Which verse fragment begins with 'But if the gospel be hid'?

Which verse fragment begins with 'But if the gospel be hid'?

• A. Isaiah 58:13
• B. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
• C. Sirach 45:26
• D. Psalm 23:1

Answer: (C)

The line “But if the gospel be hid” opens a statement that Paul makes about why some people don’t understand or accept the message of salvation. It introduces a condition and then explains the consequence: the gospel is hidden to those who are lost. This exact wording is used by Paul in the New Testament, in 2 Corinthians 4:3–4, where he goes on to describe how the god of this world blinds the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel. That makes it the source of this fragment, not the other listed books, which have very different openings and themes. So the verse fragment begins with that phrase in 2 Corinthians, not in Sirach.

The line “But if the gospel be hid” opens a statement that Paul makes about why some people don’t understand or accept the message of salvation. It introduces a condition and then explains the consequence: the gospel is hidden to those who are lost. This exact wording is used by Paul in the New Testament, in 2 Corinthians 4:3–4, where he goes on to describe how the god of this world blinds the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel.

That makes it the source of this fragment, not the other listed books, which have very different openings and themes. So the verse fragment begins with that phrase in 2 Corinthians, not in Sirach.