That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it---unless it was for nothing that you believed.

And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.

Is it for nothing, then, that I have kept myself pure and have not committed sin?

I said, "I have worked, but how hopeless it is! I have used up my strength, but have accomplished nothing." Yet I can trust the LORD to defend my cause; he will reward me for what I do.

Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down,

It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!' "

For he has fixed a day in which he will judge the whole world with justice by means of a man he has chosen. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising that man from death!"

I went because God revealed to me that I should go. In a private meeting with the leaders I explained the gospel message that I preach to the Gentiles. I did not want my work in the past or in the present to be a failure.

Do any of you think you are religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself.

You fool! Do you want to be shown that faith without actions is useless?