¹⁶Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

¹⁷Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the teaching which ye learned, and avoid them. ¹⁸For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. ¹⁹For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you; but I would have you wise as to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil. ²⁰And the God of peace will shortly bruise Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

²¹Timothy, my fellow-laborer, salutes you, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

²²I, Tertius, who wrote the letter, salute you in the Lord.

²³Gaius my host, and of the whole church, salutes you.

Erastus the chamberlain of the city salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

²⁴The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. ²⁵Now to him who is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept in silence during eternal ages ²⁶but now made manifest, and through the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith, ²⁷to God only wise, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

[THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS.]

I. Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, ²to the church of God which is at Corinth, those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: ³Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.