and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the believers who are with them.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

and the way of peace they have not known.”

So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

And David says, “Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

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

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.