'People' in the Bible

Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish people, I am a debtor.

For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes his eternal power and divine nature have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.

an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the Law

No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, brought about by the Spirit, not by a written law. That person's praise will come from God, not from people.

Or can we say as some people slander us by claiming that we say "Let's do evil that good may result"? They deserve to be condemned!

God's righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah for all who believe. For there is no distinction among people,

But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people!

For just as through one man's disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man's obedience many people will be made righteous.

Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

Don't you realize, brothers for I am speaking to people who know the Law that the Law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive?

for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my own people,

As the Scripture says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and the one who was not loved I will call my loved one.

In the very place where it was told them, "You are not my people,' they will be called children of the living God."

Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on achievements. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.

As it is written, "Look! I am placing a stone in Zion over which people will stumble a large rock that will make them fall and the one who believes in him will never be ashamed."

How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?

And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are those who bring the good news!"

But about Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people."

So I ask, "God has not rejected his people, has he?" Of course not! I am an Israeli myself, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected his people whom he chose long ago. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story about Elijah, when he pleads with God against Israel?

But what was the divine reply to him? "I have reserved for myself 7,000 people who have not knelt to worship Baal."

in the hope that I can make my people jealous and save some of them.

For God has locked all people in the prison of their own disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

In the same way, even though we are many people, we are one body in the Messiah and individual parts connected to each other.

Live in harmony with each other. Do not be arrogant, but associate with humble people. Do not think that you are wiser than you really are.

Do not pay anyone back evil for evil, but focus your thoughts on what is right in the sight of all people.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.

Let's behave decently, as people who live in the light of day. No wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, quarreling, or jealousy!

For the person who serves the Messiah in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

Again he says, "Rejoice, you gentiles, with his people!"

Welcome her in the Lord as is appropriate for saints, and provide her with anything she may need from you, for she has assisted many people, including me.

because such people are not serving the Messiah our Lord, but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.