For who regards you as different? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

If others share this right of support from you, do not we all the more? Nevertheless, we did not make use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

And that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.