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896 Paul eæborteth to liberality. II. CORINTHIANS. Titus and others commended,

ye forrowed after a godly fort, what care-fo there may be a performance also out futnefs it wrought in you, yea, bar of that which ye have.

clearing of yourselves, yea, what indig- 12 For if there be firft a willing mind, it nation, yea, what fear, yea, what veheis accepted according to that a man hath, ment defire, yea, what zeal, yea, whai and not according to that he hath not. revenge! In all things ye have approved yourfelves to be clear in this matter

12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you. I did it not for his caufe that had done the wrong, nor for his caufe that fuffered wrong, but that our care for you in the fight of God might appear unto you.

13 For I mean not that other men be eafed, and you burdened:

14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a jupply for their want, that their abundance allo may be a fupply for your want: that there may be equality:

15 As it is written, He that bad gatbered much had nothing over, and he that bad gathered little had no lack

16 But thanks be to God, which put the fame earnest care into the heart of Titus for you:

15 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, becaufe his fpirit was refreshed by you all 14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed: but as we fpake all things to you in truth, even 17 For indeed he accepted the exhortfo our boafting, which I made before Ti-ation; but being more forward, of his tus is found a truth. own accord he went unto you.

15 And his inward aff &tion is more 18 And we have fent with him the abundant toward you, whilst he remem-brother, whofe praife is in the gofpel bereth the obedience of you all, how with throughout all the churches; fear and trembling ye received him. 16 I rejoice therefore that I have conAdence in you in all things.

CHAP. VIII.

1 He firreth them up to contribute to the fainis, 16 commendeth Trus and others. MOREOVER, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

3 For to their power, 1 bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

4 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon u the fellowship of the ministering to the faints. 5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own felves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God:

6 Infomuch, that we defired Titus, that as he had begun, fo he would also finish in you the fame grace alfo.

7 Therefore, as ye abound in everything in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, fee that ye abound in this grace alfo.

8 I fpeak not by commandment, but by occation of the forwardness of others, and to prove the fincerity of your love. 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, that, though he was rich, yet for your fakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

19 And not that only,but who was alfo chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the fame Lord, and declaration of your ready mind :

20 Avoiding this, that no man fhould blame us in this abundance which is administered by us :

21 Providing for honeft things.not only in the fight of the Lord, but alfo in the fight of men.

22 And we have fent with them out brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

28 Whether any do inquire of Titos, be is my partner and fellow helper concerning you or our brethren be inquired of, they are the meffengers of the churches, and the glory of Chrift.

24 Wherefore, fhew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boafting on your behalf. CHAP. IX.

He fheweth why be fent Titus, 6 and firreth them up 10 be bountiful in alms, 10 which shall yield them a bountiful increase.

FOR as touching the miniftering to the faints, it is fuperfluous for me to write

to you:

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boat of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very 10 And herein I give my advice for many. : this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

11 Now therefore perform the doing of that as there was a readiness to will,

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S Yet have I fent the brethren, left our boafting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I faid, ye may be ready:

4 Left haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared we

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Why Paul fent Titus.

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Paul's fpiritual might, &c. 897 (that we fay not, ye) fhould be ashamed 6 And having in a readiness to revenge in this fame confident boating. all difobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

5 Therefore I thought it neceffary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the fame might be ready, as a mat ter of bounty, and not as of covetoufnefs. 6 But this I fay, He which foweth fparingly fhall reap alfo fparingly; and he which foweth bountifully thall reap alfo bountifully.

7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Chrift's, let him of him. felf think this again, that as he is Chrift's, even fo are we Chrift's.

8 For though I fhould boaft fomewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your deftruction, I should not be ashamed: 7 Every man according as he purposeth 9 That I may not seem as if I would in his heart, fo let him give; not grudg-terrify you by letters ingly, or of neceflity for God loveth a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all fufficiency in all things, may a. bound to every good work:

9 As it is written, He hath difperfed abroad; he hath given to the poor; his righteousness remaineth forever.

10 For bis letters, fay they, are weighty and powerful; but bis bodily prefence is weak, and bis fpeech contemptible.

11 Let fuch an one think this, that fuch as we are in word by letters when we are abfent, fuch will we be alfo in deed when we are present.

12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with 10 Now he that miniftereth feed to fome that commend themselves: but they the fower, both minifter bread for your measuring themfelves by themselves,and food and multiply your feed fown, and comparing themfelves among themselves, increase the fruits of your righteoufnefs; are not wife. 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which caufeth through us thanksgiving to God.

18 But we will not boaft of things without our measure but according to the meafure of the rule, which God hath diftribut12 For the adminiftration of this fered to us,a measure to reach even unto you. vice not only fupplieth the want of the faints, but is abundant alfo by many thanksgivings unto God;

18 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration, they glorify God for your profelfed fubjection unto the gofpel of Chrift, and for your liberal diftribution unto them, and unto all men ;

14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

14 For we ftretch not ourselves beyond our measure as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you alfo in preaching the gospel of Chrift:

15 Not boafting of things without our meafure, that is, of other men's labours: but having hope, when your faith is increafed, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another

15 Thanks be unto God for his un-man's lineofthings madeready to ourhand. speakable gift.

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1 Paul's fpiritual might and authority. 12 Not 10 ftretch beyond our compass. NOW I Paul my felf befecch you by the meeknefs and gentlenefs of Chrift, who in prefence am bafe among you, but being abfent, am bold toward you:

17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

18 For not he that commendeth himfelf is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

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CHAP. XI.

Paul, being forced, entereth into a commendation of bimfelf, and compar 2 But I beseech you that I may not be ifon with the other apoftles. bold when I am prefent with that confi- WOULD to God ye could bear with dence, wherewith I think to be bold a-me a little in my folly and indeed bear gainst fome, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh :

(4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of ftrong holds :)

5 Cafting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itfelf against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Chrift;

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2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealoufy: for I have esponsed you to one hufband, that I may prefent you as a chafte virgin to Chrift.

3 But I fear, left by any means, as the ferpent beguiled Eve through his fubtilty, so your minds thould be corrupted from the fimplicity that is in Chrift.

4 For if he that cometh preacheth an other Jefus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye

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899 Paul commendeth bimfeif. II. CORINTHIANS. He glorietb in affliction. have not received, or another gospel, 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once which ye have not accepted, ye might was I ftoned, thrice I fuffered fhipwreck, well bear with bim. a night and a day I have been in the deep.

5 For I fuppofe I was not a whit behind the very chiefeft apoftles.

6 But though Ibe rude in fpeech, yet not in knowledge, but we have been thorough ly made manifeft among you in all things 7 Have I committed an offence in abafing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gofpel of God freely?

8 1 robbed other churches, taking wages of them to do you fervice.

9 And when I was prefent with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me, the brethren which came from Macedonia fupplied and in all things I have kept my felf from being burdenfome unto you, and fo will I keep myself

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10 As the truth of Chrift is in me, no man fhall top me of this boafting in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth.

12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occafion from them which defire occafion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, is perils among false brethren ;

27 In wearinefs and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirt, in faftings often, in cold and nakednefs.

28 Befide thofe things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak ? Who is offended, and I burn not i the things which concern mine infirmities. 50 IfI must needs glory, I will glory of

31 The God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which is bleffed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

32 In Damafcus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend ine:

$3 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped

18 For fuch are falfe apofiles, deceitful workers, transforming themfelves into the 1 apoftles of Chrift.

14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

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CHAP. XII.

Paul commendeth his apostleship, not by his revelations,9 but by bis infirmities,11 blaming them for forcing this boating. IT is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to vifions and reve

15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his minifters alfo be transformed as thelations of the Lord. minifters of righteoufnefs, whofe end shall be according to their works.

16 1 fay again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwife, yet as a fool receive me. that I may boaft myself a little.

17 That which I fpeak, I fpeak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly,in

this confidence of boafting.

18 Seeing that many glory after the flefh, I will glory alfo.

19 For ye fuffer fools gladly, feeing ye yourselves are wife.

20 For ye fuffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a mman take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man fmite you on the face.

21 I fpeak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit, wherein foever any is bold, (I fpeak fool ifhly) I am bold alfo.

22 Are they Hebrews fo am I. Are they Ifraelites ? fo am I. Are they the

feed of Abraham ? fo am I.

23 Are they minifters of Chrift? (Ifpeak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in ftripes above meafure, in prifons more frequent, in deaths oft.

24 Of the Jews five times received I forty fripes fave one.

2 I knew a man in Chrift about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body. I cannot tell; or whether out of the body,

cannot tell: God knoweth) fuch an one caught up to the third heaven.

3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth)

How that he was caught up into paradife, and heard unfpeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to ufter.

5 Of fuch an one will I glory: yet of myfelf I will not glory, but in mine in

firmities.

6 For though I would defire to glɔry, I shall not be a fool; for I will fay the truth: but now I forbear, left any man thould think of me above that which he feeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

7 And left I should be exalted above meafure through the abundance of therevclations. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, left I should be exalted above measure.

8 For this thing befought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

9 And he faid unto me, My grace is fufficient for thee: for my frength is made perfect in weakness. Mott gladly there

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Paul's pleasure in bis infirmities, &c. Chap. i. He threateneth obftinate finners. 899

CHAP. XIII.

Paul threateneth obftinate finners. 5 He adviserb them 10 a trial of their faith. THIS is the third time I am coming to you.

fore will I rather glory in my infirmities,
that the power of Chrift may reft upon me.1
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirm
ities, in reproaches, in neceffities, in per-
fecutions, in diftreffes for Chrift's fake :
for when I am weak, then am I strong.
11 I am become a fool in glorying:
ye have compelied me: for I ought to
have been commended of you: for in
nothing am I behind the very chiefest a
poftles, though I be nothing.

12 Truly the figns of an apoftle were wrought among you in all patience, in figns, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

13 For, What is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdenfome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burdenfome to you: for I feek not yours, but you for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents

for the children.

15 And I will very gladly spend and be fpent for you: though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 16 But be it fo, I did not burden you nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I fent unto you?

18 I defired Titus, and with him I fent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Walked we not in the fame spiritè Walked we not in the fame steps?

In the mouth of two or three witneffes fhall ever word be established. 2 I told you before, and foretel you, as if I were prefent the fecond time; and being abfent now I write to them which heretofore have finned, and to all other, that if I come again, I will not spare:

8 Since ye feek a proof of Chrift fpeaking in me, which to you ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

For though he was crucified through weaknefs, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we alfo are weak in him, but we hall live with him by the power of God toward you.

5 Examineyourselves, whether ye bein the faith, prove your own felves. Know ye not your own felves, how that Jefus Chrift is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye fhall know that we are not reprobates.

7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we thould appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honeft, though we be as reprobates.

8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are ftrong; and this also we with, even your perfection.

10 Therefore I write thefe things being abfent, left being prefent I should 19 Again, think ye that we excufe our-ufe sharpnefs, according to the power felves unto you? We fpeak before God which the Lord hath given me to edificain Chrift: but we do all things, dearly tion, and not to deftruction. beloved, for your edifying. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be per

20 For I fear, left, when I come, Ifect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, fhall not find you fuch as I would, and live in peace; and the God of love and bat I fhall be found unto you fuch as peace thall be with you. ye would not left there be debates, envyings, wraths, ftrifes, backbitings, whifperings, fwellings, tumults:

21 and left, when I come again, my God will humble ine among you, and that fhall bewail many which have finned al-, ready, and have not repented of the uncleannefs, and fornication, and lafciviouf.) nefs, which they have committed.

12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the faints falute you.

14 The grace of the Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghoft, be with you all. Amen.

¶ The fecond epifle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE GALATIANS.

CHAP. 1.

1 Paul wondereth that they have fo foon left bim and the gospel,

which be

3 Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jefus Chrift,

learned, not of men, but of God. 4 Who gave himfelf for our fins, that PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, nei-he might deliver us from this prefent ther by man, but by Jefus Chrift, and evil world, according to the will of God God the Father, who raifed him from and our Father:

the dead)

2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia :

To whom be glory for ever and ever.

Amen.

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900 Paul marvels at the Galatians. GALATIANS. Of juftification by faith, from him that called you into the grace communicated unto them that gospel of Chrift unto another gofpel:

7 Which is not another; but there be fome that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

which I preach among the Gentiles, ba privately to them which were of reputation, left by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

3 But neither Titus,who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be cir

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gofpel unto you, than that which we have preached cumcifed: unto you, let him be accurfed.

And that because of falfe brethren

9 As we faid before, so say I now a-unawares brought in,who came in privily, gain, if any man preach any other gofpel to fpy out our liberty which we have in unto you than that ye have received, let Chriit Jefus, that they might bring us him be accursed. into bondage:

10 For, Do I now perfuade men, or God or, Do I feek to please men? Forif 1 yet pleafed men, I fhould not be the fervant of Chrift.

11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gofpel which was preached of me is not after man.

5 To whom we gave place by fubjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gofpel might continue with you.

6 But of thofe, who seemed to be fomewhat, (whatsoever they were it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's perfon :) for they who feemed to be jome. 12 For I neither received it of man, nei-bat, in conference added nothing to me: ther was I taught is, but by the revelation 7 But contrariwife, when they faw that of Jefus Chrift. the gospel of the uncircumcifion was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcifion was unto Peter:

13 For ye have heard of my converfation in time paft in the Jews' religion bow that beyond meafure I perfecuted the church of God, and wasted it :

14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcifion, the fame was mighty in me toward the Gentiles ;)

9 And when James, Cephas and John, who feemed to be pillars, perceived the 15 But when it pleased God, who fep-grace that was given unto me, they gave arated me from my mother's womb, and to me and Barnabas the right hands of called me by his grace, fellowship: that we bould go unto the 16 To reveal his Son in me that I might heathen, and they unto the circumcifion. preach him among the heathen; immedi- 10 Only they would that we should reately I conferred not with flesh and blood :member the poor; the fame which I allo 17 Neither went I up to Jerufalem to was forward to do.

them which were apoftles before me ; 11 But when Peter was come to Antibut I went into Arabia, and returned a-och, I withftood him to the face, becaufe gain unto Damafcus. he was to be blamed :

18 Then after three years I went up 12 For before that certain came from to Jerufalem, to fee Peter, and abode with | James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but him fifteen days. when they were come, he withdrew and feparated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcifion.

19 But other of the apoftles faw I none, fave James the Lord's brother.

20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God I lie not.

21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia ;

22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Chrift: 28 But they had heard only, That he which perfecuted us in times paft, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

24 And they glorified God in me. СНАР. 1.

1 Paul fbewerb when he went up again 10 Jerufalem, and why. 14 Of justification by faith, and not by works. 20 They that are fo juftified, live not in fin. THEN fourteen years after I went up again to Jerufalem with Barnabas and took Titus with me alfo.

2 And I went up by revelation, and

15 And the other Jews diffembled like. wife with him; infomuch that Barnabas alfo was carried away with their diffimulation.

14 ¶ But when I faw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the golpel, I faid unto Peter before the all, If thou, being a Jew, liveft atter the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, Why compelleft thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

15 We who are Jews by nature, and not finners of the Gentiles,

16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jefus Chrift, even we have believed in Jefus Chrift, that we might be justified by the faith of Chrift, and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law, fhall no flesh be justified.

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