Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.