I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, You know my righteousness.

I have not hid Your truth within my heart, and I have declared Your salvation; I have not hid Your mercy and Your truth from the great congregation.

My mouth shall declare Your righteousness openly, [and] Your salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs [of men].

I will go on in the might of the Lord: O Lord, I will make mention of Your righteousness only.

And I spoke of Your testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed.

For whosoever is ashamed of Me and My words among this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him, whenever He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.

For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but endure hardship with the gospel according to the power of God,

For which cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I have been persuaded that He is able to guard that which I have committed to Him until that Day.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me, and he was not ashamed of my chain;

but if anyone [suffers] as a Christian, let him not be put to shame, but let him glorify God in this matter.

in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

But I know that coming to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

Then the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

If others partake of this right over you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but bear all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ free of charge, so as not to exploit my rights in the gospel.

Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

while through the approved character of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and [for the] generosity of your sharing toward them and toward all,

which is not another; except there are certain people who trouble you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.

according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, [with] which I was entrusted.

So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by [the] word of God.

The Lord shall send out the rod of Your strength out of Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies!

O Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Behold, are not My words as fire? Says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

And my message and my preaching [were] not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an unlearned person comes in, he is reproved by all, he is discerned by all.

And so the secrets of his heart become clear; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God, reporting that God is truly among you!

through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and making known through us the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

To some we are the fragrance of death [leading] to death, but to others the fragrance of life [leading] to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty by God to the pulling down of strongholds,

casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,

because of the hope being laid up for you in [the] heavens, in which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

which has come to you, just as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you, from the day which you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, just as you know what kind [of men] we were among you for your sake.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, in that you received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

Because of this we also give thanks to God unceasingly, so that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received not the word of men, but just as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

For the word of God is living and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had while] in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all those that believe, although uncircumcised, so that righteousness should also be imputed to them,

tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;