¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.^(A)

God’s Election of Israel

9 I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit^(A)—

⁹ For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel^[a] of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,^(A)

¹² But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal.

²³ But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.^(A)

⁷ For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth;^[a] I am not lying), a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.^(A)

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God also, how pure, upright, and blameless our conduct was toward you believers.^(A)

⁵ As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,^(A)

⁷ so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia but in every place your faith in God has become known, so that we have no need to speak about it.^(A)

²⁰ In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!