¹² What I mean is that ^(A)each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow ^(B)Apollos,” or “I follow ^(C)Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

²¹ So ^(A)let no one boast in men. For ^(B)all things are yours, ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, ²³ and ^(C)you are Christ's, and ^(D)Christ is God's.

⁴² He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of ^(A)John. You shall be called ^(B)Cephas” (which means ^(C)Peter^[a]).

^9 (A)And call no man your father on earth, for ^(B)you have one Father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰ Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, ^(C)the Christ.

⁴ For ^(A)when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” ^(B)are you not being merely human?

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? ^(C)Servants through whom you believed, ^(D)as the Lord assigned to each. ^6 (E)I planted, ^(F)Apollos watered, ^(G)but God gave the growth.

¹⁷ This is what I mean: the law, which came ^(A)430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as ^(B)to make the promise void.

⁹ and when James and Cephas and John, ^(A)who seemed to be ^(B)pillars, perceived the ^(C)grace that was given to me, they ^(D)gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

The Cheerful Giver

⁶ The point is this: ^(A)whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully^[a] will also reap bountifully.

Final Instructions

¹² Now concerning ^(A)our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will^[a] to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.