Jesus stopped and said, "Call him here." And they called the blind man and said to him, "Courage now! Get up, he is calling you!"

He used this figure also in speaking to them: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and sews it on an old one, or if he does, he will both tear the new one and the piece from the new one will not match the old one.

People went on eating, drinking, marrying, and being married up to the very day that Noah got into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

for I have not shrunk from letting you know God's purpose without reserve.

for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark.

They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

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.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

Even if I give away everything I own, and give myself up, but do it in pride, not love, it does me no good.

You are giving thanks well enough, but it is doing him no good.

I know of a man fourteen years ago??hether in the body or out of it, I do not know, God knows??eing actually caught up to the third heaven.

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

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.

They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

For we have had good news preached to us, just as they did, but the message they heard did them no good because they did not agree through faith with what they heard.

My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?

So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead.

you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed."

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.