Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them {which are of the house} of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {soweth: Heb. sendeth forth}

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling {words}, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

For when they speak great swelling {words} of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, {through much} wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

From whence {come} wars and fightings among you? {come they} not hence, {even} of your lusts that war in your members? {fightings: or, brawlings} {lusts: or, pleasures}

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, {even} your perfection. {perfection: or, reformation, or, restoration}

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather {suffer yourselves to} be defrauded?

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and {to} Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think {of men} above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

{And} lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and {that} I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. {my...: Heb. evil to me}

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, {concerning} him that hath so done this deed, {judged: or, determined}

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

But I beseech {you}, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. {think: or, reckon}

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

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

For God is not {the author} of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of {his} brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and {in} the spirit of meekness?

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, {and} doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked {man} doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such {will we be} also in deed when we are present.

But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

The north wind driveth away rain: so {doth} an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. {driveth...: or, bringeth forth rain: so doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance}

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

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

He loveth transgression that loveth strife: {and} he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them {which are of the house} of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened {bread} of sincerity and truth. {the feast: or, holyday}

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {soweth: Heb. sendeth forth}

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. {my...: Heb. evil to me}

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, {beguile...: or, judge against you} {in a...: Gr. being a voluntary in humility}

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without {were} fightings, within {were} fears.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

Charity suffereth long, {and} is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {vaunteth...: or, is not rash}

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, {but} gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.