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

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

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

In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) – if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God – harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.