⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

⁴ but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities,

¹⁰ Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.^(A)

6 As we work together with him,^[a] we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.^(A)

⁶ who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.^(A)

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.^(A)

¹⁰ According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.^(A)

²⁵ I became its minister according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,^(A)

⁷ Of this gospel I have become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me by the working of his power.

⁷ But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.^(A)