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

But now I am going to Jerusalem, doing service to the saints.

But I say 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 may say, Truly I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos; are you not fleshly?

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

But if you also marry, you do not sin. And if the virgin marries, she does not sin. But such will have trouble in the flesh. But I am sparing you.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus Christ? Are you not my work in the Lord?

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

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

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

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

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

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

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

And if I give out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, but I do not have love, I am not profited anything.

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

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

But I will come to you when I go through Macedonia. For I am going through Macedonia.

For I do not desire to see you now in passage, but I am hoping to remain some time with you, if the Lord permits.

Then do not let any despise him, but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brothers.