When the world wit all its earthly wisdom failed to know God by means of its own philosophy, God in His wisdom was pleased through the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believed in salvation procured by Christ.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
For when the world with all its earthly wisdom failed to perceive and rcognize and know God by means of its own philosophy, God in His wisdom was pleased through the foolishness of preaching (salvation, procured by Christ and to be had through Him), to save those who believed (who trusted in and relied on Him).
And I tell you, You are Peter, and on this rock I will build M y church, and the gates of Hades willnot overpower it.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth must be what is already bound
in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.
Simon Peter answered, Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
The bread which we break, does it not mean that in eating it we participate in and share a fellowship, a communion in the body of Christ?
In Him and through faith in Him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
You, however, are controlled not by the sinfull nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.
And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything fro thechurch, which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills everything in every way.
In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him Who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will, in order that we who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His glory.