For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

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,

The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

Your people [shall be] volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

'to open their eyes, [in order] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

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

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

Therefore, if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for [His] good pleasure.

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

buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with [Him] through faith in the working of God, who raised Him 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 what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of [His] goodness and the work of faith with power,

Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.