The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.

Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.

But some man will say, Howe are the dead raised vp? and with what body come they foorth?

O foole, that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die.

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shalbe, but bare corne as it falleth, of wheat, or of some other.

But God giueth it a body at his pleasure, euen to euery seede his owne body,

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beastes, and another of fishes, and another of birdes.

There are also heauenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but the glorie of the heauenly is one, and the glorie of the earthly is another.

There is another glorie of the sunne, and another glorie of the moone, and another glorie of the starres: for one starre differeth from another starre in glorie.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The bodie is sowen in corruption, and is raysed in incorruption.

It is sowen in dishonour, and is raysed in glory: it is sowen in weakenesse, and is raysed in power.

It is sowen a naturall body, and is raysed a spirituall body: there is a naturall body, and there is a spirituall body.

As it is also written, The first man Adam was made a liuing soule: and the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.

Howbeit that was not first which is spirituall: but that which is naturall, and afterward that which is spirituall.

The first man is of the earth, earthly: the second man is the Lord from heauen.

As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly: and as is the heauenly, such are they also that are heauenly.

And as we haue borne the image of the earthly, so shall we beare the image of the heauenly.

This say I, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherite the kingdome of God, neither doeth corruption inherite incorruption.

Behold, I shewe you a secret thing, We shall not all sleepe, but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinckling of an eye at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shalbe raysed vp incorruptible, and we shalbe changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortall must put on immortalitie.

So when this corruptible hath put on incorruption, and this mortall hath put on immortalitie, then shalbe brought to passe the saying that is written, Death is swallowed vp into victorie.

O death where is thy sting? O graue where is thy victorie?

The sting of death is sinne: and ye strength of sinne is the Lawe.

But thankes be vnto God, which hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ.

Therefore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, aboundant alwayes in the worke of the Lord, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord.

Concerning the gathering for the Saintes, as I haue ordeined in the Churches of Galatia, so doe ye also.

Euery first day of the weeke, let euery one of you put aside by himselfe, and lay vp as God hath prospered him, that then there be no gatherings when I come.

And when I am come, whomsoeuer ye shall alowe by letters, them will I send to bring your liberalitie vnto Hierusalem.

And if it be meete that I goe also, they shall goe with me.

Nowe I will come vnto you, after I haue gone through Macedonia (for I will passe through Macedonia.)

And it may be that I will abide, yea, or winter with you, that ye may bring me on my way, whither soeuer I goe.

For I will not see you nowe in my passage, but I trust to abide a while with you, if the Lord permit.

And I wil tary at Ephesus vntill Pentecost.

For a great doore and effectuall is opened vnto me: and there are many aduersaries.

Nowe if Timotheus come, see that he be without feare with you: for he worketh the worke of the Lord, euen as I doe.

Let no man therefore despise him: but conuey him foorth in peace, that he may come vnto me: for I looke for him with the brethren.

As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him, to come vnto you with the brethren: but his mind was not at all to come at this time: howbeit he will come when he shall haue conuenient time.

Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: quite you like men, and be strong.

Let all your things be done in loue.

Nowe brethren, I beseeche you (ye knowe the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruites of Achaia, and that they haue giuen themselues to minister vnto the Saintes)

That ye be obedient euen vnto such, and to all that helpe with vs and labour.

I am glad of the comming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for they haue supplied the want of you.

For they haue comforted my spirite and yours: acknowledge therefore such men.

The Churches of Asia salute you: Aquila and Priscilla with ye Church that is in their house, salute you greatly in the Lord.

All the brethren greete you. Greete ye one another, with an holy kisse.

The salutation of me Paul with mine owne hand.

If any man loue not the Lord Iesus Christ, let him be had in execration maran-atha.

The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you.

My loue be with you all in Christ Iesus, Amen. ‘The first Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, and sent by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.’

Pavl an Apostle of JESVS Christ, by the will of God, and our brother Timotheus, to the Church of God, which is at Corinthus with all the Saints, which are in all Achaia:

Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

Blessed be God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,

Which comforteth vs in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith we our selues are comforted of God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abounde in vs, so our consolation aboundeth through Christ.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and saluation, which is wrought in the induring of the same sufferings, which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and saluation.

And our hope is stedfast concerning you, in as much as we know that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

For brethren, we woulde not haue you ignorant of our affliction, which came vnto vs in Asia, howe we were pressed out of measure passing strength, so that we altogether doubted, euen of life.

Yea, we receiued the sentence of death in our selues, because we shoulde not trust in our selues, but in God, which rayseth the dead.

Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer vs: in whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliuer vs,

So that ye labour together in prayer for vs, that for the gift bestowed vpon vs for many, thankes may be giuen by many persons for vs.

For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.

For wee write none other thinges vnto you, then that ye reade or els that ye acknowledge, and I trust ye shall acknowledge vnto ye end.

Euen as ye haue acknowledged vs partly, that we are your reioycing, euen as ye are ours, in the day of our Lord Iesus.

And in this confidence was I minded first to come vnto you, that ye might haue had a double grace,

And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and to be led foorth towarde Iudea of you.

When I therefore was thus minded, did I vse lightnesse? or minde I those thinges which I minde, according to the flesh, that with me should be, Yea, yea, and Nay, nay?

Yea, God is faithfull, that our worde towarde you was not Yea, and Nay.

For the Sonne of God Iesus Christ, who was preached among you by vs, that is, by me, and Siluanus, and Timotheus, was not Yea, and Nay: but in him it was Yea.

For all the promises of God in him are Yea, and are in him Amen, vnto the glorie of God through vs.

And it is God which stablisheth vs with you in Christ, and hath anoynted vs.

Who hath also sealed vs, and hath giuen the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Nowe, I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you, I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.

Bvt I determined thus in my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse.

For if I make you sorie, who is he then that shoulde make me glad, but ye same which is made sorie by me?

And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares: not that yee should be made sorie, but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue, specially vnto you.

And if any hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made mee sorie, but partly (lest I should more charge him) you all.

It is sufficient vnto the same man, that hee was rebuked of many.

So that nowe contrariwise yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest the same shoulde bee swalowed vp with ouermuch heauinesse.

Wherefore, I pray you, that you woulde confirme your loue towards him.

For this cause also did I write, that I might knowe the proofe of you, whether yee would be obedient in all things.

To whome yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for verely if I forgaue any thing, to whome I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it in the sight of Christ,

Lest Satan should circumuent vs: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christs Gospell, and a doore was opened vnto me of the Lord,

I had no rest in my spirit, because I founde not Titus my brother, but tooke my leaue of them, and went away into Macedonia.

Now thankes be vnto God, which alwaies maketh vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place.

For wee are vnto God the sweete sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them which perish.

To the one we are the sauour of death, vnto death, and to the other the sauour of life, vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.

Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you?

Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,

In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

And such trust haue we through Christ to God:

Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God,

Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.

If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)

Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?

For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.