and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

if a man's work is burnt up, he will be a loser ??and though he will be saved himself, he will be snatched from the very flames.

It matters very little to me that you or any human court should cross-question me on this point. I do not even cross-question myself;

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

Quite the contrary. We cannot do without those very members of the body which are considered rather delicate,

just as the parts we consider rather dishonourable are the very parts we invest with special honour; our indecorous parts get a special care and attention

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

Very well then, I will pray in the Spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing praise in the Spirit, but I will also sing praise with my mind.

Very well then, brothers; when you meet together, each contributes something ??a song of praise, a lesson, a revelation, a 'tongue,' an interpretation? Good, but let every thing be for edification.

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.