And again, “Praise the Lord all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.”

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the believers who are with them.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

(I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.)

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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.

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.