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19 Circumcision is nothing, | joice, as those who rejoice not; and uncircumcision is nothing; and those who buy, as those but the keeping of the com- who possess not; 31 and those mandments of God is every who use this world, as those thing. 20 Let every one remain who use it not for the fashion in that calling wherein he was of this world is passing away. called. 21 Wast thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou canst be made free, use it rather. 22 For he who is called in the Lord, though a servant, is a free-man of the Lord in like manner also, he who is called, though a freeman, is a servant of Christ. 23 Ye have been bought with a price; do not become servants to men. 24 Brethren, let every one remain with God in that state wherein he was called.

32 But I would have you without anxious care. He who is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 but he who is married, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

34 There is this difference also between a wife and a virgin: The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she who is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 Now I speak this for your own advantage; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for the sake of decency, and for a right attendance on the Lord without distraction.

25 Now concerning single persons, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as having obtained mercy from the Lord, that I might be faithful. 26 I think therefore that this is good, because of the present distress; I say, that it is good for a man to continue as he is. 36 But if any one think that 44 27 Art thou bound to a wife? he behaveth himself unbecomseek not to be loosed. Art thou ingly towards his virgin, if she loosed from a wife? seek not pass the flower of her age, and á wife. 28 But if thou marry, it ought so to be; let him do thou hast not sinned and if a what he pleaseth, he sinneth virgin marry, she hath not not: let such virgins marry. 37 sinned. Nevertheless, such will But he who standeth [firm] in have trouble in the flesh: but his heart, having no necessity, I spare you. 29 However, this but hath power over his own I say, brethren, The time which will, and determineth thus in remaineth is but short, when his heart, that he will keep his those who have wives, will be virgin, doth well. 38 So that he as those who have none; 30 and who giveth her in marriage, doth those who weep, as those who well; but he who giveth her weep not; and those who re- I not in marriage, doth better.

* i. e. the present persecution of the church.

39 The wife is bound, as long as her husband liveth; but if [her] husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she pleaseth ; only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she remain as she is, according to my judgment: and I also seem to have the spirit of God.

eat, are we better than others, nor, if we eat not, are we worse. 9 But take heed, lest by any means this your liberty become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

10 For if any one see thee, who hath knowledge, placed at meat in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who CH. VIII. 1 NOW concern-is weak be encouraged to eat ing things offered to idols, we things offered to idols? 11 and know (for we all have know-through thy knowledge will not ledge: knowledge puffeth up, thy weak brother, for whom but love edifieth: 2 [however,] if any one think that he know eth any thing, he knoweth yet [nothing] as he ought to know: 3 but if any one love God, such an one is known by him :) 4 concerning therefore the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no [other] God but one.

5 For though there be those who are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,) 6 yet to us, here is one God, the Father, from whom all things are, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him. 7 However, all have not this knowledge: but some, with a consciousness of the idol, to this hour eat meat, as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being

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Christ died, perish? 12 But when ye thus sin against your brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore if food cause my brother to offend, I will not eat flesh to the age, lest I cause my brother to of fend.

CH. IX. 1 AM I not a freeman? am I not an apostle ? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you for ye are the seal of mine apostleship in the Lord. 3 My defence to those who examine me, is this: 4 Have we not a right to eat and to drink? 5 have we not a right to take about with us a sister, or a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Peter?† 6 or have I only, and Barnabas, no right to forbear working?

7 Who ever servet in war at his own charge? who plantOr, a wife who is a sister in Christ." Im. Ver.

eth a vineyard, and eateth not of its fruit? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things according to the manner of men? or doth not the law also say the same? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that is treading out the corn." Doth God take care for oxen only? 10 Or doth

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certainly say this for our sakes also? For our sakes, no doubt it was written: for he who ploweth ought to plow in hope; and he who thresheth ought to partake of his hope.

11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your worldly things? 12 If others partake of this right over you, ought not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this right; but we endure all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 13 Know ye not, that those who minister about holy things eat of that which is holy? and that those who attend at the altar, are partakers with the altar? 14 So likewise the Lord hath appointed to those who preach the gospel, that they should live by the gospel.

15 But I have used none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it should be thus done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting void. 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: since necessity is laid

upon me; for woe is to me if I preach not the gospel. 17 Now if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if unwillingly a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me, I have no reward. 18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel [of Christ] without charge, so as not to use my right in the gospel.

19 For though I be free from all men, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more. 20 And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, (not being myself under the law,) that I might gain those who are under the law; 21 to those who are without the law, as without the law, (being not without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without the law. 22 To the weak, I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I become all [things] to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the sake of the gospel; that I may be a joint-partaker of it.

24 Know ye not that those who run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 Now every one who contendeth in the games, is temperate in all things. They indeed do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; I so fight, as not striking the air: 27 but I bruise my body,

and subject it: lest by any means, after having served as a herald to others, I myself should be disapproved.

CH. X. 1 FOR, brethren, I would not have you ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized to Moses, in the cloud, and in the sea; 3 and all ate of the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank of the same spiritual drink. (For they drank water from the spiritual rock which followed them: and that rock was Christ.) 5 Yet with most of them, God was not well pleased: for they were destroyed in the desert.

6 Now these things came to pass for examples to us; that we should not be desirous of evil things, as they also desired. 7 Nor be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport:" 8 nor let us commit | fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day twenty three thousand: 9 nor let us try Christ,* as some of them [also] tried God; and perished by serpents : 10 nor murmur ye, as some of them [also] murmured; and perished by the destroyer.

lest he fall. 13 No temptation hath befallen you, but such as is human: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above your ability; but with the temptation will make a way also to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to men of understanding: judge ye what I say. 16 The cup of blessing for which we bless God, is it not a participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation of the body of Christ? 17 (For we, though many, are as one bread, and one body for we all partake of the one bread.)

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18 Behold Ísrael according to the flesh are not those who eat of the sacrifices common partakers with the altar? 19 What say I then? [that an idol is any thing, or] that what is offered to idols is any thing? 20 No: but that the things which the gentiles offer, they offer to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should be common partakers with demons. 21 Ye cannot drink the Lord's cup, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the Lord's table, and the table of demons. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

11 Now all these things happened to them as examples; and they are written for our 23 All things are lawful, but admonition, upon whom the all things are not expedient: ends of the ages are come. 12 all things are lawful, but all Wherefore let him who think-things edify not. 24 Let no one eth that he standeth, take heed seek his own good only; but

* The Vatican and Ephr. MSS. here have xugtov Lord, and the Alexandrian tov God. See Im. Ver. note.

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every one that of another also. | Christ; and that the head of the 25 Eat whatsoever is sold in woman is the man; and that the shambles, asking no ques- the head of Christ is God. 4 tion on account of conscience. Every man, praying or prophe26 For the earth is the Lord's, sying having his head covered, and the fulness of it. 27 [And] | dishonoureth his head. 5 But if any of those who believe not, every woman, praying or proask you to a feast, and ye be phesying with her head uncovdisposed to go; eat whatsoever ered, dishonoureth her head: is set before you, asking no for that is one and the same question on account of con- thing as if her head were science. 28 But if any one say to you, "This hath been offered to idols;" eat not, on account of him who told thee, and on account of conscience. 29 I mean not thine own conscience, but that of another: for why should my liberty be condemned by another man's conscience? 30 If I partake with thanksgiving, why should I be evilspoken of on account of that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or whether ye drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no cause of of fending to the Jews, or to the Greeks, or to the church of the messengers. God: 33 as I also please all men in all things; not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be sav

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CH. XI. 1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

2 NOW I praise you, brethren, because ye remember me in all things, and keep my traditions as I delivered them to you. 3 But I wish you to know, that the head of every man is

6 For if a woman be not covered, let her head even be shorn: but if it be shameful that a woman should have her head shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not from the woman; but the woman from the man. 9 Nor indeed was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause the woman ought to have a veil* on her head, on account of

11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is from the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are from God. 13 Judge among your own selves: is it becoming that a woman pray to God uncovered? 14 [Or] doth not even nature [itself] teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonour to him; 15 but that, if a woman

*Gr. power. "The veil, being the sign or token of the man's power, is called Whitby for the agreement of the ancient interpreters in this." Newcome.

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