And they said to him, We have neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, nor has any of the brethren, that is come hither, related or spoken any ill of thee.

But we would willingly hear from thee what thou thinkest: for as to this sect, we know that it is every where spoken against.

And having appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom he discoursed and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

but powerfully declared to be the Son of God, according to the spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead, even Jesus Christ our Lord;

to all that are in Rome beloved of God, called and holy: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

for the righteousness of God is therein revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who withhold the truth in unrighteousness;

Inasmuch as from the first creation of the world, the invisible things of Him, even his eternal power and Godhead, are, if attended to, clearly seen in his works:

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter: whose praise is not from men, but from God.

but for our sakes also, to him it will be imputed, as we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead:

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through Him.

and yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of Him that was to come.

For the gift is not as the sentence was by one that sinned; for the sentence is passed from one offence to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences to justification.

Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life:

for he that is thus dead with Christ, is delivered from sin.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more power over Him: for as He died, He died once for all on account of sin;

Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:

and being set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.

For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

But now being set free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of death?

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath set me free from the law of sin and death.

And if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwelleth in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead, will also restore your mortal bodies to life, by his Spirit that now dwelleth in you.

in hope that they also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Not that the word of God hath failed. For they are not all Israel, who are descended from Israel.

bring up Christ from the dead)" but what saith it? "The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart." This is the word of faith which we preach: that if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,

and believe in thine heart, that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

for if the rejecting of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving them again be but life from the dead?

And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, "The deliverer shall come out of Sion, and shall turn away impiety from Jacob:

Let every soul be subject to the powers that are over them: for there is no such power but from God: the powers that are over men, are appointed by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldest thou then not be afraid of the civil power? do what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

through the efficacy of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round as far as to Illyricum, I have fully declared the gospel of Christ:

And thus I have been much hindered from coming to you:

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that this my service at Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints:

grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

But ye are of Him in Christ Jesus, who from God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Wherefore judge nothing before the time; even until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every one have praise from God.

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

But those who are without, God judgeth: and therefore put away the wicked one from among you.

Flee from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another?

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

for a single man to be so. Art thou bound to a wife indeed? seek not to be loosed: but art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

and lords many,) yet to us there is but one God the Father, from whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.

Do ye not know, that they who are employed about the sacrifices have their food from the temple? and they, who attend at the altar, are partakers with the altar?

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, flee from idolatry.

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:

Did the word of God come out first from you? or did it come to you only?

Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and is become the first-fruits of them that slept:

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: and one star differeth from another star in glory.

The first man being made out of the earth, was earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

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

who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us:

and then to come to you again from Macedonia, and by you to be forwarded on my way to Judea.

Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no?

And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, and in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, recommendatory epistles to you, or letters of recommendation from you?

not that we can of ourselves reckon upon any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.

But we all with unveiled face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, as proceeding from the Spirit of the Lord.

And therefore whilst we are in this tabernacle we groan, being very desirous to be covered with our house which is from heaven: since though unclothed of this body,

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we dwell in the body, we are absent from the Lord,

and well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

But all these things are from God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and made us ministers of the reconciliation;

Wherefore, "come out from the midst of them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch no unclean thing," and I will receive you:

Having therefore, my beloved, these promises, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

However, now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were grieved after a godly manner, so that ye received no damage from us.

(While from the experience of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and the liberality of your communication to them, and to all men.)

But I fear least as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the purity that is in Christ.

I trespassed on other churches, receiving maintenance from them for your service.

And when I was present among you, and in want, I was chargeable to no one. For the brethren that came from Macedonia supplied my want: and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.

God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those that desire an occasion of boasting or censure, that in what they boast of they may be found to do even as we do.

What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, in this confidence of boasting.

From the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one.

in journies often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren:

For though I should incline to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I should speak truth. But I forbear least any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or heareth from me.

For this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

For if He was crucified as from weakness, yet He now liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in Him, but shall live with Him by the power of God manifested to you.

Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

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

who gave himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:

I wonder that ye are so soon removed from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel: which is not another;

But tho' we or an angel from heaven should preach to you any other gospel than what we have preached to you; let him be accursed.

But when it pleased God, (who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,)

For before certain men came from James, he did eat with the gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been made a curse for us: for it is written, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:"

For if the inheritance be from the law, it is no more from the promise: whereas God gave it to Abraham by promise.