their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already. 2 Ti. 2. 16_18.

34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to shame.

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Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Eph. 5. 14.-Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Ro. 13. 11.-While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. Mat. 25. 5.

35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die :

37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain :

38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

Jno. 12. 24.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption :

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Ge. 3. 19. They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels. Lu. 20. 35, 36.-They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. Da. 12. 3.-Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Mat. 13. 43.-Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Phi. 3. 21.

43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

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Ps. 49. 6-15.

44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun. Mat. 17. 1, 2,

45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Ge. 2. 7.-As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Jno. 5. 21.-He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. Jno. 5. 24, 25.—It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Jno. 6. 63.-Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Jno. 17. 2.-The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Ro. 8. 2.-If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Ro. 8. 11.

46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. Col. 3. 9, 10.

47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

God formed man of the dust of the ground. Ge. 2. 7. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Je. 23. 5, 6.—JEHOVAH. Ex. 6. 3.—He is Lord of all. Ac. 10. 36.

48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

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Though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Job 19. 26.

Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Phi. 3. 20, 21.

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

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Adam begat a son in his own likeness, after his image. Ge. 5. 3.

Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Ro. 8. 29.-Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him: for we shall see him as he is. 1 Jno. 3. 2.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage; neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels. Lu. 20. 35, 36.-We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 Co. 5. 1.

An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. 1 Pe. 1. 4.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

This we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall

unto me, and there are many adversaries.

A door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ. Col. 4. 3. Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus. And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Ac. 19. 1, 8, 9.

10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

He sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia. Ac. 19. 22.

Ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. Phi. 2. 22.

11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

Let no man despise thy youth. 1 Ti. 4. 12.-He that despiseth

you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that

sent me. Lu. 10. 16.

12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.

Who... is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed? 1 Co. 3. 5.-A certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. Ac. 18. 24.-Apollos was at Corinth. Ac.

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13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. Mat. 26. 41.-Let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 1 Th. 5. 6.-Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Pe. 5. 8.-Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Re. 3. 2.-Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. Re. 16. 15.

Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. Phi. 1. 27.

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Eph. 6. 10. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. Col. 1. 11. Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 Ti. 2. 1. 14 Let all your things be done with charity. Above all things haye fervent charity among yourselves. 1 Pe. 4. 8. 1 Co. 13.

15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the

I baptized... the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 1 Co. 1. 16.

Salute my wellbeloved Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ. Ro. 16. 5.

God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. He. 6. 10.

16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. 1 Ti. 5. 17.

17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

When I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied. 2 Co. 11. 9.

18 For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.

Receive him in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation. Phi. 2. 29.

19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus. Ro. 16. 3.-[Apollos] began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. Ac. 18. 26.-All the saints which are with them. Ro. 16. 15.

20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.

Salute one another with a holy kiss. Ro. 16. 16.-Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. 1 Pe. 5. 14.

21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle. 2 Th. 3. 17. Col. 4. 18. Ro. 16. 22.

22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.

PAUL

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an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. ... I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Ac. 26. 15-18.

To the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. Eph. 1. 1.-[Charity] believeth all things, hopeth all things. 1 Co. 13. 7.

3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Eph. 1. 3.-Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Pe. 1. 3.-I thank my God upon every remembrance of you. Phi. 1. 3.-We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints. Col. 1. 3, 4.-We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father. 1 Th. 1. 2, 3.-We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. 2 Th.

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I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. Jno. 20. 17.

Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. Ps. 86. 15. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. Is. 66. 13.

4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus. 2 Co. 7. 6.-Thou, Lord, hast holpen

me, and comforted me. Ps. 86. 17.—I, even I, am he that com. forteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. Is. 51. 12, 13.-I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth.... I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Jno. 14. 16-18.-Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts. 2 Th. 2. 16, 17.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus, might be made manifest in our body. 2 Co. 4. 10.-Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; and labour, working with our own hands being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it. 1 Cb.4. 11, 12.-Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church. Col. 1. 24.-We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. He. 4. 15.

6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

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Many of the bret ren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. Phi. 1. 14.

We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Ac. 14. 22.-We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope. Ro. 5. 3, 4.

7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Mat. 5. 4.-If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. 2 Ti. 2. 12. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 1 Pe.

5. 10.

8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

They were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre. Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused. Ac. 19. 28, 31, 32.

9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

Thus saith the Lord, Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. Je. 17. 5, 7.

10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

The Jews... went about to kill me. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day. Ac. 26. 21, 22.At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work; and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom. 2 Ti. 4. 16-18.-Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 1 Sa. 7. 12.-Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. Ps. 34. 19, 20. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. 2 Pe. 2. 9.

11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Phi. 1. 19. I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; that I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea. Ro. 15. 30, 31.-I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you. Phile. 22.

12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. Ac. 24. 16.-We are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Co. 2. 17.-But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 2 Co. 4. 2.

My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Co. 2. 4.

By the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1 Co. 15. 10.

13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part,

that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. Ac. 14. 4.

What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy. 1 Th. 2. 19, 20.-Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Phi. 2. 16.

15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established. Ro. 1. 11.

16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judæa.

1 Co. 16. 5, 6.

17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God. Lu, 1. 35.

When Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. Ac. 18. 5, 6.-And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

Ac. 9. 20.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. He. 13. 8.

20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. Ro. 15. 8, 9, He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. He. 9. 15.

21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. The anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Jno. 2. 20, 27.

22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

God... hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 2 Co. 5. 5.-Ourselves have the firstfruits of the Spirit. Ro. 8. 23.In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that