In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.

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

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith. and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one can boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God beforehand, that we should walk in them.