And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: