For you put up with ¹  it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly ²  toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, ¹  any affection or mercy, ² 

If someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? ¹ 

And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? ¹  Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, ¹  and I do not burn with indignation?

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.

If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!” ¹ 

Then ¹  Jesus ²  said, “A man had two sons.

Or who has first given to God, ¹  that God ²  needs to repay him? ³ 

it is not from ¹  works, so that no one can boast. ² 

If anyone has an ear, he had better listen!

(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) ¹ 

Was anyone called after he had been circumcised? He should not try to undo his circumcision. ¹  Was anyone called who is uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

Do not become partners ¹  with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

My brothers and sisters, ¹  if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

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?

The ¹  disciples were greatly astonished when they heard this and said, “Then who can be saved?” ² 

Jesus answered them, ¹  “Watch out ²  that no one misleads you.

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ¹  or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him.