What if some of them have shown a lack of faith? Can their lack of it nullify the faithfulness of God?

Their throats are like open graves, They use their tongues to deceive; The venom of asps is behind their lips,

It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

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 those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

As Isaiah foretold, "If the Lord of Hosts had not left us children, We would have been like Sodom, and have resembled Gomorrah!"

you must not look down upon the branches. If you do, remember that you do not support the root; the root supports you.

Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views.

The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him.

What business have you to criticize your brother? What business have you to look down upon your brother? We shall all have to stand before God for judgment.

Therefore, treat one another like brothers, in God's honor, just as Christ has treated you.