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Now you are satiated, and are rich, and without us have reigned. But I would that you did reign, that we might also reign with you !

But I consider that us, the apostles, Aloha hath set last, as unto death, to be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men,

We are fools for the sake of the Meshiha, but we are wise in the Meshiha; we are the weak, but you are the mighty; you are glorified, and we abased.

Not as to shame you write I these things, but as my beloved children I admonish (you).

But as if I were not coming to you, some of you are inflated.

But if the Lord will, quickly come I unto you; and I will know not the words of them who exalt themselves, but their power.

For the kingdom of Aloha is not in word, but in power.

And you are inflated; but should you not rather sit in grief that he who hath wrought this work might be put away from you ?

But I, while distant from you in body, am near you in spirit, and now judge, as if near you, him who hath done this;

Therefore, let us perform the festival, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and animosity, but with the unleavened bread of purity and of holiness.

10 but I do not say with fornicators who are in this world, nor speak I concerning the covetous, [fn] or the rapacious, or the servers of idols; otherwise you would be obligated from the world also to go forth.

11 But this which I have written to you, Be not mixed, (is,) If any one who is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, [fn] or a worshipper of idols, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with one who is such as he not to eat bread.

For what had I to judge those who are without? But you judge those who are within;

but those who are without, Aloha judgeth: and put away the wicked one from among you.

4 But if you have matters to be judged regarding the world, those who are little-esteemed [fn] in the church make you to sit in judgment.

But to your reproach am I to say to you, So there is not among you even one wise man, who is able to adjust between a brother and his brother ?

But a brother with his brother litigates, and, moreover, before those who are unbelievers !

8 But you injure, and you defraud, [fn] also your brethren !

And these were some of you but you are washed, and sanctified, and justified in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and by the Spirit of our God.

ALL (food) is lawful to me, but all is not expedient for me. All is lawful to me, but over me no one shall have power.