I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

<p class="bodytext">The churches in the province of Asia<n id="1" /> send greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca<n id="2" /> greet<n id="3" /> you warmly in the Lord, with the church that meets in their house.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.

I fed you milk,<n id="1" /> not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

<t /><p class="bodytext">I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

Some have become arrogant,<n id="1" /> as if I were not coming to you.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline<n id="1" /> or with love and a spirit of gentleness?p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">With regard to spiritual gifts,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> I do not want you to be uninformed.<n id="3" />

Did the word of God begin with you,<n id="1" /> or did it come to you alone?p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia &#8211; for I will be going through Macedonia &#8211;

All the brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.p>

No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others.<n id="1" /> And God is faithful: He<n id="2" /> will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear,<n id="3" /> but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation<n id="1" /> of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He<n id="1" /> will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

<p class="bodytext">And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

<t /><p class="bodytext">I praise you<n id="1" /> because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

Does not nature<n id="1" /> itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.