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For if while being enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life;

Or are you ignorant that all who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, so also shall we be in the resurrection,

For the Law being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

But you are not in flesh, but in Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, this one is not His.

But if the Spirit of the One having raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One having raised the Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live through the indwelling of His Spirit in you.

because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.

Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up on behalf of us all, how will He not freely give all things to us with Him?

You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will?

But if God, desiring to demonstrate His wrath, and to make His power known, endured in much long-suffering vessels of wrath having been fitted out for destruction,

and that He make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He before prepared for glory,

I say then, Did not God thrust away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.

"God did not thrust away His people" whom He foreknew. Psa. 94:14 Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

O the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

"For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who became His counselor?" Isa. 40:13

Then "if one hostile to you hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head." Prov. 25:21, 22

Who are you judging another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

One indeed judges a day above another day; and another one judges every day alike . Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.

For let each one of us please his neighbor for good, to building up.

And again He says, "Rejoice, nations, with His people." Deut. 32:43