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 was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.

After that He was seen by Jacob, then by each of the apostles.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit 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 believe.

but we preach Christ crucified, truly 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 not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of human wisdom, but in proof of the Spirit and of power,

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

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

When Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

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

But even if we, or an angel from Heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

For do I 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 by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the Word, immediately receive it with joy;

And these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the Word,

But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the Word, receive it, and bear fruit: one thirtyfold, one sixty, and one a hundred.

He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him; the Word that I speak will judge him in the Last Day.

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

Now the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the Word of God.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the Word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the Word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the teaching which you received from us.

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

Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

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