And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. {for you: Gr. for your souls}

O {ye} Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}.

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as {he did} unto us;

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if {it be} in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)

He saith unto him the third time, Simon, {son} of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things {are} naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all {men},

As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. {no man...: Gr. this boasting shall not be stopped in me}

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For {it is} a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, {I did it} not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

Ye {are} witnesses, and God {also}, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if {it be} in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn {you}.

My love {be} with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. «{The first epistle} to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus.}»

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.