But to me it matters very little that I am judged by you, or by any earthly court.

Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,

For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,