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If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered about that for which I give thanks?

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

What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any less a part of the body.

And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any less a part of the body.

But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And yet, I am going to show you a far better way.

If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit 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 did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Behold, I am telling you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia; for I am going through Macedonia,

Now if Timothy comes, see that he has no reason to be afraid while among you, for he is doing the Lord's work, as I also am.

Now in the same way in exchange—I am speaking as to children—open wide your hearts to us, you as well.

My confidence in you is great; my boasting in your behalf is great. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

I am not saying this as a command, but as proving, through the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love as well.

Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I intend to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.