Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, thou know.

O God, thou have taught me from my youth, and I have declared thy wondrous works until now.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light, and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

And I say to you, every man who will confess in me before men, the Son of man will also confess in him before the agents of God,

But what does it say? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach:

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

The word

It is the spirit that makes alive. The flesh benefits nothing. The sayings that I speak to you are spirit, are life.

Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent.

Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.

For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age.

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

That i may

So that your pride may abound in Christ Jesus in me because of my presence with you again.

as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

That i have

But I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity. Yet surely the justice [due] to me is with LORD, and my recompense with my God.

I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

And I went up according to revelation, and I declared to them the good-news that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest somehow I might be running or ran in vain.

I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.

General references

As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

So that your pride may abound in Christ Jesus in me because of my presence with you again.