I for my part care very little about being examined by you or by any human court. I do not even offer myself for investigation.

For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.

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 this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

By the very pride I take in you, brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I face death every day.

You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first;