Well, is it not to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor to do aught whereby thy brother is caused to stumble.

Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.

for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

well, be it so, for their incredulity they were broken off, and you by faith stand firm: be not then elated, but let this be your fear,

Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin ??10 as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one;

There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God.

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

The spirit likewise softens our afflictions: for being at a loss to apply for the most proper relief; the spirit it self affects us with those pious ejaculations, which we can't well express.

Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

If your brother is being hurt or offended because of food [that you insist on eating], you are no longer walking in love [toward him]. Do not let what you eat destroy and spiritually harm one for whom Christ died.

and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;

do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited.

Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

For if being enemies we are reconciled to God through the death of his Son; how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved through his life:

For God's extreme anger is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people who restrain the truth [from being known and obeyed] by their wickedness.

So then, just as [God's] judgment came, condemning all people [to physical death] because of one sin [i.e., Adam's]; even so the free gift of being made right with God and [resulting in] life may be received by all people because of one man's [i.e., Christ's] act of righteousness. [Note: This "life" may refer to spiritual life now, or to being made alive in the resurrection, which would reverse the curse of physical death caused by Adam's sin].

For it was not through [obedience to] law [See 3:31] that the promise to Abraham or his descendants of inheriting [the best of] the world [was made], but through their being considered righteous because of faith [in God].

(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.

and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

As it is written:
Because of You
we are being put to death all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.