My LORD’s BibleThe Third Epistle to the Corinthians 3
1Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, unto the brethren which are in Corinth, greeting.
2Being in the midst of many tribulations, I marvel not if the teachings of the evil one run abroad apace.
3For my Lord Jesus Christ will hasten his coming, and will set at nought them that falsify his words.
4For I delivered unto you in the beginning the things which I received of the holy apostles which were before me, who were at all times with Jesus Christ:
5namely, that our Lord Jesus Christ was born of Mary which is of the seed of David according to the flesh, the Holy Ghost being sent forth from heaven from the Father unto her by the angel Gabriel,
6that he might come down into this world and redeem all flesh by his flesh, and raise us up from the dead in the flesh, like as he hath shown to us in himself for an ensample.
7And because man was formed by his Father,
8therefore was he sought when he was lost, that he might be quickened by adoption.
9For to this end did God Almighty who made heaven and earth first send the prophets unto the Jews, that they might be drawn away from their sins.
10For he designed to save the house of Israel: therefore he conferred a portion of the spirit of Christ upon the prophets and sent them unto the Jews first, and they proclaimed the true worship of God for a long space of time.
11But the prince of iniquity, desiring to be God, laid hands on them and slew them, and bound all flesh by evil lusts, and the end of the world by judgement drew near.
12But God Almighty, who is righteous, would not cast away his own creation, but had compassion on them from heaven,
13and sent his spirit into Mary in Galilee, who believed with all her heart and received the Holy Ghost in her womb, that Jesus might come into the world,
14that by that flesh whereby that wicked one had brought in death, by the same he should be shown to be overcome.
15For by his own body Jesus Christ saved all flesh and restored it unto life,
16that he might show forth the temple of righteousness in his body.
17In whom, if we believe, we are set free.
18They therefore are not children of righteousness but children of wrath who reject the wisdom of God, saying that the heaven and the earth and all that are in them are not the work of God.
19They therefore are children of wrath, for cursed are they, following the teaching of the serpent, whom do ye drive out from you and flee from their doctrine.
20For ye are not children of disobedience, but of the well-beloved church.
21Therefore is the time of the resurrection proclaimed unto all.
22And as for that which they say, that there is no resurrection of the flesh, they indeed shall have no resurrection unto life, but unto judgement,
23because they believe not in him that is risen from the dead, not believing nor understanding,
24for they know not, O Corinthians, the seeds of wheat or of other grain, how they are cast bare into the earth and are corrupted and rise again by the will of God with bodies, and clothed.
25And not only that which is cast in riseth again, but manifold more, blessing itself.
26And if we must not take an example from seeds only, but from more noble bodies,
27ye know how Jonas the son of Amathi, when he would not preach to them of Nineveh, but fled, was swallowed by the sea-monster;
28and after three days and three nights God heard the prayer of Jonas out of the lowest hell, and no part of him was consumed, not even an hair nor an eyelash.
29How much more, O ye of little faith, shall he raise up you that have believed in Christ Jesus, like as he himself arose.
30Likewise also a dead man was cast upon the bones of the prophet Elisha by the children of Israel, and he arose, both body and soul and bones and spirit; how much more shall ye which have been cast upon the body and bones and spirit of the Lord arise again in that day having your flesh whole, even as he arose?
31Likewise also concerning the prophet Elias: he raised up the widow's son from death; how much more shall the Lord Jesus raise you up from death at the sound of the trumpet, in the twinkling of an eye? for he hath showed us an ensample in his own body.
32If, then, ye receive any other doctrine, God shall be witness against you; and let no man trouble me,
33for I bear these bonds that I may win Christ, and I therefore bear his marks in my body that I may attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
34And whoso receiveth the rule which he hath received by the blessed prophets and the holy gospel, shall receive a recompense from the Lord, and when he riseth from the dead shall obtain eternal life.
35But whoso transgresseth these things, with him is the fire, and with them that walk in like manner,
36which are a generation of vipers,
37whom do ye reject in the power of the Lord,
38and peace, grace, and love shall be with you.
39This I found in an old book, entitled the third to the Corinthians, though it is not in the Canon.