Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake, but as far as election is concerned, they are loved for the sake of their ancestors.

We sailed slowly for a number of days and with difficulty arrived off Cnidus. Then, because the wind was against us, we sailed on the sheltered side of Crete off Cape Salome.

However, food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat food that has been offered to an idol, and no better off if we do.

So if a woman does not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. If it is a disgrace for a woman to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her own head.

We have not cut you off, but you have cut off your own feelings toward us.

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

You even took along the tent of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, and the images you made in order to worship them. So I will take you into exile as far as Babylon.'

Now the people who were scattered by the persecution that started because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish occult practitioner and false prophet named Bar-jesus.

They went as far as Mysia and tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them,

so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.

"Then he told me, "Go, because I'll send you far away to the gentiles.'"

The brothers there heard about us and came as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and felt encouraged.

Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.

In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were "free" as far as righteousness was concerned.

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.

by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of God's Spirit, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of the Messiah from Jerusalem as far as Illyricum.

The queen of the south will stand up and condemn the people living today, because she came from so far away to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look! Something greater than Solomon is here!"

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.