I will rescue<n id="1" /> you from your own people<n id="2" /> and from the Gentiles, to whom<n id="3" /> I am sending you

Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan<n id="1" /> to be taught not to blaspheme.p>

who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

And many will follow their debauched lifestyles.<n id="1" /> Because of these false teachers,<n id="2" /> the way of truth will be slandered.<n id="3" />

They<n id="1" /> have testified to your love before the church.<n id="2" /> You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.<n id="3" />

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear,<n id="1" /> proclaim from the housetops.<n id="2" />

And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them<n id="1" /> short.

When<n id="1" /> morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:<n id="2" />

Then<n id="1" /> one of them<n id="2" /> struck the high priest&#8217;s slave,<n id="3" /> cutting off his right ear.

If those people to whom the word of God came were called &#8216;gods&#8217; (and the scripture cannot be broken),<n id="1" />

He told them, &#8220;You are not permitted to know<n id="1" /> the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

But carefully select from among you, brothers,<n id="1" /> seven<n id="2" /> men who are well-attested,<n id="3" /> full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge<n id="4" /> of this necessary task.<n id="5" />

and<n id="1" /> Jason has welcomed them as guests! They<n id="2" /> are all acting against Caesar&#8217;s<n id="3" /> decrees, saying there is another king named<n id="4" /> Jesus!&#8221;<n id="5" />

He gathered<n id="1" /> these<n id="2" /> together, along with the workmen in similar trades,<n id="3" /> and said, &#8220;Men, you know that our prosperity<n id="4" /> comes from this business.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son<n id="1" /> would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.<n id="2" />

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

And if the ear says, &#8220;Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,&#8221; it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.