Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

But who indeed are you -- a mere human being -- to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

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

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing --

And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

But all things being exposed by the light are made evident.

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church -- he himself being the savior of the body.

What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of their destruction, but of your salvation -- a sign which is from God.

complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

Now regarding the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to be with him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,

Those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as deserving of full respect. This will prevent the name of God and Christian teaching from being discredited.

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.

to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ's blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure!

Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to the deeds he is doing -- the bringing of unjustified charges against us with evil words! And not being content with that, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but hinders the people who want to do so and throws them out of the church!

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: "Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.