<p class="bodytext">For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel<n id="2" /> until the full number<n id="3" /> of the Gentiles has come in.

Rather, <i><b>if your enemy is hungryb>, <b>feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his headb>i>.<n id="1" />

But who indeed are you &#8211; a mere human being<n id="1" /> &#8211; to talk back to God?<n id="2" /> <b><i>Does what is molded say to the molderi>b><i>,i> &#8220;<b><i>Why have you made me like this?i>b>&#8221;<n id="3" />

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.<n id="1" />p>

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised,<n id="1" /> so that he would become<n id="2" /> the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised,<n id="3" /> that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you<n id="1" /> a measure of faith.<n id="2" />

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.<n id="1" />

But about Israel he says, &#8220;<b><i>All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!i>b>&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God,<n id="1" /> but their zeal is not in line with the truth.<n id="2" />

<p class="otpoetry"><i><b>Or who has first given to Godb>,i><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>that Godi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>needs to repay him?i>b><n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But if our unrighteousness demonstrates<n id="1" /> the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he?<n id="2" /> (I am speaking in human terms.)<n id="3" />

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear,<n id="1" /> but you received the Spirit of adoption,<n id="2" /> by whom<n id="3" /> we cry, &#8220;Abba, Father.&#8221;

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

<p class="bodytext">For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, &#8220;<i>Though the number of the childreni><n id="1" /> <i>of Israel are as the sand of the seai>, <i>only the remnant will be savedi>,

Just<n id="1" /> as Isaiah predicted,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>If the Lord of armiesi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>had not left us descendantsb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>we would have become like Sodomb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and we would have resembled Gomorrah.&#8221;i>b><n id="3" />p>

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But now there is nothing more to keep me<n id="1" /> in these regions, and I have for many years desired<n id="2" /> to come to you

Without being weak in faith, he considered<n id="1" /> his own body as dead<n id="2" /> (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah&#8217;s womb.