Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?

and so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, "The deliverer will come out of Zion; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

And this [is] the covenant from me with them when I take away their sins."

For from him and through him and to him [are] all [things]. To him [be] glory for eternity! Amen.

So then, the one who resists authority resists the ordinance [which is] from God, and those who resist will receive condemnation on themselves.

For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,

And [do] this [because you] know the time, that [it is] already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation [is] nearer now than when we believed.

But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not [do so] from faith, and everything that [is] not from faith is sin.

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and [traveling] around as far as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

For this reason also I was hindered many [times] from coming to you,

that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and my ministry in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

in order that you may welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever task she may have need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, even me myself.

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.

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

But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God.

Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!

And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

But those outside God will judge. Remove the evil person {from among yourselves}.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

Now concerning virgins I do not have a command from the Lord, but I am giving an opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

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

Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right {to refrain from working}?

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

If we have sown spiritual [things] among you, [is it too] great [a thing] if we reap material [things] from you?

Do you not know that those performing the holy services eat the things from the temple, [and] those attending to the altar have a share with the altar?

In the [same] way also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel.

For [although I] am free from all [people], I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.

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

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

Because [there is] one bread, [we] who [are] many are one body, for [we] all share from the one bread.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

Nevertheless, neither [is] woman [anything] apart from man, nor [is] man [anything] apart from woman in the Lord.

For just as the woman [is] from the man, thus also the man [is] through the woman. But all [things] [are] from God.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink from the cup.

Or has the word of God gone out from you, or has it come to you only?

Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that [there] is no resurrection of the dead?

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

[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

The first man [is] from the earth, made of earth; the second man [is] from heaven.

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

who delivered us from so great [a risk] of death, and will deliver [us], in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver [us] again,

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

and through you to go to Macedonia, and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be sent on my way by you to Judea.

And I wrote this very [thing] in order that [when I] came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, [because I] have confidence about you all, that my joy {belongs to all of you}.

to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

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

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy [is] from God,

And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

But we have this treasure in earthenware jars, in order that the extraordinary degree of the power may be from God and not from us.

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

For indeed, in this [house] we groan, [because we] desire to put on our dwelling from heaven,

Therefore, [although we are] always confident and know that [while we] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--

so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home [in the body] or absent [from the body], to be acceptable to him.

So then, from now on we know no one {from a human point of view}, if indeed we have known Christ {from a human point of view}, but now we know [him this way] no longer.

And all these [things] [are] from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

Therefore "come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you,

Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.

But just as you excel in everything--in faith and in speaking and in knowledge and with all diligence and in the love from us [that is] in you--so may you excel in this grace also.

So now also complete the doing [of it], in order that just as [you have] the eagerness to want [to do it], thus also [you may] complete [it] from [what you] have.

Each one [should give] as he has decided in his heart, not {reluctantly} or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

I robbed other churches [by] accepting support [from them] for the ministry to you.

And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].

[I have been] on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] people, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers because of false brothers,

Apart from these external things, [there is] the pressure on me every day of the anxiety about all the churches.

and I know this man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows--

For if I want to boast, I will not be foolish, because I will be telling the truth, but I am refraining, so that no one can credit to me more than what he sees [in] me or hears anything from me,

Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would depart from me.

Paul, an apostle not from men nor by men but through 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 in order to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

I am astonished that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught [it], but [I received it] through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when the one who set me apart from my mother's womb and called [me] by his grace was pleased

But from those {who were influential} (whatever they were, [it makes] no difference to me, {God does not show partiality})--for those who were influential added nothing to me.

For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, [because he] was afraid of those [who were] of the circumcision,

We [are] Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles,

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

But the law is not from faith, but "the one who does these [things] will live by them."

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law [by] becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree,"

For if the inheritance [is] from the law, [it is] no longer from the promise, but God graciously gave [it] to Abraham through the promise.

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,

which [things] are spoken allegorically, for these [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing [children] for slavery, who is Hagar.

You are estranged from Christ, [you] who are attempting to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

This persuasion [is] not from the one who calls you!