and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.

What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;

but Israel who pursued the law of righteousness did not attain to the law of righteousness.

For what reason? Because they are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

as it is written; Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;

for not knowing God's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God's righteousness.

But the righteousness by faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into heaven???hat is, to bring Christ down,??7 or who shall descend into the abyss???hat is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one preaching?

But all did not obey the gospel; for Isaiah says, Lord, who believed our report?

But I say, Did they not hear? Yes indeed; their voice went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses says, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish nation will I excite you to anger.

But Isaiah is more bold and says, I was found by them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that inquired not after me.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel?

But what says the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,??8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear??o this day.

let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

boast not against the branches; but if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.

Well; they were broken off by unbelief, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear;

for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

And they, if they continue not in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.

For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are his judgments, and his ways can not be explored!

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

For I say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be higher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has distributed to each the measure of faith.

For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office,

be not slothful in business, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord,

Bless those that persecute, bless and curse not.

Desire the same thing one for another; desire not the high, but be satisfied with the humble. Be not wise in your own conceit.

not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;

for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.

Wherefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only on account of punishment, but also on account of conscience.

For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy;

RECEIVE the weak in faith, not to doubtful reasonings.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted him.

He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he that observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats not to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather, not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother.

For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

Let not your good therefore be injuriously spoken of.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense;

it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any thing by which your brother stumbles.

You have faith; have it for yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in what he approves;

but he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is sin.

And we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

for Christ also pleased not himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me.

for I dare not to speak of what Christ has not performed by me for the obedience of the nations, by word and work,

And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;

but as it is written, They shall see to whom nothing was told concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.

that I may be delivered from those that obey not in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.

who exposed their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the nations;

for such serve not our anointed Lord, but themselves, And by kind and complimentary words deceive the minds of the simple.

And to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery not revealed in ancient times,

And I also baptized the family of Stephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other.

For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe;

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

And when I came to you, brothers, I came not with excellency of speech, or wisdom, declaring to you the mystery of God.

and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the spirit and power,

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;

which none of the rulers of this life knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;

And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God,

which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.

I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men?

Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;

for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am not on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord.

I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another.

For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not?

I write these things not to shame you, but as my beloved children, I admonish you.

For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you;

but I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know not the word of those who are puffed up but the power;

for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators;

not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.

But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.

For what business have I to judge those without? Do you not judge those within?

Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the wicked, and not by the saints?

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then things pertaining to this life?

I speak to your shame. Is there not now a wise man among you? not one who can judge between his brothers?

Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded?