The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

The churches in the province of Asia send greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, with the church that meets in their house.

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

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.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

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.

If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,