When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

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

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

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

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

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

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

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.