grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I always thank my God for the grace of God that has been bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

It matters very little to me that you or any human court should cross-question me on this point. I do not even cross-question myself;

for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.