Romans 15:8

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

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

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.”

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

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

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

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

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

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

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.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

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

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

“Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day.

I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

and having a great priest over God’s house,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

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.

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

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

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.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

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.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.