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And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.

Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,and their backs be bent continually.

And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.

Yes, they were pleased, and indeed are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual benefits, then they are obligated to minister to them in material needs.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews and fellow prisoners. They are noteworthy in the eyes of the apostles, and they were also in Christ before me.

because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

For the unbelieving husband is made holy by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy by the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.

If any man thinks he is acting improperly toward the virgin he is engaged to, if she is getting beyond the usual age for marriage, and he feels he should marry—he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!

And if they were all the same part, where would the body be?

If, therefore, the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in other tongues and people who are outsiders or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

Whether, then, it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

Brothers and sisters, you know the household of Stephanas: They are the firstfruits of Achaia and have devoted themselves to serving the saints. I urge you