“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness some time ago?”

They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,

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.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means.

because the service of this ministry is not only providing for the needs of the saints but is also overflowing with many thanks to God.