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Corinthians, 1st","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS\n\nSt. Paul, having planted the faithful in Corinth, where he had preached\na year and a half and converted a great many, went to Ephesus. After\nbeing there three years, he wrote this first Epistle to the Corinthians\nand sent it by the same persons, Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achaicus, who\nhad brought their letter to him. It was written about twenty-four years\nafter our Lord's Ascension and contains several matters appertaining to\nfaith and morals and also to ecclesiastical discipline.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 1\n\nHe reproveth their dissensions about their teachers. The world was to be\nsaved by preaching of the cross, and not by human wisdom or eloquence.\n\n1:1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,\nand Sosthenes a brother,\n\n1:2. To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are\nsanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke\nthe name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.\n\n1:3. Grace to you and peace, from God our father and from the Lord Jesus\nChrist.\n\n1:4. I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that\nis given you in Christ Jesus:\n\n1:5. That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and\nin all knowledge;\n\n1:6. As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,\n\n1:7. So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the\nmanifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:8. Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days\nof the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:9. God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his\nSon, Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\n1:10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,\nthat you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms among\nyou: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.\n\n1:11. For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them\nthat are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.\n\n1:12. Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul;\nand I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.\n\n1:13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? Or were you\nbaptized in the name of Paul?\n\n1:14. I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and\nCaius:\n\n1:15. Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.\n\n1:16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I know\nnot whether I baptized any other.\n\n1:17. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not\nin wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.\n\n1:18. For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is\nfoolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power\nof God.\n\n1:19. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the\nprudence of the prudent I will reject.\n\n1:20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of\nthis world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?\n\n1:21. For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew\nnot God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save\nthem that believe.\n\n1:22. For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom.\n\n1:23. But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a\nstumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:\n\n1:24. But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the\npower of God and the wisdom of God.\n\n1:25. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of\nGod is stronger than men.\n\nThe foolishness, etc... That is to say, what appears foolish to the\nworld in the ways of God, is indeed most wise; and what appears weak is\nindeed above all the strength and comprehension of man.\n\n1:26. For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise\naccording to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.\n\n1:27. But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may\nconfound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen,\nthat he may confound the strong.\n\n1:28. And the base things of the world and the things that are\ncontemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might\nbring to nought things that are:\n\n1:29. That no flesh should glory in his sight.\n\n1:30. But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us\nwisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:\n\n1:31. That, as it is written: He that glorieth may glory in the Lord.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 2\n\nHis preaching was not in loftiness of words, but in spirit and power.\nAnd the wisdom he taught was not to be understood by the worldly wise or\nsensual man, but only by the spiritual man.\n\n2:1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of\nspeech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.\n\n2:2. For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus\nChrist: and him crucified.\n\n2:3. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.\n\n2:4. And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of\nhuman wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power:\n\n2:5. That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the\npower of God.\n\n2:6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of\nthis world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.\n\n2:7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is\nhidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:\n\n2:8. Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known\nit, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.\n\n2:9. But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard:\nneither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath\nprepared for them that love him.\n\n2:10. But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit\nsearcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.\n\n2:11. For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man\nthat is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but\nthe Spirit of God.\n\n2:12. Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit\nthat is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God.\n\n2:13. Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human\nwisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things\nwith spiritual.\n\n2:14. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the\nSpirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand,\nbecause it is spiritually examined.\n\nThe sensual man--the spiritual man... The sensual man is either he who\nis taken up with sensual pleasures, with carnal and worldly affections;\nor he who measureth divine mysteries by natural reason, sense, and human\nwisdom only. Now such a man has little or no notion of the things of\nGod. Whereas the spiritual man is he who, in the mysteries of religion,\ntakes not human sense for his guide: but submits his judgment to the\ndecisions of the church, which he is commanded to hear and obey. For\nChrist hath promised to remain to the end of the world with his church,\nand to direct her in all things by the Spirit of truth.\n\n2:15. But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is judged\nof no man.\n\n2:16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?\nBut we have the mind of Christ.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 3\n\nThey must not contend about their teachers, who are but God's ministers\nand accountable to him. Their works shall be tried by fire.\n\n3:1. And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as\nunto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.\n\n3:2. I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet.\nBut neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.\n\n3:3. For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not\ncarnal and walk you not according to man?\n\n3:4. For while one saith: I indeed am of Paul: and another: I am of\nApollo: are you not men? What then is Apollo and what is Paul?\n\n3:5. The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as\nthe Lord hath given.\n\n3:6. I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.\n\n3:7. Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that\nwatereth: but God that giveth the increase.\n\n3:8. Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man\nshall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.\n\n3:9. For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's\nbuilding.\n\n3:10. According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise\narchitect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon. But\nlet every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.\n\n3:11. For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid: which\nis Christ Jesus.\n\n3:12. Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious\nstones, wood, hay, stubble:\n\nUpon this foundation... The foundation is Christ and his doctrine: or\nthe true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this\nfoundation gold, silver, and precious stones, signifies the more perfect\npreaching and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and stubble, such\npreaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who affected the pomp of\nwords and human eloquence) and such practice as is mixed with much\nimperfection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of the Lord, and his\nfiery trial, (in the particular judgment immediately after death,) shall\nmake manifest of what sort every man's work has been: of which, during\nthis life, it is hard to make a judgment. For then the fire of God's\njudgment shall try every man's work. And they, whose works, like wood,\nhay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works\nbeing found to be of no value; yet they themselves, having built upon\nthe right foundation, (by living and dying in the true faith and in the\nstate of grace, though with some imperfection,) shall be saved yet so as\nby fire; being liable to this punishment, by reason of the wood, hay,\nand stubble, which was mixed with their building.\n\n3:13. Every man's work shall be manifest. For the day of the Lord shall\ndeclare it, because it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall try\nevery man's work, of what sort it is.\n\n3:14. If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall\nreceive a reward.\n\n3:15. If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall\nbe saved, yet so as by fire.\n\n3:16. Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of\nGod dwelleth in you?\n\n3:17. But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy.\nFor the temple of God is holy, which you are.\n\n3:18. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise\nin this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.\n\n3:19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is\nwritten: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.\n\n3:20. And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they\nare vain.\n\n3:21. Let no man therefore glory in men.\n\n3:22. For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas,\nor the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come.\nFor all are yours.\n\n3:23. And you are Christ's. And Christ is God's.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 4\n\nGod's ministers are not to be judged. He reprehends their boasting of\ntheir preachers and describes the treatment the apostles every where met\nwith.\n\n4:1. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the\ndispensers of the mysteries of God.\n\n4:2. Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found\nfaithful.\n\n4:3. But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man's\nday. But neither do I judge my own self.\n\n4:4. For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby\njustified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.\n\n4:5. Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both\nwill bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest\nthe counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from\nGod.\n\n4:6. But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to\nmyself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one\nbe not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is\nwritten.\n\n4:7. For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not\nreceived, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou\nhadst not received it?\n\n4:8. You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign without us;\nand I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.\n\n4:9. For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it\nwere men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to\nangels and to men.\n\n4:10. We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are\nweak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.\n\n4:11. Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and\nare buffeted and have no fixed abode.\n\n4:12. And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we\nbless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.\n\n4:13. We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of\nthis world, the offscouring of all, even until now.\n\n4:14. I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my\ndearest children.\n\n4:15. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many\nfathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.\n\n4:16. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of\nChrist.\n\n4:17. For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son\nand faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in mind of my ways, which are\nin Christ Jesus: as I teach every where in every church.\n\n4:18. As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.\n\n4:19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know,\nnot the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.\n\n4:20. For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.\n\n4:21. What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and\nin the spirit of meekness?\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 5\n\nHe excommunicates the incestuous adulterer and admonishes them to purge\nout the old leaven.\n\n5:1. It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such\nfornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have\nhis father's wife.\n\n5:2. And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be\ntaken away from among you that hath done this thing.\n\n5:3. I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already\njudged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,\n\n5:4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together\nand my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus:\n\n5:5. To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,\nthat the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n5:6. Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven\ncorrupteth the whole lump?\n\n5:7. Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are\nunleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.\n\n5:8. Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the\nleaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of\nsincerity and truth.\n\n9. I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators.\n\n5:10. I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous\nor the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go\nout of this world.\n\n5:11. But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man\nthat is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols\nor a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so\nmuch as to eat.\n\n5:12. For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you\njudge them that are within?\n\n5:13. For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one\nfrom among yourselves.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 6\n\nHe blames them for going to law before unbelievers. Of sins that exclude\nfrom the kingdom of heaven. The evil of fornication.\n\n6:1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged\nbefore the unjust: and not before the saints?\n\n6:2. Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the\nworld shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest\nmatters?\n\n6:3. Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of\nthis world?\n\n6:4. If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world,\nset them to judge who are the most despised in the church.\n\n6:5. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one\nwise man that is able to judge between his brethren?\n\n6:6. But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers.\n\n6:7. Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have\nlaw suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you\nnot rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?\n\nA fault... Lawsuits can hardly ever be without a fault, on the one side\nor the other; and oftentimes on both sides.\n\n6:8. But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren.\n\n6:9. Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God?\nDo not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:\n\n6:10. Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous\nnor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of\nGod.\n\n6:11. And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are\nsanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ\nand the Spirit of our God.\n\n6:12. All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All\nthings are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of\nany.\n\nAll things are lawful, etc... That is, all indifferent things are indeed\nlawful, inasmuch as they are not prohibited; but oftentimes they are not\nexpedient; as in the case of lawsuits, etc. And much less would it be\nexpedient to be enslaved by an irregular affection to any thing, how\nindifferent soever.\n\n6:13. Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall\ndestroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for\nthe Lord: and the Lord for the body.\n\n6:14. Now God hath raised up the Lord and will raise us up also by his\npower.\n\n6:15. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ?  Shall I\nthen take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot?\nGod forbid!\n\n6:16. Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one\nbody? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.\n\n6:17. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.\n\n6:18. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body:\nbut he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.\n\n6:19. Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy\nGhost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?\n\n6:20. For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in\nyour body.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 7\n\nLessons relating to marriage and celibacy. Virginity is preferable to a\nmarried state.\n\n7:1. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a\nman not to touch a woman.\n\n7:2. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and\nlet every woman have her own husband.\n\nHave his own wife... That is, keep to his wife, which he hath.  His\nmeaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry: on the contrary, he\nwould have them rather continue as they are, (Ver.  7:8.) But he speaks\nhere to them that are already married; who must not depart from one\nanother, but live together as they ought to do in the marriage state.\n\n7:3. Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in\nlike manner to the husband.\n\n7:4. The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband.  And in\nlike manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the\nwife.\n\n7:5. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time,\nthat you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest\nSatan tempt you for your incontinency.\n\n7:6. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.\n\nBy indulgence... That is, by a condescension to your weakness.\n\n7:7. For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath\nhis proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that.\n\n7:8. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them\nif they so continue, even as I.\n\n7:9. But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is\nbetter to marry than to be burnt.\n\nIf they do not contain, etc... This is spoken of such as are free, and\nnot of such as, by vow, have given their first faith to God; to whom if\nthey will use proper means to obtain it, God will never refuse the gift\nof continency. Some translators have corrupted this text, by rendering\nit, if they cannot contain.\n\n7:10. But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that\nthe wife depart not from her husband.\n\n7:11. And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to\nher husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.\n\n7:12. For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife\nthat believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put\nher away.\n\nI speak, not the Lord... Viz., by any express commandment, or ordinance.\n\n7:13. And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent\nto dwell with her: let her not put away her husband.\n\n7:14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife:\nand the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband.\nOtherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy.\n\nIs sanctified... The meaning is not, that the faith of the husband or\nthe wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their\nchildren, in the state of grace and salvation; but that it is very often\nan occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true faith.\n\n7:15. But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or\nsister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in\npeace.\n\n7:16. For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?\nOr how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?\n\n7:17. But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called\nevery one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach.\n\n7:18. Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure\nuncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be\ncircumcised.\n\n7:19. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the\nobservance of the commandments of God.\n\n7:20. Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.\n\n7:21. Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it: but if thou\nmayest be made free, use it rather.\n\n7:22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman\nof the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of\nChrist.\n\n7:23. You are bought with a price: be not made the bondslaves of men.\n\n7:24. Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with\nGod.\n\n7:25. Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I\ngive counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.\n\n7:26. I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity:\nthat it is good for a man so to be.\n\n7:27. Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed\nfrom a wife? Seek not a wife.\n\n7:28. But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin\nmarry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of\nthe flesh. But I spare you.\n\n7:29. This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth,\nthat they also who have wives be as if they had none:\n\n7:30. And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that\nrejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed\nnot:\n\n7:31. And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the\nfashion of this world passeth away.\n\n7:32. But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without\na wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may\nplease God.\n\n7:33. But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the\nworld: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.\n\n7:34. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of\nthe Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that\nis married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her\nhusband.\n\n7:35. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you,\nbut for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon\nthe Lord, without impediment.\n\n7:36. But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to\nhis virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do\nwhat he will. He sinneth not if she marry.\n\nLet him do what he will; he sinneth not, etc... The meaning is not, as\nlibertines would have it, that persons may do what they will and not\nsin, provided they afterwards marry; but that the father, with regard to\nthe giving his virgin in marriage, may do as he pleaseth; and that it\nwill be no sin to him if she marry.\n\n7:37. For he that hath determined, being steadfast in his heart, having\nno necessity, but having power of his own will: and hath judged this in\nhis heart, to keep his virgin, doth well.\n\n7:38. Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well:\nand he that giveth her not doth better.\n\n7:39. A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if\nher husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will: only\nin the Lord.\n\n7:40. But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my\ncounsel. And I think that I also have the spirit of God.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 8\n\nThough an idol be nothing, yet things offered up to idols are not to be\neaten, for fear of scandal.\n\n8:1. Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know\nwe all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth.\n\nKnowledge puffeth up, etc... Knowledge, without charity and humility,\nserveth only to puff persons up.\n\n8:2. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet\nknown as he ought to know.\n\n8:3. But if any man love God, the same is known by him.\n\n8:4. But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an\nidol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.\n\n8:5. For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on\nearth (for there be gods many and lords many):\n\nGods many, etc... Reputed for such among the heathens.\n\n8:6. Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,\nand we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and\nwe by him.\n\n8:7. But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this\npresent, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an\nidol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.\n\n8:8. But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall\nwe have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.\n\n8:9. But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a\nstumblingblock to the weak.\n\n8:10. For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's\ntemple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those\nthings which are sacrificed to idols?\n\n8:11. And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom\nChrist hath died?\n\n8:12. Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak\nconscience, you sin against Christ.\n\n8:13. Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh,\nlest I should scandalize my brother.\n\nIf meat scandalize... That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 9\n\nThe apostle did not make use of his power of being maintained at the\ncharges of those to whom he preached, that he might give no hindrance to\nthe gospel. Of running in the race and striving for the mastery.\n\n9:1. Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus\nour Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?\n\n9:2. And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am.  For\nyou are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.\n\n9:3. My defence with them that do examine me is this.\n\n9:4. Have not we power to eat and to drink?\n\n9:5. Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the\nrest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?\n\nA woman, a sister... Some erroneous translators have corrupted this text\nby rendering it, a sister, a wife: whereas, it is certain, St. Paul had\nno wife (chap. 7 ver. 7, 8) and that he only speaks of such devout\nwomen, as, according to the custom of the Jewish nation, waited upon the\npreachers of the gospel, and supplied them with necessaries.\n\n9:6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?\n\n9:7. Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges?  Who\nplanteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof?  Who feedeth\nthe flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock?\n\n9:8. Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also\nsay; these things?\n\n9:9. For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the\nmouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?\n\n9:10. Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are\nwritten for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and\nhe that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.\n\n9:11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if\nwe reap your carnal things?\n\n9:12. If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather?\nNevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest\nwe should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.\n\n9:13. Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things\nthat are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with\nthe altar?\n\n9:14. So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should\nlive by the gospel.\n\n9:15. But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these\nthings, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to\ndie rather than that any man should make my glory void.\n\n9:16. For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity\nlieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.\n\nIt is no glory... That is, I have nothing to glory of.\n\n9:17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against\nmy will, a dispensation is committed to me.\n\n9:18. What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver\nthe gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.\n\n9:19. For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of\nall, that I might gain the more.\n\n9:20. And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:\n\n9:22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became\nall things to all men, that I might save all.\n\n9:23. And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made\npartaker thereof.\n\n9:24. Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but\none receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.\n\n9:25. And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself\nfrom all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible\ncrown: but we an incorruptible one.\n\n9:26. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as\none beating the air.\n\n9:27. But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps,\nwhen I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.\n\nI chastise, etc... Here St. Paul shews the necessity of self-denial and\nmortification, to subdue the flesh, and its inordinate desires.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 10\n\nBy the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too\nmuch upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the\nservice of idols and from things offered to idols.\n\n10:1. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were\nall under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.\n\n10:2. And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea:\n\nIn Moses... Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in figure,\nby passing under the cloud, and through the sea; and they partook of the\nbody and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the manna, (called here\na spiritual food because it was a figure of the true bread which comes\ndown from heaven,) and drinking the water, miraculously brought out of\nthe rock, called here a spiritual rock, because it was also a figure of\nChrist.\n\n10:3. And did all eat the same spiritual food:\n\n10:4. And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the\nspiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)\n\n10:5. But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were\noverthrown in the desert.\n\n10:6. Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not\ncovet evil things, as they also coveted.\n\n10:7. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written:\nThe people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.\n\n10:8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed\nfornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.\n\n10:9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished\nby the serpent.\n\n10:10. Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were\ndestroyed by the destroyer.\n\n10:11. Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are\nwritten for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.\n\nThe ends of the world... That is, the last ages.\n\n10:12. Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed\nlest he fall.\n\n10:13. Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human.  And\nGod is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which\nyou are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be\nable to bear it.\n\nOr... no temptation hath taken hold of you... or come upon you as yet,\nbut what is human, or incident to man. Issue... or a way to escape.\n\n10:14. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.\n\n10:15. I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.\n\n10:16. The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the\ncommunion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it\nnot the partaking of the body of the Lord?\n\nWhich we bless... Here the apostle puts them in mind of their partaking\nof the body and blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries, and becoming\nthereby one mystical body with Christ.  From whence he infers, ver. 21,\nthat they who are made partakers with Christ, by the eucharistic\nsacrifice and sacrament, must not be made partakers with devils by\neating of the meats sacrificed to them.\n\n10:17. For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of\none bread.\n\nOne bread... or, as it may be rendered, agreeably both to the Latin and\nGreek, because the bread is one, all we, being many, are one body, who\npartake of that one bread. For it is by our communicating with Christ,\nand with one another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are formed into\none mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread, compounded of many\ngrains of corn, closely united together.\n\n10:18. Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of\nthe sacrifices partakers of the altar?\n\n10:19. What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is\nany thing? Or that the idol is any thing?\n\n10:20. But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to\ndevils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers\nwith devils.\n\n10:21. You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of\ndevils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the\ntable of devils.\n\n10:22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?  All\nthings are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.\n\n10:23. All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify.\n\n10:24. Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.\n\n10:25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no question for\nconscience' sake.\n\n10:26. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.\n\n10:27. If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing\nto go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for\nconscience' sake.\n\n10:28. But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat\nof it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake.\n\n10:29. Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my\nliberty judged by another man's conscience?\n\n10:30. If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that\nfor which I give thanks?\n\n10:31. Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do,\ndo all to the glory of God.\n\n10:32. Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the\nchurch of God:\n\n10:33. As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is\nprofitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 11\n\nWomen must have a covering over their heads. He blameth the abuses of\ntheir love feasts and upon that occasion treats of the Blessed\nSacrament.\n\n11:1. Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.\n\n11:2. Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of\nme and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.\n\n11:3. But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ:\nand the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God.\n\n11:4. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraceth\nhis head.\n\n11:5. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered\ndisgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.\n\n11:6. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a\nshame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.\n\n11:7. The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the\nimage and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.\n\n11:8. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.\n\n11:9. For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the\nman.\n\n11:10. Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because\nof the angels.\n\nA power... that is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under the\npower of her husband: and this, the apostle adds, because of the angels,\nwho are present in the assemblies of the faithful.\n\n11:11. But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman\nwithout the man, in the Lord.\n\n11:12. For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman:\nbut all things of God.\n\n11:13. You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray unto God\nuncovered?\n\n11:14. Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he\nnourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?\n\n11:15. But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her\nhair is given to her for a covering.\n\n11:16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,\nnor the Church of God.\n\n11:17. Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together, not\nfor the better, but for the worse.\n\n11:18. For first of all I hear that when you come together in the\nchurch, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it.\n\n11:19. For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved\nmay be made manifest among you.\n\nThere must be also heresies... By reason of the pride and perversity of\nman's heart; not by God's will or appointment; who nevertheless draws\ngood out of this evil, manifesting, by that occasion, who are the good\nand firm Christians, and making their faith more remarkable.\n\n11:20. When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to\neat the Lord's supper.\n\nThe Lord's supper... So the apostle here calls the charity feasts\nobserved by the primitive Christians; and reprehends the abuses of the\nCorinthians, on these occasions; which were the more criminal, because\nthese feasts were accompanied with the celebrating of the eucharistic\nsacrifice and sacrament.\n\n11:21. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed\nis hungry and another is drunk.\n\n11:22. What, have you no houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye\nthe church of God and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say\nto you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.\n\n11:23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto\nyou, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took\nbread,\n\n11:24. And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my\nbody, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration of\nme.\n\n11:25. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying:\nThis chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as\nyou shall drink, for the commemoration of me.\n\n11:26. For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice,\nyou shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.\n\n11:27. Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice\nof the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of\nthe Lord.\n\nOr drink... Here erroneous translators corrupted the text, by putting\nand drink (contrary to the original) instead of or drink.\n\nGuilty of the body, etc., not discerning the body, etc... This\ndemonstrates the real presence of the body and blood of Christ, even to\nthe unworthy communicant; who otherwise could not be guilty of the body\nand blood of Christ, or justly condemned for not discerning the Lord's\nbody.\n\n11:28. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and\ndrink of the chalice.\n\nDrink of the chalice... This is not said by way of command, but by way\nof allowance, viz., where and when it is agreeable to the practice and\ndiscipline of the church.\n\n11:29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh\njudgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.\n\n11:30. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many\nsleep.\n\n11:31. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.\n\n11:32. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we\nbe not condemned with this world.\n\n11:33. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for\none another.\n\n11:34. If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not\ntogether unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 12\n\nOf the diversity of spiritual gifts. The members of the mystical body,\nlike those of the natural body, must mutually cherish one another.\n\n12:1. Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have you\nignorant.\n\n12:2. You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols,\naccording as you were led.\n\n12:3. Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the\nSpirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord\nJesus, but by the Holy Ghost.\n\n12:4. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit.\n\n12:5. And there are diversities of ministries but the same Lord.\n\n12:6. And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who\nworketh all in all.\n\n12:7. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto\nprofit.\n\n12:8. To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to\nanother, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:\n\n12:9. To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of\nhealing in one Spirit:\n\n12:10. To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to\nanother, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of\ntongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.\n\n12:11. But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing\nto every one according as he will.\n\n12:12. For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members\nof the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ.\n\n12:13. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether\nJews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all\nbeen made to drink.\n\n12:14. For the body also is not one member, but many.\n\n12:15. If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of\nthe body: Is it therefore not of the Body?\n\n12:16. And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of\nthe body: Is it therefore not of the body?\n\n12:17. If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing?  If\nthe whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?\n\n12:18. But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body\nas it hath pleased him.\n\n12:19. And if they all were one member, where would be the body?\n\n12:20. But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.\n\n12:21. And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help.  Nor\nagain the head to the feet: I have no need of you.\n\n12:22. Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of\nthe body are more necessary.\n\n12:23. And such as we think to be the less houourable members of the\nbody, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our\nuncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.\n\n12:24. But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body\ntogether, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour.\n\n12:25. That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might\nbe mutually careful one for another.\n\n12:26. And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with\nit: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.\n\n12:27. Now you are the body of Christ and members of member.\n\n12:28. And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles,\nsecondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that miracles: then the graces\nof healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues, interpretations of\nspeeches.\n\n12:29. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors?\n\n12:30. Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of healing?  Do\nall speak with tongues? Do all interpret?\n\n12:31. But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a\nmore excellent way.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 13\n\nCharity is to be preferred before all gifts.\n\n13:1. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not\ncharity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.\n\n13:2. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and\nall knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove\nmountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.\n\n13:3. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I\nshould deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth\nme nothing.\n\n13:4. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not\nperversely, is not puffed up,\n\n13:5. Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger,\nthinketh no evil:\n\n13:6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:\n\n13:7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,\nendureth all things.\n\n13:8. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void\nor tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.\n\n13:9. For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.\n\n13:10. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part\nshall be done away.\n\n13:11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child,\nI thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of\na child.\n\n13:12. We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to\nface. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.\n\n13:13. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but\nthe greatest of these is charity.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 14\n\nThe gift of prophesying is to be preferred before that of speaking\nstrange tongues.\n\n14:1. Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather\nthat you may prophesy.\n\nProphesy... That is, declare or expound the mysteries of faith.\n\n14:2. For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto\nGod: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.\n\nNot unto men... Viz., so as to be heard, that is, so as to be understood\nby them.\n\n14:3. But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and\nexhortation and comfort.\n\n14:4. He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that\nprophesieth, edifieth the church.\n\n14:5. And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to\nprophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with\ntongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive\nedification.\n\n14:6. But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what\nshall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in\nknowledge or in prophecy or in doctrine?\n\n14:7. Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp,\nexcept they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is\npiped or harped?\n\n14:8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare\nhimself to the battle?\n\n14:9. So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how\nshall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air.\n\n14:10. There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world:\nand none is without voice.\n\n14:11. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to\nwhom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.\n\n14:12. So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to\nabound unto the edifying of the church.\n\nOf spirits... Of spiritual gifts.\n\n14:13. And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he\nmay interpret.\n\n14:14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth: but my\nunderstanding is without fruit.\n\n14:15. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also\nwith the understanding, I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also\nwith the understanding.\n\n14:16. Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that\nholdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because\nhe knoweth not what thou sayest.\n\nAmen... The unlearned, not knowing that you are then blessing, will not\nbe qualified to join with you by saying Amen to your blessing. The use\nor abuse of strange tongues, of which the apostle here speaks, does not\nregard the public liturgy of the church, (in which strange tongues were\nnever used,) but certain conferences of the faithful, ver. 26, etc., in\nwhich, meeting together, they discovered to one another their various\nmiraculous gifts of the Spirit, common in those primitive times; amongst\nwhich the apostle prefers that of prophesying before that of speaking\nstrange tongues, because it was more to the public edification. Where\nalso not, that the Latin, used in our liturgy, is so far from being a\nstrange or unknown tongue, that it is perhaps the best known tongue in\nthe world.\n\n14:17. For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.\n\n14:18. I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.\n\n14:19. But in the church I had rather speak five words with my\nunderstanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words\nin a tongue.\n\n14:20. Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be\nchildren: and in sense be perfect.\n\n14:21. In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will\nspeak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.\n\n14:22. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to\nunbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but to believers.\n\n14:23. If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and\nall speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or infidels,\nwill they not say that you are mad?\n\n14:24. But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or\nan unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all.\n\n14:25. The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so, falling down\non his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed.\n\n14:26. How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of\nyou hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue,\nhath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.\n\n14:27. If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by\nthree, and in course: and let one interpret.\n\n14:28. But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the\nchurch and speak to himself and to God.\n\n14:29.  And let the prophets speak, two or three: and let the rest\njudge.\n\n14:30. But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let the first\nhold his peace.\n\n14:31. For you may all prophesy, one by one, that all may learn and all\nmay be exhorted.\n\n14:32. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.\n\n14:33. For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I\nteach in all the churches of the saints.\n\n14:34. Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted\nthem to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.\n\n14:35. But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at\nhome. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.\n\n14:36. Or did the word of God come out from you? Or came it only unto\nyou?\n\n14:37. If any seem to be a prophet or spiritual, let him know the things\nthat I write to you, that they are the commandments of the Lord.\n\n14:38. But if any man know not, he shall not be known.\n\n14:39. Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy: and forbid not to\nspeak with tongues.\n\n14:40. But let all things be done decently and according to order.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 15\n\nChrist's resurrection and ours. The manner of our resurrection.\n\n15:1. Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached\nto you, which also you have received and wherein you stand.\n\n15:2. By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I\npreached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.\n\n15:3. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how\nthat Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:\n\n15:4. And that he was buried: and that he rose again according to the\nscriptures:\n\n15:5. And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.\n\n15:6. Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of\nwhom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep.\n\n15:7. After that, he was seen by James: then by all the apostles.\n\n15:8. And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due\ntine.\n\n15:9. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called\nan apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.\n\n15:10. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath\nnot been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet\nnot I, but the grace of God with me:\n\n15:11. For whether I or they, so we preach: and so you have believed.\n\n15:12. Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how\ndo some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?\n\n15:13. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not\nrisen again.\n\n15:14. And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and\nyour faith is also vain.\n\n15:15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have\ngiven testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he hath\nnot raised up, if the dead rise not again.\n\n15:16. For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.\n\n15:17. And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are\nyet in your sins.\n\n15:18. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.\n\n15:19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men\nmost miserable.\n\n15:20. But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them\nthat sleep:\n\n15:21. For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the\ndead.\n\n15:22. And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made\nalive.\n\n15:23. But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then\nthey that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.\n\n15:24. Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom\nto God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all\nprincipality and power and virtue.\n\n15:25. For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his\nfeet.\n\n15:26. And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For he hath put\nall things under his feet. And whereas he saith:\n\n15:27. All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who\nput all things under him.\n\n15:28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also\nhimself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that\nGod may be all in all.\n\nThe Son also himself shall be subject unto him... That is, the Son will\nbe subject to the Father, according to his human nature, even after the\ngeneral resurrection; and also the whole mystical body of Christ will be\nentirely subject to God, obeying him in every thing.\n\n15:29. Otherwise, what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if\nthe dead rise not again at all? Why are they then baptized for them?\n\nThat are baptized for the dead... Some think the apostle here alludes to\na ceremony then in use; but others, more probably, to the prayers and\npenitential labours, performed by the primitive Christians for the souls\nof the faithful departed; or to the baptism of afflictions and\nsufferings undergone for sinners spiritually dead.\n\n15:30. Why also are we in danger every hour?\n\n15:31. I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in\nChrist Jesus our Lord.\n\n15:32. If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth\nit profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to\nmorrow we shall die.\n\nLet us eat and drink, etc... That is, if we did not believe that we were\nto rise again from the dead, we might live like the impious and wicked,\nwho have no belief in the resurrection.\n\n15:33. Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.\n\n15:34. Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of\nGod. I speak it to your shame.\n\n15:35. But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what\nmanner of body shall they come?\n\n15:36. Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it\ndie first.\n\n15:37. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall\nbe: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.\n\n15:38. But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper\nbody.\n\n15:39. All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men,\nanother of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes.\n\n15:40. And there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial: but, one\nis the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.\n\n15:41. One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and\nanother the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.\n\n15:42. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in\ncorruption: it shall rise in incorruption.\n\n15:43. It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in\nweakness: it shall rise in power.\n\n15:44. It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual body.  If\nthere be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is\nwritten:\n\n15:45. The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam\ninto a quickening spirit.\n\n15:46. Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is\nnatural: afterwards that which is spiritual.\n\n15:47. The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from\nheaven, heavenly.\n\n15:48. Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as is\nthe heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.\n\n15:49. Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear\nalso the image of the heavenly.\n\n15:50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the\nkingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.\n\n15:51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but\nwe shall not all be changed.\n\n15:52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for\nthe trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And\nwe shall be changed.\n\n15:53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal\nmust put on immortality.\n\n15:54. And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to\npass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.\n\n15:55. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?\n\n15:56. Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.\n\n15:57. But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our\nLord Jesus Christ.\n\n15:58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable:\nalways abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is\nnot in vain in the Lord.\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 16\n\nOf collection of alms. Admonitions and salutations.\n\n16:1. Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I\nhave given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also.\n\n16:2. On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with\nhimself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the\ncollections be not then to be made.\n\n16:3. And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by\nletters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.\n\n16:4. And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me.\n\n16:5. Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through\nMacedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.\n\n16:6. And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that\nyou may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go.\n\n16:7. For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall\nabide with you some time, if the Lord permit.\n\n16:8. But I will tarry at Ephesus, until Pentecost.\n\n16:9. For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many\nadversaries.\n\n16:10. Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear: for he\nworketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.\n\n16:11. Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct ye him on his way\nin peace, that he may come to me. For I look for him with the brethren.\n\n16:12. And touching our brother Apollo, I give you to understand that I\nmuch entreated him to come unto you with the brethren: and indeed it was\nnot his will at all to come at this time. But he will come when he shall\nhave leisure.\n\n16:13. Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be\nstrengthened.\n\n16:14. Let all your things be done in charity.\n\n16:15. And I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanus, and\nof Fortunatus, and of Achaicus, that they are the firstfruits of Achaia,\nand have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints:\n\n16:16. That you also be subject to such and to every one that worketh\nwith us and laboureth.\n\n16:17. And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanus and Fortunatus and\nAchaicus: because that which was wanting on your part, they have\nsupplied.\n\n16:18. For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them,\ntherefore, that are such.\n\n16:19. The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you\nmuch in the Lord, with the church that is in their house, with whom I\nalso lodge.\n\n16:20. All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.\n\n16:21. The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.\n\n16:22. If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema,\nmaranatha.\n\nLet him be anathema, maranatha... Anathema signifies here a thing\naccursed. Maran-atha, which, according to St. Jerome and St. Chrysostom,\nsignify, `The Lord is come' already, and therefore is to be taken as an\nadmonition to those who doubted of the resurrection, and to put them in\nmind that Christ, the judge of the living and the dead, is come already.\nOthers explain Maran-atha: `May our Lord come', that is, to judge and\npunish those with exemplary judgments and punishments, that do not love\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n16:23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.\n\n16:24. My charity be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":12087}