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2 Corinthians 6:9

New American Bible - revised edition

as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death;

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Even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers engaged him in discussion. Some asked, “What is this scavenger trying to say?” Others said, “He sounds like a promoter of foreign deities,” because he was preaching about ‘Jesus’ and ‘Resurrection.’

As you can now see and hear, not only in Ephesus but throughout most of the province of Asia this Paul has persuaded and misled a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

Instead they had some issues with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died but who Paul claimed was alive.

But I have nothing definite to write about him to our sovereign; therefore I have brought him before all of you, and particularly before you, King Agrippa, so that I may have something to write as a result of this investigation.

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit [of God], so that from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum I have finished preaching the gospel of Christ.

As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”

but since we are judged by [the] Lord, we are being disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Every day I face death; I swear it by the pride in you [brothers] that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For as I see it, God has exhibited us apostles as the last of all, like people sentenced to death, since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and human beings alike.

Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.

Rather, we have renounced shameful, hidden things; not acting deceitfully or falsifying the word of God, but by the open declaration of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to your consciousness.




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