Richard Francis Weymouth

“ The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.
009:019 Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.
009:020 To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews;
to men under the Law as if I were under the Law—although I am not—
in order to win those who are under the Law ”

“ But since it is a dishonor to a woman to have her hair cut
off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.
011:007 For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is
the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.
011:008 Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes
hers from man.
011:009 For man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for man's.
011:010 That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol
of subjection, because of the angels.
011:011 Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man
independent of woman. ”

“ If a brother has
a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him,
let him not send her away.
007:013 And a woman who has an unbelieving husband—if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.
007:014 For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become—and is— holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people. ”

“ Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.
006:016 Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
006:017 But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.
006:018 Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits
lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins
against his own body. ”

“ God's wisdom—that hidden wisdom which, before the world began,
God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;
002:008 a wisdom which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses,
for if they had possessed it, they would never have crucified
the Lord of glory.
002:009 But—to use the words of Scripture—we speak of things which eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them that love Him.
002:010 For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil through the
teaching of the Spirit ”

“ It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.
007:002 But because there is so much fornication every man should have
a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.
007:003 Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay
her husband his.
007:004 A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights. ”

“ But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.
006:012 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.
006:013 Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body ”

“ His own will.
012:012 For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts,
and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body,
so it is with the Church of Christ.
012:013 For, in fact, in one Spirit all of us—whether we are Jews
or Gentiles, slaves or free men—were baptized to form but one body;
and we were all nourished by that one Spirit.
012:014 For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many.
012:015 Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part
of the body," that would not make it any the less a part
of the body. ”

“ The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of Christ?
010:017 Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf.
010:018 Look at the Israelites—the nation and their ritual. Are not those who eat the sacrifices joint-partakers in the altar?
010:019 Do I mean that a thing sacrificed to an idol is what it claims to be, or that an idol is a real thing?
010:020 No, but that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice
to demons, not to God ”

“ If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.
003:019 This world's wisdom is "foolishness" in God's sight; for it
is written, "He snares the wise with their own cunning."
003:020 And again, "The Lord takes knowledge of the reasonings of the wise—
how useless they are."
003:021 Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers.
003:022 For everything belongs to you—be it Paul or Apollos or Peter, the world or life or death, things present or future— everything belongs to you ”

“ Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of `tongues.'
012:029 Are all Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all teachers?
012:030 Have all miraculous powers? Have all ability to cure diseases?
Do all speak in `tongues'? Do all interpret?
012:031 But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will
point out to you a way of life which transcends all others. ”

“ The body
is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;
015:043 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown
in weakness, it is raised in power;
015:044 an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised. As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also a spiritual body.
015:045 In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became
a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit. ”

“ He will come, however, when he has a good opportunity.
016:013 Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.
016:014 Let all that you do be done from motives of love.
016:015 And I beseech you, brethren—you know the household of Stephanas, how they were the earliest Greek converts to Christ, and have devoted themselves to the service of God's people—
016:016 I beseech you, on your part, to show deference to such men, and to every one who participates in their work and toils hard. ”

“ For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."
010:008 Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed
fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead. ”

“ For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out
of the world altogether.
005:011 But what I meant was that you were not to associate with
any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted
to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language
or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought
not even to eat.
005:012 For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders?
Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church
005:013 while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? ”

“ Christ have perished.
015:019 If in this present life we have a *hope* resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world.
015:020 But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead,
being the first to do so of those who are asleep.
015:021 For seeing that death came through man, through man comes
also the resurrection of the dead. ”