If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?

However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.

But even more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.

I wish all of you spoke in other languages, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in languages, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

I thank God that I speak in other languages more than all of you;

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.