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For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

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

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

(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

But I speak of this, that each 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* of Apollos, are ye not men?

For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines 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 I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in [the] Lord.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

If *I* partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what *I* give thanks for?

Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ.

If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which [was] towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which [was] with me.

And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

Great [is] my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.