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.

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?

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.