Romans 1 - 3
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Paul, a a servant of Christ Jesus, b called to be an apostle, c set apart for the gospel of God,
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which d he promised beforehand e through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
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concerning his Son, f who was descended from David g according to the flesh
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and h was declared to be the Son of God i in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
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through whom j we have received grace and k apostleship l to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name m among all the nations,
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including you who are n called to belong to Jesus Christ,
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To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: o Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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First, p I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, q because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
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r For God is my witness, s whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, t that without ceasing I mention you
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always in my prayers, asking that somehow u by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
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For v I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you -
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that is, that we may be mutually encouraged w by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
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I want you to know, brothers, that x I have often intended to come to you (but y thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some z harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
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a I am under obligation both to Greeks and to b barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
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So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
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For d I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is e the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew f first and also to g the Greek.
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For in it h the righteousness of God is revealed i from faith for faith, j as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
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For k the wrath of God l is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
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For what can be m known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
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For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, n have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
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For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they o became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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p Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
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and q exchanged the glory of r the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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Therefore s God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to t the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
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because they exchanged the truth about God for u a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, v who is blessed forever! Amen.
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For this reason w God gave them up to x dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
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and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, y men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
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And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, z God gave them up to a a debased mind to do b what ought not to be done.
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They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
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slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
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foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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Though they know c God's decree that those who practice such things d deserve to die, they not only do them but e give approval to those who practice them.
Romans 2
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Therefore you have f no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For g in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
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We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.
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Do you suppose, O man - you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself - that you will escape the judgment of God?
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Or do you presume on h the riches of his kindness and i forbearance and j patience, k not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are l storing up m wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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n He will render to each one according to his works:
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to those who o by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
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but for those who are self-seeking and p do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
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There will be tribulation and distress q for every human being who does evil, the Jew r first and also the Greek,
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but glory and honor and s peace for everyone who does good, t the Jew first and also the Greek.
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For u God shows no partiality.
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For all who have sinned v without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
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For w it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
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For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, x by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
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They show that the work of the law is y written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
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z on that day when, a according to my gospel, God judges b the secrets of men c by Christ Jesus.
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But if you call yourself a Jew and d rely on the law and boast in God
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and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;
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and if you are sure that you yourself are e a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law f the embodiment of g knowledge and truth -
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h you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
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You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you i rob temples?
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You who j boast in the law k dishonor God by breaking the law.
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For, l as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed m among the Gentiles because of you."
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For circumcision indeed is of value n if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
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So, if o a man who is uncircumcised keeps p the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law q will condemn you who have r the written code and circumcision but break the law.
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For s no one is a Jew t who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.
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But a Jew is one u inwardly, and v circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. w His praise is not from man but from God.
Romans 3
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Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
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Much in every way. To begin with, x the Jews were entrusted with y the oracles of God.
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z What if some were unfaithful? a Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
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By no means! b Let God be true though c every one were a liar, as it is written,
d "That you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you e are judged."
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But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict f wrath on us? ( g I speak in a human way.)
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By no means! For then how could h God judge the world?
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But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, i why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
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And why not j do evil that good may come? - as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
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What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both k Jews and l Greeks, are m under sin,
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as it is written:
n "None is righteous, no, not one;
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no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
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All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one."
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o "Their throat is p an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive."
q "The venom of asps is under their lips."
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r "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
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s "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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in their paths are ruin and misery,
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and t the way of peace they have not known."
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u "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
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Now we know that whatever v the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, w so that every mouth may be stopped, and x the whole world may be held accountable to God.
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For y by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since z through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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But now a the righteousness of God b has been manifested apart from the law, although c the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it -
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the righteousness of God d through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. e For there is no distinction:
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for f all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
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g and are justified h by his grace as a gift, i through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
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whom God j put forward as k a propitiation l by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in m his divine forbearance he had passed over n former sins.
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It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
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o Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
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For we hold that one is justified by faith p apart from works of the law.
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Or q is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
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since r God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and s the uncircumcised through faith.
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Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
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Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes.
1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
Hebrews 5:4
And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
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Acts 13:2
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
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Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
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Romans 3:21
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it -
Romans 16:26
But has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith -
Luke 1:70
As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.
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Matthew 1:1
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
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Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law.
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Acts 13:33
This he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "'You are my Son, today I have begotten you.
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2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
Ephesians 1:19 - 20
And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
Philippians 3:10
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.
Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Acts 26:23
That the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.
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Romans 12:3
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Romans 15:15
But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
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Acts 1:25
To take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.
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Romans 6:16
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 16:26
But has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith -
1 Peter 1:2
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Romans 15:18
For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience - by word and deed.
Acts 6:7
And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
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Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
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Revelation 17:14
They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.
Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:30
And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
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1 Corinthians 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 1:4
I give thanks to my God always for you because ...
Ephesians 1:15 - 16
For this reason, because I have heard of your f...
Philippians 1:3
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you.
Colossians 1:3 - 4
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jes...
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God, that you who were once sl...
Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everyt...
2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, ...
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Romans 16:19
For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
1 Thessalonians 1:8
For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.
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Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all ...
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For we never came with words of flattery, as yo...
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and r...
Romans 9:1
I am speaking the truth in Christ - I am not ly...
2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God to witness against me - it was t...
2 Corinthians 11:10
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting ...
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is...
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Acts 24:14
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets.
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2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
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Romans 15:32
So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
As we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?
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Romans 15:22 - 23
This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
Acts 19:21
Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
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2 Peter 1:1
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
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Romans 15:22 - 23
This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
Acts 19:21
Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
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Romans 15:22
This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
1 Thessalonians 2:18
Because we wanted to come to you - I, Paul, again and again - but Satan hindered us.
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Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.
John 4:36
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
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1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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Acts 28:2
The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.
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Psalms 40:9 - 10
I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.
Mark 8:38
For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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Romans 2:9
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek.
Acts 3:26
God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.
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Mark 7:26
Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
John 7:35
The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
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Romans 3:21
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it -
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith -
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Romans 9:30
What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith.
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Galatians 3:11
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith.
Hebrews 10:38
But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
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Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
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Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 3:6
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
Romans 5:9
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
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Romans 2:5
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Romans 2:14 - 15
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
Acts 14:17
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.
Acts 17:24 - 27
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man.
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Psalms 19:1 - 6
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Jeremiah 5:21 - 22
Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
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2 Kings 17:15
They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says the Lord : "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
Ephesians 4:17 - 18
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
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Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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Psalms 106:20
They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Deuteronomy 4:16 - 18
Beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female.
Acts 17:29
Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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1 Timothy 1:17
To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Romans 1:26
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.
Romans 1:28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Ephesians 4:19
They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
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1 Thessalonians 4:4
That each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor.
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Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter".
Isaiah 44:19 - 20
No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
Amos 2:4
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false.
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Romans 9:5
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
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Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.
Romans 1:28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
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Leviticus 18:22
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
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Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.
Romans 1:26
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.
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Jeremiah 6:30
Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.
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Ephesians 5:4
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
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Romans 2:26
So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Romans 8:4
In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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Romans 6:21
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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Luke 11:48
So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
Acts 8:1
And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Acts 22:20
And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.
1 Corinthians 13:6
It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:12
In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Romans 1:20
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
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2 Samuel 12:5 - 7
Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die.
John 8:7
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.
Matthew 7:2
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
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Romans 9:23
In order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory -
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
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Romans 3:25
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
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Romans 9:22
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction.
Exodus 34:6
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
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Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 3:15
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.
Revelation 2:21
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
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Deuteronomy 32:34
'Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
James 5:3
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
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Psalms 110:5
The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
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Job 34:11
For according to the work of a man he will repa...
Psalms 62:12
And that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love...
Proverbs 24:12
If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," doe...
Jeremiah 17:10
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind,...
Jeremiah 32:19
Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes...
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is going to come with his an...
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Luke 8:15
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
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2 Thessalonians 2:12
In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
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1 Peter 4:17
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
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Isaiah 57:19
Creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near," says the Lord, "and I will heal him.
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Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
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Acts 10:34
So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality.
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1 Corinthians 9:21
To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
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James 1:22 - 23
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
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Romans 1:19
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
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Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Romans 3:6
By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Romans 14:10
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Acts 10:42
And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 17:31
Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
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Romans 16:25
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
2 Timothy 2:8
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel.
Galatians 1:11
For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.
1 Timothy 1:11
In accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
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Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
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Romans 16:25
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
1 Timothy 1:11
In accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
2 Timothy 2:8
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel.
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Romans 2:23
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
Micah 3:11
Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say, "Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.
Romans 9:4
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
John 5:45
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
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Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.
Matthew 23:16
"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
John 9:39 - 41
Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.
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2 Timothy 3:5
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
2 Timothy 1:13
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.
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Matthew 23:3 - 28
So practice and observe whatever they tell you - but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
Psalms 50:16 - 21
But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
Matthew 15:1 - 9
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said.
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Acts 19:37
For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess.
Malachi 3:8
Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions.
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Romans 2:17
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
Romans 3:27
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
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Malachi 1:6
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'
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Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
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2 Samuel 12:14
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.
Ezekiel 36:20
But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.
Ezekiel 36:23
And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
2 Peter 2:2
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
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Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
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Galatians 5:3
I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
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Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands -
Romans 3:30
Since God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
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Romans 1:32
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Romans 8:4
In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
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Romans 2:29
But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
Romans 7:6
But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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Romans 9:6 - 8
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
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Romans 2:17
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
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1 Peter 3:4
But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
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Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart...
Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will circumcise your hear...
Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord ; remove the ...
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart...
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the...
Colossians 2:11
In him also you were circumcised with a circumc...
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2 Corinthians 10:18
For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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Deuteronomy 4:8
And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Psalms 147:19 - 20
He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
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Acts 7:38
This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
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Romans 10:16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?
Hebrews 4:2
For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
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Romans 9:6
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful - for he cannot deny himself.
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John 8:26
I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.
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Psalms 62:9
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Psalms 116:11
I said in my alarm, "All mankind are liars.
Romans 3:7
But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
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Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
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Job 9:32
For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
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Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
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Romans 2:5
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Romans 6:19
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
1 Corinthians 9:8
Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
Galatians 3:15
To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.
1 Corinthians 15:32
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
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Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Romans 2:16
On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
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Romans 9:19
You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?
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Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
Romans 6:15
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
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Romans 2:1 - 29
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
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Romans 1:18 - 32
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
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Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 11:32
For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin"?
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Romans 3:10 - 12
As it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one.
Psalms 14:1 - 3
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
Psalms 53:1 - 3
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
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Psalms 14:1 - 3
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
Psalms 53:1 - 3
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
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Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.
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Psalms 140:3
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 140:3
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
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Psalms 10:7
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
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Psalms 10:7
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
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Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Romans 3:15 - 17
Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Isaiah 59:7 - 8
Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.
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Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 3:15 - 17
She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Isaiah 59:7 - 8
Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.
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Luke 1:79
To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Psalms 36:1
Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.
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Psalms 36:1
Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.
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John 10:34
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
John 15:25
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.
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Job 5:16
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her ...
Psalms 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swea...
Psalms 107:42
The upright see it and are glad, and all wicked...
Ezekiel 16:63
That you may remember and be confounded, and ne...
Romans 1:20
For his invisible attributes, namely, his etern...
Romans 2:1
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one ...
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Romans 3:9
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin.
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Galatians 2:16
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Acts 13:39
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
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Romans 7:7
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet.
Romans 4:15
For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
Romans 5:13
For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Romans 5:20
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.
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Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith.
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Romans 16:26
But has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith -
2 Timothy 1:10
And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
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Acts 10:43
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
Romans 1:2
Which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures.
John 5:46
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
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Romans 4:5
And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.
2 Timothy 3:15
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
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Romans 3:9
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin.
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Titus 3:7
So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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Romans 4:4 - 5
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Acts 15:11
But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.
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Ephesians 1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Colossians 1:14
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 9:15
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
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Ephesians 1:9
Making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
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1 John 2:2
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
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Romans 5:9
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
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Romans 2:4
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
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Romans 2:17
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the ...
Romans 2:23
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaki...
Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has s...
1 Corinthians 1:29 - 31
So that no human being might boast in the prese...
Ephesians 2:9
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
2 Timothy 1:9
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, n...
Acts 13:39
And by him everyone who believes is freed from ...
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James 2:18
But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
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Romans 9:24
Even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
Romans 15:9
And in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.
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Galatians 3:20
Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
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Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed.
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Romans 2:26
So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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