¹⁸ But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? On the contrary:

⁶ which has come to you, just as ^[a](A)in all the world also it is bearing ^(B)fruit and ^[b]increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you ^(C)heard it and ^[c]understood the grace of God in truth;

²³ if indeed you continue in ^[a]the faith firmly ^(A)established and steadfast, and not shifting from the ^(B)hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed ^(C)in all creation under heaven, ^(D)and of which I, Paul, ^[b]was made a ^[c](E)minister.