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For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth, to the Iewe first, and also to the Grecian.

For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?

For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

I finde then yt when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.

O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the body of this death!

For I am perswaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

I Demaund then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid: for I also am an Israelite, of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Beniamin.

Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seeke my life?

For in that I speake to you Gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of ye Gentiles, I magnifie mine office,

I know, and am perswaded through the Lord Iesus, that there is nothing vncleane of it selfe: but vnto him that iudgeth any thing to be vncleane, to him it is vncleane.

And I my selfe also am perswaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodnes, and filled with all knowledge, and are able to admonish one another.

For your obedience is come abroade among all: I am glad therefore of you: but yet I woulde haue you wise vnto that which is good, and simple concerning euill.

Nowe this I say, that euery one of you saith, I am Pauls, and I am Apollos, and I am Cephas, and I am Christs.

For when one sayeth, I am Pauls, and another, I am Apollos, are yee not carnall?

For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.

For I woulde that all men were euen as I my selfe am: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.

Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke in the Lord?

If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye are the seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord.

To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:

To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.