Following Paul’s Example

15 All of us, then, who are mature(A) should take such a view of things.(B) And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.(C) 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

17 Join together in following my example,(D) brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.(E) 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,(F) many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.(G) 19 Their destiny(H) is destruction, their god is their stomach,(I) and their glory is in their shame.(J) Their mind is set on earthly things.(K)

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15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

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