Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

Now when I arrived in Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord had opened a door of opportunity for me,

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.

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

Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.

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

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

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

This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

He called you to this salvation through our gospel, so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.