If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.

But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate) ¹  he has saddened all of you as well.

And we are sending ¹  along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in spreading the gospel. ² 

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously ¹  will also reap generously.

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

Let each one examine ¹  his own work. Then he can take pride ²  in himself and not compare himself with ³  someone else.

– though mine too are significant. ¹  If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, ²  I have more:

But if someone does not provide for his own, ¹  especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

If someone spreads false teachings ¹  and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, ¹  he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

An elder must be blameless, ¹  the husband of one wife, ²  with faithful children ³  who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ¹  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ² 

and he reasoned ¹  that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense ²  he received him back from there.

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

For this finds God’s favor, ¹  if because of conscience toward God ²  someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.