Study Desk

God showed them His power through me. The Holy Spirit did powerful works through me in front of them. From Jerusalem to the country of Illyricum I have preached the Good News of Christ.

Pray that God will keep me safe from the people in the country of Judea who are not Christians. Pray also that the work I am to do for the Christians in Jerusalem will help them.

Then I will be coming to you if God wants me to come. I will be full of joy, and together we can have some rest.

May our God Who gives us peace, be with you all. Let it be so.

God, Who is our peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the loving-favor of our Lord Jesus be yours.

We give honor to God. He is able to make you strong as I preach from the Holy Writings about Jesus Christ. It was a secret hidden from the beginning of the world.

But now it is for us to know. The early preachers wrote about it. God says it is to be preached to all the people of the world so men can put their trust in God and obey Him.

May God, Who only is wise, be honored forever through our Lord Jesus Christ. Let it be so.

This letter is from Paul. I have been chosen by God to be a missionary of Jesus Christ. Sosthenes, a Christian brother, writes also.

May you have loving-favor and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I am thankful to God all the time for you. I am thankful for the loving-favor God has given to you because you belong to Christ Jesus.

God is faithful. He chose you to be joined together with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I am thankful to God that I baptized Crispus and Gaius only.

Preaching about the cross sounds foolish to those who are dying in sin. But it is the power of God to those of us who are being saved from the punishment of sin.

Where is the man who is wise? Where is the man who thinks he knows a lot? Where is the man who thinks he has all the answers? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish.

In His wisdom, He did not allow man to come to know Him through the wisdom of this world. It pleased God to save men from the punishment of their sins through preaching the Good News. This preaching sounds foolish.

Christ is the power and wisdom of God to those who are chosen to be saved from the punishment of sin for both Jews and Greeks.

But God has chosen what the world calls foolish to shame the wise. He has chosen what the world calls weak to shame what is strong.

God has chosen what is weak and foolish of the world, what is hated and not known, to destroy the things the world trusts in.

In that way, no man can be proud as he stands before God.