Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.

By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice before our God on your account,

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.

Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;