who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?

But in all these things we more than conquer, through him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;

for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,

Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;

Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.

Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,

as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved,

What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;

as it is written; Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach.

For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved;

For the Scripture says, No one that believes in him shall be ashamed.

For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all that call upon him.

For every one that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.

But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses says, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish nation will I excite you to anger.

But Isaiah is more bold and says, I was found by them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that inquired not after me.

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,??8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear??o this day.

let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation.

You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

See then the goodness and severity of God; towards those that fell, severity, but towards you, the goodness of God, if you continue in goodness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,

so also they now have disobeyed that they may obtain mercy by your mercy.

For God has concluded all in disobedience that he may have mercy on all.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

For I say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be higher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has distributed to each the measure of faith.

if one exhorts in the exhortation, he that gives, with simplicity, he that rules, with diligence, he that exercises mercy, with cheerfulness.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good,

Bless those that persecute, bless and curse not.

So that he who resists the power resists the ordinance of God; and those who resist shall receive judgment on themselves.

for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.

Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

For one has faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eats vegetables.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted him.

Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

One judges one day to be better than another, but another judges every day [to be alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his mind.

He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he that observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats not to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

For this end Christ died and lived again, that he might exercise lordship over the dead and living.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is defiled in itself, except to him that thinks any thing to be defiled; to him it is defiled.

for he that in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense;

You have faith; have it for yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in what he approves;

but he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is sin.

Let us each please our neighbor in that which is good for edification;

for Christ also pleased not himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me.

For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

that being of one mind you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mouth.

For I say that Christ was made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers,

and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; as it is written, For this cause will I praise thee among nations, and sing to thy name.

And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And I am persuaded, my brothers, even I myself, concerning you, that you are full of kindness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;

and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

that I may be delivered from those that obey not in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and be refreshed together with you.

that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.

I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;

For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil.

And to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery not revealed in ancient times,

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to the sanctified in Jesus Christ, called to be saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours.

that in every thing you are enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

so that you are behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.

For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

I mean this; that each one of you says I indeed am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

that no one may say that I baptized in my name.

And I also baptized the family of Stephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe;

for the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

that no flesh may glory in the sight of God.

that as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;

And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God,

so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he that waters, but God that causes it to grow.

He that plants and he that waters are one; and each shall receive his reward according to his labor.

For no one can lay another foundation besides that laid, which is Christ Jesus.

Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Let no one deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this life, let him be a fool, that he may be wise.

And again; The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful.

But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;

for I am not conscious to myself [of wrong], but I am not on this account justified; but he that judges me is the Lord.

I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another.

For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not?