For see what this very thing, this sadness ¹  as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, ²  what indignation, ³  what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, ⁴  what punishment! ⁵  In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Give a shepherd’s care to ¹  God’s flock among you, exercising oversight ²  not merely as a duty ³  but willingly under God’s direction, ⁴  not for shameful profit but eagerly.

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

and to put on sandals but not to wear two tunics. ¹ 

I have not come ¹  to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” ² 

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins. ¹ 

Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, ¹  and do this before unbelievers?

But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters! ¹ 

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

Some of you once lived this way. ¹  But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ²  and by the Spirit of our God.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

In fact he became so ill that he nearly died. ¹  But God showed mercy to him – and not to him only, but also to me – so that I would not have grief on top of grief.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, ¹  as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish ²  for any ³  to perish but for all to come to repentance. ⁴ 

And do not lead us into temptation, ¹  but deliver us from the evil one. ² 

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more ¹  than a prophet.