and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather.

For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.

Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.