We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

“All things are lawful for me” – but not everything is beneficial. “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Peter said to him, “Even if they all fall away, I will not!”

No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”

But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high honor.