But what was the divine response<n id="1" /> to him? &#8220;<b><i>I have kepti>b> for myself <b><i>seven thousand peoplei>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>who have not bent the knee to Baali>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The<n id="1" /> rest were hardened,

as it is written,p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>&#8220;God gave them a spirit of stuporb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>eyes that would not see and ears that would not hearb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>to this very day.&#8221;i>b><n id="1" />p>

And so<n id="1" /> all Israel will be saved, as it is written:p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>&#8220;The Deliverer will come out of Zion;i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>he will remove ungodliness from Jacobb>.i>p>

So the person who resists such authority<n id="1" /> resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

For if your brother or sister<n id="1" /> is distressed because of what you eat,<n id="2" /> you are no longer walking in love.<n id="3" /> Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

The faith<n id="1" /> you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, &#8220;<b><i>The insults of those who insult you have fallen on mei>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another<n id="1" /> in accordance with Christ Jesus,

And again Isaiah says, &#8220;<i><b>The root of Jesse will comeb>, <b>and the one who rises to rule over the Gentilesb>, <b>in him will the Gentiles hopeb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

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

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel<n id="1" /> of his Son, is my witness that<n id="2" /> I continually remember you

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being<n id="1" /> shown up as a liar,<n id="2" /> just as it is written: &#8220;<b><i>so that you will be justifiedi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>in your words and will prevail when you are judgedi>b>.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type<n id="1" /> of the coming one) transgressed.<n id="2" />

For if, by the transgression of the one man,<n id="1" /> death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!p>

So then,<n id="1" /> if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her<n id="2" /> husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

For God achieved what the law could not do because<n id="1" /> it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Moreover if the Spirit of the one<n id="1" /> who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ<n id="2" /> from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.<n id="3" />p>

But what does it say? &#8220;<i><b>The word is near youb>, <b>in your mouth and in your heartb>i>&#8221;<n id="1" /> (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord<n id="1" /> and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.