As many as: wish to have an agreeable demeanor in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should be driven out for the cross of Christ.

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See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, which ye would not believe if any recount to you.

For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:

And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid:

And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.

Foolishness

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.

And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.

And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up.

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And to these the called, to both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and wisdom of God.

By which also ye are saved, to which word I announced to you if ye hold, unless ye believed to no purpose.

The rod of thy strength will Jehovah send out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

For I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to all believing; both to the Jew first, and the Greek.

(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;)

For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.

For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.