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.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

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

I do not say this to condemn; for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of the grace.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout all the world.

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

For from you the Word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything.