What then should we conclude from this? [Just this]: If God is on our side, who can [successfully] oppose us?

Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

just as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved,

It is just as Isaiah predicted: "If the Lord of the Heavenly Armies had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have been compared to Gomorrah."

just as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion {a stone that causes people to stumble}, and {a rock that causes them to fall}, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

And how will they preach, unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "How timely [are] the feet of those who bring good news of good things."

What then? [Just this]: The very thing that the Israelites are looking for [i.e., a right relationship with God], they have not found. But God's selected ones obtained [this right relationship with Him] and the rest [of the Israelites] were made insensitive to God's call,

just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day."

And David says,

“Let their table (abundance) become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a retribution to them.

I say then, did the Jews trip [over Jesus] just so they could fall [away from God]? Certainly not! [There was another reason]: Instead, it was by means of their sin that salvation was made available to the Gentiles, so that the Jews might become jealous of them [i.e., causing them to want what the Gentiles now had].

you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because of their disobedience,

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

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

Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

Stop undoing the work of God just for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything when it makes another stumble.

It is the duty of us who are strong to put up with the weaknesses of those who are immature, and not just suit ourselves.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

and that the Gentiles may glorify God for [his] mercy, just as it is written, "Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name."

But, just to refresh your memories, I have written you pretty boldly on some points, because of the favor God has shown me

but just as it is written, "[Those] to whom [it was] not announced concerning him will see, and [those] who have not heard will understand."

But just now I am on my way to Jerusalem to help God's people.

just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed in you,

He will also make you stand firm [in the faith] to the end [of your lives], so that you will be [considered] without just blame on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ [returns].

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

so that, just as it is written, "The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

For what man can understand his own inner thoughts except by his own spirit within him? Just so no one but the Spirit of God can understand the thoughts of God.

So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine and trustworthy in the Lord's work; he will call to your minds my methods in the work of Christ Jesus, just as I teach them everywhere in every church.

for the kingdom of God isn't just talk, but also power.

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

Your boasting [over the supposed spirituality of your church] is not good [indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven ferments the whole batch [of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church]?

Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.

But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with Him]. [Note: Just as the person who has sex with someone enters a close physical union with that person, so the person who becomes a Christian enters a close spiritual union with Christ].

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

Now to those people who are not married [Note: This probably refers to all unmarried people, and not just to widowers, as some think], or who are widows, I say it is [a] good [idea] for them to remain like me [i.e., single. See verse

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

This, then, is my opinion in view of the present distress??hat it is a good thing for a man to remain just as he is.

For even if after all [there] are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as [there] are many gods and many lords,

for if any man see you who have a just notion of idols, sitting at table in their temple, will not the person who is wrong in his notions be incouraged to eat what is offered to idols, tho' contrary to his own opinion?

Do we not have the right to take a believing [i.e., a Christian] wife with us [on our preaching tours], just like the rest of the apostles, and the Lord's brothers do [i.e., James, Joseph, Judas and Simon. Mark 6:3], and Cephas [i.e., Peter]?

Just so the Lord has issued orders that those who preach the good news shall get their living out of it.

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.

What then is my reward? [Just this:] that, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge [to everyone], so as not to take advantage of my rights [as a preacher and apostle] in [preaching] the gospel.

So, I run with a purpose and I fight that way [too]; I do not just shadow box.

Now these [things] happened [as] examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil [things], just as those also desired [them],

and not become idolaters, as some of them [did], just as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play,"

nor grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.

You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's.

Now I praise you that you remember me [in] all [things], and just as I handed over to you the traditions, you hold fast to [them].

and any woman who offers prayer or explains the will of God bareheaded disgraces her head, for it is just as though she had her head shaved.

For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn aside after dumb idols, just as ye were led: wherefore,

These are all produced by one and the same Spirit, and apportioned to each of us just as the Spirit chooses.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

But as it now is, God has placed the parts, every one of them, in the body just as He wanted them to be.

just as the parts we consider rather dishonourable are the very parts we invest with special honour; our indecorous parts get a special care and attention

and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever gets annoyed. She never is resentful;

For now we see through a mirror {indirectly}, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know completely, just as I have also been completely known.

So it is with you; unless in your ecstatic speaking you speak a message that is clearly intelligible, how can the message spoken by you be understood? You might just as well be talking to the air!

Women are to keep quiet in church, for they are not allowed to speak. They must take a subordinate place, just as the Law says.

And, last of all, just as if unto the unseasonable birth, he appeared, even unto me;

For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.

What benefit was it to me, from a human standpoint, if I fought wild animals in Ephesus, and [yet] the dead are not raised? [Note: This probably refers to Paul facing ferocious opposition from people there in Ephesus]. We should [just] eat and drink, for tomorrow we [may] die.

rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame.

and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

It is just like this with the resurrection of the dead.

Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,

Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I gave directions about [it] to the churches of Galatia, so you do also.

For I do not want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you if the Lord permits it.

If Timothy reaches you, put him at his ease among you, for he is devoted to the Lord's work, just as I am.

As for our brother Apollos, I have earnestly urged him to go to see you, but he is not at all inclined to come just now; yet he is coming when he has a good opportunity.

For just as my sufferings for Christ are running over the cup, so through Christ my comfort is running over too.

My hopes for you are unshaken. For I know that just as surely as you share my sufferings, just so surely you will share my comfort.

For what I am writing you is nothing more than what you can read and understand, and I hope that you will understand it perfectly, just as some of you have come to understand me partially;

that is, to understand that you have grounds for boasting of me just as I have for boasting of you, on the day of our Lord Jesus.

So, when I made this decision, was I just vacillating [in uncertainty]? Or, do I make plans in a worldly way [i.e., just to suit my own fancy], so that my "yes" and "no" [do not really mean anything]?

But just as certainly as God is dependable, our message to you is not [both] "yes" and "no" [at the same time].

And are not just like Moses, who kept putting a veil upon his face, so that the sons of Israel should not look steadily unto the end of that which was to be done away.

And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Because of this, [since we] have this ministry, just as we have been shown mercy, we do not lose heart,

And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your hearts expand also.

What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people."

For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

See how the very fact that you were made sorry from a godly motive has produced earnestness in you! [It produced] a desire to vindicate yourselves [i.e., by making amends for your wrongdoing]; an attitude of just anger [i.e., toward the wrongdoers]; a sense of fear [i.e., a fear of God for doing wrong]; an eager desire [i.e., to do the right thing]; a zeal [i.e., to correct problems]; and an attitude of avenging [i.e., that punished the wrongdoer]. You demonstrated in everything [you did] that you were pure [i.e., innocent] in this matter. [Note: This whole description of their conduct appears to be a reference to the incident mentioned in 2:1-11].

If I did express some pride in you to him, I have had no reason to be ashamed of it, but just as all I said to you was true, my boasting before Titus has also proved true.

and not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and [then] to us, by the will of God.