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

And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

For your obedience is come abroad to all [men]. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

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

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

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

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for ye are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

For though I am free from all [men], yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

Be ye followers 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; is it therefore not of the body?

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

Though 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 though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also 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 which [was bestowed] upon me, was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now I will come to you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I am to pass through Macedonia.

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part, they have supplied.