as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, b
in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.