The receiving of the Gentiles.

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ROMANS.

Sundry greetings and salutations. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his { Achaia to make a certain contribution for the good to edification. saints which are at Jerusalem.

3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached &10, 24, 33. thee fell on me.

1 Cor. 9 19.

& 13, 5.

Ps. 63, 10.

Mat. 26, 89.

Phil. 2, 4, 5. 4" For whatsoever things were written aforetime Lih 53,4. were written for our learning, that we through paJohn 5, 50. tience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. 5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant 215,3&you to be like-minded one toward another, according Cor. 9,9.& to Christ Jesus;

& 6.33.

dcb. 4, 23,

10.11.

Gal. 4, 22.

2 Tim. 5,16.

e

6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glochap. 12. rify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 75 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ Phil. 22. & also received us, to the glory of God.

1 Cor. 1.10.

2 Cor. 1, 3.

3. 15, 16.
(Acts 2, 1.
A, 32

h

8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of g Mat. 12, the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the Jolm 17, 24. promises made unto the fathers;

20.

11. 1, 3.

chap. 5, 2. & 9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his Mat.15.24 mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess At 5, 25, to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. 10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles,

John 1, 11.

26. & 13, 46.

chapter 3,3.

& 9, 4.

1, 20. With his people.

i 2 Sam. 22,

50.

11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; Pal. 18, 50. and laud him, all ye people.

John 10, 16.

chap. 9, 23.

& 11, 22, 50.

32,

Psalın 67, 5. 1 Ps. 117, 1. m Isa. li,1,

10.

Rev. 5, 5. & 22.16.

n ch. 12 12, 18. & 14. 17.

12 Andagain, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my chap. 122 brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

I Cor. 8, 1,7,

10.

2 Pet. 1, 12. 1 John 2,21.

12, 3.

15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the p chap. 1,5. more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in Cor. 3,10. mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God, 16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ 156, 19. to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that Acts 15 the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, chap. 11,13 being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

& 15, 10. Gal. 1, 15. & 2, 9.

9,

& 13, 2.

1 Cor. 3, 5.

2 Cor. 3, 6. Gal. 2, 7, 8.

1 Tim. 2, 7.

17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Phil. 217. Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. 2 Tim. 1,11. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those chap. 1, 5. things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to & 26 make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

& 4, 6.

16,

2 Cor. 10,15.

23. & 12, 25.

Acts 9, 22, 19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the 13,211.& power of the Spirit of God: so that from Jerusalem, 16, 18 & 17, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached 118,9.& the gospel of Christ.

14, 10, 26. &

21, 19. & 22,

20, 1, 10. & 20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, 1&2, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation :

& 26, 16. & 23, 5, 2.

2 Cor. 12,12.

Col. 25.

Gal. 2, 8. 21" But, as it is written, To whom he was not 2 Tim. 47. spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not Cor.3,1,5. heard shall understand.

2 Cor. 10.15,

16.

Eph. 2, 20.

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22 For which cause also I have been much hin

u Isa. 52,15. dered from coming to you.

x Acts 19,

21. & 25, 11.

23 But now having no more place in these parts, cap 11 and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

1 Thess. 2, 17, 18.

y chap. 1,10. &15, 32.

1 Thes. 3,18

z Acts 18,

24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I 2 Tim. 1,4 will come to you: for I trust to see you in my jour21. 19,21. ney, and to be brought on my way thitherward by 422&you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company. Gal. 2, 10. 25 But now I go unto Jerusalem, to minister Cor, unto the saints.

& 9, 2, 12. Ual. 29. 10.

29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you,
shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel
of Christ.
30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Je-
sus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye
strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
31 That I may be delivered from them that do 1 Cor. 4, 19.
not believe in Judea; and that my service which I
have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
32 That I may come unto you with joy by the 2 Cor.13,11
will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. 2 Thess. S
CHAPTER XVI.

1 Paul sendeth salutations to many, 25 and endeth with praise
and thanks to God.

10 Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. them which are of Aristobulus' household. 11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that John 19, 27 be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.

12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

13 Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord; and his
mother and mine.

14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas,
Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.
15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his
sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which
with them.

17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them
which cause divisions and offences contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord
Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by good words
and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

k Ezek. 13,

2 Cor. 2, 17

Phil. 3, 1

19.

.

¶ The First Epistle of PAUL, the Apostle, to the CORINTHIANS.

17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to ets 18 10 preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest 4 And my speech and my preaching was not ch 175 2 P. 1, 16, the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in dem- c

18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that?onstration of the Spirit and of power:

1. CORINTHIANS.
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom {
of men, but in the power of God.

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that
are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of
2 Cor. 47. the princes of this world that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before
the world unto our glory:

. Ps. 2, 2,4,9. ch. 1, 20, 23.

19.

$211, 4,

Cor. 12.

Phil. 8, 15.
Heb. 5, 11.

& 5, 1.

8 h Which none of the princes of this world knew: James 3,15. for had they known it, they would not have crucified Ro. 16, 25. the Lord of glory.

chap. 4, 1.

Eph. 3, 5, 8. Col. 1, 28.

9 But, as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor 2 Tim. 1, 9. ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, Mat the things which God hath prepared for them that John,48. love him.

h Mat.11.25.

& 16, 3

Acts 3, 17.

&13, 27.

2 Cor. 3, 14.

1 Tim. 1,13.

sa. 64,

verse 14.
k Mat. 13,

11. & 16, 17.

12

& 4, 13.

2 Car. 3, 18. 1 John 2,27. ¡ Pr. 20, 27.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit for the Spirit scarcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

ום

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the & 27, 19. world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might Rom. 11,33. 3. know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13" Which things also we speak, not in the words Gen. 40,8, which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Dan. 5, 12 Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

m Rom. 8,

15.

16. & 41, 12.

ch. 1, 17. &

24&s, 1.

4. 3,

2 Pet. 1, 16

o Mat.16,23.

Jude 14.

14° But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto Prov. 27, him: neither can he know them, because they are Thes.521. spiritually discerned.

19. & 28, 5.

1 John 4, 1.

q Job 15, 8. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet 40, 13. he himself is judged of no man.

Jer. 23, 18.

John 15, 15.

Rom. 11,34.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, #ch.28.14, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of

15. & 8,7. & Christ.

14, 20, 37.

Ep. 4, 13,

14.

CHAPTER III.

Heb. 5, 11, 1 How Paul dealt with weak believers....5 The most eminent

14.

6, 1.

preachers only instruments, &c.

1 Thes. 2, 7. ND I, brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carual, even as unto

Heb. 5, 12.

& 13, 1.

1Pet. 2, 2 babes in Christ.

e ch. 1, 11. 2 Cor. 12,20. Gal. 5,19,20.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: James 3,16. for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

d ch. 1, 12.
& 4, 6.
e Acts18,24,
27. & 19, 1.

c

3 For ye are yet carnal for whereas there is Rom. 12,3, among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye ch. 1,13.& 4, not carnal, and walk as men?

6.

1. & 16, 12.

2 Cor. 1, 24.

4. For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, & 3,3&4, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

1.6, 4.

1 Pet. 4, 11. f Ps. 92. 13.

5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but 15. 55, 10 ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord 11, 25, 27 gave to every man?

Acts 18, 4, 8,

ch. 1,30. & 4,

35. & 9, 1, 7,

6'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave

11.& 15,1 the increase.

2 Cor. 3, 2.

gch. 1, 28,

30. & 9, 1.

7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, 2 Cor. 3, 5. neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

5. 12, 11.

Gial. 6, 3.

h Ps. 62, 13. Jer. 17, 10. & 32, 19. Mat 16, 27.

8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one and every man shall receive his own reward Rom. 2, accordin o his own labour.

chap. 4, 4. & 9, 17.

Gal. 5, 5.

Rev. 2, 23,

A 22. 12.

Isa. 5. 1.

& 1, 3.

2 Cor. 6, 1.

9 For we are labourers together with God: are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

How to account of ministers. 11' For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

n

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation,
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it, because it shall be reveal-
ed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work,
of what sort it is.

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

15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall
suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as
by fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall
God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which
temple ye are.

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1 How to account of Christ's ministers....8 To a self-sufficient
vanity Paul opposeth his own afflicted state, &c.
ET a man so account of us, as of the ministers
of Christ,and stewards of the mysteries of God. a Mat.24,45
2 Moreover, it is required in stewards, that a
man be found faithful.

h

C

I

3 But with me it is a very small thing that should be judged of you, or of man's judgment; yea, I judge not mine own self:

ch. 3, 5, 22.

20or. 4,5

Col. 1, 25.
Titus 1, 7.

et 4.10. Luke 1223

b Mat.25,21.

42

2Cor.1,12& 2, 17. & 4,2

11,7 b. 3,

He-b. 5.

d lex. 34, 7. & 27, 6.

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until ch.13. the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hid- Jo9, 2 den things of darkness, and will make manifest the PS-130, 3. counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

f

6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Rom. 3, 20. 20-21. e Dan. 7, 10. 25, 21. 99. & 14, 4, chap. 5, 13. 2 Cor. 5, 10.

ohn's, 7, 1. Rom. 2,1,16,

10.

Rev. 20, 12.

f Prov. 3, 7. ch. 1, 12, 30.

& S, 4, 22.

& 5.2, 6.

2 Cor. 12,20.

g John 5,27. Rom. 12, 6. chap. 7, 7.

7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? Rom 12,3 and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

b

& 12, 11.

8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye James did reign; that we also might reign with you.

1 Pet. 4, 10.

h Rev. 3, 17.

i Ps. 44, 23.

1,17 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apos- Rom. 8, 36. yetles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are 6, 10, 50 made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and 2 Cor. 18 to men.

10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the? Eph. 2, 20. foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let Hleb 3,3,4 every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

Col. 2, 7. 4

chap. 15, 8,

9, 30.

8.

& 4, 11. & Eph. 3, &

6, 9. & 11, 3.

10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise &6, 12 in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

Of the incestuous person.

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I Acts 23. 2.
Rom. 8, 35.

m Mat. 5,44.

Rom. 12, 14.

11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger 13" But them that are without God judgeth.
and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have Therefore put away from among yourselves that
no certain dwelling-place;
wicked person.
CHAPTER VI.

12 And labour, working with our own hands: 2 Cor. 4, 8. being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; Luke 6, 28. 13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as 1 Pet. 2, 23, the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring of all 14° I write not these things to shame you, but as 1Thcs.2,11. my beloved sons I warn you.

n Lam. 3, things unto this day.

45.

o 2 Cor. 12,

15.

15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for, in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel.

16 Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers

2 Thes. 3,9 of me.

r ch. 16, 10. 1 Thess. 3,2.

r

Philip. 2,19. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timo-
1 Tim. 1,2 theus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the
2 Tim. 1, 2 Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my
1321 Ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in
church.
every

schap. 5, 2.

& 19. 21. Rom. 15, 32. ch. 16, 5, 7. 2 Cor. 1, 15.

Heb. 6, 3.

James 4, 15.

u Rom. 15,

19.

chapter 2,4

Thes. 1,5.

2 Pet. 1, 16.

x 2 Cor. 10,

213, 10.

a Lev. 18, 8.

Dent. 22,30..

& 27, 20.

b Lev. 20,

11.

ch. 4, 48.

2 Cor. 7, 10.

& 12, 21.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

20" For the kingdom of God is not in word, but jr power.

c Col. 2, 5. a

d Mat. 16, 19. & 28, 18.

X

21 What will ye? shail I come unto you with a red, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

IT

"T is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so John 20, 23 much as named among the Gentiles, that one should e Job 2, 6. have his father's wife.

2 Cor. 2, 10.

Psal. 109, 6. 2 Cor. 2, 7.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather 10,6,8. mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be Tim. 1, 20. taken away from among you.

& 13, 9.

feb. 3, 21. & 4, 19. & 15,

33.

Gal. 5, 9.

c

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, 2 Tim. 217. concerning him that hath so done this deed; 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye 25, 15. & 34, of our Lord Jesus Christ, are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power

James 4, 16. g Ex. 12,15. & 13, 6. &

18, 25.

Lev. 2. 11.

Deut. 16, 3.
Isa. 53, 7.

d

5 To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in Acts 8, 32. the day of the Lord Jesus.

John 1, 9.

chap. 15, 3.

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

b Ex. 12, 3,

15.

Lev. 23, 6.

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 Deut. 15, 3. be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even iMat. 18,17. Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is
a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able
to judge between his brethren ?

6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that
before the unbelievers.

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

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

your

10. & 20, 4. b 2 Pet. 2, 4.

Rev. 20, 10.

Pr. 20, 22

Mat. 5, 39. Luke 6. 29.

19.

Rom. 12, 17,
Thess. 4,6

& 5, 13.
1 Pet. 3, 9

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither Titus 3, 3. fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effemi-Pet. 4, 2 nate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 12' All things are lawful ur to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

2 Cor. 11. 2 Eph. 5, 23.

23.

Col. 2,22,
Thes. 4, a

b Arts 2, 24.
Rom. 6, 5, 3
&. 11.

2 Cor. 4, 14

1, 18. om 12

ch. 11, 3. &
12, 57.
Epb. 1, 2

16. & 5, 23

14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and & 4, 12, 15 will also raise up us by his own power.

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot ? God forbid. 16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? fortwo,saith he,shall be one flesh. 17 'But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth 2 Thes. 3, leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wick- is without the body; but he that committech forniedness, but with the unleavened bread of sinceritycation sinneth against his own body. and truth.

verses 2, 7. 2 Cor. 6, 14.

Eph 5, 11.

8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old

9I wrote uuto you in an epistle, not to company John 5,19. With fornicators:

1 Pet. 4, 3.

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?
20° For ye are bought with a price: therefore glo-
rify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's.

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this? Pal. 101, 5. World, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with Midolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11' But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a forni-1 cator,or covetous,or an idolater,or a railer,or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

2 Thes. 3,6,

14.

2 John 10.

m Mark

11.

Col. 4, 5.

4,

1 Thess. 4,

12.

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that

Tim. 3,7 are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

CHAPTER VII.

The use of marriage....10 Christ hath forbidden to dissolve Rev. 5, a the bond thereof, &c.

NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote a firm. 204

Ruth 2, 9.

unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a Prov. 6,

woman.

Of marriage,

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and virginity. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man { present distress; I say, that it is good for a man so have his own wife, and let every woman have her to be. own husband.

3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

6 But I speak this by permission, and not of

commandment.

7 'For I would that all men were even as I myself. chap. 9, 5. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

12, 1.

g1 Tim. 5, 14.

h Mal. 2, 14. Mat. 5, 32.

& 19, 6, 9. Mark 10,11, 12.

Luke 16, 18.

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.

h

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. | Ezra 9, 2. 13 And the woman which hath a husband that 10, 2 believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. Heb. 12, 14. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

1 Pet 3, 1.

m Acts 15,

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u Acts 20,

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; 29 and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh but I spare you.

29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it x Isa. 24, 2 remaineth, that both they that have wives be as Rom. 13,11. though they had none;

30 And they that weep, as though they wept rot; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing {it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a a Luke 10, virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

35 And this I speak for your own profit; not. 6. that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord 21, 34. 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.

c Heb. 13, 4

2.

37 Nevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his d Rom. 7,1, heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his 2 Cor. 6,14 own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he e1Thes. 4, will keep his virgin, doeth well.

C

8. a Acts 14,

38 So then, he that giveth her in marriage doeth 20, 29 well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth 4,22 better.

d

10,

b ch. 13, &

Gal. 6, 3.

16 'For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou} 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her 12 shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, Ohusband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at 2 Tim. 2,19 man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Ex. SS, Lord.

6. 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. Phil. 1, 27. And so ordain I in all churches.

om. 6, 18, is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of NOW as touce all have knowledge. Knowledge

chap. 9, 21. God.

Gal. 5, 13.
Eph. 6, 6.

20 Let every man abide in the same calling Philem. 16. wherein he was called. Pet. 2, 16. 21 P Art thou called being a servant? care not for it but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

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Heb. 9 12.

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22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a serPet 1,8, vant, is the Lord's freeman likewise also he that 2 Pet. 2, 1. is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

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schap. 4, 2.

23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the 4,2.& 8, servants of men.

2 Cor. 2, 17.

F. & 11, 17.

! Thess. 4, 1, 3.

1 Tob 15, 24. P119.143.

24 Brethren, let every man wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

1 Sam. 12,

2 And if any man think that he knoweth any 2,5,11, thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

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4 As concerning therefore the eating of those Eph.46 things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we 1 Tim. 2, 5 know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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24. & 10, 17.

Mai. 2 10.

John 13 13.

Acts 2.36

& 11, 26.

Roni. 11,

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Chap. 3, 23 Eph. 4, 5, 6

Phil. 2, 11.

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Col. 1. 16. 2

5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods 25 Now concerning virgins I have no command-many, and lords many,) er.915&ment of the Lord, yet I give my judgment, as one 5 that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the

15. 6. 16,2

P. 24, 12.
Luke 21, 23.

6 But to us there is but one God, 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.