for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
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