For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;

Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.

Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?

And what conformity to Christ with Belial? and what part to the believing with the unbelieving?

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.

And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.

And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.

What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting.

I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also.

For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

For what is it which ye were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself acted not with negligence to you? favor me for this injustice.