Now after these things, having departed from Athens, Paul came to Corinth.

and because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

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

which things we also speak, not in words taught in human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.

And Moses said to the Lord, I pray, Lord, I have not been sufficient in former times, neither from the time that You have begun to speak to Your servant: I am weak in speech, and slow-tongued.

And I said, O Lord, Sovereign Lord, behold, I know not [how] to speak, for I am a child.

And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child; for you shall go to all to whomsoever I shall send you, and according to all [the words] that I shall command you, you shall speak.

For such [people] do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

"For his letters," they say, "are severe and boisterous, but his bodily presence [is] feeble, and his speech amounts to nothing."

But even if I [am] unskilled in speech, yet [I am] not [inferior] in knowledge, but in every [way] I was made known to you in all things.

just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

For He has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

solemnly bearing witness to both Jews and to Greeks, the repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

and saw Him saying to me, 'Hurry and go out quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your witness about Me.'

whenever He comes, in that Day, to be glorified among His saints and to be marveled among all those having believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

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

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,

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

And this is the testimony: that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

These things I write to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.

who testified to the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things as He saw, both the things that are and those that must happen after these.

I, John, your brother and partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Christ Jesus, came to be on the island that is called Patmos on account of the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

And I fell before his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See [that you do] not! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."