For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but have itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.