This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. Bluntness is seldom pleasant when it is used on us but there is a lot to be said for its time-saving capabilities. As Paul brought his final message to the church in Corinth to a close, he…

Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ ”…

Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote. 6 Then the king’s color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together. You find out a lot about a person…

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach…

You will make them as a blazing oven        when you appear.                    The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath,        and fire will consume them.              10       You will destroy their descendants from the earth,        and their offspring from among the children of man.              11       Though they plan evil against you,        though they devise mischief,…

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. 21 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn…