He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the “Heavenly Twins” as its figurehead.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”

Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was to the circumcised

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –