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What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

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

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

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

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 don't have love, I am nothing.

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

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not found vain, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.