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.

And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in spreading the gospel.

Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.

What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,

But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell!

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!

They were only hearing, “The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy.”

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

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

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into this secret of Christ.

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