For He is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work on the earth."

Why? Because it was not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone;

Brothers, truly my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is for it to be saved.

For I bear record to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes.

For Moses writes of the righteousness which is of the Law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

For the Scripture says, "Everyone believing on Him shall not be put to shame."

For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call on Him.

For everyone, "whoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved."

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And David said, "Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

For I speak to you, the nations; since I am the apostle of the nations, I glorify my ministry;

For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?

For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.

Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear lest He also may not spare you either!

And those also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.

For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more these being according to nature will be grafted into their own olive-tree?

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves; that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations has comes in.

For this is My covenant with them, when I have taken away their sins."

Indeed as regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But as regards the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

For the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

For as you also then disbelieved God, but now have been shown mercy through their disbelief,

For God has shut up all in unbelief, so that He might show mercy to all.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things; to Him be glory forever! Amen.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function,

Repay no one evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

If it is possible, as far as is in you, being in peace with all men.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."

Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but of God; the authorities that exist are ordained by God.

For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.

For it is a servant of God to you for good. For if you practice evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, a revenger for wrath on him who does evil.

Therefore you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

For because of this you also pay taxes. For they are God's servants, always giving attention to this very thing.

Therefore give to all their dues; to the one due tax, the tax; tribute to whom tribute is due, fear to whom fear is due, and honor to whom honor is due.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves another has fulfilled the Law.

For: "Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not lust;" and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.

Who are you that judges another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

He who regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.

For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living.

But why do you judge your brother? Or also why do you despise your brother? For all shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God."

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For he who serves Christ in these things is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

So then let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for building up one another.

Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed are clean, but it is bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.

Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good, to building up.

For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me."

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name."

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for the obedience of the nations in word and deed,

For this cause I also have been greatly hindered from coming to you.

whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For in traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.

For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints in Jerusalem.

Truly it has pleased them, and they are their debtors. For if the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in fleshly things.

But I exhort you, brothers, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

that I may be delivered from those disbelieving in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;

that you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you may assist her in whatever business she has need of you. For she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.

who have laid down their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also the churches of the nations.

For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.

but now has been made plain, and by the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith;

I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God given you in Jesus Christ,

so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones."

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom;

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, which God has hidden, predetermining it before the world for our glory;

which none of the rulers of this world knew (for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory).

But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.