Romans 4:16

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

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

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into 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.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

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.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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.”

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

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

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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

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

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

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.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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.

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

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.

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,

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.

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;

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

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

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.