2 Corinthians 10:13

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”

Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.