For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.
What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes."
For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?
and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.
Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all--
you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
There they preached the Good News.
When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath."
But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
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