²² What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

³² Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

⁵ Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; `And' he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

²⁸ Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

² Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

¹⁷ But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

⁵ (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

¹⁵ but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world `to be' rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.