Romans 9:32

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

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

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

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

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

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

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

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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.

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

For many are called, but few chosen.”

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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

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

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.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

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

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

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.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

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

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

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

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.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.