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

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him.

but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.