I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—
For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”
And the angel of the Lord solemnly assured Joshua,
But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’
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