For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

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

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.