Who is he who condemns? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who is also interceding for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Of them are the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, forever blessed. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel,

In other words, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

Therefore he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens the heart of whom he wills.

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

As indeed he says in Hosea: "I will call them who were not my people 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'my beloved.'"

What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;

but Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, has not attained that law.

as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, and a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

For Christ is the end of the law, that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."

But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)

or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

The scripture says, "No one who believes in him will be put to shame."

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches on all who call upon him.

For, "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

How then can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without a preacher?

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!"

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message?"

Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; by a foolish nation I will make you angry."

But Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me."

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

But what is God's reply to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

Therefore consider the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"

if service, let us use it in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching;

he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Therefore he who resists the authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will have praise from him.

Pay all of them their dues: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

As for the man who is weak in faith, accept him, but not for disputes over opinions.

Let not him who eats despise him who does not, and let not him who does not eat pass judgment on him who eats; for God has accepted him.

Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will be made to stand, for the Master is able to make him stand.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not by your eating destroy the one for whom Christ died.

he who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself for what he approves.

But he who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For even Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

And again, Isaiah says: "There shall be a root of Jesse; and he who shall rise to rule over the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope."

but as it is written: "They shall see who have not been told of him, and those who have not heard shall understand."

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;

greet also the church that meets in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert of Asia for Christ.

Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.

Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those workers in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

I urge you, brethren, to take note of those who cause divisions and difficulties, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; avoid them.

I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.

Gaius, who is my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, our brother.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."

Yet we do speak a wisdom among the mature, a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.

But, as it is written, "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,"

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit which is in him? Even so no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand the things freely given to us by God.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord assigned to each one.

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted by this. It is the Lord who judges me.

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. Then every man will receive his praise from God.

For who regards you as different? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to have mourned? Let the one who has done this be removed from your midst.

For though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and have already passed judgment on the one who has committed this, as if I were present.

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is an immoral person, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindlernot even to eat with such a one.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

So if you have disputes about such matters, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."

But he who unites himself with the Lord is one spirit with him.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce him.

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have troubles in this flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; so that from now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

and those who mourn, as though they were not mourning; and those who rejoice, as though they were not rejoicing; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;