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Why that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if by works. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble,

Well said! They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand firm because of faith. Do not think arrogant thoughts, but be afraid.

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

For just as you formerly were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of the disobedience of these,

for it is God's servant to you for what is good. But if you do what is bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does what is bad.

Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are servants of God, busily engaged in this very thing.

And do this because you know the time, that it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we believed.

The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, because God has accepted him.

The one who is intent on the day is intent on it for the Lord, and the one who eats eats for the Lord, because he is thankful to God, and the one who does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and he is thankful to God.

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.

and that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, just as it is written, "Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name."

But I have written to you more boldly on some points, so as to remind you again because of the grace that has been given to me by God,

I give thanks to my God always concerning you, because of the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus,

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

Because of this, I have sent to you Timothy, who is my dear and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.