Not that I am of myself qualified to claim anything as originating with me. My qualification is from God,

God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance so that you will always have enough for every situation, and ample means for every good enterprise:

and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself,

Those who were regarded as the leaders??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God takes no account of external differences??he leaders contributed nothing new to me.

For it is under his control that the whole system, adjusted and united by each ligament of its equipment, develops in proportion to the functioning of each particular part, and so builds itself up through love.

That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders,

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.

Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,

(which in past ages was not disclosed to mankind as fully as it has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets)

By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him.

Let nobody interfere with me after this, for I bear on my body the scars that mark me as a slave of Jesus.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

when in your baptism you were buried with him, and raised to life with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

But he turned and reproved them.

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple-tax came and said to Peter, "Does not your Master pay the temple-tax?"

I can do anything through him who gives me strength.

You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

In his right hand he held seven stars; from his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun at noonday.

For the Spirit God has given us is a spirit not of timidity but of power, love, and self-discipline.

For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him.