1 Corinthians 7:18

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.