that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have some harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

In other words, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and any other commandment there may be, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."