For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”

For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

So ordain

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also.

Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

General references

Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.

But He said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given.