8Now ye are full, now ye have grown rich, ye have reigned without us: and I wish indeed that you may reign, that we also might reign together with you. 9For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. 10We are counted fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are mighty; ye are honourable persons, but we despised. 11For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode; 12and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; 13being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day.
14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you. 15For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten you. 16Now I conjure you, be followers of me. 17For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my son beloved and faithful in Christ, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach every where in every church.
18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not really come to you. 19But I will come shortly unto you, if the Lord please, and will know, not the prating of them that are puffed up, but the power. 20For the kingdom of God is not in talk, but in power. 21What is your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
[CHAP. V.]
IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. 2And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you. 3For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing; 4in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5to deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass? 7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened.
For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ. 8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators. 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye indeed go out of the world. 11But now I have written unto you not to associate with him, if any man, professing to be a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat. 12For what call have I to judge those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within the church? 13But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.
[CHAP. VI.]
DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to be judges in the smallest matters? 3Know ye not that we shall judge angels, much more things pertaining to this life?