Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.

But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

but of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.