Brothers and sisters: Scripture confined all things under the power of sin, that through faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

Brothers and sisters: Realize that it is those who have faith who are children of Abraham.

O stupid Galatians!

Brothers and sisters: After fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.

Brothers and sisters: You heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it, and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.

Brothers and sisters: I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel (not that there is another).

Brothers and sisters: Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God.

Let me now sing of my friend,/ my friend’s song concerning his vineyard./ My friend had a vineyard/ on a fertile hillside;/ he spaded it, cleared it of stones,/ and planted the choicest vines;/ within it he built a watchtower,/ and hewed out a wine press./ Then he looked for the crop of grapes,/ but what it yielded was wild grapes.

I know that you can do all things,/ and that no purpose of yours can be hindered./ I have dealt with great things that I do not understand;/ things too wonderful for me, which I cannot know./ I had heard of you by word of mouth,/ but now my eye has seen you./ Therefore I disown what I have said,/ and repent in dust and ashes.

Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning/ and shown the dawn its place/ For taking hold of the ends of the earth,/ till the wicked are shaken from its surface?/ The earth is changed as is clay by the seal,/ and dyed as though it were a garment;/ But from the wicked the light is withheld,/ and the arm of pride is shattered.