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to be a servant of the Messiah Yeshua for the Gentiles, with the priestly duty of presenting the Good News of God, so that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, made holy by the Ruach HaKodesh.

In union with the Messiah Yeshua, then, I have reason to be proud of my service to God;

through the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Yerushalayim all the way to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah.

And now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God on my behalf

Now may the God of shalom be with you all. Amen.

And God, the source of shalom, will soon crush the Adversary under your feet. The grace of our Lord Yeshua be with you.

Now to God, who can strengthen you, according to my Good News, in harmony with the revelation of the secret truth which is the proclamation of Yeshua the Messiah, kept hidden in silence for ages and ages,

but manifested now through prophetic writings, in keeping with the command of God the Eternal, and communicated to all the Gentiles to promote in them trust-grounded obedience —

to the only wise God, through Yeshua the Messiah, be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

I thank my God always for you because of God's love and kindness given to you through the Messiah Yeshua,

God is trustworthy: it was he who called you into fellowship with his Son, Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord.

I thank God that I didn't immerse any of you except Crispus and Gaius —

For the message about the execution-stake is nonsense to those in the process of being destroyed, but to us in the process of being saved it is the power of God.

Where does that leave the philosopher, the Torah-teacher, or any of today's thinkers? Hasn't God made this world's wisdom look pretty foolish?

For God's wisdom ordained that the world, using its own wisdom, would not come to know him. Therefore God decided to use the "nonsense" of what we proclaim as his means of saving those who come to trust in it.

Just look at yourselves, brothers — look at those whom God has called! Not many of you are wise by the world's standards, not many wield power or boast noble birth.

But God chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise; God chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the strong;

and God chose what the world looks down on as common or regards as nothing in order to bring to nothing what the world considers important;

so that no one should boast before God.