22 Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to Gentiles,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom.
2 to proclaim the message. Be ready to do this whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.
11 These people were more receptive than those in Thessalonica. They were very willing to receive the message, and every day they carefully examined the Scriptures to see if those things were so.
21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God decided through the nonsense of our preaching to save those who believe.
14 How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?
15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of thosewho bring the good news!"
16 But not everyone has obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah asks, "Lord, who has believed our message?"
17 Consequently, faith comes from listening, and listening comes through the word of Christ.
35 Then Philip opened his mouth and, starting from this Scripture, told him the good news about Jesus.
30 So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud.He asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
31 He replied, "How can I unless someone guides me?" So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.
32 This was the passage of Scripture he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered,and like a lamb is silent before its shearer,so he does not open his mouth.
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.
17 For in it God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."
4 But he answered,"It is written, ‘One must not live on bread alone,but on every word comingout of the mouth of God.’"
4 For everything that was written long ago was written for our instruction, so that we might have hope through the endurance and encouragement that the Scriptures give us.
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
35 Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear."
13 Until I arrive, concentrate on the public reading of Scripture, on exhorting, and on teaching.
7 As you go, proclaim, ‘The kingdom of heaven is near!’
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ to follow a different gospel,
7 which is not really another one. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about Christ.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned!
9 What we have told you in the past I am now telling you again: If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that person be condemned!
17 Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy in this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will strike him with the plagues that are written in this book.
19 If anyone takes away any words from the book of this prophecy, God will take away his portion of the tree of life and the holy city that are described in this book.
39 You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 so that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work.
12 Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God.
13 We don't speak about these things in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.
14 A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.
20 First of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,
21 because no prophecy ever originated through a human decision. Instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
25 but the word of the Lord lasts forever."Now this word is the good news that was announced to you.
15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 so that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work.
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as an approved worker who has nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of truth with precision.
18 Then Jesus came up and said to them,"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Therefore, as you go, disciple all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every dayuntil the end of the age."
2 As usual, Paul went in and on three Sabbaths discussed the Scriptures with them.
3 He explained and showed them that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. He said, "This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ."
25 Then Jesus said to them,"O how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe everything the prophets said!
26 The Christhad to suffer these things and then enter his glory, didn't he?"
27 Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all the passages of Scripture about himself.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
15 Think of our Lord's patience as salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.
16 He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.