"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?

Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?

So God's message continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a great many priests accepted the faith.

So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert?

But he, full of the holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

and said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before the emperor, and see! God has given you the lives of all the people who are on the ship with you.'

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies.

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

Do you think that I did wrong in degrading myself to uplift you, because I preached God's good news to you without any compensation?

We had just been through ill-treatment and insults at Philippi, as you remember, but, in the face of great opposition, we took courage by the help of our God, and told you God's good news.

That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

I heard a loud voice from the throne say, "See! God's dwelling is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people and God himself will be with them,