But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

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

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

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 –

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think,

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.

All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

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

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.