¹⁹ For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

²² But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor; yet what I shall choose, I know not.

²³ For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better;

²⁴ nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy in faith,

²⁶ that your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.

2 And I, brethren, when I came to you declaring unto you the testimony of God, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.

² For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

³ And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁵ that your faith should not stand on the wisdom of man, but on the power of God.

11 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

12 Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

²⁰ I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

⁶ Jesus said unto him, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.

¹⁵ I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, “Ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

⁹ if we this day are examined about the good deed done to the infirm man, and by what means he is made whole,

¹⁰ be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified and whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole.

¹¹ This is ‘the stone which was set at nought by you builders and which has become the head of the corner.’

¹² Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

⁵¹ Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴ So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

⁵⁵ “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

⁸ We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.