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but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.

let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall.

for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy.

do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence.

for even Christ did not consult his own satisfaction; but as it is written , "the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."

for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice:

but now there being no further occasion for me in these parts, and having had a great desire these many years to visit you;

but now I am going to Jerusalem, to distribute charity to the converts.

who have for my life readily exposed their own: to whom not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles too give thanks.

for such as these serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own selfishness; and by flourish and flattery, deceive the open-hearted simple.

your christianity is very well known in the world. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you as expert in that which is good, as unpractis'd in what is evil.

Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from antient times, but now is laid open,

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to maintain all the same doctrine, to suffer no divisions among you; but to be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

true, I baptized the family of Stephanas: but I don't know that I baptized any other besides.

for Christ did not send me to baptize: but to preach the gospel: tho' not with the preaching of the wise, lest the cross of Christ should have been hinder'd in its efficacy.

we preach Christ crucified, an obstacle to the Jews indeed, and to the Gentiles foolishness: but to those who believe,

but God hath chosen those who are foolish in the opinion of the world, to confound the wise; and the weak men of the world to confound the mighty:

my discourse, and my preaching did not consist in the persuasive reasonings of human wisdom, but in demonstrating the spiritual meaning of the scriptures:

that your faith might not be owing to human wisdom, but to the divine influence.

but we explain that mysterious plan of divine wisdom, which God had contriv'd before the ages, for our glory: