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I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Now this I mean, that each one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not men?

For I know nothing against myself; yet I am not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

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

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

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

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet 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 which was bestowed on me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than of them all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.

For I reckon that I am not a bit behind the very chiefest apostles.

But though [I am] unskilled in speaking, yet [I am] not [unskilled] in knowledge; certainly, in every way we have made [this] manifest to you in all things.