⁵ Not that we are qualified of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our qualification is from God,^(A)

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.^(A)

⁸ (for he who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the gentiles),

⁷ Of this gospel I have become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me by the working of his power.

⁸ Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ^(A)

¹³ for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.