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Fules for 0hrist's sake. man's day; aye! I am-na e'en judgin mysel.

4. For I ken nocht to wyte mysel wi'; but this disna mak me richtous. But he wha judges me is the Lord.

5. And sae, judge nocht owersune, till the time the Lord comes, wha wull baith mak plain the hidlin things 0' the mirkness, and wull schaw the thochts o' the hearts: and than, ilk ane's commendin sal come frae God.

6. But thir things, brethren, I has (see to speak), men to mysel and Apollos, for yere sakes; sae as in us ye micht learn the lear, no to gang ayont what is putten-doon: that ye sondna be swallin yersels up, ilk ane again anither.

7. For wha maks a differ atween ye? And what has ye that ye didna receive? Noo, in yo received it, why soud ye swal1 up yersel as gin ye didna receive it?

8. E'en noo hae ye become staw'd; e'en noo hae ye become rich: allenarlie, and sindry frae us, ye hae otten to be kings! and I wad ye war kings, that e'en we micht reign alang w'ye.

9. For sae it seems to me; God has set forth us, the Apostles hinmaist; as gien ower to the deid: for a spectacle are we made to the warld—to Angels and to men.

10. We are made fules for the name 0' Christ: but ye are wyss in Christ: we are feckless, but ye are strange ye are honored, but we dishonored.

11. E'en to this 'oor, we hae hung'er, and drooth, and nakitness; are clour'd, and cuisten-oot;

12. We toil, workin wi' oor ain hauns; whan misca'd, we bless; whan persecutit, we thole it.

13. Whan defamed, we entreat; we are made as the midden-heap o' the warld; the dightins and one o' a' thin s, e'en to this day.

14. No to shame ye due I say thir things; on the contrar, I admonish ye as my weel-lo'ed hairns.

15. For it may be that ye has ten thoosand teachers in Christ, yet surely no mony faithers—for in Christ Jesus I hecam yere faither i' the Joyfu' message.

16. I entreat ye, than, that ye be as I am.

17. For this reason, I send to ye' Timothy, wha is my bairn, belov'd, and faithfu' i' the Lord; wha wull gar ya to ca' to mind my ways whilk are in Christ, e'en as I teach, in a' places, in ilka kirk.

18. But some are swalled-up, as gin I warna comin to ye.

19. But I wull come t'ye, sune; gin it please the Lord; and I sal get to ken—no the words 0' thae that are swalled-up—but the pooer.

20. For the King om 0' God isna in words, but in pooer!

21. Whatna 0' them wad ye hae? Soud I come t'ye wi' a rod'! or in love and the spirit 0' meekness 3

CHAPTIR FYVE. The ill-deedie man i' the Corinthian Kirk.

T is the common clash that thar is uncleanness amang ye; and sic uncleanness as is no e'en to be heard 0' amang the nations; that ane soud hae his faither's wife.

2. And ye has been swalled-up, and didn raither lament, that he micht be taen oot o' the mids 0' ye, wha did sic wark.

3. For I, absent in body, but present in spirit, hae gien judgment, as gin I war present, on him that has dune this thing.

4. I' the name 0' oor Lord Jesus Christ, ye bein forgather't—and my spirit—wi' the pooer 0' the Lord Jesus Christ,

5. That ye gie ower siccan a ane to Sautan, for the destroyin o' the 212