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

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 hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.

Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of Heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old things.

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: 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 torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in Heaven.

For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

And when Gideon came, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, I have dreamed a dream: Behold, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent lay flat.

And his companion answered and said, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole camp.

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a shofar into each man's hand, with empty jars, and torches inside the jars.

When I blow the shofar, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the shofars on every side of the whole camp, and say, For Jehovah and for Gideon!

And the three companies blew the shofars and shattered the jars; they held the torches in their left hands and the shofars in their right hands for blowing; and they cried out, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon!

The precious sons of Zion, weighed against refined gold, are counted as earthen vessels, the work of the hands of the potter!

and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we became spectacles to all creation, both to angels and to men.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and wander homeless.

being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.

And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But 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 of ourselves to think of anything as being out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

who also made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

And so that I should not be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I should not be made haughty.

And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather exult in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell upon me.

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

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

that your faith should 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 when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

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

not of works, that no one should boast.

buried with Him in immersion, in which you also were raised with Him through the faith of the working of God, who raised Him out 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, as you know of what sort we were among you for your sake.