Romans 11:18

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 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 shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

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,

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

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.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

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 say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

that no flesh should boast before God.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’ ”

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,