and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.

If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.