Now all the Jews know the way I lived ¹  from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people ²  and in Jerusalem. ³ 

When the ship was caught in it ¹  and could not head into ²  the wind, we gave way to it and were driven ³  along.

and the rest were to follow, ¹  some on planks ²  and some on pieces of the ship. ³  And in this way ⁴  all were brought safely to land.

There ¹  we found ²  some brothers ³  and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome. ⁴ 

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, ¹  I will set out for Spain by way of you,

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison. ¹ 

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back ¹  to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

But as God’s servants, ¹  we have commended ourselves in every way, ²  with great endurance, in persecutions, ³  in difficulties, in distresses,

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body ¹  had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within.

You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, ¹  which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

What I am saying with this boastful confidence ¹  I do not say the way the Lord would. ²  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

For you have heard of my former way of life ¹  in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside ¹  the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

In the same way ¹  husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is ¹  a sign of their ²  destruction, but of your salvation – a sign which ³  is from God.

Be imitators of me, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

So then, my brothers and sisters, ¹  dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.