Paul looked directly at the council and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”

and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before Caesar, and God has graciously granted you the safety of all who are sailing with you.’

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

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

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.