Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.”

But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.

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.

For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

But this I say by way of concession, not of command.

I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?

No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.