Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he stayed close to Philip constantly, and when he saw the signs and great miracles that were occurring, he was amazed.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,

But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, he should acknowledge that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.

For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.