For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.