speak before A. D. 60. God in Christ: i but we do all things, h ch. 11. 31. dearly beloved, for your edifying. Ro. 9. 1. i 1 Co.10.33. & 13. 2. 10. 1 ch. 2. 1. 4. threatened. ned, and to all other, which to you-ward is 4h For though he was crucified through weakness, yet i he liveth by the power of God. Fork we also are weak tin 20 For I fear, lest, k ch. 10. 2. speaking f in me, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto m ch. 13. 2. you such as ye would n 1 Co. 5. 1. not: lest there be a ch. 12. 14. debates, envyings, b wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 21 And lest, when I come again, my God I will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail Nu. 35.30. & 19. 15. him, but we shall He. 10. 28. live with him by the ch. 10. 2. power of God toward d ch. 12. 21. you. e ch. 1. 23. 51 Examine your many m which have f ch. 2. 10. selves, whether ye be sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. CHAP. XIII. in the faith; prove Ma. 10. 20. 1 Co. 5. 4. your own selves. Know ye not your g1 Co. 9. 2. own selves, m how h Ph.2.7,9. 1 Pe. 3. 18. that Jesus Christ is i Ro. 6. 4. in you, except ye be reprobates ? k ch.10.3, 4. † Or, 6 But 1 trust that with him. ye shall know that 1 THIS is a the 11 Co.11.28. we are not reprothird time I am com-m Ro. 8. 10. bates. ing to you. In the Ga. 4. 19. mouth of two or n1 Co. 9.27. three witnesses shall every word be esta-. blished. o ch 6. 9. ver. 5 * αδόκιμοι, 2 I told you be- persons disfore, and foretell you, approved. In as if I were present, 1 Cor. ix.27. the second time; and the same being absent now I write to them d which heretofore have sin Greek word 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. Benediction. and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 12 y Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and a the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. St. Paul wrote this Epistle about a year after the preceding one, There are several important particulars introduced by him: but especially-I. His illustration of the superior glory of the Christian dispensation to that of the Mosaic. II. The great sufferings which he and his fellow-labourers endured. II. His cautious advice relating to associating with unbelievers. ΠΑΥΛΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΥ Ἡ ΠΡΟΣ ΓΑΛΑΤΑΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ. The Epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the 1 PAUL, an apostle, b Tit. 1.3. (nota of men, neither by man, but bby Jesus Christ, God the Father, raised him from the dead ;) 2 And brethren all the which are with me, eunto the churches of Galatia: 3 f Grace be to you Paul's doctrine GAL. I. A. D. 58. not from man. to please men? for if I yet pleased men, our Lord Jesus Christ, s Ma. 20. 28. I should not be the 4 g Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from h this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel : h Ro. 4. 25. Tit. 2. 14. Is. 65. 17. Jno. 15. 19. i ch. 5. 8. k 2 Co. 11.4. 1 Ac. 15. 24. m 1Co.16.22. servant of Christ. 12 For I neither 2 Co. 2. 17. received it of man, neither was I taught it, but t by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that u beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and x wasted it: 1 Jno.3.9. Th. 2. 4. Ja. 4. 4. 7k Which is not another; r1 Co. 15.1. but there be some that trouble 1 Co. 15.3. you, and would per-t Ep. 3. 3. vert the gospel of u Ac. 9. 1. Christ. I Ti. 1. 13. 8 But though we,x Ac. 8. 3. or an angel from Gr. equals heaven, preach any in years. other gospel unto you y Ac. 22. 3. than that which we have preached unto z you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto than that ye have received, let him be accursed. you 10 For do I now persuade P men, or God? or 4 do I seek Ph. 3. 6. Ma. 15. 2. a Mar. 7. 5. Is. 49.1.5. Je. 1. 5. b 2 Co. 4. 6. Ro. 11. 13. 14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my tequals in mine own nation, y being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, a who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with d flesh and blood: 17 Neither went I GAL. II. his purpose. 2 And I went up by revelation, b and Ac. 9. 26. communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I privately to them which were of reputation, Paul showerh 19 But fother of the apostles saw I none, save g James Lord's brother. fl Co. 9. 5. 8 Ma. 13. 55. h Ro. 9. 1. i Ac. 9. 30. 1 Th. 2.14. the Ro. 16. 7. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, h behold, before God, I lie not. 1 Co. 1.30. Ph. 1. 1. 1 Th. 1. 1. 2 Th. 1. 1. a Ac.15. 2. 21 i Afterwards Ib Ac. 15. 12. came into the regions t Or, of Syria and Cilicia; severally. 22 And was un-e Ac. 15. 24. known by face kunto the churches of Judæa which I were in Christ: 23 But they had heard only, That he' which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. d & 16. 3. Ph. 2. 16. lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. neither Tiwith 3 But me, being a Greek, 4 And that because of d false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our eliberty which we have in Christ Jesus, fthat they might bring us 1 Th. 3. 5. into bondage: Ac. 15. 1. 5 To whom we 24. gave place by sub2 Co. 11.jection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 26. e ch. 3. 25. & 5.1.13. 2 Pe.2.19. f ch. 4. 3. 9. 6 But 24 And they glo- 2 Co.11.20. who h seemed to be 7 But contrariwise,Į when they saw that the gospel of the un-I circumcision m was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was un-m 1 Th. 2.4. to Peter; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, n the same 1 Ti. 2. 7. self, fearing Ac. 9. 15. & 13. 2. & 22. 21. was mighty in meo ch. 3. 5. toward the Gen-p Ma. 16. 18. tiles :) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, q who seemed to be pillars, p perceived the 4 grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they s unto the circumci-t sion. Ep. 2. 20. Re. 21. 14. Ro. 1. 5. & 15. 15. 1 Co.15.10. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to u the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, y If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, Ro. 15. 25. and not as do the 1 Co. 16.1. Jews, why compel2 Co. 8&9. lest thou the Gentiles Ac. 15. 35. to live as do the Ac. 10. 28. Jews? Ac. 11. 30. & 24. 17. & 11. 3. 10 Only they would a ver. 5. that we should re-x 1 Ti. 5. 20. member the poor; the same which y Ac. 10. 23. also was forward to do. & 11.3. z Ac. 15. 10. 11 But when Pe-a Ma. 9. 11. Ep.2.3.12. ter was come to Antioch, 1 withstood b Ac. 13. 38. him to the face, be-c Ro. 1. 17. cause he was to be blamed. 12 For before that a certain came from James, the did eat! & 3.22. 28. 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not a sinners of the Gentiles, 16 b Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for d by the works of the law |