History & Narratives Verses
The great stories of the Bible — patriarchs, kings, battles, miracles, and God's faithfulness through history.
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another {divers} kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Howbeit that {was} not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
But {as} God {is} true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. {word: or, preaching}
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm {your} love toward him.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward {man} is renewed day by day.
Great {is} my boldness of speech toward you, great {is} my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.