The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot, “I do not need you.”

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, ¹  how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

For we do not write you anything other than what ¹  you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely ² 

to finish what you started, ¹  so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, ²  you can also complete it ³  according to your means. ⁴ 

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

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh. ¹ 

and in all of this, ¹  by taking up the shield ²  of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment. ¹ 

so that what you can be proud of may increase ¹  because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you. ² 

For how can we thank God enough for you, ¹  for all the joy we feel ²  because of you before our God?

Here is another way that our people ¹  can learn ²  to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

And every priest stands day after day ¹  serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.

For you have not come to something that can be touched, ¹  to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

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 

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

“To ¹  the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following: ²  “This is the solemn pronouncement of ³  the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors ⁴  no one can shut, and shuts doors ⁵  no one can open:

He ¹  sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”

“You are the salt ¹  of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, ²  how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

“Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues ¹  and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.