Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved.

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When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.

He continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

I wish that all people were just like me. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this way and another in that way.

Now I praise you because you always remember me and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all God’s household.

The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, His anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie; just as He has taught you, remain in Him.

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had seen and heard, just as they had been told.

“And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

“Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know.

Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the town, brought oxen and garlands to the gates. He, with the crowds, intended to offer sacrifice.

And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me

“Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.

Therefore, take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

Therefore accept one another, just as the Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God.

For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

And just as Isaiah predicted:

If the Lord of Hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have been made like Gomorrah.

But now God has placed each one of the parts in one body just as He wanted.

And just as we have borne
the image of the man made of dust,
we will also bear
the image of the heavenly man.

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter was for the circumcised,

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one.

Now it is always good to be enthusiastic about good—and not just when I am with you.

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then to us by God’s will.

So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete this grace to you.

But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have.

But I sent the brothers so our boasting about you in the matter would not prove empty, and so you would be prepared just as I said.

Look at what is obvious. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

But I will continue to do what I am doing, in order to deny the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded just as our equals in what they boast about.

Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.

rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with gratitude.

accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts.

For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you.

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope at your calling—

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

What does it matter? Just that in every way, whether out of false motives or true, Christ is proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice

Just one thing: Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel,

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

So He became higher in rank than the angels, just as the name He inherited is superior to theirs.

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house.

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written: