American Standard Version of 1901
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and last of all, as to the child untimely born, he appeared to me also.
I thank him that {Some ancient authorities read enableth.}enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his service;
Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through {Or, a man}man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
For I reckon that I am not a whit behind {Or, those preeminent apostles}the very chiefest apostles.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,As infants that never saw light.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,As infants that never saw light.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;