Exodus 38:7

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

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.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

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.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

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.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

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

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

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

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

“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.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

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:

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

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.

You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.

Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.

He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

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.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

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

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.

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

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?