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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, by faith; that ye may abound in his hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Salute Rufus, chosen in our Lord; and his and my mother.

Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

so that ye are not inferior in any one of his gifts; but are waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Messiah:

God is faithful; by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Messiah, our Lord.

But God hath revealed it to us, by his Spirit; for the Spirit exploreth all things, even the profound things of God.

For a man in his natural self, receiveth not spirituals; for they are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them; for they are discerned by the Spirit.

And he that planted, and he that watered are on a par; each receiveth his reward, according to his labor.

And that builder whose work shall endure, will receive his reward.

6 These things, my Brethren, I have stated concerning the person of myself and of Apollos, for your sakes; that, in us, ye might learn not to think [fn] , above what is written; and that no one might exalt himself in comparison with his fellow, on account of any person.

In short, it is reported, there is whoredom among you; and such whoredom as is not even named among the heathen, that a son should even take the wife of his father.

Dare any of you, when he hath a controversy with his brother, litigate before the iniquitous, and not before the sanctified?

5 For shame to you I say [fn] . So, there is not even one wise man among you, who is competent to do equity between a brother and his brother:

but a brother litigateth with his brother, and also before them that believe not !

And God hath raised up our Lord; and he will raise us up, by his power.

18 Flee whoredom. For every [fn] sin which a man committeth, is external to his body; but he that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

But, on account of whoredom, let each have his own wife and let a woman have her own husband.

And let the man render to his wife the kindness which is due; and so also the woman to her husband.

The woman is not the sovereign over her body, but her husband: so also the man is not the sovereign over his body, but the wife.

For I would that all men might be like me in purity. But every man is endowed with his gift of God; one thus, and another so.