise vp vs also by his povver.

15   Knovv you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking therfore the members of Christ, shal I make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16   Or knovv you not, that he which cleaueth to an harlot, is made one body? For they shal be, saith he, tvvo in one flesh. ^note

17   But he that cleaueth to our Lord, is one spirit.

18   Flee fornication. Euery sinne vvhatsoeuer a man doeth, is vvithout the body: but he that doth fornicate, sinneth ^note against his ovvne body.

19   Or knovv you not that your members are the temple of the holy Ghost vvhich is in you, vvhom you haue of God, and you are not your ovvne?

20   For you are bought vvith a great price. Glorifie and beare God in your body. ^{note note} Chap. VII. ^noteThat maried folke may aske their debt, and must pay it, though it be better for them to conteine, 8 as also for the vnmarried and vvidovves to continevv single, though they may marrie. 10 That the married may not depart from one an other (nor in any case marrie an other, during the life of the former) 12 vnles it be from one that is vnbaptized, vvhich yet he dissuadeth: 17 counseling also euery one to be content vvith his state vvherein he vvas Christened. 25 Virginitie is not commaunded, but counseled as the better and more meritorious then Mariage, 39 as also vvidovvhod.

1   And concerning the things vvhereof you vvrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a vvoman.

2   But because of fornication let euery man haue09Q1069his ovvne vvife, and let euery vvoman haue her ovvne husband.

3   09Q1070Let the husband ^note render his dette to the vvife: and the vvife also in like maner to her husband.

4   The vvoman hath not povver of her ovvne body: but her husband. And in like maner the man also hath not povver of his ovvne body: but the vvoman.

5   Defraude not one an other, except perhaps by consent for a time, ^note that you may09Q1071giue your self ^note to praier: and returne againe together, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinencie. ^note

6   But I say this09Q1072by indulgence, not by commaundement.

7   For I vvould al men to be as my self: but euery one hath09Q1073a proper gift of God: one so, and an other so.

8    ^noteBut I say to the vnmaried and to vvidovves: it is good for them if they so abide euen as I also.

9   But09Q1074if they doe not conteine them selues, let them marie. For it is09Q1075better to marie then ^note to be burnt.

10   But to them that be ioyned in matrimonie, not I giue commaundement, but our Lord, ^note that the vvife depart not from her husband:

11   and if she depart,09Q1076to remaine vnmaried, or to be rec&obar;ciled to her husband. And let not the husband put avvay his vvife.

12   For to the rest,09Q1077I say, not our Lord. If any brother haue a vvife an infidel, and she consent to dvvel with him: let him not put her avvay.

13   And if any vvoman haue a husband an infidel, and he consent to dvvel vvith her: let her not put avvay her husband.

14   For the man an infidel is sanctified by the faithful vvoman: and the vvoman an infidel09Q1078is sanctified by the faithful husband: otherwise your children should be vncleane: but novv they are holy.

15   But if the infidel depart, let him depart. for the brother or sister is not subiect to seruitude in such. but in peace hath God called vs.

16   For how knowest thou woman, if thou shalt saue thy husb&abar;d? or how knowest thou man, if thou shalt saue the vvoman?

17   But to euery one as our Lord hath deuided, as God hath called euery one, so let him vvalke, and as in al Churches I teach.

18   Is any man called being circumcised? let him not procure prepuce. Is any man called in prepuce? let him not be circumcised.

19   Circumcision is nothing, and prepuce is nothing:09Q1079but the obseruation of the commaundements of God.

20   Euery one in the vocation that he vvas called, in it let him abide.

21   Vvast thou called being a bondman? care not for it: but and if thou canst be made free, vse it rather.

22   For he that in our Lord is called, being a bondman, is the ^note franchised of our Lord. likevvise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.

23   You vvere bought vvith price, be not made the ^note b&obar;dmen of men.

24   Euery ^note brother vvherein he vvas called, in that let him abide before God.

25   And as concerning virgins, a commaundement of our Lord I haue not: but09Q1080counsel I giue, as hauing obteined mercie of our Lord to be faithful. ^note

26   I thinke therfore that this is good for the present necessitie, because it is good for a man so to be.

27   Art thou tied to a vvife? seeke not to be loosed. Art thou loose from a vvife? seeke not a vvife.

28   But if thou take a vvife, ^note thou hast not sinned. And09Q1081if a virgin marie, she hath not sinned. neuerthelesse09Q1082tribulation of the flesh shal such haue. but I spare you.

29   This therfore I say brethren, the time is short, it remaineth, that they also which haue vviues, be09Q1083as though they had not:

30   and they that vveepe, as though they vvept not: and they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that bye, as though they possessed not:

31   and they that vse this vvorld, as though they vsed it not. for the figure of this vvorld passeth avvay.

32   But I vvould haue you to be vvithout carefulnes. He that is without a vvife, is09Q1084careful for the things that pertaine to our Lord, how he may please God.

33   But he that is vvith a vvife, is careful for the things that pertaine to the vvorld, hovv he may please his vvife: and he is deuided.

34   And the vvoman vnmaried & the virgin, thinketh on the things that pertaine to our Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. &cross4; But she that is maried, thinketh on the things that pertaine to the vvorld, hovv she may please her husband.

35   And this I speake to your profit: not to cast a snare vpon you, but to that vvhich is honest, & that may giue you povver vvithout impediment to attend vpon our Lord.

36   But if any man thinke that he seemeth dishonoured vpon his virgin, for that she is past age, and if it must so be, let him doe that he vvil. He sinneth not if she marie.

37   For he that hath determined in his hart being settled, not hauing necessitie, but

hauing povver of his ovvne vvil, and hath iudged this in his hart, to keepe his virgin, doeth vvel.

38   Therfore both he that ioyneth his virgin in matrimonie, doeth vvel: & he that ioyneth not, doeth better.

39    ^noteA vvoman is bound to the lavv so long time as her husband liueth: but if her husband sleepe, she is at libertie: let her marie to vvhom she vvil: only in our Lord.

40   But ^note more blessed shal she be, if she so remaine, according to my counsel. and I thinke that I also haue the Spirit of God. ^{note note note note note}

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Chap. VIII. ^noteHe rebuketh the learned vvho in pride of their knovvledge did eate Idolothyta, that is things offered to Idols, vsing (as they said) their libertie: but not considering that the ignorant tooke their doing as an example for them to frequent such meates so, as they did before in their Paganisme, vvith opinion that they did sanctifie the eaters.

1   And concerning those things that are sacrificed to Idols, vve knovv that09Q1086vve al haue knovvledge. ^noteKnovvledge puffeth vp: but charitie edifieth.

2   And if any man thinke that he knoweth something, he hath not yet knovven, as he ought to knovv.

3   But if any man loue God, the same is knovven of him.

4   But as for the meates that are immolated to Idols, vve knovv that an Idol is nothing in the vvorld, and that there is no God, but one.

5   For although there be that are called gods, either in heauen, or in earth (for there are many gods, and many lordes)

6   yet to vs there is one God, the Father, of vvhom al things, and vve vnto him: and one Lord, Iesvs Christ, by vvhom al things, and vve by him.

7   But there is not knovvledge in al. For 09Q1087some vntil this presentvvith a conscience of the Idol, eate as a thing sacrificed to Idols: and their conscience being vveake, is polluted.

8   But meate doth not commend vs to God. For neither if vve eate, shal vve abound: nor if vve eate not, shal vve lacke.

9   But take heede lest perhaps this your libertie be an offense to the vveake.

10   For if a man see him that hath knovvledge, sit at table09Q1088in the Idols temple: shal not his conscience, being vveake, be edified, to eate things sacrificed to Idols?

11   And through thy knovvledge shal the ^note vveake brother perish, for whom Christ hath died?

12   But sinning thus against the brethren, and striking their vveake conscience: you sinne against Christ.

13   Vvherfore if ^note meate scandalize my brother: I vvil neuer eate flesh, lest I scandalize my brother. ^note

^{note note} Chap. IX. To them that so vaunted their libertie about Idolothyta, he bringeth his ovvne example, to vvit, that he also had libertie to liue by the Gospel, but yet that he vsed it not, so to auoid scandal of the infirme, and because it vvas more meritorious. 24 Declaiming against their securitie, and shevving them by similitudes and examples, 24 both of him self, 1 And of the Israelites, that saluation is not so lightly come by: 14 and so concludeth againe against eating of Idolothyta, because it is also to commit idolatrie, 22 and not onely to giue il example to the infirme.

1   Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Haue I not seen Christ Iesvs our Lord? Are not you 09Q1089my vvorke in our Lord?

2   And if to others I be not an Apostle, but yet to you I am. for you are the seale of my Apostleship in our Lord.

3   my defense to them that examine me is this:

4   Haue not vve povver to eate and drinke?

5   Haue vve not povver to lead about09Q1090a vvoman a sister, as also the rest of the Apostles, and our Lordes brethren, and ^note Cephas?

6   Or I only and Barnabas haue not vve povver to doe this?

7   09Q1091Vvho euer plaieth the souldiar at his ovvne charges? Vvho planteth a vine, and eateth not of the fruite thereof? Vvho feedeth a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke?

8   Speake I these things according to man? Or doth not the Lavv also say these things?

9   For it is vvritten in the Lavv of Moyses, Thou shalt not moosel the mouth of the oxe that ^note treadeth out the corne. ^note Vvhy, hath God care of oxen?

10   Or for vs certes doth he say it? For they are vvritten for vs because he that eareth,

ought to eare in hope: and he that treadeth, in hope to receiue fruite.

11   If vve haue sovven vnto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if vve reape your carnal things?

12   If other be partakers of your povver: vvhy not vve rather? Hovvbeit vve haue not vsed, this povver: but vve beare al things, lest vve should giue any offence to the Gospel of Christ.

13   Knovv you not ^note that they which vvorke in the holy place, eate the things that are of the holy place: and they that serue ^{note note} the altar, participat with the altar?

14   So also our Lord ordained for them that preach the Gospel, to liue of the Gospel.

15   But I haue vsed none of these. Neither haue I vvritten these things, that they should be so done in me: for it is good for me to die rather, then that any man should make my glorie void.

16   For and09Q1092if I euangelize, it is no glorie to me: for necessitie lieth vpon me: for vvoe is to me if I euangelize not.

17   For if I doe this vvillingly, I haue revvard: but if against my vvil, a charge is committed to me.

18   Vvhat is my revvard then? That preaching the Gospel, I yeld the Gospel vvithout cost, that I abuse not my povver in the Gospel.

19   For vvhereas I vvas free of al, I made my self the seruant of al: that I might gaine the moe.

20   And I became to the Ievves as a Ievv, that I might gaine the Ievves.

21   to them that are vnder the Lavv, as though I vvere vnder the Lavv (vvhereas my self vvas not vnder the Lavv) that I might gaine them that vvere vnder the Lavv. to them that vvere vvithout the Lavv, as though I vvere vvithout the Lavv (vvhereas I vvas not vvithout the lavv of God, but vvas in the lavv of Christ) that I might gaine them that vvere vvithout the Lavv.

22   To the vveake I became weake, that I might gaine the weake. To al men ^note I became al things, that I might saue al.

23   And I doe al things for the Gospel, 09Q1093that I may be made partaker thereof.

24   Knovv you not that they that runne in the race, al r&ubar;ne in deede, but one receiueth the price? ^note 09Q1094So runne that you may obteine

25   And euery one that striueth for the maistrie, refraineth him self from al things: and they certes, that they may receiue a corruptible crovvne: but vve an incorruptible.

26   I therfore so runne, not as it vvere at an vncertaine thing: so I fight, not as it vvere beating the aire:

27   but09Q1095I chastise my body, and bring it into seruitude,09Q1096lest perhaps vvhen I haue preached to others, my self become reprobate.

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1   For I vvil not haue you ignorant brethren, that our fathers vvere al ^note vnder the cloude, & al ^note passed through the sea,

2   and al in Moyses vvere baptized in the cloude and in the sea:

3   and ^note al did eate 09Q1097the same spiritual foode,

4   and al ^note drunke the same spiritual drinke (and they ^note drunke of the spiritual rocke that folovved them, and the rocke vvas Christ,)

5   but in the more part of them God vvas not vvel pleased. &cross4; for they ^note vvere ouerthrovven in the desert. ^note

6   And these things vvere done in a figure of vs, that vve be not coueting euil things, as ^note they also coueted.

7   Neither become ye Idolaters, as certaine of them: as is vvritten: The people sate dovvne to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play. ^note

8   Neither let vs fornicate, ^note as certaine of them did fornicate, and there fel in one day three and tvventie thousand.

9   Neither let vs tempt Christ: as certaine of them tempted, and ^note perished by the serpents.

10   Neither doe you murmure: as ^note certaine of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

11   And al these things chaunced to them in figure: but they are vvritten to our correption, vpon vvhom the endes of the vvorld are come.

12   Therfore he that thinketh him self to stand, let him take heede ^note lest he fall.

13    ^noteLet not tentation apprehend you, but humane and God is faithful, vvho vvil not suffer you to be tempted aboue that vvhich you are able: but vvil make also vvith tentation ^note issue, that you may be able to susteine. &cross4;

14   For the vvhich cause, my deerest, flee from the seruing of Idols.

15   I speake09Q1098as to vvise men: your selues iudge vvhat I say.

16   The chalice of benediction09Q1099vvhich vve do blesse: is it not the c&obar;munication of the bloud of Christ? and the bread vvhich vve breake, is it not09Q1100the participation of the body of our Lord?

17   For being many, vve are09Q1101one bread, one body, al that participate of one bread.

18   Behold Israël according to the flesh:09Q1102they that eate the hostes, are they not partakers of the altar?

19   Vvhat then? do I say that that vvhich is immolated to Idols, is any thing? or that the Idol is any thing?

20   But the things that the heathen do immolate, to deuils they do immolate, and not to God. And09Q1103I vvil not haue you become fellovves of deuils.

21   09Q1104You can not drinke the chalice of our Lord, and the chalice of deuils:

you can not be09Q1105partakers of the table of our Lord, and of the table of deuils.

22   Or do vve emulate our Lord? Vvhy, are we stronger then he?

22   09Q1106Al things are lavvful for me, but al things are not expedient.

23   Al things are lavvful for me, but al things do not edifie.

24   Let no man seeke his ovvne, but an other mans.

25   Al that is sold in the shambles, eate: asking no question for conscience.

26   The earth is our Lordes, and the fulnes thereof. ^note

27   If any inuite you of the infidels, and you vvil goe: eate of al that is set before you, asking no question for conscience.

28   But if any man say, This is immolated to Idols: do not eate for his sake that shevved it, and for conscience:

29   conscience I say not thine but the others. For vvhy is my libertie iudged of an other mans conscience?

30   If I participate vvith thankes: vvhy am I blasphemed for that vvhich I giue thankes for?

31   Therfore vvhether you eate, or drinke, or do any other thing: doe al things vnto the glorie of God.

32   Be vvithout offense to the Ievves and to the Gentiles, and to the Church of God:

33   as I also in al things doe please al men, not seeking that vvhich is profitable to my self, but vvhich is to many: that they may be saued. ^{note note note}

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^note Chap. XI. ^noteHe commendeth them for keeping his Traditions generally. 3 and in particular for this, that a man praied and prophecied bareheaded, a vvoman veiled, he bringeth many reasons. 17 About another, he reprehendeth the riche that at the Charitable supper supped vncharitably, 23 telling them that they receiued therfore vnvvorthely the B. Sacrament, and shevving them vvhat an heinous sinne that is, seeing it is our Lordes body and the representation of his death, as he by tradition had taught them.

1   Be ye folovvers of me, as I also of Christ.

2   And I praise you brethren, that in al things you be mindeful of me: and as I haue deliuered vnto you, you keepe09Q1108my ^note precepts.

3   And I vvil haue you knovv, that the head of euery man, is Christ: and the head of the vvoman, is the man: and the head of Christ, is God.

4   Euery man praying or prophecying vvith his head couered: dishonesteth his head.

5   But09Q1109euery vvoman praying or prophecying vvith her head not couered: dishonesteth her head: for it is al one as if she vvere made balde.

6   For if a vvoman be not couered, let her be polled. but if it be a foule thing for a vvoman to be polled or made balde: let her couer her head.

7   The man truely ought not to couer his head, because he is the image and glorie of God, but the vvoman is the glorie of the man.

8   For the man is not of the vvoman, but the vvoman of the man.

9   For ^note the man vvas not created for the vvoman, but the vvoman for the man.

10   (Therfore ought the vvoman to haue povver vpon her head for the Angels.)

11   But yet neither the man vvithout the vvoman: nor the vvoman vvithout the man, in our Lord.

12   For as the vvoman is of the man, so also the man by the vvoman: but al things of God.

13   Your selues iudge: doth it become a vvoman not couered to pray vnto God?

14   Neither doth nature it self teache you, that a man in deede if he nourish his heare, it is an ignominie for him:

15   but if a vvoman nourish her heare, it is a glorie for her, because heare is giuen her for a veile?

16   But if any man seeme to be contentious, vve haue no such09Q1110custome, nor the ^note Chvrch of God.

17   And this I commaund: not praising it that you come together not to better, but to vvorse. ^note

18   First in deede vvhen you come together into the Church, I heare that there are schismes among you, and in part I beleeue it.

19   For09Q1111there must be heresies also: that they also vvhich are approued, may be made manifest among you.

20   Vvhen you come therfore together in one,09Q1112is it not novv to eate09Q1113our Lordes supper.

21   For euery one taketh his ovvne supper before to eate. And one certes is an hungr&ebar;d, and an other is drunke.

22   Vvhy, haue you not houses to eate and drinke in? or contemne ye the Church of God: and confound them that haue not? Vvhat shal I say to you? praise I you in this? I do not praise you.

23    ^noteFor I receiued of our Lord that vvhich also09Q1114I haue deliuered vnto you, ^note that our Lord Iesvs09Q1115in the night that he vvas betraied,09Q1116tooke09Q1117bread: ^note

24   and giuing thankes brake, and said:09Q1118Take ye & eate,09Q1119THIS IS09Q1120MY BODY VVHICH SHAL BE DELIVERED FOR YOV:09Q1121this doe ye for

the commemoration of me.

25   In like maner also the chalice after he had supped, saying, This chalice is the nevv testament in my blovd. this doe ye, as often as you shal drinke, for the c&obar;memoration of me.

26   For as often as you shal eate this bread, and drinke the chalice, 09Q1122you shal shevv the death of our Lord, vntil he come.

27   Therfore vvhosoeuer shal eate this bread, or drinke the chalice of our Lord vnvvorthily, he shal be09Q1123guilty of the body and of the bloud of our Lord.

28   But09Q1124let a man proue him self: and so, let him eate of that bread, and drinke of the chalice.

29   For he that eateth and drinketh vnvvorthily: eateth and drinketh iudgement to him self,09Q1125not discerning the body of our Lord. &cross4;

30   Therfore are there among you many weake and feble, and09Q1126many sleepe.

31   But if vve did09Q1127iudge our selues: vve should not be iudged.

32   But vvhiles vve are iudged, of our Lord vve are chastised: that vvith this world vve be not damned. &cross4;

33   Therfore my brethren, vvhen you come together to eate,09Q1128expect one an other.

34   If any man be an hungred, let him eate at home: that you come not together vnto iudgement. And the rest09Q1129I vvil dispose, vvhen I come. ^{note note note note}

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^{note note note note} Chap. XII. ^noteThey must not make their diuersitie of Giftes an occasion of Schisme, considering that al are of one Holy Ghost, and for the profit of the one body of Christ vvhich is the Church: 12 Vvhich also could not be a body, vvithout such varietie of members. 12 Therfore neither they that haue the inferiour giftes, must be discontent, seing it is Gods distribution: nor they that haue the greater, contemne the other, considering they are no lesse necessarie: 25 but al in al ioyne together, 28. and euery one knovv his ovvne place.

1    ^noteAnd concerning spiritual things, I vvil not haue you ignor&abar;t, brethren.

2   You know that vvhen you vvere heathen, you vvent to dumme Idols according as you vvere ledde.

3   Therfore I doe you to vnderstand that no m&abar; speaking in the Spirit of God, faith anáthema to Iesvs. And no man can say, Our Lord Iesvs: but in the holy Ghost.

4   And there are diuisions of graces, but one Spirit.

5   And there are diuisions of ministrations: but one Lord.

6   And there are diuisions of operations, but one God, vvhich vvorketh al in al.

7   And the manifestation of the Spirit is giuen vnto euery one to profit.

8   To one certes by the Spirit is giuen ^note the vvord of vvisedom: and to an other, the vvord of knovvledge according to the same Spirit:

9   to an other, 09Q1130faith in the same Spirit: to an other, the grace of doing cures in one Spirit:

10   to an other, the vvorking of miracles: to an other, prophecie: to an other, discerning of spirites: to an other, kindes of tonges: to an other, interpretation of languages.

11   And al these things vvorketh one and the same Spirit, diuiding to euery one according as he vvil. &cross4;

12   For ^note as the body is one, and hath many members, and al the members of the body vvhereas they be many, yet are ^note one body: so also Christ.

13   For in one Spirit vvere vve al baptized into ^note one, vvhether Ievves, or Gentiles, or bondmen, or free: and in one Spirit vve vvere al made to drinke.

14   For the body also is not one member, but many.

15   09Q1131If the foote should say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therfore not of the body?

16   And if the eare should say, because I am not the eie, I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body?

17   If the vvhole body vvere the eie: vvhere is the hearing? If the vvhole vvere the hearing: vvhere is the smelling?

18   But novv God hath set the members, euery one of them in the body as he vvould.

19   And if al vvere one member, vvhere vvere the body?

20   But novv there are many members in deede, yet one body. And the eie can not say to the hand: I neede not thy helpe. or againe the head to the feete, You are not necessarie for me.

21   But much more those that seeme to be the more vveake members of the body, are more necessarie:

22   and such as vve thinke to be the baser members of the body, vpon them vve put more aboundant honour: and those that are our vnhonest partes, haue more aboundant honestie.

23   And our honest partes neede nothing: but God hath tempered the body, giuing to it that vvanted, the more aboundant honour,

24   that there might be no09Q1132schisme in the body, but the members together might be careful one for an other.

25   And if one member suffer any thing, al the members suffer vvith it. or if one member do glorie, al the members reioyce vvith it.

26   And you are the body of Christ, and members of member.

27   And ^note some verily God hath set in the Church first Apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly doctors, next miracles, th&ebar; the graces of doing cures, helpes, gouernements, kindes of tonges.

28   Are al Apostles? are al prophets? are al doctors?

29    ^noteare al miracles? haue al the grace of doing cures? do al speake vvith tonges? do al interpret?

30   But pursue the better giftes. And yet I shevv you a more excellent vvay. ^{note note note} Chap. XIII. That aboue al other Giftes they should seeke after Charitie: as that vvithout vvhich nothing profiteth, 4 and vvhich doth al as is to be done, and remaineth also in heauen.

1    ^noteIf I speake vvith the tonges of men and of Angels, and haue09Q1133not charitie: I am become as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.

2   And if I should haue prophecie, and knevv al mysteries, and al knovvledge, and if I should ^note haue al faith so that I could remoue mountaines, and haue not charitie, I am nothing.

3   And if I should distribute al my goods to be meate for the poore, and if I should09Q1134deliuer my body so that I burne, and haue not charitie, it doth profit me nothing.

4   Charitie is patient, is benigne: Charitie enuieth not, dealeth not peruersly: is not puffed vp,

5   is not ambitious, seeketh not her ovvne, is not prouoked to anger, thinketh not euil:

6   reioyceth not vpon iniquitie, but reioyceth

vvith the truth:

7   suffereth al things, beleeueth al things, hopeth al things, beareth al things.

8   Charitie neuer falleth avvay: vvhether prophecies shal be made voide, or tonges shal cease, or knovvledge shal be destroied.

9   For in part vve knovv, and in part vve prophecie.

10   But ^note vvhen that shal come that is perfect, that shal be made voide that is in part.

11   Vvhen I vvas a litle one, I spake as a litle one, I vnderstood as a litle one, I thought as a litle one. But vvhen I vvas made a man, I did avvay the things that bel&obar;ged to a litle one.

12   Vve see novv by a glasse in a darke sort: but then face to face. Novv I knovv in part: but then I shal knovv as also I am knovven.

13   And novv there remaine, faith, hope, charitie, 09Q1135these three. but the ^note greater of these is charitie. ^{note note note} Chap. XIIII. Against their vaine childishnes, that thought it a goodly matter to be able to speake (by miracle) strange languages in the Church, ^note preferring their languages before prophecying, that is, opening of Mysteries: he declareth that this Gift of languages is inferior to the Gift of prophecie. 26 Giuing order also hovv both giftes are to be vsed, to vvit, the Prophet to submit him self to other Prophets: and the Speaker of languages not to publish his inspiration, vnles there be an interpreter. 34 Prouided alvvaies, that vvomen speake not at al in the Church.

1   Folovv Charitie, earnestly pursue spiritual things: but09Q1136rather that you may prophecie.

2   For he that speaketh vvith tongue, speaketh09Q1137not to men, but to God: for no man heareth. But in spirit he speaketh mysteries.

3   For he that prophecieth, speaketh to men vnto edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

4   He that speaketh vvith tongues, edifieth him self: but he that prophecieth, edifieth the Church.

5   And I would haue you al to speake vvith tongues, but rather to prophecie. For greater is he that prophecieth, then he that speaketh vvith tongues: vnlesse perhaps he interpret, that the Church may take edification.

6   But novv brethren09Q1138if I come to you speaking vvith tongues: vvhat shal I profit you, vnlesse I speake to you either in reuelation, or in knovvledge, or in prophecie, or in doctrine?

7   Yet the things vvithout life that giue a sound, be it pipe or harpe, vnlesse they giue a distinction of so&ubar;des, hovv shal that be knovven which is piped, or which is harped?

8   For09Q1139if the trumpet giue an vncertaine voice, vvho shal prepare him self to battel?

9   So you also by a t&obar;gue vnlesse you vtter manifest speach, hovv shal that be knovven that is said? for you shal be speaking into the aire.

10   There are (for example) so many kindes of tongues in this vvorld, & none is vvithout voice.

11   If then I knovv not the vertue of the voice, I shal be to him to vvhom I speake, barbarous: and he that speaketh, barbarous to me.

12   So you also, because you be emulators of spirites: seeke to abound vnto the edifying of the Church.

13   And therfore he that speaketh vvith the tongue,09Q1140let him pray that he may interpret.

14   For if I pray vvith the tongue,09Q1141my spirit praieth, but my vnderstanding is vvithout fruite.

15   Vvhat is it then? I vvil pray in the spirit, I vvil pray also in the vnderstanding: I vvil sing in the spirit, I vvil sing also in the vnderstanding.

16   But if thou blesse in the spirit: he that supplieth the place ^{note note} of the vulgar hovv shal he say, Amen, vpon thy blessing? because he knovveth not vvhat thou saiest.

17   For thou in deede giuest thankes vvel: but the other is not edified.

18   I giue my God thankes, that I speake ^note vvith the tongue of you al.

19   But in the Church I vvil speake fiue vvordes vvith my vnderstanding that I may instruct

others also: rather then ten thousand vvordes in a tongue.

20   Brethren, be not made children in sense, but in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

21   In the Lavv it is vvritten, That in other tongues and other lippes I vvil speake to this people: and neither so vvil they heare me, saieth our Lord. ^note

22   Therfore languages are for09Q1142a signe not to the faithful, but to infidels: but prophecies, not to infidels, but to the faithful.

23   If therfore the vvhole Church come together in one, and al speake with tongues, and there enter in vulgar persons or09Q1143infidels, vvil they not say that you be madde?

24   But if al prophecie, and there enter in any infidel or vulgar person, he is conuinced of al, he is iudged of al.

25   the secrets of his hart are made manifest, and so falling on his face he vvil adore God, pronouncing that God is in you in deede.

26   Vvhat is it then brethren? vvhen you come together, euery one of you hath09Q1144a psalme, hath a doctrine, hath a reuelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let al things be done to edification.

27   Vvhether a man speake with t&obar;gue, by tvvo, or at the most by three, and09Q1145in course, and let one interpret.

28   But if there be not an interpreter, let him hold his peace in the Church, and speake to him self and to God.

29   And let prophets speake tvvo or three, and let the rest iudge.

30   But if it be reuealed to an other sitting, let the first hold his peace.

31   For you may al prophecie one by one: that al may learne, and al may be exhorted,

32   and the spirites of prophets are subiect to prophets.

33   For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also in all the Churches of the saincts I teache.

34   09Q1146Let ^note vvomen hold their peace in the Churches: for it is not permitted them to speake, but to be subiect, as also ^note the Law saith.

35   But if they learne any thing, let them aske their ovvne husbands at home. For it is a soule thing for a vvoman to speake in the Church.

36   Or did the vvord of God proceede from you? came it vnto you onely?

37   If any man seeme to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him knovv the things that I vvrite to you, that they are the c&obar;maundements of our Lord.

38   But if any man knovv not, he shal not be knovven.

39   Therfore, brethren, be earnest to prophecie: and to speake vvith tongues prohibit not.

40   But let al things be done honestly and according to order among you.

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Chap. XV. ^noteHe proueth the Resurrection of the dead by the Resurrection of Christ, and vvith many other arguments: and 31 ansvvereth also obiections made against it. 49 And then exhorteth in respect of it, vnto good life.

1    ^noteAnd I do you to vnderstand, brethren, the Gospel vvhich I preached to you, which also you receiued, in the vvhich also you stand,

2   by the vvhich also you are saued, after vvhat maner I preached vnto you if you keepe it, vnlesse you haue beleeued in vaine.

3   For ^{note note} I deliuered vnto you first of al vvhich I also receiued: that Christ died for our sinnes ^note according to the Scriptures:

4   and that he vvas buried, and that he rose againe the third day, ^note according to the scripture:

5   and that he vvas ^note seen of Cephas: and after that of the eleuen.

6   Then vvas he seen of moe th&ebar; fiue hundred brethren together: of vvhich many remaine vntil this present, & some are a sleepe.

7   Moreouer he vvas seen of Iames, then of al the Apostles.

8   And last of al, as it vvere of ^note an abortiue ^note he vvas seen also of me.

9   For I am the least of the Apostles, vvho am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persesecuted the Church of God.

10   But by the grace of God I am that vvhich I am: & his grace in me hath not been ^note void, &cross4; but I haue laboured more aboundantly then al they: yet not I, but the grace of God09Q1147 vvith me.

11   For vvhether I, or they, so vve preach, and so you haue beleeued.

12   But if Christ be preached that he is risen againe from the dead: hovv doe certaine among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13   And if there be no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ risen againe.

14   And if Christ be not risen againe, then vaine is our preaching, vaine also is your faith.

15   and vve are found also ^note false witnesses of God: because vve haue giuen testimonie against God, that he hath raised vp Christ, vvhom he hath not raised vp, if the dead rise not againe.

16   For if the dead rise not againe, neither is Christ risen againe.

17   And if Christ be not risen againe, vaine is your faith, for yet you are in your sinnes.

18   Then they also that are a sleepe in Christ, are perished.

19   If in this life onely vve be hoping in Christ, vve are more miserable then al men.

20   But novv Christ is risen againe from the dead, the ^note first fruites of them that sleepe:

21   for ^note by a man death: and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

22   And as in Adam al die, so also in Christ al shal be made aliue.

23   But ^note euery one in his ovvne order: the first fruites Christ, then they that are of Christ, that beleeued in his comming.

24   Then the ende, vvhen he shal haue deliuered the kingdom to God and the Father, vvhen he shal haue abolished al principalitie and authoritie and povver.

25   And he must reigne, Vntil he put al his enemies vnder his feete. ^note

26   And the enemie death shal be destroied last. For he hath subdued al things vnder his feete. ^note And vvhereas he saith,

27   Al things are subdued to him: Vndoubtedly, except him that subdued al things vnto him.

28   And vvhen al things shal be subdued to him: then the Sonne also him self shal be subiect to him that subdued al things vnto him, that God may be al in al.

29   Otherwise what shal they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not againe at al?

30   vvhy also are they baptized for them? vvhy also are vve in danger euery houre?

31   I die daily by your glorie brethren, vvhich I haue in Christ Iesvs our Lord.

32   If (according to man) I fought vvith beastes at Ephesus, vvhat doth it profit me, if the dead rise not againe? 09Q1148Let vs eate and drinke, for to morovv vve shal die. ^note

33   Be not seduced, Euil communications corrupt good maners. ^note

34   Avvake ye iust, and sinne not. for some haue not the knovvledge of God, I speake to your shame.

35   But some man saith, Hovv doe the dead rise againe? and vvith vvhat maner of body shal they come?

36   Foole, that vvhich thou sovvest is not quickened, vnlesse it die first.

37   And that vvhich thou sovvest, not the body that shal be, doest thou sovv: but bare graine, to vvit, of vvheate, or of some of the rest.

38   And God giueth it a body as he vvil: and to euery seede his proper body.

39   Not al flesh, is the same flesh: but one of men, an other of beastes, an other of birdes, an other of fishes.

40   And bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but one glorie of the celestial, and an other of the terrestrial.

41   One glorie of the sunne, an other glorie of the moone, and an other glorie of the starres. For ^note starre differeth from starre in glorie:

42   so also the resurrection of the dead. It is sovven in corruption, it shal rise in incorrupti&obar;.

43   It is sovv&ebar; in dishonour, it shal rise in glorie. It is

sovven in infirmitie, it shal rise in povver.

44   It is sovven a natural body: it shal rise a ^note spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual,

45   as it is vvritten, The first man Adam vvas made into a liuing soul: ^note the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

46   Yet that is not first vvhich is spiritual, but that vvhich is natural: aftervvard that vvhich is spiritual.

47   The first man of earth, earthly: the second man from heauen, heauenly.

48   Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly. and such as the heauenly, such also are the heauenly.

49   Therfore as vve haue borne the image of the earthly, let vs beare also the image of the heauenly.

50   This I say brethren, that ^note flesh and bloud can not possesse the kingdom of God: neither shal corruption possesse incorruption.

51    ^noteBehold I tel you a mysterie. Vve shal al in deede rise againe: but vve shal not al be changed.

52   In a moment, in the tvvinkling of an eie, at the ^note last trompet (for ^note the trompet shal sound) and the dead shal rise againe incorruptible: and vve shal be changed.

53   For this corruptible must doe on incorruption: & this mortal doe on immortalitie.

54   And vvhen this mortal hath done on immortalitie, then shal come to passe the saying that is vvritten, Death is svvallovved vp in victorie.

55   Death vvhere is thy victorie? Death vvhere is thy sting? ^note

56   And the sting of death, is sinne: and the povver of sinne is the Lavv.

57   But thankes be to God that hath giuen vs the victorie by our Lord Iesvs Christ. &cross4;

58   Therfore my beloued brethren, be stable & vnmoueable: abounding in the worke of our Lord alvvaies, knovving that your labour is not vaine in our Lord. ^{note note}

Chap. XVI. ^noteHe prescribeth an order for their contributing to the Christian at Hierusalem, 3 promising to come vnto them. 10 Of Timothee, and of Apollos comming thither. 13 and so vvith exhortation, and diuers commendations be endeth.

1   And concerning the collections that are made for the saincts, as I haue ordeined to the Churches of Galatia, so doe ye also.

2   In ^note the first of the Sabboth let euery one of you put a part vvith him self, laying vp vvhat shal vvel like him: that not vvhen I come, then collections be made.

3   And vvhen I shal be present: vvhom you shal approue by letters, them vvil I send to carie your grace into Hierusalem.

4   And if it be vvorthie that I also goe, they shal goe vvith me.

5   And I vvil come to you, vvhen I shal haue passed through Macedonia. for I vvil passe through Macedonia.

6   And vvith you perhaps I vvil abide, or vvil vvinter also: that you may bring me on my vvay vvhithersoeuer I goe.

7   For I vvil not novv see you by the vvay, for I hope that I shal abide vvith you some litle time, if our Lord wil permit.

8   But I vvil tarie at Ephesus vntil ^note Pentecost.

9   For a great doore and euident is opened vnto me: and many aduersaries.

10   And if Timothee come, see that he be vvithout feare vvith you, for he vvorketh the vvorke of our Lord, as also I.

11   Let no m&abar; therfore despise him, but c&obar;duct ye him in peace: that he may come to me. for I expect him vvith the brethren.

12   And of brother Apollo I doe you to vnderstand, that I much intreated him, to come vnto you vvith the brethren: & ^note at all it vvas not his minde to come novv. but he vvil come vvhen he shal haue leisure.

13   Vvatch ye, stand in the faith, doe manfully, & be strengthened.

14   Let al your things be done in charitie.

15   And I beseeche you brethren, you knovv the house of Stéphanas, and of Fortunátus, that they are the first fruites of Achaia, & haue ordeined them selues to the ministerie of the saincts:

16   that you also be subiect to such, and to euery one that helpeth and laboureth with vs.

17   And I reioyce in the presence of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because ^note that vvhich you vvanted, they haue supplied.

18   For they haue refreshed both my spirit and yours. Knovv them therfore that are such.

19   The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla vvith their domestical church salute you much in our Lord.

20   Al the brethren salute you. Salute one an other in a ^note holy kisse.

21   The salutation vvith mine ovvne hand Paules.

22   If any man loue not our Lord Iesvs Christ, be he anáthema. ^{note note}