as you help us by means of your prayers for us. So it will be that the many prayers for us will be answered, and God will bless us; and many will raise their voices to him in thanksgiving for us.

How we thank God for making Titus as eager as we are to help you!

Let us thank God for his priceless gift!

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father.

Now we can give thanks to our God for you. We thank him for the joy we have in his presence because of you.

saying, "Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might belong to our God forever and ever! Amen!"

Save us, O LORD our God, and bring us back from among the nations, so that we may be thankful and praise your holy name.

He made his nation strong, so that all his people praise him--- the people of Israel, so dear to him. Praise the LORD!

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

And what you plant is a bare seed, perhaps a grain of wheat or some other grain, not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up.

For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.

For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable for such a task?

There is a fragrance about you; the sound of your name recalls it. No woman could keep from loving you.

by the power of miracles and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. And so, in traveling all the way from Jerusalem to Illyricum, I have proclaimed fully the Good News about Christ.

The gospel keeps bringing blessings and is spreading throughout the world, just as it has among you ever since the day you first heard about the grace of God and came to know it as it really is.

You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel. It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant---this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.