Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

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 just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the believers who are with them.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”

And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)

(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –

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?

Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

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.