⁴ So that you might have certain knowledge of those things about which you were given teaching.

³¹ But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.

²⁵ This man had been trained in the way of the Lord; and burning in spirit, he gave himself up to teaching the facts about Jesus, though he had knowledge only of John's baptism:

¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

¹⁹ But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

⁶ But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.

¹⁵ And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

¹⁶ For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.