TSK · Colossians 1:28

Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.

Concluding Epilogue: Qoheleth’s Advice is Wise Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught knowledge to the people; he carefully evaluated and arranged many proverbs.

I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

“Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ(he is Lord of all)–

Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking,“What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said,“He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.”(They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

Wisdom from God Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

A Father’s Warning I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

For we were not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach as far as you, because we were the first to reach as far as you with the gospel about Christ.

To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

Final Instructions Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,