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And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

We are fools for Christ"s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man"s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah"s womb:

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.