But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree,
If others have a share of the authority over you, should not rather we? But we did not use this authority, but we endured all things, so that we might not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
I became to the weak ones as weak, that I might gain the weak ones. To all people I have become all things, that in any and every way I might save some.
For out of much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you, through many tears, not that you be grieved, but that you know the love which I have especially toward you.
We announce to you that which we have seen, and that which we have heard, that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.