whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.

But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you,

And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,