Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;
As for yourselves, brothers, never grow tired of doing what is right.
Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.
So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.
In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.
Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day.
I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.
Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.
and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.
you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.
though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;
It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation.
Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open —
I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.
He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.
Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are simply used by God to give you faith, each as the Lord assigns his task.