We are witnesses of all the things that He did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.

When they had carried out everything that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

Sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.

and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made of no effect.

The Wisdom of God

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

But as for me, brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated.

All who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even as I weep, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ,

and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed.