I am always thanking God for you, for the spiritual blessing given you by God through union with Christ Jesus;

because you have in everything been richly blessed through union with Him, with perfect expression and fullness of knowledge.

God is entirely trustworthy, and it is He through whom you have been called into this fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For since in accordance with the wisdom of God the world had never in reality, by means of its wisdom, come to know God, God chose through the nonsense of the message proclaimed, to save the people who put their faith in Him.

So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,

For God unveiled them to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit by searching discovers everything, even the deepest truths about God.

Then what is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave each of us his task.

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.

For though you have ten thousand teachers in the Christian life, you certainly could not have many fathers. For it was I myself who became your father through your union with Christ Jesus, which resulted from my telling you the good news.

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and the goal of our living, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

For I would not have you, brothers, to be ignorant of the fact that though our forefathers were all made safe by the cloud, and all went securely through the sea, and in the cloud and the sea

to another, through union with the same Spirit, faith; to another, by one and the same Spirit, power to cure the sick;

and through which you are to be saved, unless your faith at first was spurious.

For since it was through a man that death resulted, it was also through a man that the resurrection of the dead resulted.

I protest, by the boasting which I do about you, my brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I myself run the risk of dying every single day!

But thank God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will come to see you after I pass through Macedonia -- for I am to pass through Macedonia --