through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Also greet the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But all things come from God.