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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

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.

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

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.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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,

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father"s wife.

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

For as by one man"s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

For if by one man"s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam"s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.