just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

But you who eat vegetables only – why do you judge your brother or sister? And you who eat everything – why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

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

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,