⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

¹⁹ For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.

⁴ I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

³ I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

¹¹ if any man speaketh, `speaking' as it were oracles of God; is any man ministereth, `ministering' as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.

⁸ For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

⁹ For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

³ We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

¹¹ being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

²¹ unto him `be' the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁵ For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which `ye show' toward all the saints,

²⁸ And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.

¹ Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.

¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.