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hath it entered unto the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But to us God hath revealed them, by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God: for it is foolishness to him and he cannot understand: because it is spiritually examined. 15 But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. CHAP. III. They must not contend about their teachers.

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ND 1, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.

2 I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able; for you are yet carnal.

3 For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal, and walk according to man?

4 For while one saith, I indeed am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollo; are you not men? What then is Apollo, and what is Paul?

5 The ministers of him whom you have believed; and to every one as the Lord hath given.

6 I have planted, Apollo watered, but God gave the increase.

7 Therefore neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

8 Now he that planteth, and he that watereth are one. And every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

9 For we are God's coadjutors: you are God's husbandry, you are God's building.

10 According to the grace of God, that is given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation : and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

11 For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is CHRIST JESUS.

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble. 13 Every man's work shall be

Ver. 14, 15. The sensual man—the spiritual man. The sensual man is either he who is taken up with sensual pleasures, with carnal and worldly affections; or he who measureth heavenly mysteries by natural reason, sense and human wisdom only: now such a one has little or no feeling or notion of the things of God. Whereas the spiritual man, who in the high points of religion takes not human sense for his guide; but divine grace, the faith of the church, and the Spirit of God, makes a right judgment of all these matters; and sees and condemns the errors of carnal men who have no means or right to judge or condemn him. Ver. 12. Upon this foundation. The foundation is Christ and his doctrine; or the true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this foundation gold, silver, and precious stones signifies the more perfect preaching and practice of the gospel: the wood, hay, and stubble, such preaching as was that of the Corinthian teachers (who affected the pomp of words and human eloquence) and such practice as is mixed with much imper. fection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of the Lord, and his fiery trial (in the par ticular judgment immediately after death) shall make manifest of what sort every man's work has been; of which during this life it is hard to make a judgment. For then the fire

manifest for the day of the Lord shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in 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 burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.

17 But if any man violate the temple of God; him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy; which you are.

18 Let no man deceive himself: if any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.

20 And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

21 Let no man therefore glory in

men.

22 For all things are yours, whether it be Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come: for all are yours:

23 And you are Christ's: and Christ is God's.

CHAP. IV.

God's ministers are not to be judged. ET a man so account of us as of the amisters of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God. 2 Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.

3 But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you, or by

man's day but neither do I judge my own self.

4 For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.

5 Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise from God.

6 But these things, brethren, 1 have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.

7 For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received; why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

8 You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

9 For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to Angels, and to men,

10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.

11 Even unto this hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, audire bufeted, and have no fixed abode,

12 And we labour working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless: we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

13 We are blasphemed, and we

of God's judgment shall try every man's works: And they, whose works, like wood, hay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works being found to be of no value: yet they themselves, having built upon the right foundation (by living and dying in the true faith, and in the state of grace, though with much imperfection,) shall be saved, yet so as by fire: being liable to this punishment, by reason of the wood, hay, and stubble, which was mixed with their building.

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intreat we are made as the refuse the spirit may be saved in the day of this world, the off-scouring of all of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.

even until now.

14 I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children:

15 For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ JESUS by the gospel I have begotten you.

16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

17 For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ JESUS; as I teach every where in every church. 18 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

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

7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our pasch, is sacrificed.

8 Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.

10 I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

11 But now I have written to

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puff-you, not to keep company, if any ed up, but the power.

man that is named a brother be a

20 For the kingdom of God is fornicator, or covetous, or a server not in speech, but in power.

21 What will you ? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness? CHAP. V.

of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such an one not so much as to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within? 13 For them, that are without,

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is fornication among you, and one from among yourselves.
CHAP. VI.

IT is absolutely heard that there

such fornication, as the like

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God will judge. Put away the evil

among the heathens; that one He blames them for going to law beshould have his father's wife.

2 And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed.

fore unbelievers.

DA ARE any of you, having a

matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?

3 I indeed absent in body, but 2 Know you not that the saints present in spirit, have already judg-shall judge this world? And if the ed, as though I were present, him world shall be judged by you: are that hath so done, you unworthy to judge the smallest

4 In the name of our Lord JE-matters ? SUS CHRIST, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord JESUS ;

5 To deliver such a one to satan for the destruction of the flesh, that

3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things of this world.

4 If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world,

set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

5 I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge

between his brethren?

Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot ? God forbid.

16 Or know you not, that he who is joined to an harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

17 But he, who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. 18 Fly fornication.

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6 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers? 7 Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have Every sin lawsuits one with another. Why that a man doth, is without the bodo you not rather take wrong? dy: but he that committeth forniwhy do you not rather suffer your- cation, sinneth against his own selves to be defrauded?

8 But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren.

body.

19 Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the 9 Know you not that the unjust Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom shall not possess the kingdom of you have from God; and you are God? Do not err: Neither fornica- not your own? tors, nor idolators, nor adulterers.

10 Nor the effeminate, nor liars with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.

11 And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, and the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I Il not be brought under the power

f any.

13 Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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

20 For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

CHAP. VII.

Lessons relating to marriage, &c.
OW concerning the things

N whereof you wrote to me: It

is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2 But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

4 The wife hath not power of her own body; but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body; but the wife.

5 Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer and return together 15 Know you not, that your bo- again, lest satan tempt you for your dies are the members of Christ? incontinency.

Ver. 7. A fault. Lawsuits can hardly ever be without a fault on one side or the other; and oftentimes on both sides.

Ver. 2. Have his own wife. That is, keep to his wife, which he hath. His meaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry; on the contrary, he would have them rather continue as they are, v. 8. But he speaks here to them that are already married; who must not depart from one another, nor refuse the marriage debt one to another.

6 But I speak this by indulgence, whether thou shalt save thy wife? not by commandment,

7 For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that. 8 But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: it is good for them if they so continue, even as I.

9 But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

10 But to them, that are married, not I, but the Lord commandet!, that the wife depart not from her husband.

11 And if she depart, that she remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.

12 For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother have a wife that believeth not, and she consent to dwell with him; let him not put her away.

13 And if any woman have a husband that believeth not, and he consent to dwell with her; let her not put away her husband.

17 But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one, so let him walk: and so in all churches I teach.

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

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observation of the commandments of God.

20 Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called. 21 Wast thou called,being a bondman? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a bond-man, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called being free, is the bond-man of Christ.

23 You are bought with a price, be not made the bond slaves of men.

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

14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife: 25 Now concerning virgins, I have and the unbelieving wife is sancti- no commandment of the Lord: but fied by the believing husband: I give counsel, as having obtained otherwise your children should be mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. unclean; but now they are holy.

15 But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or sister is not under servitude in such But God hath called us in

cases. peace.

16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, Ŏ man,

26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.

27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

28 But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: never

Ver. 6. By indulgence. That is, by a condescension to your weakness.

Ver. 9. If they do not contain, &c. This is spoken of such as are free; and not of such as, by vow, have given their first faith to God: to whom, if they will use proper means to obtain it, God will never refuse the gift of continency. The Protestants have corrupted this text, by rendering it, if they cannot contain.

Ver. 12. I speak, not the Lord, viz. By an express commandment or ordinance.

Ver. 14. Is sanctified. The meaning is not that the faith of the husband or the wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their children, in the state of grace and salvation: but that it is very often an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true faith.

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