Study Desk

What should we say? Should we keep on sinning, so that God's wonderful kindness will show up even better?

When we were baptized, we died and were buried with Christ. We were baptized, so that we would live a new life, as Christ was raised to life by the glory of God the Father.

We know that the persons we used to be were nailed to the cross with Jesus. This was done, so that our sinful bodies would no longer be the slaves of sin.

I am using these everyday examples, because in some ways you are still weak. You used to let the different parts of your body be slaves of your evil thoughts. But now you must make every part of your body serve God, so that you will belong completely to him.

That is how it is with you, my friends. You are now part of the body of Christ and are dead to the power of the Law. You are free to belong to Christ, who was raised to life so that we could serve God.

He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.

and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so that his Son would be the first of many children.

In the Scriptures the Lord says to Pharaoh of Egypt, "I let you become Pharaoh, so that I could show you my power and be praised by all people on earth."

Then David said, "Turn their meals into bait for a trap, so that they will stumble and be given what they deserve.

Maybe you think those branches were cut away, so that you could be put in their place.

The people of Israel are treated as God's enemies, so that the good news can come to you Gentiles. But they are still the chosen ones, and God loves them because of their famous ancestors.

All people have disobeyed God, and that's why he treats them as prisoners. But he does this, so that he can have mercy on all of them.

This is because Christ died and rose to life, so that he would be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

so that the Gentiles would praise God for being kind to them. It is just as the Scriptures say, "I will tell the nations about you, and I will sing praises to your name."

He chose me to be a servant of Christ Jesus for the Gentiles and to do the work of a priest in the service of his good news. God did this so that the Holy Spirit could make the Gentiles into a holy offering, pleasing to him.

In fact, all I will talk about is how Christ let me speak and work, so that the Gentiles would obey him.

but now at last it has been told. The eternal God commanded his prophets to write about the good news, so that all nations would obey and have faith.

No, he wasn't! He was talking about us. This was written in the Scriptures so that all who plow and all who grind the grain will look forward to sharing in the harvest.

I am not anyone's slave. But I have become a slave to everyone, so that I can win as many people as possible.

It will happen suddenly, quicker than the blink of an eye. At the sound of the last trumpet the dead will be raised. We will all be changed, so that we will never die again.