Romans 2:27

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

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.”

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

For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

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.

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

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.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

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

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

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 Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

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.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.