These disclosures we impart, not in the set phrases of human philosophy, but in words the Spirit teaches, giving spiritual truth a spiritual form.

But I am coming very soon to see you, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out, not what these conceited people have to say, but what they can actually do.

But I have not availed myself of any of these rights. And I am not writing this now so that I may become an illustration of this; I had rather die than do that. No one shall deprive me of this boast of mine.

Now these things happened to warn us, so that we should not long for what is evil as they did.

These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax.

These are all produced by one and the same Spirit, and apportioned to each of us just as the Spirit chooses.

So faith, hope, and love endure. These are the great three, and the greatest of them is love.