Romans 1 - 11
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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.
Romans 4
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What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, t our forefather according to the flesh?
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For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but u not before God.
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For what does the Scripture say? v "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
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Now w to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
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And to the one who does not work but x believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
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just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
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y "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
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blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not z count his sin."
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Is this blessing then only for a the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? b We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
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How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
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c He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was d to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
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and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
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For e the promise to Abraham and his offspring f that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
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g For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.
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For h the law brings wrath, but i where there is no law j there is no transgression.
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That is why it depends on faith, k in order that the promise may rest on grace and l 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, m who is the father of us all,
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as it is written, n "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, o who gives life to the dead and calls into existence p the things that do not exist.
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In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, q "So shall your offspring be."
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He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was r as good as dead ( s since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered t the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
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No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
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fully convinced that u God was able to do what he had promised.
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That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
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But v the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone,
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but for ours also. It will be counted to us w who believe in x him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
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y who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised z for our justification.
Romans 5
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a Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, b we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Through him we have also c obtained access by faith into this grace d in which we stand, and e we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
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More than that, we f rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering g produces endurance,
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and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
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and h hope does not put us to shame, because God's love i has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
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For j while we were still weak, at the right time k Christ died for the ungodly.
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For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die -
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but l God shows his love for us in that m while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Since, therefore, n we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from o the wrath of God.
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For if p while we were enemies q we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by r his life.
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More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received s reconciliation.
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Therefore, just as t sin came into the world through one man, and u death through sin, and v so death spread to all men because w all sinned -
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for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but x sin is not counted where there is no law.
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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not y like the transgression of Adam, z who was a type of a the one who was to come.
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But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for b many.
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And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For c the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought d justification.
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For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness e reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
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Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for f all men.
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For as by the one man's g disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's h obedience the many will be made righteous.
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Now i the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, j grace abounded all the more,
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so that, k as sin reigned in death, l grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6
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What shall we say then? m Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
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By no means! How can n we who died to sin still live in it?
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Do you not know that all of us o who have been baptized p into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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We were q buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as r Christ was raised from the dead by s the glory of the Father, we too might walk in t newness of life.
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For u if we have been united with him in v a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
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We know that w our old self x was crucified with him in order that y the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
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For z one who has died a has been set free from sin.
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Now b if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
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We know that c Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; d death no longer has dominion over him.
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For the death he died he died to sin, e once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
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So you also must consider yourselves f dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Let not g sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
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h Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but i present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
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For j sin k will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
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What then? l Are we to sin m because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
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Do you not know that if you present yourselves n 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?
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But o thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the p standard of teaching to which you were committed,
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and, q having been set free from sin, r have become slaves of righteousness.
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s I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For t just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members u as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
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v For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
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w But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things x of which you are now ashamed? y For the end of those things is death.
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But now that you z have been set free from sin and a have become slaves of God, b the fruit you get leads to sanctification and c its end, eternal life.
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d For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7
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Or do you not know, brothers - for I am speaking to those who know the law - that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
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For e a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
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Accordingly, f she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
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Likewise, my brothers, g you also have died h to the law i through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, j in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work k in our members l to bear fruit for death.
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But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the m new way of n the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
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What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, o I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if p the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
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But sin, q seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. r For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
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I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
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The very commandment s that promised life proved to be death to me.
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For sin, t seizing an opportunity through the commandment, u deceived me and through it killed me.
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So v the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
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For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, w sold under sin.
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For I do not understand my own actions. For x I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
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Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with y the law, that it is good.
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So now z it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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For I know that nothing good dwells a in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
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b For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
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Now if I do what I do not want, c it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
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For d I delight in the law of God, e in my inner being,
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but I see in my members f another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
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Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from g this body of death?
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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8
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There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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For the law of h the Spirit of life i has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
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For j God has done what the law, k weakened by the flesh, l could not do. m By sending his own Son n in the likeness of sinful flesh and o for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
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in order that p the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, q who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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For r those who live according to the flesh set their minds on s the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on t the things of the Spirit.
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For to set u the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
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For the mind that is set on the flesh is v hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; w indeed, it cannot.
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Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact x the Spirit of God dwells in you. y Anyone who does not have z the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
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But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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If the Spirit of a him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies b through his Spirit who dwells in you.
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So then, brothers, we are debtors, c not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you d put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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For all who are e led by the Spirit of God are f sons of God.
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For g you did not receive h the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of i adoption as sons, by whom we cry, j "Abba! Father!"
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k The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
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and if children, then l heirs - heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, m provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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For I consider that the sufferings of this present time n are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
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For the creation waits with eager longing for o the revealing of the sons of God.
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For the creation p was subjected to futility, not willingly, but q because of him who subjected it, in hope
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that r the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
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For we know that s the whole creation t has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
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And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have u the firstfruits of the Spirit, v groan inwardly as w we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, x the redemption of our bodies.
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For y in this hope we were saved. Now z hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
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But if we hope for what we do not see, we a wait for it with patience.
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Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For b we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but c the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
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And d he who searches hearts knows what is e the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit f intercedes for the saints g according to the will of God.
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And we know that for those who love God all things work together h for good, for i those who are called according to his purpose.
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For those whom he j foreknew he also k predestined l to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be m the firstborn among many brothers.
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And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also n justified, and those whom he justified he also o glorified.
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What then shall we say to these things? p If God is for us, who can be against us?
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q He who did not spare his own Son but r gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
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Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? s It is God who justifies.
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t Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died - more than that, who was raised - u who is at the right hand of God, v who indeed is interceding for us.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
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As it is written,
w "For your sake x we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
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No, in all these things we are more than y conquerors through z him who loved us.
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For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
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nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 9
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a I am speaking the truth in Christ - I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit -
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that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
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For b I could wish that I myself were c accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen d according to the flesh.
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They are e Israelites, and to them belong f the adoption, g the glory, h the covenants, i the giving of the law, j the worship, and k the promises.
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To them belong l the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ m who is God over all, n blessed forever. Amen.
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But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
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and not all are children of Abraham o because they are his offspring, but p "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
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This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but q the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
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For this is what the promise said: r "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son."
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And not only so, but s also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,
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though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad - in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of t him who calls -
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she was told, u "The older will serve the younger."
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As it is written, v "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
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What shall we say then? w Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!
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For he says to Moses, x "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
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So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, y "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
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So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
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You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For z who can resist his will?"
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But who are you, O man, a to answer back to God? b Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"
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c Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump d one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
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What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience e vessels of wrath f prepared for destruction,
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in order to make known g the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he h has prepared beforehand for glory -
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even us whom he i has called, j not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
25
As indeed he says in Hosea,
k "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,'
and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'"
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l "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
there they will be called m 'sons of the living God.'"
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And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: n "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, o only a remnant of them will be saved,
28
for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay."
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And as Isaiah predicted,
p q "If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
r we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah."
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What shall we say, then? s That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, t a righteousness that is by faith;
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but that Israel u who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness v did not succeed in reaching that law.
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Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the w stumbling stone,
33
as it is written,
x "Behold, I am laying in Zion y a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
z and whoever believes in him will not be a put to shame."
Romans 10
1
Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
2
For I bear them witness that b they have a zeal for God, c but not according to knowledge.
3
For, being ignorant of d the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
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For e Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5
For f Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that g the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
6
But h the righteousness based on faith says, i "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)
7
or "'Who will descend into the j abyss?'" (that is, k to bring Christ up from the dead).
8
But what does it say? l "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);
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because, if m you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and n believe in your heart o that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
11
For the Scripture says, p "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."
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q For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; r for the same Lord is Lord of all, s bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
13
For t "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
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How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him u of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear v without someone preaching?
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And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, w "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"
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But x they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, y "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?"
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So z faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
a "Their voice has gone out b to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world."
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But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,
c "I will d make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
with a e foolish nation I will make you angry."
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Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
f "I have been found by those who did not seek me;
I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me."
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But of Israel he says, g "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
Romans 11
1
I ask, then, h has God rejected his people? By no means! For i I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2
j God has not rejected his people whom he k foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
3
l "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."
4
But what is God's reply to him? m "I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
5
So too at the present time there is n a remnant, chosen by grace.
6
o But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7
What then? p Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest q were hardened,
8
as it is written,
r "God gave them a spirit of stupor,
s eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day."
9
And David says,
t "Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
10
let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and bend their backs forever."
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So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass u salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
12
Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
13
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as v I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
14
in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and w thus save some of them.
15
For if their rejection means x the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
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y If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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But if z some of the branches were broken off, and you, a although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,
18
do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
19
Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
20
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you b stand fast through faith. So c do not become proud, but d fear.
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For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, e provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise f you too will be cut off.
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And g even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
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For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.
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h Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: i a partial hardening has come upon Israel, j until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
k "The Deliverer will come l from Zion,
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob";
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"and this will be my m covenant with them
n when I take away their sins."
28
As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are o beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
29
For the gifts and p the calling of God are irrevocable.
30
For just as q you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
31
so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.
32
For God r has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
33
Oh, the depth of the riches and s wisdom and knowledge of God! t How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
34
"For u who has known the mind of the Lord,
or v who has been his counselor?"
35
"Or w who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?"
36
For x from him and through him and to him are all things. y To him be glory forever. Amen.
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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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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.
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1 Corinthians 1:31
So that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.
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Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised,...
Romans 4:22
That is why his faith was "counted to him as ri...
Galatians 3:6
Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was count...
James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abr...
Genesis 15:6
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to ...
Titus 3:8
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to in...
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Genesis 15:6
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
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Romans 11:6
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
Deuteronomy 9:4 - 5
Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.
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Romans 3:22
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
John 6:29
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.
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Psalms 32:1 - 2
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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Psalms 32:1 - 2
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
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Romans 3:30
Since God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
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Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
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Genesis 17:10 - 11
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
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Romans 4:12
And to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
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.
Romans 3:22
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Luke 19:9
And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
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Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to hi...
Hebrews 6:15
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obta...
Hebrews 6:17
So when God desired to show more convincingly t...
Hebrews 7:6
But this man who does not have his descent from...
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise...
Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered u...
Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the f...
Acts 13:32
And we bring you the good news that what God pr...
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Genesis 17:4 - 6
Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
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Galatians 3:17 - 18
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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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 7:10 - 25
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
2 Corinthians 3:7
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end.
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.
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Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
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Romans 3:24
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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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 15:8
For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs.
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Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Romans 4:18
In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be.
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Hebrews 11:19
He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
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1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.
Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
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Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Hebrews 11:12
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
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Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
Hebrews 11:19
He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
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Romans 15:4
For whatever was written in former days was wri...
1 Corinthians 9:9 - 10
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You sha...
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things took place as examples for us,...
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as an example...
2 Timothy 3:16 - 17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profit...
Psalms 102:18
Let this be recorded for a generation to come, ...
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Romans 10:9
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
1 Peter 1:21
Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
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Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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Romans 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time...
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we ...
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him u...
Isaiah 53:5 - 6
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he w...
Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served bu...
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us fro...
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Romans 5:18
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
1 Corinthians 15:17
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
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Romans 3:28
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
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Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Hebrews 12:28
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe.
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Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 3:12
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
Hebrews 10:19 - 20
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
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1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand.
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Romans 5:11
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
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Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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Luke 21:19
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
James 1:3
For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
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Psalms 119:116
Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
Philippians 1:20
As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
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Acts 2:17 - 18
'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
Acts 2:33
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
Titus 3:6
Whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
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Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Hosea 13:9
He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved -
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Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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Romans 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
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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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1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
Romans 1:18
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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Romans 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Colossians 1:21
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds.
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
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2 Corinthians 5:18 - 20
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:16
And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Colossians 1:20 - 21
And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
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2 Corinthians 4:10 - 11
Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
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Romans 11:15
For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
2 Corinthians 5:18 - 19
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
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Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and ev...
Genesis 3:6
So when the woman saw that the tree was good fo...
1 Corinthians 15:21 - 22
For as by a man came death, by a man has come a...
Romans 5:15 - 17
But the free gift is not like the trespass. For...
Romans 6:9
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead...
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in...
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Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
James 1:15
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Romans 5:21
So that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
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Ephesians 2:3
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
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Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
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1 Corinthians 15:45
Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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Matthew 11:3
And said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?
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Romans 5:19
For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
Isaiah 53:11
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
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1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
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Romans 5:18
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
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Revelation 22:5
And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
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John 12:32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.
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2 Corinthians 10:6
Being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
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Hebrews 5:8
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Philippians 2:8
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -
Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
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John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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Romans 6:15
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Romans 3:8
And why not do evil that good may come? - as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
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Romans 6:11
So you also must consider yourselves dead to si...
Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to th...
Romans 7:6
But now we are released from the law, having di...
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, so that ...
Colossians 2:20
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirit...
Colossians 3:3
For you have died, and your life is hidden with...
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tre...
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Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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Colossians 2:12
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
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Romans 6:9
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Romans 8:11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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John 11:40
Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?
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.
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2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Ephesians 4:23 - 24
And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds.
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
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.
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2 Corinthians 4:10
Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
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Philippians 3:10 - 11
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.
Colossians 2:12
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 3:1
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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Ephesians 4:22
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
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Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
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1 Peter 4:1
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
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Romans 6:18
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
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2 Timothy 2:11
The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him.
2 Corinthians 4:10
Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
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.
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Acts 13:34
And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, "'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.
Revelation 1:18
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
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Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Romans 5:17
For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 7:27
He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
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Romans 6:2
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Psalms 19:13
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
Psalms 119:133
Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
Micah 7:19
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
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Romans 7:5
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 4:2
So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
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Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
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Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
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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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Romans 6:20
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
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Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
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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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Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 6:7
For one who has died has been set free from sin.
John 8:32
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
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Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? ( I speak in a human way.)
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Romans 6:13
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
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1 Corinthians 9:27
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
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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?
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Romans 7:5
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
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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 8:6
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Romans 6:18
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
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1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
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Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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1 Peter 1:9
Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
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Romans 2:7
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -
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1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
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Matthew 5:32
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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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.
Romans 6:2
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Ephesians 2:15
By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace.
Colossians 2:14
By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
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Ephesians 2:16
And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Colossians 1:22
He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.
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Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
Ephesians 5:9
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true).
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Romans 6:13
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
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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.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
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Romans 2:27
Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
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.
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 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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Romans 13:9
For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Deuteronomy 5:21
"'And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
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Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Deuteronomy 5:21
"'And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
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Romans 7:11
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
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1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
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Romans 7:8
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
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Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Psalms 19:8 - 9
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 119:137
Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your rules.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
Romans 7:16
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
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1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
1 Kings 21:25
( There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
2 Kings 17:17
And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus says the Lord : "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the Lord : "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
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Romans 7:18 - 19
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Galatians 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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1 Timothy 1:8
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully.
Romans 7:12
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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Romans 7:20
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 8:21
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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Romans 7:15
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
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Romans 7:17
So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 112:1
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
Psalms 119:35
Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.
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2 Corinthians 4:16
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Ephesians 3:16
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being.
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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Galatians 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
James 4:1
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
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Romans 6:6
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 8:23
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
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1 Corinthians 15:45
Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:18
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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Hebrews 10:1 - 2
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Hebrews 10:10
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:14
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
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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Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Hebrews 7:18
For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
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Hebrews 10:6
In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
Hebrews 10:8
When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law).
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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.
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Philippians 2:7
But made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Leviticus 16:5
And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
Hebrews 10:6
In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
Hebrews 10:8
When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law).
Hebrews 13:11
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
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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 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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Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
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Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Galatians 5:19 - 21
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.
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Galatians 5:22 - 23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
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Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.
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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James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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Romans 8:11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Timothy 1:14
By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
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Jude 1:19
It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
John 14:17
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
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Acts 16:7
And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
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Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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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 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
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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.
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Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spiri...
Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager longing for t...
Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the f...
Romans 9:26
"And in the very place where it was said to the...
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shal...
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall ...
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in...
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1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
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2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
Hebrews 2:15
And deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
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Romans 8:23
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Galatians 4:5
To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
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.
Isaiah 56:5
I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Jeremiah 31:9
With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
Mark 14:36
And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.
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2 Corinthians 1:22
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
2 Corinthians 5:5
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Ephesians 1:13 - 14
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
1 John 3:24
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
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Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 4:7
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
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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2 Corinthians 1:7
Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us.
Acts 14:22
Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
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2 Corinthians 4:17
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.
1 Peter 1:5 - 6
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
1 Peter 5:1
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Romans 2:7
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
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Genesis 3:18 - 19
Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
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Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
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Acts 3:21
Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
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Mark 16:15
And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
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Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end.
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.
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2 Corinthians 5:5
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
James 1:18
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened - not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Isaiah 25:9
It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord ; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Galatians 5:5
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
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Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Luke 21:28
Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
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2 Corinthians 4:18
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
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Matthew 20:22
Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" They said to him, "We are able.
James 4:3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Ephesians 6:18
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.
John 14:16
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on hi...
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your f...
Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord ; ho...
Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is ...
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, w...
Jeremiah 17:10
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind,...
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, "You are those who justify...
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But just as we have been approved by God to be ...
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Romans 8:6
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
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Romans 8:34
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died - more than that, who was raised - who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
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1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
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Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, "The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
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Romans 9:24
Even us whom he has called, not from the Jews o...
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom you were called into t...
1 Corinthians 7:15
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let i...
1 Corinthians 7:17
Only let each person lead the life that the Lor...
Galatians 1:15
But when he who had set me apart before I was b...
Galatians 5:8
This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you ...
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit - just as you ...
2 Timothy 1:9
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, n...
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Romans 11:2
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
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.
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1 Corinthians 2:7
But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Ephesians 1:5
He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.
Ephesians 1:11
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.
Romans 9:23
In order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory -
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Philippians 3:21
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
1 Corinthians 15:49
Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
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Colossians 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Hebrews 1:6
And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
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1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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John 17:22
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
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Numbers 14:9
Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.
2 Kings 6:16
He said, "Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.
Psalms 118:6
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
1 John 4:4
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
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Isaiah 50:8 - 9
He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Revelation 12:10 - 11
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
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Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Mark 16:19
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
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Hebrews 7:25
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Romans 8:27
And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
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Psalms 44:22
Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
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1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
1 Corinthians 15:30 - 31
Why are we in danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 4:10 - 11
Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
Acts 20:24
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
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Psalms 44:22
Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
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1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
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Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Revelation 3:9
Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie - behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you.
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2 Corinthians 11:10
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
1 Timothy 2:7
For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle ( I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
2 Corinthians 12:19
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Galatians 1:20
(In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you
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Exodus 32:32
But now, if you will forgive their sin - but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.
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1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
Galatians 1:8 - 9
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
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Romans 11:14
In order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
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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.
Romans 2:28 - 29
For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.
Galatians 6:16
And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
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Exodus 4:22
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son.
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!
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Exodus 40:34
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
1 Samuel 4:21
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Kings 8:11
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
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Genesis 17:2
That I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.
Deuteronomy 29:14
It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant.
Galatians 4:24
Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
Ephesians 2:12
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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Deuteronomy 4:14
And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Psalms 147:19
He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
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Hebrews 9:1
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.
Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
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Ephesians 2:12
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Acts 13:32
And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers.
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Romans 11:28
As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
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Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Colossians 1:16 - 19
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things were created through him and for him.
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Romans 1:25
Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
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Galatians 4:23
But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
John 8:33
They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, 'You will become free'?
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Hebrews 11:18
Of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
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Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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Galatians 4:23
But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
Galatians 4:28
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Genesis 25:21
And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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Romans 4:17
As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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.
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Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.
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Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.
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Malachi 1:2 - 3
I have loved you," says the Lord. But you say, "How have you loved us?" "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the Lord. "Yet I have loved Jacob
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Malachi 1:2 - 3
I have loved you," says the Lord. But you say, "How have you loved us?" "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the Lord. "Yet I have loved Jacob
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:10
Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
Psalms 92:15
To declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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Exodus 33:19
And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The Lord.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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Exodus 33:19
And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The Lord.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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Exodus 9:16
But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
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Exodus 9:16
But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
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2 Chronicles 20:6
And said, "O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?
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Job 33:13
Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'?
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Isaiah 29:16
You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
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Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Jeremiah 18:6
O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
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2 Timothy 2:20
Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.
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Romans 9:21
Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
Romans 9:23
In order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory -
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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Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
1 Peter 2:8
And "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
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Ephesians 3:16
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being.
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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Romans 8:29
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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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.
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Romans 3:29
Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also.
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Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God.
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Romans 8:14
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God.
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Isaiah 10:22 - 23
For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God.
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Romans 11:5
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
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Isaiah 10:22 - 23
For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
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Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
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James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
Jeremiah 49:18
As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.
Jeremiah 50:40
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
Amos 4:11
I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
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Romans 10:20
Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, "I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.
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Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed ...
Romans 3:21 - 22
But now the righteousness of God has been manif...
Romans 10:6
But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do ...
Galatians 2:16
Yet we know that a person is not justified by w...
Galatians 3:24
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ ...
Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having a righteousness...
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning e...
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Romans 10:2 - 3
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened.
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Galatians 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
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1 Peter 2:8
And "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
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1 Peter 2:6 - 7
For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
Psalms 118:22
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
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Isaiah 8:14
And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Romans 10:11
For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.
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Isaiah 49:23
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord ; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.
Joel 2:26 - 27
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
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Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
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Acts 21:20
And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law.
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Romans 9:31
But that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
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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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Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Galatians 3:24
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
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Leviticus 18:5
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
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Nehemiah 9:29
And you warned them in order to turn them back ...
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my statutes and made known to them ...
Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in ...
Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against me. They did ...
Matthew 19:17
And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about wh...
Luke 10:28
And he said to him, "You have answered correctl...
Galatians 3:12
But the law is not of faith, rather "The one wh...
Romans 7:10
The very commandment that promised life proved ...
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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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Deuteronomy 30:12 - 13
It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?
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Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
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Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant.
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Deuteronomy 30:14
But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.
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Deuteronomy 30:14
But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.
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Matthew 10:32
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 12:8
And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God.
1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
Philippians 2:11
And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Acts 16:31
And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.
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1 Peter 1:21
Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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Romans 9:33
As it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
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Romans 3:22
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Romans 3:29
Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also.
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Acts 10:36
As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ ( he is Lord of all).
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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 2:21
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Joel 2:32
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
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Joel 2:32
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
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Ephesians 4:21
Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.
John 9:36
He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?
John 17:20
I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word.
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Acts 8:31
And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
Titus 1:3
And at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior.
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Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns.
Nahum 1:15
Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
Ephesians 6:15
And, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.
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Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns.
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Romans 3:3
What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
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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John 12:38
So that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Isaiah 53:1
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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Isaiah 53:1
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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Galatians 3:2
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Galatians 3:5
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith -
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Psalms 19:4
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun.
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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Mark 16:15
And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
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Psalms 19:4
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun.
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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Romans 11:11
So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
Romans 11:14
In order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
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Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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Isaiah 65:1
I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
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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Isaiah 65:1
I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
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Isaiah 65:2
I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices.
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Isaiah 65:2
I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices.
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1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
Jeremiah 31:37
Thus says the Lord : "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 33:24
Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The Lord has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
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2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.
Philippians 3:5
Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee.
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Psalms 94:14
For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage.
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Romans 8:29
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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1 Kings 19:10
He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 19:14
He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
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1 Kings 19:10
He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 19:14
He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
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1 Kings 19:18
Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.
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1 Kings 19:18
Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.
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Romans 9:27
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved.
Jeremiah 3:14
Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord ; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Zechariah 13:8
In the whole land, declares the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.
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Romans 4:4
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
Deuteronomy 9:4 - 5
Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.
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Romans 9:31
But that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
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Romans 11:25
Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).
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Deuteronomy 29:4
But to this day the Lord has not given you a he...
Isaiah 43:8
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have ey...
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who ...
Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebelli...
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding, alien...
Matthew 13:14
Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is...
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Psalms 69:22 - 23
Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.
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Psalms 69:22 - 23
Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.
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Acts 28:28
Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.
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Romans 15:16
To be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Acts 26:17
Delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles - to whom I am sending you
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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1 Corinthians 7:16
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
1 Timothy 4:16
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
James 5:20
Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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Romans 5:11
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
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Numbers 15:18 - 21
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you
Nehemiah 10:37
And to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.
Ezekiel 44:30
And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house.
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Jeremiah 11:16
The Lord once called you 'a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.' But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.
Psalms 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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Ephesians 2:12
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
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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 12:16
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
1 Timothy 6:17
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
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Proverbs 28:14
Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
Isaiah 66:2
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Isaiah 66:5
Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
Jeremiah 44:10
They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.
Philippians 2:12
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
Hebrews 3:14
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
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John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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2 Corinthians 3:16
But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
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Romans 12:16
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
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2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened.
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Revelation 7:9
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Isaiah 59:20 - 21
And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression," declares the Lord.
John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Hebrews 8:8 - 12
For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
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Psalms 14:7
Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Psalms 53:6
Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
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Isaiah 59:20 - 21
And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression," declares the Lord.
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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.
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Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.
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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.
Deuteronomy 7:8
But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
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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.
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Ephesians 2:2 - 3
In which you once walked, following the course ...
Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentile...
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far o...
Colossians 1:21
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in...
Colossians 3:7
In these you too once walked, when you were liv...
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient...
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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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Colossians 2:3
In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Psalms 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
Ephesians 3:10
So that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
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Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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Isaiah 40:13
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
Job 15:8
Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Job 36:22 - 23
Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
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Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 41:11
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
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1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
1 Corinthians 11:12
For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.
Colossians 1:16
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things were created through him and for him.
Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
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Romans 16:27
To the only wise God be glory forevermore throu...
Ephesians 3:21
To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jes...
Philippians 4:20
To our God and Father be glory forever and ever...
1 Timothy 1:17
To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the o...
1 Peter 4:11
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of Go...
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord...
Jude 1:25
To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Chri...
Revelation 1:6
And made us a kingdom, priests to his God and F...
Revelation 5:13
And I heard every creature in heaven and on ear...
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