For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a mere wild olive tree, and have been grafted, contrary to nature, into a fruitful olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be regrafted into their own olive tree?

even so they also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.

Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?

Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the Circumcision the people of Israel, in vindication of God's truth, so that he may confirm the promises given to our forefathers;

My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christ's name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another man's foundation.

This is why I have been so hindered from coming to you.

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make an offering for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.

Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods.

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

but now has been brought to light, and by command of the eternal God made known to the Gentiles by the scriptures of the Prophets, so that the Gentiles might hold obedience of the faith.

that in everything you have been enriched in him, in all speech, and in all knowledge

For it has been plainly told me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

Has Christ been divided? Paul, was he crucified for you? or was it into the name of Paul that you were baptized?

For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

You have been brought with a price; do not become slaves to men.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,

but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and vain also is your faith.

And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you??t least some of you (not to overstate the case).

If you forgive the man, I forgive him, too; for whatever I have forgiven has been forgiven in the presence of Christ,

and not alone by his coming, but also by the comfort you had been to him. For he told me of your eager longing, of your penitence, and of your zeal on my behalf, so that I was happier still.

So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.

This is what comforts me. In addition to this comfort of mine, I have been made still happier by the happiness of Titus; because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

With the result that I have been begging Titus that, as he had been the one to begin the work with you, so he should complete among you this grace also.

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

and I am fully prepared to punish every act of disobedience, when once your submission has been put beyond question.

Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea.

My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers;

I am become a fool??ou have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter has with the gospel for the circumcised

and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, then thought to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Far from it!

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would actually have come from law;

So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;

For the whole Law has been fulfilled in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.

which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

For it has been granted you in Christ's behalf, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.

Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less.

I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.

for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;

And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints.

These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, belonging to the circumcision, who have been any comfort to me.

And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is read also in the church of Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

For the word of the Lord has been sounded forth from you, and its sound has been heard not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place where the tidings of your faith toward God have been spread abroad, so that I have no need to speak of it.

But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain.

I have been comforted, my brothers, in regard to you, in spite of all my distress and affliction over your faith.

It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

So, brothers, stand fast, and hold fast the teachings which you have been taught by me, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

I have been reminded of that sincere faith which is in your heart; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and, I am fully persuaded, dwells in you also.

This has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who has put an end to death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

Guard the glorious trust which has been committed to you by the aid of the Holy Spirit who makes his home in us.

Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, has been raised from the dead according to the gospel I proclaim.

but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.

By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."

For I have great joy and comfort in your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed.

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

And they indeed have been made priests, many in number, because they have been prevented by death from continuing;

The pith of all that we have been saying is this; we do have such a High Priest; and he has taken his seat on the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.