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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
St. Paul, having planted the faithful in Corinth, where he had preacheda year and a half and converted a great many, went to Ephesus. Afterbeing there three years, he wrote this first Epistle to the Corinthiansand sent it by the same persons, Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achaicus, whohad brought their letter to him. It was written about twenty-four yearsafter our Lord's Ascension and contains several matters appertaining tofaith and morals and also to ecclesiastical discipline.
1 Corinthians Chapter 1
He reproveth their dissensions about their teachers. The world was to besaved by preaching of the cross, and not by human wisdom or eloquence.
1:1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,and Sosthenes a brother,
1:2. To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that aresanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invokethe name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.
1:3. Grace to you and peace, from God our father and from the Lord JesusChrist.
1:4. I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God thatis given you in Christ Jesus:
1:5. That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance andin all knowledge;
1:6. As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
1:7. So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for themanifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:8. Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the daysof the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9. God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of hisSon, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,that you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms amongyou: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1:11. For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by themthat are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1:12. Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul;and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1:13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? Or were youbaptized in the name of Paul?
1:14. I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus andCaius:
1:15. Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.
1:16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I knownot