Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times!

He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

But his mother replied, “No! He must be named John.”

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him.”

Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac –

So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.