For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Therefore it also was "credited to him for righteousness."

Now it was not written that it was credited to him for his sake alone,

but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock that will make them fall; and no one who believes in him will be put to shame."

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on him.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a proclaimer?

But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

"Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"

For from him and by him and in him are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat. Do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for the Lord has power to make him stand.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles. Let all the peoples praise him."

Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."

But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who have not heard will understand."

25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the proclaiming of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined the things which God has prepared for those who love him.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For "who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

But to the rest I?not the Lord?say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the churches.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He does not sin. Let them marry.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he does not fall.

Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

If then I do not know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

If any man does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Come, Lord.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will also deliver us again;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes."

For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him they are "Amen," to the glory of God through us.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the churches.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did not we walk in the same spirit? Did not we walk in the same steps?

For indeed he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should proclaim to you a "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you a "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

to reveal his Son to me, that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

And the rest of the Jewish believers joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."