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At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem with aid for the saints.

I am thankful that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Ga'ius;

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

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

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

But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have any one deprive me of my ground for boasting.

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

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

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

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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

What am I to do? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

If any one thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.

For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.