But having different gifts according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with simplicity; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Through Him we have received grace and apostleship unto obedience of faith among all nations for His name,

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,

that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, 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 master builder I have laid the foundation, and 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 every one of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

(for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),

and when Jacob, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand 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,

by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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

(Now this, He ascended; what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and might forever and ever. Amen.

Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be highminded, but fear.

For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, that you not be wise within yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.

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

It is better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoils with the proud.

It is not good to eat much honey; so, to search out one's own glory is not glory.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Do not be overly righteous, nor be overly wise; why should you destroy yourself?

O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who then is greater in the kingdom of Heaven?

and said, Truly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of Heaven.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself, God, I thank You that I am not like other men; extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

You are already full. You are already rich. You have reigned as kings without us; and indeed I wish you truly did reign, that we also might reign with you.

And so that I should not be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I should not be made haughty.

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

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or self-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others as surpassing himself.

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

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

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

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

Likewise you that are younger, be subject to your elders. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

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

in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in appropriate apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing,

Nevertheless she will be kept safe through childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Likewise exhort the young men to be of sound mind,

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

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and calm in your prayers.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

But having different gifts according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if 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? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But the manifestation is given through the Spirit to each one for the profit of all:

to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit,

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

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

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

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the full true knowledge of the Son of God, to a complete man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.