¹⁸ For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the [manifestation of] the power of God.

¹² And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved.

¹⁹ Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them ^[a]into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

²⁰ Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you ^[b]all the days (^[c]perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. ^[d]Amen (so let it be).