So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

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

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

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.

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

Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”