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It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.

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

I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

…nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

…as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

…nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen Him, nor can anyone see Him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law.

He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.

‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels.

Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.