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Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

For while one saith: I indeed am of Paul: and another: I am of Apollo: are you not men? What then is Apollo and what is Paul?

For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ.

Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the Body?

And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the body?

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation.

Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing.

Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.