I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

Even now, behold, my evidence is in Heaven, and my witness is on high.

Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this exulting in the regions of Achaia.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

(Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)

For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affections of Jesus Christ.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor in pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

But we were gentle among you, just as a nurse cherishes her own children.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle; I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying; a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For there stood by me this night an angel of God, to whom I belong and whom I serve,

But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.

Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ Jesus.

To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, how without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,

But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will do homage to the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeks such to do homage to Him.

God is Spirit, and those who do homage to Him must do homage in spirit and truth.

When these things were completed, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind.

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in the flesh,

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Having raised up His Son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God which He has witnessed about His Son.

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

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me to sin against Jehovah to cease to pray for you; for I have taught you the good and the right way.

Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not faint,

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and complete what is lacking in your faith?

pray without ceasing,

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, how without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,

do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height;

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full true knowledge and all discernment,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the full true knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,