For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's {wealth}.

For though I be free from all {men}, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

Let every one of us please {his} neighbour for {his} good to edification.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but {we do} all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

If by any means I may provoke to emulation {them which are} my flesh, and might save some of them.

Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

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

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all {men}, that I might by all means save some.

Let every one of us please {his} neighbour for {his} good to edification.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's {wealth}.

And {that} he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: {Gentiles: Gr. Greeks}

For though I be free from all {men}, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Be ye followers of me, even as I also {am} of Christ.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

What is my reward then? {Verily} that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

So we, {being} many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some {others}, epistles of commendation to you, or {letters} of commendation from you?

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but {we do} all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.