and to the very end He will guarantee that you are vindicated at the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As for me, myself, it is of very little concern to me to be examined by you or any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.

To this very hour we have gone hungry, thirsty, poorly clad; we have been roughly knocked around; we have had no home.

When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe!

So if you have the ordinary cases of life for settlement, do you set up as judges the very men in the church who have no standing?

Brothers, each one must continue close to God in the very station in which he was called.