Were you called as a slave? ¹  Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving? But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. ¹  In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting! ²