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the gospel by which you are saved ??provided you adhere to my statement of it ??unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeReasons For Faith In ChristUseless ReligionThe Gospel Of SalvationKeeping FaithBeing SavedpreachingFutile Faith

I ask this favour of you, my brothers. The household of Stephanas, you know, was the first to be reaped in Achaia, and they have laid themselves out to serve the saints.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfHousesMinistry, Qualifications ForServants, Working Conditions OfUnselfishnessMetaphorical FirstfruitsServing GroupsServiceFirst fruitsBeing Devoted to God

Such was my intention. Now, have I shown myself 'fickle'? When I propose some plan, do I propose it in a worldly way, ready to mean 'no' as well as 'yes'?

Verse ConceptsFicklenessLiving For The MaterialAssentingDissent

for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us (by myself and Silvanus and Timotheus) was not 'yes and no' ??the divine 'yes' has at last sounded in him,

Verse ConceptsHeraldPreaching, Content OfAssentingDissentGod Changing His MindIdentity In Christ

I call God to witness against my soul, it was to spare you that I refrained from revisiting Corinth.

Verse ConceptsAppealing To GodThe Witness Of God

So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you.

Verse ConceptsJoy, Of The ChurchOptimism

For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient.

Verse ConceptsWriting LettersObeying The Gospel

Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory ??so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face;

Verse ConceptsShining FacesMinistry, Nature OfMoses, Significance OfSpiritually DeadLight Of God's PeopleengravingGod Bestowing GloryMinistry

If there was glory in the administration that condemned, then the administration that acquits abounds far more in glory

Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newCondemnation, Causes OfCondemnation Of The WickedGod Bestowing GloryReconciliationMinistrycondemnation

(indeed, in view of the transcendent glory, what was glorious has thus no glory at all);

Verse ConceptsImperfect Nature Of Human Glory

persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed ??10 wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body:

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Attitudes ToAbandonmentPersecution Of The Apostle PaulGod Not ForsakingNot DestroyedPersecutionDespairFeeling Lost

So my letter was written to you, not on account of the offender nor for the sake of the injured party, but in order to let you realize before God how seriously you do care for me.

That is what comforts me. And over and above my personal comfort, I was specially delighted at the delight of Titus. You have all set his mind at rest.

Verse ConceptsHappinessHuman ComfortPeople RefreshedAppreciation For Pastors

This has led me to ask Titus to complete the arrangements for the same gracious contribution among yourselves, as it was he who started it.

Verse ConceptsBeginningActivity BegunMan's Work FinishedFinishing Strong

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

Verse ConceptsEnthusiasmAttitudes, to other peopleReadinessProvokingFervourZealousness, Examples OfPaul's BoastingPeople Willing

I am not overstepping the limit, as if you lay beyond my sphere; I was the very first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutFirst Among The GentilesMaking Mistakes

even when I ran short, during my stay with you, I was no encumbrance to anybody, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my wants. Thus I kept myself, as I intend to keep myself, from being a burden to you in any way.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofFellowship, In Christian ServiceLackMissionary WorkPeople ProvidingShortages

I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeopleBeing Strongassertiveness

this man was caught up to paradise and heard sacred secrets which no human lips can repeat.

Verse ConceptsEarsHearing God's WordTaken To Heaven

Now this is playing the fool! But you forced me to it, instead of coming forward yourselves and vouching for me. That was what I deserved; for, 'nobody' as I am, I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles.'

Verse ConceptsCommendationApostles, IdentficationFalse Teachers, Examples OfFoolish PeopleRelative GreatnessFalse ApostlesOutward CompulsionPraising Specific PeopleI Am Unimportant

But let that pass, you say; I was not a burden to you, no, but I was clever enough to dupe you with my tricks? Was I?

Verse ConceptsShrewdnessTrickeryThose Who DeceivedOverloadDeception

Personally I was quite unknown to the Christian churches of Judaea;

Verse ConceptsChurch, Examples OfNot Knowing People

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtAthleticsThe Christian RaceHeraldPrivacyPrizesResponseRunningInformation In SecretUseless LabourRaceFutile Faith

But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalGreeksNecessity Of CircumcisionNo Compulsion

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceFellowship, Among BelieversApostles, Function In Early ChurchGrace, And Christian LifePaul, Apostle To GentilesPillarsCompanionshipMissionary WorkMetaphorical PillarsBlessings For The Right HandThe Gospel To Jew And Gentilepartnership

Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

Verse ConceptsCowardiceExclusivenessRacial PrejudiceFear Of ManInstabilityRelations With ForeignersCircumcision PartyNecessity Of CircumcisionFear Of Enemies

The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

Verse ConceptsBarnabasIsrael HardenedShowing HypocrisyHypocrisy

If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.

Verse ConceptsHeirsInheritance, SpiritualGod's Promise To AbrahamGrace Verse Law

Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstAngels as God's servantsGuardiansLaw, Purpose OfMediationMoses, Significance OfResponsibility, To GodAngels Giving The LawGod's Promise To AbrahamAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among BelieversAngelic GuardianshipPromises

Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed;

Verse ConceptsKeysUnder The Law

no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit,

Verse ConceptsdiseasesInfirmitiesThe Gospel PreachedSicknessWeaknessIllness

and though my flesh was a trial to you, you did not scoff at me nor spurn me, you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus. You congratulated yourselves.

Verse ConceptsLove, For One AnotherMinistry, In The ChurchReceptivenessAcceptance, Of One AnotherCaringThe Angel Of GodWelcoming ChristWelcoming BelieversLike AngelsIllnessRejectiontrails

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

Verse ConceptsGod's Promise To AbrahamLife In A Material WorldThe Promise Of A Babyslaverysarah

so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ ??11 in the Christ in whom we have had our heritage allotted us (as was decreed in the design of him who carries out everything according to the counsel of his will),

Verse ConceptsCompletionUniverseVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesSecret ThingsGathered By GodThe Time AppointedGod's PlansDispensationsUnityGod's PlanGod's TimingThe EarthGods PlanReconciliationGod's CreationEverything Happening For A ReasonGods TimingBeing PositiveGod's Plan For UsEnd TimesGod's Timing And PlanMaturitygatheringfulfillment

For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles ??2 for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtPrisonersLoving ForeignersvocationChristians Are Called Prisoners Of Christ

how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this,

Verse ConceptsGod Revealing MysteriesConcisenessWriting Letters

for he has been yearning for you all. He has been greatly concerned because you heard he was ill.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingOther Sad People

I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalDay 8ScholarsLess Than A Year OldTaking The Law To HeartJewszealots

It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingCareLove, For One AnotherRight Time For PeopleOpportunityBeing ContentRenewalrevival

even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent money more than once for my needs.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, Human

He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation ??16 for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritFirstbornFellowship, In The GospelCommunicationImage Of GodIncarnationLikenessDivinity Of ChristMission, Of Jesus ChristPerfection, DivineRevelation, In NtSeeing GodUniquenessPreexistence Of ChristGod, InvisibleChrist, Names ForBirthrightsGod's Glory In Jesus ChristChrist The FirstbornGodheadIdentityIdentity In Christimage

so as to set you consecrated and unblemished and irreproachable in his presence ??23 that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Through Jesus ChristFreedom, Abuse Of ChristianFaultsBlamelessness, Presented To GodBlemishHoliness Of The SaintsHoliness, Believers' Growth InRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanSalvation, Nature OfAlienation, OvercomingUnblemishmentThe Effect Of Christ's DeathPeace Made Through ChristGlorificationReconciliationaccusations

But you remember yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was no failure.

Verse ConceptsVisitingPeople VisitingUseless Labour

You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,

Verse ConceptsConsciences, Before OthersBlamelessness, Church MinistersThe Witness Of GodPlea Of InnocenceClear Consciences

Do you not remember I used to tell you this when I was with you?

Verse ConceptsIn Men's Presence

Not that we have no right to such support; it was simply to give you a pattern to copy.

Verse ConceptsImitatingMinisters, Should BeImitating Good PeopleExample Of Believers

As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toPaul, Life OfDiscipline Of The ChurchMisteaching

May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment ??17 no, he made eager search for me when he reached Rome, and he found me

Verse ConceptsChainsIntimacyFriendship, Examples OfIron ChainsBe Merciful!People Refreshedempathy

(may he find favour with the Lord on the great Day! The Lord grant it!). And you know very well what a help he was to me in Ephesus.

Verse ConceptsMercy, Of Jesus ChristGod Will Show MercyPurgatoryministering

However, they will get no further, for their aberration will be detected by everyone, as was the case with these magicians.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfManifesting (making Something Clear)Foolishness Of MenAspects Of People Made Knowncancer

I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!

Verse ConceptsChildren In The FaithUseful People

Perhaps this was why you and he were parted for a while, that you might get him back for good,

Verse ConceptsPeople PartingEternal BlessingWhy It Happened

how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeConfirmationComplacencydelay, humanHearingHistoryNeglecting God's ThingsWitnesses, To Jesus ChristSalvation, Described AsChrist PreachingEscaping EvilThe Gospel Of Salvation

For the world to come, of which I am speaking, was not put under the control of angels.

Verse ConceptsThe Future AgeAngelsPerspectiveconnectedness

he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house,

Verse ConceptsChrist, The High PriestTypes Of ChristGod's DwellingFaithful In MuchGod Appointing His SonGod's Faithfulness

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.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfBusiness, ExamplesMinistry, Nature OfMoses, Significance OfPredictionsReliabilityServanthood, In Life Of BelieversServants Of The LordFidelityScriptures Bearing Witness To ChristGod's FaithfulnessConfidence And Self Esteemservanthoodtestimony

Who heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfLeaving EgyptHearing God's Voice