¹² Become as I `am' -- because I also `am' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

⁵ And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

⁴ And he saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Dost thou go with me to battle `to' Ramoth-Gilead?' and Jehoshaphat saith unto the king of Israel, `As I am, so thou; as my people, so thy people; as my horses, so thy horses.'

¹⁵ `Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

¹⁴ And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

¹⁴ But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

¹³ and `as' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it',) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

²⁰ and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;

²¹ to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;

²² I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

²³ And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

²¹ and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostacy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ `is' with your spirit, brethren! Amen.