20 Therefore, ^owe are ambassadors for Christ, ^pGod making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 For in this tent ⁿwe groan, longing to ^oput on our heavenly dwelling,

Lawsuits Against Believers

1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous ^rinstead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that ^sthe saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^qdraws him. And ^rI will raise him up on the last day.

2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

13 And ^jwe also thank God constantly¹ for this, that when you received ^kthe word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^lnot as the word of men² but as what it really is, the word of God, ^mwhich is at work in you believers. 14 For you, brothers, ⁿbecame imitators of ^othe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^pyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^qas they did from the Jews,³