² by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

⁶ but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.

³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, `then' are ye truly my disciples;

³² and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

⁴ Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

⁸ for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, `it is' the gift of God;

⁹ who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

¹⁴ for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

¹ Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away `from them'.

¹⁴ Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

²³ let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

¹⁴ What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

¹⁷ Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

¹⁵ So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.

²³ if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

¹ My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:

¹³ Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

²⁰ My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

²¹ Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.

²² When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; `Yea', wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

¹³ And those on the rock `are' they who, when they have heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

⁴⁷ praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.

¹³ And Simon also himself believed: and being baptized, he continued with Philip; and beholding signs and great miracles wrought, he was amazed.

²² Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²¹ For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

¹¹ Whether then `it be' I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

¹² Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹⁴ and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.

¹⁵ For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;

¹ And working together `with him' we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

¹² Then believed they his words; They sang his praise.

¹³ They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel,