"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

For they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

Let the elders who fill their offices well, be held worthy of twofold honor; especially those who have the task of preaching and teaching.

When

You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Have I no right to claim food and drink?

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

And so, although I might be bold in Christ to dictate to you what is fitting,

Been burdensome

And man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

For now I am really living, if you are standing firm in the Lord.

As the

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

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"I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you,

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.