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Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

And so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

It is reported commonly [that there is] lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already as though I were present, [concerning] him that hath so done this deed,

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin, if she hath passed the flower of [her] age, and need so requireth, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Nevertheless, he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.

But she is happier if she so remain, after my judgment; and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one that beateth the air: