For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith.

Still death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned as Adam had, in the face of an express command. So Adam foreshadowed the one who was to come.

For this is what the promise said: "When I come back at this time next year, Sarah will have a son."

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

and then all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says, "The deliverer will come from Zion, He will drive all ungodliness away from Jacob,

May God, from whom steadfastness and encouragement come, give you such harmony with one another, in following the example of Christ Jesus,

Again Isaiah says, "The descendant of Jesse will come, The one who is to rise to rule the heathen; The heathen will set their hopes on him."

But now there is no more work for me in this part of the world, and as I have had a great desire for many years to come to see you,

So when I have finished this matter, and seen this contribution safely into their possession, I will start for Spain, and come to you on the way,

and I know that when I do come to see you, I will come with Christ's fullest blessing.

so that, if it is God's will, I may come with a glad heart to see you and enjoy a visit with you.

For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

So when I came to you, brothers, I did not come and tell you the secret purpose of God in superior, philosophical language,

when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

Which will you have? Shall I come to you with a stick, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

Do you not know that the Christians are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to come before you for judgment, are you unfit to decide the most trivial cases?

I ask it to shame you. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a disagreement between one brother and another,

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring down a judgment upon you. The details I will settle when I come.

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as inspired preachers, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then come ability to cure the sick, helpfulness, administration, ecstatic speaking.

But as it is brothers, if I come back to you and speak ecstatically, what good will I do you, unless I have some revelation or special knowledge or message or teaching to give you?

Hence, if the whole church assembles and they all speak ecstatically, and ordinary people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are crazy?

After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,

But someone will say, "How can the dead rise? What kind of a body will they have when they come back?"

And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true??Death has been triumphantly destroyed.

On the first of every week each of you is to put aside and store up whatever he gains, so that money will not have to be collected after I come.

When I come I will send whatever persons you authorize with credentials, to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

I will come to you after passing through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia,

As for our brother Apollos, I have often urged him to visit you with the other brothers, and he is quite unwilling to come now, but he will come when he has a good opportunity.

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come here, for they have made up for your absence.

A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!

as some of you have come to understand me, and that you will understand that you have a right to be proud of me, as I have of you, on the Day of our Lord Jesus.

It was because I was sure of this that I wanted to come to see you before going anywhere else, to give you a double pleasure;

I was going to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia and have you see me off for Judea.

For in comparison with its surpassing splendor, what was splendid has come to have no splendor at all.

For he says, "I have listened to you at a welcome time, And helped you on a day of deliverance!" Now the welcome time has come! This is the day of deliverance!

Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you,

for if some people from Macedonia come with me, and find that you are not ready, it will humiliate me??o say nothing of you??or having expressed such confidence.

I beg you not to make me take as bold an attitude when I come, as I count on taking toward some people who suspect me of acting from worldly motives.

It is no strain for me to do this, as it might be for people who had never got so far, for I was the first to come all the way to you with the good news of the Christ.

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody??3 since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power.

That is why I write this while I am away from you, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority the Lord has given me, for it was to build you up, not to pull you down.

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

Is the Law then contrary to God's promises? By no means. For if a law had been given that could have brought life, uprightness would really have come through law.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer in the charge of the attendant.

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

far above all hierarchies, authorities, powers, and dominions, and all titles that can be bestowed not only in this world but in the world to come.

to show the incomparable wealth of his mercy throughout the ages to come by his goodness to us through Christ Jesus.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

I trust the Lord to enable me to come to you myself before long.

But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss.

He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead??hat he might come to stand first in everything.

for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

For we resolved to come to see you??, Paul, did so again and again??ut Satan held us back.

But now that Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good news of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you think of me and that you long to see me just as much as I long to see you,

For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise;

for you yourselves know perfectly well that the Day of the Lord is to come like a thief in the night.

not to let your minds be too easily unsettled or wrought up, by any message of the Spirit or any utterance or letter purporting to be from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has already come.

who wants all men to be saved and to come to know the truth.

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing you all this

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, preaching, and teaching.

As your example in wholesome instruction, keep before you what you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

My life is already being poured out, and the time has come for my departure.

Do your best to come to me soon,

When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and the books, especially the parchments.

Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to settle there for the winter.

Come, brother, let me make something out of you, in a Christian sense! Cheer my heart as a Christian.

So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit

Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.

so the Christ too, after being offered in sacrifice once for all to carry away the sins of many, will appear again but without any burden of sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him to come and save them.

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' "

At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"??ll of which the Law prescribes??9 and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.

For "In a very little while He who is to come will come and not delay,

And if it had been the country from which they had come to which their thoughts turned back, they would have found an opportunity to return to it.

Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all??16 some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

For it is no tangible blazing fire that you have come up to, no blackness and darkness and storm,

But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels,

for we have no permanent city here on earth, but we are in search of the city that is to come.

Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a town, to stay a year and go into business and make money,"

Come now, you rich people! weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are going to overtake you!

Come to him, as to a living stone rejected by men, but chosen and prized in the sight of God,

Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and overwhelmed them with ashes, as a warning to ungodly men of what was to come,

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, going where their passions lead

The Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on it the heavens will pass away with a roar, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth and all its works will melt away.