who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within.

Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.

“The priest who is anointed and ordained to act as high priest in place of his father is to make atonement. He is to put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God.