other people and look up to them accordingly, or they go the other way and regard them as colossal hypocrites who preach to others what they are not prepared to practise themselves. Paul knew this, and was well aware of the danger of trying to win others at the price of losing his own soul.120 That is why his outlook on the world was governed by this perspective. He was the worst person he knew, and although he did not explicitly say so, he believed that all Christians should think of themselves