First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything. For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
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