For a great and effective door opened to me, and many are opposing.
And having arrived, and gathering the church they related all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the nations.
If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
And if we are troubled, it is for your consolation and salvation, being worked out in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
And, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
(For many are walking, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ;
praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,
Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much.