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

For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!

But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away – look, what is new has come!

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.

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

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

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer:

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

Therefore let those of us who are “perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?