² by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

⁶ but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

³² You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

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.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

⁴ Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

⁸ for by grace you have 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 to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

¹ Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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

²³ let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

¹⁷ Even so faith, if it has no 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, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

²³ if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

¹ My son, don't forget my teaching; But let your heart keep my commandments:

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

²¹ Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

²² When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, And the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

²³ Buy the truth, and don't sell it: Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

¹³ Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

⁴⁷ praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

¹³ Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occuring, he was amazed.

²² See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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.

¹¹ Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

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

¹⁴ If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

¹⁵ For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

¹ Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

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

¹³ They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,