²² For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

²³ but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

² preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

³⁰ Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

³¹ He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

³² Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth.

³³ In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."

¹⁴ How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

¹⁵ And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"

¹⁶ But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

¹⁷ So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

¹⁸ But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most assuredly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, Their words to the ends of the world."

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

¹⁷ For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

⁴ But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"

¹¹ Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

²¹ For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

³⁵ Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.

¹⁰ For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

¹² For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

⁷ As you go, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'

⁶ I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel;

⁷ and there isn't another gospel. Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ.

⁸ But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any gospel other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

⁹ As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any gospel other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

¹⁰ For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

⁴ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

⁸ The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,

¹⁷ Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

¹¹ so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

¹² For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

¹⁸ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

¹⁹ If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

²⁰ He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I come quickly." Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

¹⁶⁰ All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

⁸ The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

³⁹ "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

¹⁹ The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,

¹⁶ Every writing inspired by God{literally, God-breathed} is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness,

¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

¹² But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

¹³ Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

¹⁴ Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵ But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

¹⁷ For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

²⁰ knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

²¹ For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound;

² to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

⁴ They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

²⁵ But the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.

¹⁵ From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Every writing inspired by God{literally, God-breathed} is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness,

¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

¹ The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

¹⁵ Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

¹⁹ Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

¹³ Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

² Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

³ explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."

⁴ Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

²⁵ He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶ Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"

²⁷ Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

²⁸ They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

⁵ "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

⁶ Don't you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

⁷ "Two things I have asked of you; Don't deny me before I die:

⁴ Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah, saying,

¹⁵ Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

¹⁶ as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

¹ An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.