Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

No more shall the voice of harpers and minstrels, flute-players and trumpeters Be heard in you. No more shall any craftsman of any craft Be found at all in you. No more shall the sound of a millstone be heard at all in you.

For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband.

For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a brother beloved; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and a fellow Christian.

I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, that I may be the more speedily restored to you.

But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.

They hunger no more, Neither thirst any more; Neither will the sun strike upon them, Nor any scorching heat;

And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more, Nor will there be mourning, Nor crying, nor pain any more. Because the first things have passed away."

But now, since I have no more any "opening" in these parts, and since I have longed for many years to come to you

For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort.

while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

For everything is for your sakes, so that more abundant grace, because of the thanksgiving of many voices, might overflow to the glory of God.

For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

This is why many among you are feeble and sickly, and many sleep.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep.