For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who is believing, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

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

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believe.

Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Take fast hold of instruction, do not let her go; keep her, for she is your life.

My son, keep your father's commands, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall watch over you; and when you awake, it will speak with you.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under Heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Therefore, brethren, stand firm and hold on to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

Therefore we need to more abundantly heed the things we have heard, so that they do not slip our minds.

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast to the origin of our Foundation steadfast to the end,

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain.

Then they believed His Words; they sang His praise.

They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel,

And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of trial draw back away.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you continue to abide in My Word, you are truly My disciples.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was immersed he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the works of power and signs which were done.

We then, as workers together with Him, also beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Have you suffered so many things in vain; if indeed it was in vain?

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Is faith able to save him?

Thus also faith, if it does not have works, being alone, is dead.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead also.