Having then gifts differing according to the grace having been given to us, [let us use them]: whether prophecy, [let us prophecy] according to the proportion of faith;

whether exhorting, in the exhortation; whether sharing, with simplicity; whether leading, with diligence; whether showing mercy, with cheerfulness.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name,

And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the grace having been given to me by God,

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

(for He who worked with Peter in [the] apostleship to the circumcised, worked also with me in [that for] the Gentiles),

and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace which was given to me, they gave me and Barnabas [their] right [hands] of fellowship, that we [should go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised;

if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

with reference to which, when you read, you can understand my insight in the mystery of Christ,

of which I became a minister according to the free gift of the grace of God which was given to me according to the working of His power.

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the free gift of Christ.

But that "He ascended"--what it is but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

for which I also labor, striving according to His working which is working in me with power.

and the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

If anyone speaks, [let him speak] as the utterances of God. If anyone serves, [let him serve] as from strength, as God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

Well [said]. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.

For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Better is a meek-spirited man with lowliness, than one who divides spoils with the proud.

[It is] not good to eat much honey, but it is right to honor venerable sayings.

I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

Be not very just, neither be very wise, lest you be confounded.

Has it not been told you, O man, what is good? Or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is [the] greater in the kingdom of heaven?"

and said, "Assuredly I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive [what you have], why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned [as kings] without us; and I wish [that] indeed you did reign, in order that we also might reign with you!

And lest I exalt myself above measure by the excellence of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, that it might beat me, lest I exalt myself above measure.

For if anyone thinks that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

doing nothing according to selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility, regarding one another as being better than yourselves.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming to be in the likeness of men.

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Likewise, younger [people], subject yourselves to [the] elders. And all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, because "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves the preeminence over them, does not receive us.

Likewise also that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and discretion, not with braids or gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

Nevertheless she shall be saved through childbirth, if they remain in faith and love, and sanctification, with self-control.

Older men are to be sober, serious, temperate, sound in the faith, in love, in endurance.

so that they may urge the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

Likewise exhort the young men to be sensible,

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, stay sober, put your hope fully in the grace brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.

Be sober, be watchful; your adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour.

Having then gifts differing according to the grace having been given to us, [let us use them]: whether prophecy, [let us prophecy] according to the proportion of faith;

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive [what you have], why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

But to each [one] the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the profit [of all).

and to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,

But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the free gift of Christ.

until we all arrive to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ;

from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the working of the measure of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the edification of itself in love.