For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

“Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.

He confessed – he did not deny but confessed – “I am not the Christ!”

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female – for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.