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For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,

I say then, Hath God rejected his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

For I speak to you Gentiles, as I am the apostle of the Gentiles:

I know and am assured by the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that accounteth any thing to be unclean, it is unclean.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye likewise are full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another.

But I am now going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. For it hath

Now this I say, every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

For while one saith, I am of Paul,

and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?

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

For though I am free from all men, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.