For through the authority graciously given to me I warn every individual among you not to value himself unduly, but to cultivate sobriety of judgement in accordance with the amount of faith which God has allotted to each one.

But I write to you the more boldly--partly as reminding you of what you already know--because of the authority graciously entrusted to me by God,

For He it is from whose fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God.

But when He who set me apart even from my birth, and called me by His grace,

if, that is, you have heard of the work which God has graciously entrusted to me for your benefit,

and is not in accordance with the Good News of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

Apostleship

to occupy the place in this ministry and Apostleship from which Judas through transgression fell, in order to go to his own place."

If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.

for He who had been at work within Peter with a view to his Apostleship to the Jews had also been at work within me with a view to my Apostleship to the Gentiles--

For obedience to the faith

For I will not presume to mention any of the results that Christ has brought about by other agency than mine in securing the obedience of the Gentiles by word or deed,

but has now been brought fully to light, and by the command of the God of the Ages has been made known by the writings of the Prophets among all the Gentiles to win them to obedience to the faith--

Meanwhile God's Message continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem very greatly increased, and very many priests obeyed the faith.

The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.

and so, having been made perfect, He became to all who obey Him the source and giver of eternal salvation.

Among

Is God simply the God of the Jews, and not of the Gentiles also? He is certainly the God of the Gentiles also,

For his name

Symeon has related how God first looked graciously on the Gentiles to take from among them a People to be called by His name.

to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.

But you are a chosen race, a priesthood of kingly lineage, a holy nation, a people belonging specially to God, that you may make known the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.