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He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;

On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

…so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them.

God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

…so that no one may boast in His presence.

For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

…his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

…hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,

…and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.

But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.

Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.

A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.

…and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.

On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.

No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.

You know that Stephanas and his household were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. Now I urge you, brothers,

…placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

…placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

…in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.