Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not despair,

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure having been hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it, he went and sold everything he had, and bought that field."

Then He said to them, "Therefore every scribe having become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old [things]."

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hand, eternal in the heavens.

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

And Gideon came, and behold, a man [was] relating a dream to his neighbor, and he said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Midian, and it came as far as a tent, and struck it, and it fell, and it turned it up, and the tent fell.

And his neighbor answered and said, This is none other than the sword of Gideon, son of Joash a man of Israel: God has delivered Midian and all the host into his hand.

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put horns in the hands of all, and empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers:

And I will sound with the horn, and all you with me shall sound with the horn round about the whole camp, and you shall say, For the Lord and Gideon.

and the three companies sounded with the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands their horns to sound with; and they cried out, A sword for the Lord and for Gideon.

BETH. The precious sons of Zion, who were equaled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!

And the base things of the world, and the things having been despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, in order that He might nullify the things which are,

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are naked, and beaten, and homeless.

being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

You know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the gospel to you the former [time].

And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise nor disdain, but as an angel of God you received me, even as Christ Jesus.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

who also has made us efficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

And lest I exalt myself above measure by the excellence of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, that it might beat me, lest I exalt myself above measure.

And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

For although He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we are weak in Him, yet we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.

And I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

in order that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power

which He worked in Christ, having raised Him from the dead, and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenlies,

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God,

not of works, lest anyone should boast.

having been buried together with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised together through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

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.