2 Corinthians 4:5

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

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.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

I don’t receive glory from men.

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

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

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

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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.”

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

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

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.