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For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all, that I might gaine the more.

But now are they many members, yet but one body.

But couet earnestly the best gifts: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way.

Yet in the Church I had rather speake fiue words with my vnderstanding, that by my voyce I might teach others also, then ten thousand words in an vnknowen tongue.

In the Law it is written, With men of other tongues, and other lippes will I speake vnto this people: and yet for all that will they not heare me, saith the Lord.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed vpon me, was not in vaine: But I laboured more abundantly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me:

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine, ye are yet in your sinnes.

Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer: in whom we trust that he will yet deliuer vs:

Moreouer, I call God for a record vpon my soule, that to spare you I came not as yet vnto Corinth.

Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,

For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Wherefore hencefoorth know we no man, after the flesh: yea, though we haue knowen Christ after the flesh, yet now hencefoorth knowe wee him no more.

By honour and dishonour, by euil report and good report, as deceiuers and yet true:

As vnknowen, & yet wel knowen: as dying, and behold, we liue: as chastened, and not killed:

As sorrowfull, yet alway reioycing: as poore, yet making many rich: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things.

For yee know the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be rich.

Yet haue I sent the brethren, least our boasting of you should bee in vaine in this behalfe, that as I saide, yee may be readie.

But though I be rude in speach, yet not in knowledge; but we haue bene throughly made manifest among you in all things.

I say againe, Let no man thinke mee a foole; if otherwise, yet as a foole receiue me, that I may boast my selfe a little.

Of such a one will I glory, yet of my selfe I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.