(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think,

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.

and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead! And because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him.”

Now King Herod heard this, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some were saying, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him.”

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.