For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Thereafter He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness,

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

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

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

However, we speak wisdom among those that are perfect, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

Now when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, solemnly bearing witness to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

I marvel that you are turning so quickly from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach a gospel to you other than what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

For do I just now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus,

just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

who will also confirm you until the end, [that you may be] unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And these are similarly the [seeds] being sown on stony ground which, whenever they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy;

And these are the [seeds] being sown in the thorns; they are the [ones] who are hearing the word,

And these are the [seeds] sown on good ground, such as who hear the word and welcome it, and bear fruit: some thirty [fold], some sixty, and some a hundred."

He that rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him--the word which I spoke, that [word] will judge him in the last day.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that even the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

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.

Finally then, brothers, we request of you and exhort [you] in the Lord Jesus, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you should abound more.

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother living in idleness, and not according the tradition which they received from us.

through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

By Silvanus the faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying this to be [the] true grace of God in which you stand.