The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

If wee haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges?

If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.

Doe ye not knowe, that they which minister about the holy things, eate of the things of the Temple? and they which waite at the altar, are partakers with the altar?

So also hath the Lord ordeined, that they which preach ye Gospel, should liue of the Gospel.

But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to reioyce of: for necessitie is laid vpon me, and woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel.

For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me.

What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.

For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.

And vnto the Iewes, I become as a Iewe, that I may winne the Iewes: to them that are vnder the Lawe, as though I were vnder the Lawe, that I may winne them that are vnder the Lawe:

To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:

To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.

And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Knowe ye not, that they which runne in a race, runne all, yet one receiueth the price? so runne that ye may obtaine.

And euery man that proueth masteries, abstaineth from all things: and they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne: but we for an vncorruptible.

I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

But I beate downe my body, and bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.

Moreouer, brethren, I woulde not that yee shoulde bee ignorant, that all our fathers were vnder that cloude, and all passed through that sea,

And were all baptized vnto Moses, in that cloude, and in that sea,

And did all eat the same spiritual meat,

And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke (for they dranke of the spiritual Rocke that folowed them: and the Rocke was Christ)

But with many of them God was not pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in ye wildernes.

Nowe these things are our ensamples, to the intent that we should not lust after euil things as they also lusted.

Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.

Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.

Neither let vs tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted him, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Nowe all these things came vnto them for ensamples, and were written to admonish vs, vpon whome the endes of the world are come.

Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heede lest he fall.

There hath no tentation taken you, but such as appertaine to man: and God is faithfull, which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able, but wil euen giue the issue with the tentation, that ye may be able to beare it.

Wherefore my beloued, flee from idolatrie.

I speake as vnto them which haue vnderstanding: iugde ye what I say.

The cup of blessing which we blesse, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we breake, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

For we that are many, are one bread and one body, because we all are partakers of one bread.

Beholde Israel, which is after the flesh: are not they which eate of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

What say I then? that the idole is any thing? or that that which is sacrificed to idoles, is any thing?

Nay, but that these things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to deuils, and not vnto God: and I would not that ye should haue fellowship with the deuils.

Ye can not drinke the cup of the Lord, and the cup of the deuils. Ye can not be partakers of the Lords table, and of the table of the deuils.

Doe we prouoke the Lord to anger? are we stronger then he?

All things are lawfull for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawfull for me, but all things edifie not.

Let no man seeke his owne, but euery man anothers wealth.

Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, eate ye, and aske no question for conscience sake.

For the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is.

If any of them which beleeue not, call you to a feast, and if ye wil go, whatsoeuer is set before you, eate, asking no question for conscience sake.

But if any man say vnto you, This is sacrificed vnto idoles, eate it not, because of him that shewed it, and for the conscience (for the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is)

And the conscience, I say, not thine, but of that other: for why should my libertie be condemned of another mans conscience?

For if I through Gods benefite be partaker, why am I euill spoken of, for that wherefore I giue thankes?

Whether therefore ye eate, or drinke, or whatsoeuer ye doe, doe all to the glory of God.

Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of God:

Euen as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.

Be yee followers of mee, euen as I am of Christ.

Now brethren, I commend you, that ye remember all my things, and keepe the ordinances, as I deliuered them to you.

But I wil that ye know, that Christ is the head of euery man: and the man is the womans head: and God is Christs head.

Euery man praying or prophecying hauing any thing on his head, dishonoureth his head.

But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth bare headed, dishonoureth her head: for it is euen one very thing, as though she were shauen.

Therefore if the woman be not couered, let her also be shorne: and if it be shame for a woman to be shorne or shauen, let her be couered.

For a man ought not to couer his head: for as much as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

For the man was not created for the womans sake: but the woman for the mans sake.

Therefore ought the woman to haue power on her head, because of the Angels.

Neuertheles, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.

For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.

Iudge in your selues, Is it comely that a woman pray vnto God vncouered?

Doeth not nature it selfe teach you, that if a man haue long heare, it is a shame vnto him?

But if a woman haue long heare, it is a prayse vnto her: for her heare is giuen her for a couering.

But if any man lust to be contentious, we haue no such custome, neither the Churches of God.

Nowe in this that I declare, I prayse you not, that ye come together, not with profite, but with hurt.

For first of all, when ye come together in the Church, I heare that there are dissentions among you: and I beleeue it to be true in some part.

For there must be heresies euen among you, that they which are approoued among you, might be knowen.

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eate the Lords Supper.

For euery man when they should eate, taketh his owne supper afore, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Haue ye not houses to eate and to drinke in? despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that haue not? what shall I say to you? shall I prayse you in this? I prayse you not.

For I haue receiued of the Lord that which I also haue deliuered vnto you, to wit, That the Lord Iesus in the night when he was betrayed, tooke bread:

And when hee had giuen thankes, hee brake it, and sayde, Take, eate: this is my body, which is broken for you: this doe ye in remembrance of me.

After the same maner also he tooke the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the Newe Testament in my blood: this doe as oft as ye drinke it, in remembrance of me.

For as often as ye shall eate this bread, and drinke this cup, ye shewe the Lords death till hee come.

Wherefore, whosoeuer shall eate this bread, and drinke the cup of the Lord vnworthily, shall be guiltie of the body and blood of the Lord.

Let euery man therefore examine himselfe, and so let him eate of this bread, and drinke of this cup.

For he that eateth and drinketh vnworthily, eateth and drinketh his owne damnation, because he discerneth not the Lords body.

For this cause many are weake, and sicke among you, and many sleepe.

For if we would iudge our selues, we should not be iudged.

But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned with the world.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eate, tary one for another.

And if any man be hungry, let him eate at home, that ye come not together vnto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.

Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, and were caried away vnto the dumme Idoles, as ye were led.

Wherefore, I declare vnto you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Iesus execrable: also no man can say that Iesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.

Now there are diuersities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are diuersities of administrations, but the same Lord,

And there are diuersities of operations, but God is the same which worketh all in all.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is giuen to euery man, to profite withall.

For to one is giuen by the Spirit the word of wisdome: and to an other the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit:

And to another is giuen faith by the same Spirit: and to another the giftes of healing, by the same Spirit:

And to another the operations of great workes: and to another, prophecie: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, diuersities of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

And all these thinges worketh one and the selfe same Spirit, distributing to euery man seuerally as he will.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, which is one, though they be many, yet are but one body: euen so is Christ.

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we bee Iewes, or Grecians, whether we be bonde, or free, and haue bene all made to drinke into one Spirit.

For the body also is not one member, but many.

If the foote would say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

And if the eare would say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?