1818 Feb. 5

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch Motives to Conversion

2 Power craved &c.

3 Obsequiousness called for

4. Power exercised

Obsequiousness called for.

Competitors struck[?] at

I. Cor. IV. 15 to 26. For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel.

16. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

17. For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every Church.

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

19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

20. For the kingdom of God, is not in word, but in power.

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

I. Cor. V. 1 to 13. 1. 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 sh d have his father’s wife.

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

3. 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,

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

5 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.

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

7. 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:

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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 idolator, or a railer or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

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

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