Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is at Corinth, and all God's people all over Greece;

but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

For we are fellow-laborers for God, and you are God's farm, God's building.

He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

On this fact rests the endurance of God's people, who obey God's commands and cling to their faith in Jesus.

For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons.

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

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.

For God's folly is beyond the wisdom of men, and God's weakness is beyond their strength.

Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit makes its home in you?

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, to God's people who are steadfast in Christ Jesus;

But he, full of the holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.

For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?

We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too??ecause when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

He trusts in God; let God deliver him if he cares for him, for he said he was God's son."

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, that is on the face of Christ.

For it is all for your benefit, in order that as God's favor reaches greater and greater numbers, it may result in more and more thanksgiving in praise of God.

As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

For the rendering of this service does more than supply the wants of God's people; it results in a wealth of thanksgiving to God.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

How much worse a punishment do you think will anyone deserve who tramples the Son of God underfoot, and treats as worthless the blood of the agreement by which he has been purified, and outrages God's spirit of mercy?

to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

In his name let us continually offer praise as our sacrifice to God??he utterance of lips that glorify God's name.

For all who are admitted to God's Rest rest after their work, just as God did after his.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

God's love for us has been revealed in this way??hat God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him.

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is stronger still; for the value of God's testimony lies in this, that he has testified to his Son.

We know that no child of God commits sin, but the fact that he is God's child protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend."

For God approves a man if from a sense of duty he endures suffering unjustly inflicted??20 for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval.

Whatever the endowment God has given you, use it in service to one another, like good dispensers of God's varied mercy.

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by having a common purpose and giving up their authority to the animal until God's decrees are carried out.

I heard a loud voice from the throne say, "See! God's dwelling is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people and God himself will be with them,

He did not incredulously question God's promise, but his faith gave him power and he praised God

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.

From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God on your account; but from the point of view of God's choice, they are dear to him because of their forefathers,

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.

This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering,

We had just been through ill-treatment and insults at Philippi, as you remember, but, in the face of great opposition, we took courage by the help of our God, and told you God's good news.

But if I am driving the demons out by the aid of God's Spirit, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

and screamed out, "What do you want of me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? In God's name, I implore you, do not torture me."

and you have forgotten the challenge addressed to you as God's sons, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, Or give up when he corrects you.

So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the fruit of the earth's vine, and flung them into the great winepress of God's wrath.

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

Nor is there any comparison between the gift and the effects of that one man's sin. That sentence arose from the act of one man, and was for condemnation; but God's gift arose out of many offenses and results in acquittal.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

May the Lord guide your hearts into a sense of God's love and into a steadfastness like Christ's.

All God's people wish to be remembered to you, especially those who belong to the emperor's household.

and the people shouted in applause, "It is a god's voice, not a man's!"

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

They did far more than I hoped, for first in obedience to God's will, they gave themselves to the Lord, and to me.

Do you think that I did wrong in degrading myself to uplift you, because I preached God's good news to you without any compensation?

Did God's message start from you Corinthians? Or are you the only people it has reached?

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

About the collection for God's people, I want you to do as I told the churches of Galatia to do.

Now I urge you, brothers??ou know that the family of Stephanas was the first to be converted in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people??16 I want you to enlist under such leaders, and under anyone who joins with you and works hard.

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

And in proportion as Jesus was not appointed priest without God's making oath to it,

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a high priest as this, and he has taken his seat in heaven at the right hand of God's Majesty,

And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice.

But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

For it was by it that the men of old gained God's approval.

Faith enabled Abraham, when he was put to the test, to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had accepted God's promises was ready to sacrifice his only son,

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

Yet though they all gained God's approval by their faith, they none of them received what he had promised,

Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

Do not forget your former leaders, the men who brought you God's message. Remember how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

For as God's overseer a superintendent must be irreproachable, not arrogant or quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain,

and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message.

For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,

I have been greatly pleased and encouraged over your love, for the hearts of God's people have been cheered, my brother, by you.

But of the time when he is to bring his firstborn Son back to the world he says, "And let all God's angels bow before him."

For we who have believed are admitted to that Rest, of which he said, "As I made oath in my anger, They shall never be admitted to my Rest!" And yet God's work was finished at the creation of the world,

So there must still be a promised Sabbath of Rest for God's people.

No being created can escape God's sight, but everything is bare and helpless before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.

Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing.

Submit humbly, therefore, to God's mighty hand, so that he may in due time raise you up.

Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

For they wilfully ignore the fact that long ago there existed heavens and an earth which had been formed at God's command out of water and by water,

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.