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But I am now going to Jerusalem, to minister to the saints.

who, for my life, surrendered their own necks; and to whom, not only I am grateful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

For they who are such, do not serve our Lord Jesus Messiah, but their own belly: and by bland speeches and good wishes, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

But your obedience is known to every one. I therefore rejoice in you: and I would have you be wise in what is good, and blameless in what is evil.

but is at this time revealed, by means of the scriptures of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God, is made known to all the Gentiles, for the obedience of faith;)

so that ye are not inferior in any one of his gifts; but are waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Messiah:

And I beseech you, my Brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, that to you all there may be one language; and that there may be no divisions among you: but that ye may become perfectly of one mind, and of one way of thinking.

I moreover baptized the household of Stephanas: but further, I know not that I baptized any other.

For Messiah did not send me to baptize, but to preach; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Messiah should be inefficient.

For a discourse concerning the cross is, to them who perish, foolishness; but to us who live, it is the energy of God.

23 But we preach Messiah as crucified; [fn] a stumbling-block to the Jews, and foolishness to the Gentiles;

but to them who are called, both Jews and Gentiles, Messiah is the energy of God, and the wisdom of God.

But God hath chosen the foolish ones of the world, to shame the wise; and he hath chosen the feeble ones of the world, to shame the mighty;

And my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness of the discourses of wisdom; but with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power:

that your faith might not arise from the wisdom of men, but from the power of God.

But we speak the wisdom of God, in a mystery; the wisdom which was hidden, and which God predetermined before the world was, for our glory:

But, as it is written: The eye hath not seen, nor hath the ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man, that which God hath prepared for those who love him.

But God hath revealed it to us, by his Spirit; for the Spirit exploreth all things, even the profound things of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God; that we might know the free gifts, which are given to us by God.

Which things we also speak; not in the teaching of the words of man's wisdom, but in the teaching of the spirit; and we compare spirituals with spirituals.