The last enemy to be eliminated is death.

Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.

For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power.

and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’