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When the people who lived there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but Justice[fn] won't let him live."

But he shook the snake into the fire and wasn't harmed.Mark 16:18; Luke 10:19;">[xr]

They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.Acts 14:11;">[xr]

But the Jews objected and forced me to appeal to the emperor, even though I have no countercharge to bring against my own people.Acts 25:11;">[xr]

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others wouldn't believe.Acts 14:4; 17:4; 19:9;">[xr]

He said,Isaiah 6:9; Jeremiah 5:21; Ezekiel 12:2; Matthew 13:14-15; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; John 12:40; Romans 11:8;">[xr] 'Go to this people and say, "You will listen and listen but never understand, and you will look and look but never see!

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.Acts 16:7; Romans 15:23; Philippians 4:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:18;">[xr]

Although they know God's just requirement - that those who practice such things deserve to die - they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.Psalm 50:18; Hosea 7:3; Romans 2:2; 6:21;">[xr]

But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.Deuteronomy 32:34; James 5:3;">[xr]

but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.Job 1:24:13; Romans 1:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;">[xr]

But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.1 Peter 1:7;">[xr]

For circumcision is valuable if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Galatians 5:3;">[xr]

The man who is uncircumcised physically but who keeps the law will condemn you who break the law, even though you have the written lawwhat is written">[fn] and circumcision.Matthew 12:41-42;">[xr]

But if our unrighteousness serves to confirm God's righteousness, what can we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his wrath on us, is he? (I am talking in human terms.)Romans 6:19; Galatians 3:15;">[xr]

But now, apart from the law, God's righteousness is revealed and is attested by the Law and the ProphetsJohn 5:46; Acts 15:11; 26:22; Romans 1:2,17; Philippians 3:9; Hebrews 11:4; 1 Peter 1:10;">[xr] -

What, then, is there to boast about? That has been eliminated. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on the principle of faith.Romans 2:17,23; 4:2; Romans 2:17,23, 1 Corinthians 1:29,31; Ephesians 2:9;">[xr]

Now to someone who works, wages are not considered a gift but an obligation.Romans 11:6;">[xr]

However, to someone who does not work, but simply believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.Joshua 24:2;">[xr]

Under what circumstances was it credited? Was he circumcised or uncircumcised? He had not been circumcised, but was uncircumcised.

He is also the ancestor of the circumcised - those who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.