And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become [as] sounding brass or a clashing cymbal.

And though I give away all my possessions to feed [the poor], and though I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

And he took up his parable and said, The utterance of Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eyes are truly open says,

he who hears the oracle of the Mighty One, who saw a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened:

hearing the oracles of God, receiving knowledge from the Most High, and having seen a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself too highly, beyond what you should think, but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one a measure of faith.

Do you look at things as they appear? If anyone has persuaded himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

For we dare not to class ourselves or to compare ourselves with those who commend themselves, but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, do not understand.

For if he who comes [to you] preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you may well put up with him!

But what I am doing, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those who desire an opportunity, that in what they boast they may be found just as we [are].

And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.

Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord; but I give judgment, as having received mercy by the Lord to be faithful.

But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, in my opinion--and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."

Finally then, brothers, we request of you and exhort [you] in the Lord Jesus, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you should abound more.

For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

to remember the words having been previously spoken by the holy prophets, and the commandment of your apostles of the Lord and Savior;

We are of God. He that knows God hears us; [he] that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,