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and sent Timothy our brother and God's minister in the service of Christ's Good News, that he might help you spiritually and encourage you in your faith;


Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door stood open before me,


Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.


For the time has come for judgement to begin, and to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?





Yet Paul and Barnabas remained there for a considerable time, speaking freely and relying on the Lord, while He bore witness to the Message of His grace by permitting signs and marvels to be done by them.



And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.


We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.




will not the service of the Spirit be far more glorious?






and ask on my behalf that words may be given to me so that, outspoken and fearless, I may make known the truths (hitherto kept secret)








if, that is, you have heard of the work which God has graciously entrusted to me for your benefit,


So teach and exhort. If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome instructions--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that harmonizes with true godliness,




To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered,


But what does it say? "The Message is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart;" that is, the Message which we are publishing about the faith--




"Brethren, descendants of the family of Abraham, and all among you who fear God, to us has this Message of salvation been sent.