Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

Then there were flashes of lightning, roaring, and crashes of thunder, and there was a tremendous earthquake – an earthquake unequaled since humanity has been on the earth, so tremendous was that earthquake.