<p class="bodytext">And David says,p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>&#8220;Let their table become a snare and trapb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>a stumbling block and a retribution for themb>;i>p>

and if you are convinced<n id="1" /> that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)<n id="1" />

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

For this is what the promise declared:<n id="1" /> &#8220;<b><i>About a year from nowi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>I will return and Sarah will have a soni>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.<n id="1" />

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.p>

<p class="bodytext">So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.<n id="1" />

but Israel even though pursuing<n id="1" /> a law of righteousness<n id="2" /> did not attain it.<n id="3" />

just as it is written,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>Lookb>, <b>I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumbleb>i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and a rock that will make them fall,i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.i>b>&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">From Paul,<n id="1" /> a slave<n id="2" /> of Christ Jesus,<n id="3" /> called to be an apostle,<n id="4" /> set apart for the gospel of God.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant<n id="1" /> of the church in Cenchrea,

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.p>

But again I ask, didn&#8217;t Israel understand?<n id="1" /> First Moses says, &#8220;<b><i>I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to angeri>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

so that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and provide her with whatever help she may need from you, for she has been a great help to many, including me.p>

concerning his Son who was a descendant<n id="1" /> of David with reference to the flesh,<n id="2" />

For we consider that a person<n id="1" /> is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.<n id="2" />

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve<n id="1" /> the gospel of God<n id="2" /> like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering,<n id="3" /> sanctified by the Holy Spirit.p>

I am a debtor<n id="1" /> both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.