So they arranged a day with him and came to him in his lodgings in great numbers. He expounded the matter to them; testifying to the Kingdom of God, and persuading them about Jesus, from morning till evening, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

FOR IN IT IS BEING REVEALED A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH PROCEEDS FROM GOD, FROM FAITH UNTO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

Be it far from us; for in that case how could God judge the world?

All have swerved from the right path; Every one of them has become corrupt. There is none that practices good, no, not one.

But now, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets.

I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,

since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God;

For I conclude that a man is justified by faith, altogether apart from the deeds of the Law.

Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned as king, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Now Adam is a type of Him who was to come.

And it is not with the free gift as it was through the one that sinned; for the judgment came from one transgression unto condemnation; but the free gift came from many transgressions unto acquittal.

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

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

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall be able to separate us from the love of God Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;

Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

Nor, ??ho shall descend into the abyss?"??hat is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

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

So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written. The deliver will come from Zion, He will banish all ungodliness from Jacob;

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

This is why I have been so hindered from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea; that my mission to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the saints;

Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

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

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

Expel that wicked man from among you.

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

And a woman whose husband is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let her not separate from him.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

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

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

So then, my beloved, continually flee from idolatry.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,

What, was it from you that the word of God went forth, or to you only did it come?

If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

More than that, we are detected in bearing false witness against God; because we testified of God that he raised Christ from the dead, whom he did not raise, if indeed the dead rise not.

But now, now, Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

For since by man came to death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead.

Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.

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

To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy.

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

He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me,

while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

I intended to go by you into Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and by you to be sent forward on my way to Judea.

I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

Am I beginning again to "recommend" myself? Or do I need, as some do, letters of commendation either to you or from you?

Not that I am sufficient in myself to reach any conclusion in my own wisdom; but my sufficiency is from God.

I do not do as Moses did, who used to cover his face with a veil to keep the children of Israel from beholding the passing of a fading glory.

And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

But I hold this treasure in an earthen vessel, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God, and not from myself.

For I know that He who raised from the dead the Lord Jesus, will raise me also with Jesus, and set me at your side in his presence.

Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

Therefore, Come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean;

As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.

For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the world's pain works death.

As for Titus, remember that he is a partner of mine, and is also my associate in labors for you. As for the other brothers, remember that they are delegates from the churches, men in whom Christ is glorified.

So I have thought that I must ask these brothers to visit you beforehand, and get your promised contribution ready in advance. I want it to be given of your bounty, not extorted from your covetousness.

He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving.

Would that you could put up with a little "folly" from me! Nay, do bear with me.

But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.