⁶ So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

⁸ And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

⁷ But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

¹⁴ For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

¹⁵ If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

¹⁶ And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

¹⁷ If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

¹⁸ But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

¹⁹ And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

²⁰ But now they are all different parts, but one body.

²¹ And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

¹⁷ Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.

⁵ By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.

⁷ And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

¹⁰ And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

²⁰ And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

¹⁶ And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

⁹ So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

¹⁰ And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

¹⁵ And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,