God in Romans

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   Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

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   and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

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   To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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   First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

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   God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you

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   in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.

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   I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

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   For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

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   The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

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    For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

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    For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

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    and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

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    Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

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    They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

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    For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

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    Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

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    slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

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    Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

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    And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

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    So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

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    Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

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    But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

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    For God does not show favoritism.

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    For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

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    on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.

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    Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

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    You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

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    As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

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    No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.

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    Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

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    What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?

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    Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

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    But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

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    Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

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    However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

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    There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

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    “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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    Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

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    But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

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    And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

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    for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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    God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

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    Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

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    since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

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    Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

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    If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.

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    For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

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    And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

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    As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

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    Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

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    Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

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    And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

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    But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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    For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

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    Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

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    But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

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    Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

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    We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

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    The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

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    So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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    Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

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    What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

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    But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

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    But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

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

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    Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

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    What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

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    Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

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    For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

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    Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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    For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

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    because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

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    Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

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    You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

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    For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

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    For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

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    The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

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    And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

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    The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.

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    that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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    And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

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    And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

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    What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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    Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

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    Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

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    neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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    the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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    Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

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    It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

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    So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

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    Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

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    What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

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    So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

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    But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

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    What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

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    and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

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    For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”

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    Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

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     For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

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     Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

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     that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

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     Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

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     I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

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     God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

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     And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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

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     I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

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     For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

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     Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

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     And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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     For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

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     Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,

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     For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

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     O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

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     Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

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     Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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     For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

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     Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

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     Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.

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     For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.

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     This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.

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     The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

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     Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

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     He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

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     If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

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     It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”

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     So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

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     For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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     For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

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     Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

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     Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

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     Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,

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     so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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     Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.

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     For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

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     so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”

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     Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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     However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me

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     to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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     Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

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     by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

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     Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.

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     so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.

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     The God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

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

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     but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—

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     to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.