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Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past,
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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
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If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
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In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
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For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
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I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
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The Resurrection of Christ
Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.
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By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
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Ministers of the New Covenant
Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me,
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And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
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The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his service to the gospel.
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Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.
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We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ.
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so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory.
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For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
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Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?
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No Other Gospel
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
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which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
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But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!
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As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!
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Paul Called by God
I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.
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I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain.
