Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”

and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And do not lead us into temptation.”

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

I had no relief in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and set out for Macedonia.

But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.

I have great confidence in you; I take great pride on your behalf. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in the midst of all our suffering.