Romans 1:5

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

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

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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,