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Chapter 3

Corinthian church has lost its humility

1 Πᾶσα δόξα καὶ πλατυσμὸς ἐδόθη ὑμῖν, καὶ ἐπετελέσθη τὸ γεγραμμένον· Ἔφαγεν καὶ ἔπιεν, καὶ ἐπλατύνθη, καὶ ἐπαχύνθη, καὶ ἀπελάκτισεν ὁ ἠγαπημένος. All glory and growth were given unto you, and that was fulfilled which is written, “My beloved ate and drank and was enlarged and grew fat and kicked.”[1]
2 ἐκ τούτου ζῆλος καὶ φθόνος, καὶ ἔρις, καὶ στάσις, διωγμὸς καὶ ἀκαταστασία, πόλεμος καὶ αἰχμαλωσία. Out of this came jealousy and envy, discord and sedition, persecution and tumult, war and captivity.
3 οὕτως ἐπηγέρθησαν οἱ ἄτιμοι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐντίμους, οἱ ἄδοξοι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐνδόξους, οἱ ἄφρονες ἐπὶ τοὺς φρονίμους, οἱ νέοι ἐπὶ τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους. So people were stirred up, the dishonoured against the honourable, the disreputable against the reputable, the foolish against the prudent, the young against the old.
4 διὰ τοῦτο πόρρω ἄπεστιν ἡ δικαιοσύνη καὶ εἰρήνη, ἐν τῷ ἀπολιπεῖν ἕκαστον τὸν φόβον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐν τῇ πίστει αὐτοῦ ἀμβλυωπῆσαι, μηδὲ ἐν τοῖς νομίμοις τῶν προσταγμάτων αὐτοῦ πορεύεσθαι, μηδὲ πολιτεύεσθαι κατὰ τὸ καθῆκον τῷ Χριστῷ, ἀλλὰ ἕκαστον βαδίζειν κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς καρδίας αὐτοῦ τῆς πονηρᾶς, ζῆλον ἄδικον καὶ ἀσεβῆ ἀνειληφότας, δι᾿ οὗ καὶ θάνατος εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον. For this reason, righteousness and peace are far away, while each man has forsaken the fear of the Lord and become nearly blind about the faith of Him, neither walking in the laws of His commandments nor living according to that which belongs to Christ, but each one proceeds according to the lusts of his evil heart, having taken up an unrighteous and ungodly jealousy, through which also death entered into the world.

[1] Deut. 32:15⇧