1So let a man think of us as Christ`s servants, and stewards of God`s mysteries.

2Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man`s judgment. Yes, I don`t judge my own self.

4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

14I don`t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

17Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

20For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

21What do you want? Will I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven`t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren`t you my work in the Lord?

2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3My defense to those who examine me is this.

4Have we no right to eat and to drink?

5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn`t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn`t drink from the flock`s milk?

8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn`t the law also say the same thing?

9For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

12If others partake of this right over you, don`t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

13Don`t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

14Even so did the Lord ordain that those who proclaim the gospel should live from the gospel.

15But I have used none of these things, and I don`t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don`t preach the gospel.

17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the gospel.

19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

23Now I do this for the gospel`s sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

12Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

16For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

18This voice we heard come out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mountain.

21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they do also to the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

2that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

13Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

6For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

2The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

1I charge you therefore before God and the Lord, Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

1Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn`t be a servant of Christ.

11But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

12For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

11But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned.

12For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

13The rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so much that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

14But when I saw that they didn`t walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

17From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.

17But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

18They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even they who were of old written of beforehand to this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

1Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

13whom I wanted to keep with me, that in your behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the gospel.

19I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

9yet for love`s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus.

1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God`s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

3but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God, our Savior;

5I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

15Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

12When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.