What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life,

So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

No, [suffering any one of these things is not proof that Christ does not love us], for in spite of all these things we have a decisive victory [over life's difficulties] through [the care shown us by] Christ who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither Death, nor Life, nor Angels, nor Archangels, nor the Present, nor the Future, nor any Powers,

Nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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;

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

What shall we say then? Is there any unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on any man that I choose to have mercy on, and take pity on any man that I choose to take pity on."

So He has mercy on any man that He chooses to, and He hardens any man that He chooses to harden.

Perhaps you will say to me-'How can any one still be blamed? For who withstands his purpose?'

As the passage of Scripture says--'No one who believes in him shall have any cause for shame.'

If by any means I may provoke to jealousy my own flesh, and save some from among them; -

who hath given any thing to him, and he will repay it?

Seeing that we have divers gifts according to the grace that is given unto us: if any man have the gift of prophecy, let him have it that it be agreeing unto the faith;

or, if we have a ministry, let us be active in our ministry; if any one teaches, let him attend to his teaching;

Let him that teacheth take heed to his doctrine; Let him that exhorteth give attendance to his exhortation; If any man give, let him do it with singleness; Let him that ruleth do it with diligence; If any man show mercy let him do it with cheerfulness.

Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.

rulers are not a terror to virtue, but to vice. would you then live without any dread of the civil power? do what is right, and you shall have his commendation.

Nothing to any, be owing - save to be loving one another; for, he that loveth his neighbour, hath given to, law, its fulfillment.

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Love avoids doing any wrong to one's fellow man, and is therefore complete obedience to Law.

but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.

A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion.

for one believeth that he may eat any food; another, who is weak, liveth upon herbs.

The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.

For none of us liveth his own servant: and also neither doth any of us die his own servant.

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

keep the persuasion you have, to your own conscience. blessed is he that approves himself to God, without making any difference about meats:

But the man who has misgivings about eating, if he then eats, has already condemned himself by so doing, because he did not follow his faith, and any action that does not follow one's faith is a sin.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,

In order that ye may give her welcome in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and stand by her in any matter wherein she may have need of you; for, she also, hath proved to be a defender of many, and of my own self.

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who being sanctified by Christ Jesus, are saints by that vocation, to all that any where invoke the name of Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours.

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am thankful that I never baptized any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

Lest any should say - into my own name, I immersed:

And I gave baptism to the house of Stephanas; but I am not certain that any others had baptism from me.

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.

Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.

For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

so that your faith might not rest on any human 'wisdom' but on the power of God.

It is a wisdom unknown to any of the authorities of this world, for otherwise they would never have crucified our glorious Lord.

but they are all expos'd to the judgment of the spiritual, whilst he himself is not subject to the judgment of any man.

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.

If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful.

as for me, it is a matter of no great concern that I should be called to account by you, or any human authority; not that I am my own judge;

For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

So you must stop forming any premature judgments, but wait until the Lord shall come again, for He will bring to light the secrets hidden in the dark and will make known the motives of men's hearts, and the proper praise will be awarded each of us.

These things, brethren, I have described in mine own person, and Apollos, for your sakes - that ye might learn by us that no man count of himself beyond that which is above written: that one swell not against another for any man's cause.

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

[You behave as if] you are already filled [with spiritual wisdom and in need of nothing more]. Already you have become rich [in spiritual gifts]! You [in your conceit] have ascended your thrones and become kings without us; and how I wish [that it were true and] that you did reign as kings, so that we might reign with you.

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children.

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

not that you are to stop all dealings with sexually immoral people of this world, any more than with its greedy graspers, or its idolaters, for then you would have to get clear out of the world.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

How much more things pertaining to this life? If then ye have any controversies of things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no esteem in the church?

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice

Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

Keep on running from sexual immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is one outside his body, but the man who commits the sexual sin is sinning against his own body.

But, unto the rest, say, I - not the Lord, - if, any brother, hath, a wife that believeth not, and, she, is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not leave her;

Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not leave her husband.

Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches.

If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.

Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.

(for you were bought for a price; you must not turn slaves to any man).

Now concerning virgins, although I do not have any command from the Lord, I will give you my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

And this I say for your particular advantage, not to lay any constraint upon you, but as that which is most suitable to a state of uninterrupted attendance upon religion.

But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married.

But the father who stands firm in his purpose, without having any necessity for doing so, and he has made the decision in his own heart to keep her single, will do what is right.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry any one she wishes, provided he is a believer.

And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

But if any man love God, the same is known of 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.

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

But be taking heed, lest, by any means, your right, itself, become, an occasion of stumbling, unto the weak;

For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;