Only they urged that we should remember their poor--a thing which was uppermost in my own mind.

Brethren, even a covenant made by a man--to borrow an illustration from daily life--when once formally sanctioned is not liable to be set aside or added to.

I ask you, then, what has become of your self-congratulations? For I bear you witness that had it been possible you would have torn out your own eyes and have given them to me.

Yet just as, at that time, the child born in the common course of nature persecuted the one whose birth was due to the power of the Spirit, so it is now.

For my part I have strong confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt my view of the matter. But the man--be he who he may--who is troubling you, will have to bear the full weight of the judgement to be pronounced on him.

If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.

From this time onward let no one trouble me; for, as for me, I bear, branded on my body, the scars of Jesus as my Master.