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For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

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

I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.

That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the angels.

But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

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.

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

We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.

I rejoice at the coming of Steph'anas and Fortuna'tus and Acha'icus, because they have made up for your absence;

Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double pleasure;

but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedo'nia.

Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face because of its brightness, fading as this was,

Indeed, in this case, what once had splendor has come to have no splendor at all, because of the splendor that surpasses it.

But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.

because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.