in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

I will worship toward Your holy temple, and give thanks to Your name, on account of Your mercy and Your truth; for You have magnified Your holy name above all things.

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.

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

For even that which has been glorified has not been glorified in this respect, because of the surpassing glory.

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.

Because it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts to give [the] light of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face of Jesus Christ.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in Christ;

that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies,

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them was revealing when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories which were to follow:

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering these things, which things were now announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into.

which He will show in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

for which I was appointed a herald and apostle--I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

O Timothy! Guard that which was committed to your trust, turning away from the profane and empty babblings and opposing views of what is falsely called "knowledge,"

Let a man so consider us, as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now furthermore what is required among the stewards, is that one be found faithful.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a commission.

And all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of this reconciliation,

Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted [with] the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter [with the gospel] for the circumcised,

of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who is testing our hearts.

to which I was appointed a herald and apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

but has in due time manifested His word in a proclamation, [with] which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior;