And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given us, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith;7 Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine;8 He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good.†10 Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing one another.11 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.†12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.13 Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.14 Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.15 Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When you can do good, defer it not, because "alms delivers from death." Be all of you subject one to another, "having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles," that ye may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.
And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.2 And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.3 And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.4 And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? my hour is not yet come.†5 His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.†6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.7 Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.8 And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now, and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it.9 And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine, and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water; the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,10 And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.†11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee; and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.†
(iii. de Trin. c. 5) Water is poured into the waterpots; wine is drawn out into the chalices; the senses of the drawer out agree not with the knowledge of the pourer in. The pourer in thinks that water is drawn out; the drawer out thinks that wine was poured in. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was, (but the servants who drew the water knew,) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom. It was not a mixture, but a creation: the simple nature of water vanished, and the flavour of wine was produced; not that a weak dilution was obtained, by means of some strong infusion, but that which was, was annihilated; and that which was not, came to be.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)