Romans 9:1

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

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

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 coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

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

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

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.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

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

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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,

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

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,

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

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

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.