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Know ye not that we shall iudge Angels? How much more things that perteine to this life?

For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all, that I might gaine the more.

Nay, much more those members of the bodie, which seeme to bee more feeble, are necessary.

And those members of the bodie, which wee thinke to bee lesse honourable, vpon these we bestow more abundant honour, and our vncomely parts haue more abundant comelinesse.

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For our comely parts haue no need: but God hath tempered the bodie together, hauing giuen more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

But couet earnestly the best gifts: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way.

I thanke my God, I speake with tongues more then you all.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed vpon me, was not in vaine: But I laboured more abundantly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me:

For our reioycing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie, not with fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God, wee haue had our conuersation in the world, and more aboundantly to youwards.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you.