For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

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

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

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

For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.

So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation?

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God’s sight,

yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).