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The churches of Asia, salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you with much christian affection, and so do the church that is in their house.

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the divine appointment, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God, which is at Corinth, with all the christians throughout Achaia: favour,

The affliction I have had, comes only from a particular quarter, so that my resentment does not affect the whole church.

you have heard of my former behaviour, whilst I was of the Jewish religion, with what excessive violence I persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:

for he has subjected all things to him, and constituted him supreme head of the church,

that the manifold wisdom of God, in ordering his heavenly kingdom, might by his church be now made known, to princes and magistrates,

unto him be glory in the church, even by Christ Jesus, thro' all the successions of future ages. amen.

for the husband presides over his wife, as Christ presides over the church: and he it is that preserves the whole body.

as the church then is subordinate to Christ, so let women be to their husbands upon all occasions.

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible.

no man was ever yet averse to his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as the Lord doth the church:

these words contain a very mystical sense, I mean in reference to Christ and the church.

if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach;

and you yourselves know, O Philippians, that when I first preach'd the gospel, at my departure from Macedonia, I receiv'd no manner of assistance from any other church but yours;

he himself is the head of the church, which is his body. he is the prince, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be chief.

for it seemed good to the father to inhabit the whole body of the church by Christ:

You then that formerly were alienated from God, and were enemies by your imaginations and wicked practices, even you has Jesus Christ now reconciled to the body of his church,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and am filling up the measure of those remaining afflictions, which in my turn I am to suffer in this life, in the cause of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the church:

church which uses to meet in his house. when this epistle has been read among you, take care that it be read likewise in the church of the Laodiceans, and