Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

When you examine him yourself, you will be able to learn from him about all these things we are accusing him of doing.”

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.”

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!

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

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body – though many – are one body, so too is Christ.

If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,