Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him; therefore also through him the “Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

As a result God exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. And there was no light for a third of the day and for a third of the night likewise.

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.”

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.