For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate.

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

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

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

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

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

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

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

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.”

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.