For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.

The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it,

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.