And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been instructed for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old."

Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord assigned to each one.

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then those having gifts of healings, helps, administrations, and those speaking in various kinds of tongues.

Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace which was given me by the working of his power.

And he gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

Of this church I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

If you point out these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.

Not

The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a breaker of the law.

But now, by dying to what once held us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

For

Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was,

Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

because the law brings wrath, for where there is no law there is no transgression.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to do them."

But the

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have touched, concerning the Word of life,

Giveth life

For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom he will.

(as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls things that do not exist as though they did.

So it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;