‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! ¹  For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’” ² 

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

If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. ¹  He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened” ¹  to eat food offered to idols?

But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience ¹  –

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 know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

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.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him ¹  or the son of man that you care for him?

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

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

For if someone ¹  comes into your assembly ²  wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, ¹  if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith ²  save him? ³ 

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” ¹  Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by ²  my works.

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, ¹  is on the prowl looking for someone ²  to devour.

This is what the Lord says: “The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. ¹  If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. ²  But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him. ³