who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I however am very little concerned at undergoing your scrutiny, or that of other men; in fact I do not even scrutinize myself.

To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, with scanty clothing and many a blow.

If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.