Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

For a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence.

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? / But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: / And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.