2 Corinthians 4:2
4:2 But we have rejected
shameful hidden deeds,
not behaving
with deceptiveness
or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
6:4 But as God’s servants,
we have commended ourselves in every way,
with great endurance, in persecutions,
in difficulties, in distresses,
6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots,
in troubles,
in sleepless nights, in hunger,
6:6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by benevolence, by the Holy Spirit,
by genuine
love,
6:7 by truthful
teaching,
by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,
6:8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors,
and yet true;
6:9 as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet – see! – we continue to live; as those who are scourged
and yet not executed;
6:10 as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 11:4
11:4 For if someone comes and proclaims
another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed,
or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received,
or a different gospel than the one you accepted,
you put up with it well enough!
2 Corinthians 11:6
11:6 And even if I am unskilled
in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.
Romans 15:18-19
15:18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience
of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Romans 15:1
Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak
15:1 But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
Colossians 1:5-7
1:5 Your faith and love have arisen
from the hope laid up
for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
1:6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel
is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing
among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
1:7 You learned the gospel
from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave
– a
faithful minister of Christ on our
behalf –
Colossians 1:2
1:2 to the saints, the faithful
brothers and sisters
in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you
from God our Father!
Colossians 1:18
1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.