If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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.

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet – see! – we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them by their hypocrisy.

And all who will behave in accordance with this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,

And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) but Satan thwarted us.

For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.