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For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to speak with me: for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

O wretched man that I am! who shall 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 say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

If I by grace partake, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?