but also on ours, for it is to be credited also to us who have faith in him who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus,

So if we have already been made upright by his death, it is far more certain that through him we shall be saved from God's anger!

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.

Nor is there any comparison between the gift and the effects of that one man's sin. That sentence arose from the act of one man, and was for condemnation; but God's gift arose out of many offenses and results in acquittal.

Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life.

for when a man is dead he is free from the claims of sin.

for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him.

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received,

and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness.

What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress.

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

What a wretched man I am! Who can save me from this doomed body?

For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God.

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

Then what shall we conclude from this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

Not that God's message has failed. For not everybody who is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,

nor are they all children of Abraham because they are descended from him, but he was told, "The line of Isaac will be called your descendants."

Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?

so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory,

including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen?

But this is what the uprightness that springs from faith says: "Do not say to yourself, 'Who will go up to heaven?' " that is, to bring Christ down;

or " 'Who will go down into the depths?' " that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

I ask then, has God repudiated his people? By no means. Why, I am an Israelite myself, I am descended from Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?

For if their rejection has meant the reconciling of the world, what can the acceptance of them mean but life from the dead?

For if you were cut from a wild olive and unnaturally grafted upon a cultivated one, how much easier it will be to graft them upon the olive to which they properly belong!

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,

From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God on your account; but from the point of view of God's choice, they are dear to him because of their forefathers,

For from him everything comes; through him everything exists; and in him everything ends! Glory to him forever! Amen.

The man who does right has nothing to fear from the magistrates, as the wrongdoer has. If you want to have no fear of the authorities, do right, and they will commend you for it,

All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him.

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

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

This is why I have so often been prevented from coming to see you.

Pray that I may escape from those in Judea who are disobedient, and that the help I am taking to Jerusalem may be well received by God's people,

Welcome her as a Christian, as God's people should welcome one another, and give her whatever help she may need from you. For she has herself been a protection to many, including myself.

But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

Now, brothers, for your benefit I have applied all this only to Apollos and myself, by using us as illustrations to teach you the old lesson, "Never go beyond the letter," and to keep any of you from boasting of one teacher at the expense of another.

And can you put on airs, instead of being overwhelmed with grief at having to expel from your number the man who has done this?

For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and as thus present I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this,

You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never!

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

I want you to be free from all anxiety. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's work, and how he can please the Lord.

So the man who marries her does what is right, and the man who refrains from doing so does even better.

If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar?

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man,

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

For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread

For until the Lord comes back, every time you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you proclaim his death.

Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

A man should examine himself, and only when he has done so should he eat any of the bread or drink from the cup.

another, from his union with the same Spirit receives faith, another, by one and the same Spirit, the ability to cure the sick,

another, the working of wonders, another, inspiration in preaching, another, the power of distinguishing the true Spirit from false ones, another, various ecstatic utterances, and another, the ability to explain them.

Did God's message start from you Corinthians? Or are you the only people it has reached?

If anyone claims to be inspired to preach, or to have any other spiritual endowment, let him understand that what I am now writing you is a command from the Lord.

So, my brothers, set your hearts on being inspired to preach, and yet do not hinder people from speaking ecstatically.

that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised from the dead, as the Scriptures foretold,

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"

The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty.

It is so with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay, it is raised free from decay.

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

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed.

Why, I felt in my heart that the end must be death. That was to keep me from relying on myself instead of on God, who can even raise the dead.

So deadly was the peril from which he saved me, as he will save me again! It is on him that I have set my hope that he will save me again.

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.

But upon my soul I call God to witness that it is simply to spare you that I have stayed away from Corinth.

to keep Satan from getting the better of us. For we know what he is after.

Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?

You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by me, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the human heart.

Not that I am of myself qualified to claim anything as originating with me. My qualification is from God,

But if the religion of death, carved in letters of stone, was ushered in with such splendor, so that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face on account of the brightness that was fading from it,