Those others too, if they do not cling to their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

For if you were cut from a wild olive and unnaturally grafted upon a cultivated one, how much easier it will be to graft them upon the olive to which they properly belong!

and then all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says, "The deliverer will come from Zion, He will drive all ungodliness away from Jacob,

And this will be my agreement with them, When I take away their sins."

"Or who has advanced anything to him, for which he will have to be repaid?"

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him.

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,

Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.

Supply the needs of God's people, be unfailing in hospitality.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited.

Do not pay anyone back with evil for evil. See that you are above reproach in the eyes of everyone.

Do not take your revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord."

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him,

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.

just as you pay your taxes; they are God's ministers, devoting themselves to this service.

Pay them all what is due them??ribute to the man entitled to receive it, taxes to the man entitled to receive them, respect to the man entitled to it, and honor to the man entitled to it.

One man thinks one day better than another, while another thinks them all alike. Everybody must be fully convinced in his own mind.

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

You must not, just for the sake of food, undo the work of God. It is true, everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to hurt the consciences of others by what he eats.

For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

So as a follower of Christ Jesus I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action,

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

Pray that I may escape from those in Judea who are disobedient, and that the help I am taking to Jerusalem may be well received by God's people,

God who gives peace be with you all! Amen.

Greet one another with a sacred kiss. All the churches of Christ wish to be remembered to you.

I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

Everyone has heard of your obedience, and I am very happy about you, but I want you to be wise about what is good and guileless about what is bad.

And God, who is the source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The blessing of our Lord Jesus be with you.

My fellow-worker, Timothy, wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow-countrymen.

I, Tertius, who write this letter, wish to be remembered to you as a fellow-Christian.

My host, Gaius, the host of the whole church, wishes to be remembered to you. Erastus, the city-treasurer, and our brother Quartus wish to be remembered to you.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith??27 to the one wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ. Amen.

Paul, by the will of God called as an apostle of Jesus Christ, and our brother Sosthenes,

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;

God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.

For I have been informed, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that quarrels are going on among you.

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory.

The planter and the waterer are all one, though each of us will be paid for his own work.

Like an expert builder, I laid a foundation, as God commissioned me to do, and now someone else is building upon it. But let everyone be careful how he does so.

If what a man has built on the foundation stands the test, he will have his pay.

If a man's work is burned up, he must stand the loss, though he himself will be saved, but as one who has passed through the fire.

Now further, what is always demanded of managers is that they can be depended on.

I for my part care very little about being examined by you or by any human court. I do not even offer myself for investigation.

Now, brothers, for your benefit I have applied all this only to Apollos and myself, by using us as illustrations to teach you the old lesson, "Never go beyond the letter," and to keep any of you from boasting of one teacher at the expense of another.

when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

and meeting with you, in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, by the authority of our Lord Jesus

I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping??ith such a person you must not even eat.

Do you not know that the Christians are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to come before you for judgment, are you unfit to decide the most trivial cases?

Do you not know that we are to be the judges of angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?

If then you have ordinary matters to be settled, will you submit them for judgment to men who are nothing in the church?

Having lawsuits with one another at all means your utter failure, to begin with. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be robbed?

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

And as God raised the Lord to life, he will raise us also by his power.

The husband must give his wife what is due her, and the wife must do the same by her husband.

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

If you are united to a wife, do not seek to be released. If you are not, do not seek a wife.

and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who are glad as though they were not glad, and those who buy anything as though they did not own it,

I want you to be free from all anxiety. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's work, and how he can please the Lord.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

But if a man thinks he is not acting properly toward the girl to whom he is engaged, if his passions are too strong, and that is what ought to be done, let him do as he pleases; it is no sin; let them be married.

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

But she will be happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is, and I think I have God's spirit as well as other people.

But if a man loves God, God is known by him.

For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols?

For this overscrupulous brother, for whom Christ died, is ruined by what you call your knowledge.

What soldier ever pays his expenses out of his own pay? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of the grapes? Who tends a flock and does not get any of the milk?

For if I do it of my own accord, I have my pay, but if I do it because I must, it is still a responsibility that I am charged with.

What pay then do I get? Why, that in my preaching I can offer the good news without cost, and so not take full advantage of my rights as a preacher.

To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, so as to win the overscrupulous; I have become everything to everybody, so as by all means to save some of them.

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

For I would not have you forget, brothers, that though our forefathers were all protected by the cloud, and all passed safely through the sea,

Let us not try the Lord's patience too far, as some of them did, for they were killed for it by the snakes.

You must not grumble, as some of them did, for they were destroyed for it by the destroying angel.

So the man who thinks he can stand must be on his guard against a fall.

It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.

his scruples, I say, not yours. For why should my liberty of action be limited by another's scruples?

If I give thanks for what I eat, why should I be denounced for eating what I give thanks over?

You must not be hindrances to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God either,

just as I for my part try to please everyone in all I do, not aiming at my own advantage, but at that of people generally, in order that they may be saved.

I appreciate your always remembering me, and your standing by the things I passed on to you, just as you received them.

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious about it, I for my part recognize no other practice in worship than this, and neither do the churches of God.

Doubtless there must be parties among you, if those who are right are to be recognized among you.

He took the cup, too, after supper, in the same way, saying, "This cup is the new agreement ratified by my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me."

Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

But since we do incur it, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

About spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be misinformed.

One man receives through the Spirit the power to speak wisely, another, by the same Spirit, receives the power to express knowledge,

another, from his union with the same Spirit receives faith, another, by one and the same Spirit, the ability to cure the sick,