whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles,

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one preaching?

I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel?

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

For I speak to you, gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

Pay to all their dues; a tax to whom a tax is due, a toll to whom a toll is due, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is defiled in itself, except to him that thinks any thing to be defiled; to him it is defiled.

For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

And I am persuaded, my brothers, even I myself, concerning you, that you are full of kindness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another;

but as it is written, They shall see to whom nothing was told concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.

should I go to Spain I will come to you; for I hope, going by, to see you, and to be sent forward by you there, when first I am in part filled with you.

But now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints.

who exposed their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the nations;

God is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I mean this; that each one of you says I indeed am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men?

Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.

for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am not on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am;

A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

yet to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him.

And will not the weak brother for whom Christ died perish by your knowledge?

AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am intrusted with a stewardship.

All these things happened to them as examples, and are recorded for our admonition on whom the ends of the ages have come;

If I partake with thanks, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

Be followers of me as I also am of Christ.

If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

and if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

For now we see by a mirror darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully as I also am known.

Afterwards he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the most continue even to the present time, but some have fallen asleep.

For I am the least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God;

but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God with me.

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in regard to God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if indeed the dead are not raised.

And when I come, whom you shall approve, these will I send with letters to carry your charity to Jerusalem;

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaiacus, for they supplied your lack,

who delivered us from so great a death and will deliver, in whom we hope that he will also still deliver,

And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have shown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.

I have great boldness towards you, and great glorying on your account; I am full of comfort, I have a super-abounding joy in all our afflictions.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

I PAUL also exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in appearance am humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you;

for not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

For I am zealous for you with a godly zeal, for I joined you, a chaste virgin, to one husband, to present to Christ;

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

for I judge that I am not behind the chief of the apostles.

And even if I am rude in speech, I certainly am not in knowledge, but we have been made fully manifest to you in all things.

I speak of reproach as if we were weak; wherein any one is bold, I speak foolishly, I am bold also.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the posterity of Abraham? so am I.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often;

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I am not displeased?

Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with infirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

I have become foolish; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing am I behind the chief of the apostles, though I also am nothing.

Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And I most gladly will spend and will be spent for your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am loved.

This third time I am coming to you; by the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

to whom be the glory forever and ever; amen.

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you in vain.

I beseech you, brothers, be as I am, for I am as you [ought to be]. You did not injure me;

It is good to be zealous for a good object always, and not only when I am present with you.

My little children, with whom I am again in pain till Christ is formed in you,

I wish to be present with you now and change my voice with you, for I am in doubt of you.

And I, brothers, if I preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the cross ceased.

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,

in whom also we have been called, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will,

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also you having believed were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, performing the wishes of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as others;

To me, who am the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ,

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in him.

of whom all the family in heaven and on earth is named,

by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that you may know the things concerning us and that he may comfort your hearts.

in Sawyer]those from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel,

But I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far better;

But if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate you all;

For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no opportunity [to serve me].

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.

I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in all conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer want.

But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

For if I am absent in the flesh, still I am present in spirit with you, rejoicing and beholding your order and the strength of your faith in Christ.

in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he may know your affairs and comfort your hearts,

Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you, and Mark the nephew of Barnabas,??oncerning whom you received commandments, if he comes to you receive him,??11 and Jesus called Justus, who are of the circumcision; these are the only co-laborers for the kingdom of God who have been a comfort to me.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

and then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming,

The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief;

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.