And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

I was glad about the arrival of Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus because they have supplied the fellowship with you that I lacked.

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

Thus we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, so also he should complete this act of kindness for you.

but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.

Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.

And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.