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I speak by way of shame, as though we had been weak. Yet in what any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn [with distress]?

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions and distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

I have become foolish: you compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

Look, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I don't seek yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor on you in vain.

I urge you, brothers, become as I [am], for I also [have become] as you [are]. You did me no wrong:

But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

My children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you-

but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then the stumbling-block of the cross has been done away.

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

The ones [that preach] from love know that I am set for the defense of the gospel;

But I am in a strait between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;