Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

on us, the ones He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.

Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down

or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The Liberator will come from Zion;
He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.

For from Him and through Him
and to Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God.

Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from a conviction, and everything that is not from a conviction is sin.

by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. As a result, I have fully proclaimed the good news about the Messiah from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

That is why I have been prevented many times from coming to you.

Pray that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea, that the gift I am bringing to Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

Greet also the church that meets in their home.
Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

Therefore don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.

And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves.

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

I wish that all people were just like me. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this way and another in that way.

About virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

yet for us there is one God, the Father.
All things are from Him,
and we exist for Him.
And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.
All things are through Him,
and we exist through Him.

Or do Barnabas and I alone have no right to refrain from working?

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when He was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread,

Did the word of God originate from you, or did it come to you only?

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones.

There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for one star differs from another star in splendor.

The first man was from the earth
and made of dust;
the second man is from heaven.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and He will deliver us. We have put our hope in Him that He will deliver us again

and to go on to Macedonia with your help, then come to you again from Macedonia and be given a start by you on my journey to Judea.

I wrote this very thing so that when I came I wouldn’t have pain from those who ought to give me joy, because I am confident about all of you that my joy will also be yours.

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to look directly at Moses’ face because of the glory from his face—a fading glory—

We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.

For we know that if our temporary, earthly dwelling is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

Indeed, we groan in this body, desiring to put on our dwelling from heaven,

So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

Therefore, come out from among them
and be separate, says the Lord;
do not touch any unclean thing,
and I will welcome you.

Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completing our sanctification in the fear of God.

and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us.

But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have.

I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me. Yes, do put up with me.

But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure devotion to Christ.

I robbed other churches by taking pay from them to minister to you.

When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.

Since many boast in an unspiritual way, I will also boast.

Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews.

On frequent journeys, I faced
dangers from rivers,
dangers from robbers,
dangers from my own people,
dangers from the Gentiles,
dangers in the city,
dangers in the open country,
dangers on the sea,
and dangers among false brothers;

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me.

Paul, an apostle—not from men or by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead—

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than what we have preached to you, a curse be on him!

For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation from Jesus Christ.

But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased

Now from those recognized as important (what they really were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism)—they added nothing to me.

For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.

But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?”

I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.

For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

These things are illustrations, for the women represent the two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery—this is Hagar.