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Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have laboured upon you in vain.

Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all.

Am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Now it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only while I am present with you.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints is this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.

For which I am an ambassador in bonds, that I may speak boldly therein, as I ought to speak.

But the others out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

But if I am to live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour, and what I should chuse, I know not.

For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, for it is far better.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected: but I pursue, if I may apprehend that, for which I was also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, to be content.

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound, every where and in every thing I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to want.

But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received of Epaphroditus the things which came from you, an odour of a sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and are not removed from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard, which is preached to every creature that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Of which I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which is given me for you, fully to preach the word of God:

For though I am absent from you in the flesh, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to behold your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Withal, praying likewise for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ: for which I am also in bonds:

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I am instructed.

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

to be testified of in due season, Whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, (I speak the truth, I lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.