But he who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

But I have written very boldly to you on some points, so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

This is the reason why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she has need from you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

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

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom 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, that we may understand the things freely given to us by God.

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. Then every man will receive his praise from God.

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to have mourned? Let the one who has done this be removed from your midst.

God judges those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

I wish that all men were as I myself am. But each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband

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

I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; so that from now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

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

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

Do I say this merely from a human point of view? Does not the Law say the same thing?

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?

If others share this right of support from you, do not we all the more? Nevertheless, we did not make use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

Do you not know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?

In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living from the gospel.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;

For as woman was made from man, so also man is born of woman. And all things are from God.

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

Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But Christ has indeed 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 was from the earth, of dust; the second man is from heaven.

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

He delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea.

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I had confidence in all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

to the one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God; but as men of sincerity, as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

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

You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of carnal hearts.

Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves; but our competence is from God,

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of the radiance that was fading away.

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

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

Therefore we are always of good courage; and we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

We are confident, I say, and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a fleshly point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from a fleshly point of view, we regard him thus no longer.

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.

And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

And what I am doing, I will also continue to do, in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things of which they boast.

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

I have been on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger at sea, and in danger from false brethren;

And I know that this manwhether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows

Though if I should boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

And to keep me from being too elated because of the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.

Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should depart from me.

Paul, an apostlesent not from men nor through man, 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 to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

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

For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, was pleased

And from those who were reputed to be something (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)those, I say, who were of repute added nothing to me;

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing the party of the circumcision.

This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for usfor it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of all the estate;

This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen away from grace.

You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

This persuasion did not come from him who calls you.

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

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

which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

from whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each part, causes the growth of the body and builds itself up in love.

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart;

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

For this reason it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

in no way frightened by your opponents. This is a sign of destruction to them, but of salvation for you and that too, from God.

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christthe righteousness that comes from God and is by faith,