For there is no partiality with God.

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

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

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.