“Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.

not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.

Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,