2 Corinthians 11:6

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

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

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

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

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’ ”

Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

“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.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”