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;

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.

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

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.

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:

And he received the sign of circumcision as seal of the righteousness of faith which he had being in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;

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.

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.

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

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

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:

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;

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 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].

(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.

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.

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].

for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified about by the law and the prophets--

being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do.

and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

thus we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other.

and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

when I go to Spain I hope to see you on my way there, and to have you see me off on my journey, after I have enjoyed being with you for a while.