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God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

Thou -- who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day [alike]; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;'

Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,

salute Philologus, and Julias, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them;

faithful [is] God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

but to us did God reveal [them] through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

and if any one doth think [it] to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;