For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

Do we not have the right to financial support?

If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving? But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

I, Paul, send this greeting with my own hand.

who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.

Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,

if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.