older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters – with complete purity.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet – see! – we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise,

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker.

They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

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.

His head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame.

There were about four thousand who ate. Then he dismissed them.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,