by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ ??20 my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

Do you not know your bodies are members of Christ? Am I to take Christ's members and devote them to a harlot? Never!

May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves ??though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law ??to win over those outside the Law;

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

who now testifies to what is God's word and Jesus Christ's testimony ??to what he saw.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

For who ever understood the thoughts of the Lord, so as to give him instruction? No one. Well, our thoughts are Christ's thoughts.

But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;

It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

who shall condemn? Will Christ? ??the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us!

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

(for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed ??the real Christ who is in Jesus);

Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God in the service of the Life he has promised in Christ Jesus ??2 to his beloved son Timotheus: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

That will prove to you that I am indeed a spokesman of Christ. It is no weak Christ you have to do with, but a Christ of power.

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Besides, while Moses was faithful in every department of God's house as an attendant ??by way of witness to the coming revelation ??6 Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.

others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?

Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"

"Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge ??saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.