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Romans · read by John Piper
229 verses, in order. Only the verses John read aloud are shown.
Romans 1
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regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,Read from ESV · Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans
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Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.Read from ESV · God’s Passion for His Glory and His Love for You
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God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember youRead from ESV · Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ--together
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in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God's will I may succeed in coming to you.Read from ESV · Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ--together
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For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,Read from ESV · God Strengthens Us by the Gospel
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that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.Read from ESV · Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ--together
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That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.Read from NASB1995 · Gravity and Gladness on Sunday Morning - Lesson 3b
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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.Read from ESV · God's Wrath: Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay, Says the Lord
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For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.Read from ESV · Let the Nations Be Glad - Part 1
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For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.Read from ESV · Holy Ambition to Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
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For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.Read from ESV · Holy Ambition to Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
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Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,Read from ESV · Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task
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Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
Romans 2
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Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you to repentance?Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.Read from ESV · Battling the Unbelief of Impatience
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.Read from ESV · Six Truths About God’s Wrath
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There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;Read from ESV · Rejected His People? - Part 3
Romans 3
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But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.Read from ESV · God's Wrath: Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay, Says the Lord
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Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?Read from ESV · God's Wrath: Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay, Says the Lord
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Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.Read from ESV · How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners？
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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.Read from ESV · The Doctrine of Justification
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But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt
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And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,Read from ESV · Endurance： How to Keep Going
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and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Read from ESV · Endurance： How to Keep Going
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God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of God in the Use of Your Mind
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He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.Read from ESV · The Glory of God and Why We Sing
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For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.Read from NASB1995 · Battling Unbelief - Part 2
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since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.Read from ESV · Ten Ways to Pursue Ethnic Harmony in Your Church
Romans 4
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If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.Read from ESV · The Doctrine of Justification
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For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."Read from ESV · Called-Justifed
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Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.Read from ESV · Endurance： How to Keep Going
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However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.Read from ESV · How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners？
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"Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.Read from ESV · How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners？
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Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."Read from ESV · How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners？
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For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.Read from NASB1995 · How You Can Know You’re a Child of God
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For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,Read from ESV · Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
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because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.Read from ESV · Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
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As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.Read from ESV · Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
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Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."Read from ESV · Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
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Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah's womb.Read from ESV · Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
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Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,Read from ESV · Called-Justifed
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being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.Read from ESV · Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
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This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."Read from ESV · Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
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Now the words "it was credited to him" were written not only for Abraham,Read from ESV · Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
Romans 5
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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,Read from ESV · The Key to Simultaneous Sorrow and Joy
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through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.Read from ESV · How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
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Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;Read from ESV · How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
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perseverance, character; and character, hope.Read from NKJV · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 4
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And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.Read from ESV · How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
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For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.Read from ESV · How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
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Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.Read from ESV · How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
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But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.Read from ESV · How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
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Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!Read from ESV · Christ Has Purchased Global Praise
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For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!Read from ESV · God Raised Your Great Shepherd From the Dead
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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!Read from ESV · The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands
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So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.Read from ESV · Let the Nations Be Glad - Part 1
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For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,Read from ESV · God is the Gospel - Part 3
Romans 6
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What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?Read from ESV · God is the Gospel - Part 3
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.Read from ESV · Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans
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Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.Read from NASB1995 · Desiring God - Lesson 4
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For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.Read from ESV · Sex and the Single Person
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Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?Read from ESV · Sex and the Single Person
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For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.Read from ESV · The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life
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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.Read from ESV · Joy and Rejoicing Under Persecution by the State
Romans 7
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So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.Read from ESV · Pressing Through Texts in the Power of the Spirit
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For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.Read from ESV · Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ - Part 4
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So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.Read from ESV · The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life
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What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?Read from ESV · Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ
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Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.Read from ESV · The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life
Romans 8
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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.Read from ESV · The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life
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For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.Read from NKJV · If My Words Abide in You
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For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,Read from NASB1995 · If My Words Abide in You
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so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.Read from ESV · If My Words Abide in You
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Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.Read from NASB1995 · That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit
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You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.Read from ESV · Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans
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But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.Read from ESV · Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans
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And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.Read from ESV · Creation Is Groaning
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Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.Read from ESV · Creation Is Groaning
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For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Read from ESV · If My Words Abide in You
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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.Read from ESV · How You Can Know You’re a Child of God
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For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"Read from ESV · How You Can Know You’re a Child of God
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The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
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I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.Read from NASB1995 · Suffering for the Sake of the Body - Lesson 3
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The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth
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For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hopeRead from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
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that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth
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We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.Read from ESV · The Supremacy of Christ and the Sorrow of Calamity
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Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.Read from ESV · How You Can Know You’re a Child of God
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For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?Read from ESV · The Supremacy of Christ and the Sorrow of Calamity
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But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.Read from ESV · The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Video)
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And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.Read from ESV · If My Words Abide in You
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For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.Read from NKJV · Are You Sure You’re Called to Stay？
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What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?Read from ESV · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 4
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He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?Read from NASB1995 · A Service of Sorrow (World Trade Center Response)
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Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.Read from ESV · The Ascent of Joy
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?Read from NKJV · Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part Three
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As it is written: "For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."Read from NASB1995 · A Service of Sorrow (World Trade Center Response)
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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.Read from NASB1995 · A Service of Sorrow (World Trade Center Response)
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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,Read from NASB1995 · A Service of Sorrow (World Trade Center Response)
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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Read from ESV · If My Words Abide in You
Romans 9
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I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.Read from ESV · Learning from the Bible’s Songbook
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Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's plan of election might stand,Read from ESV · Let Grace Be Grace - Part 2
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not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, "The older will serve the younger."Read from ESV · For Gods Sake Let Grace be Grace
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So then, it does not depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.Read from ESV · The Rest Were Hardened - Part 4
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth."Read from ESV · Rejected His People？ - Part 1
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One of you will say to me, "Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?"Read from ESV · The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell (Video)
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But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, "Why did You make me like this?"Read from ESV · The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell (Video)
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Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?Read from ESV · The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell (Video)
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What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?Read from ESV · The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell
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What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—Read from ESV · The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell
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but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.Read from NASB1995 · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 2
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Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,Read from NASB1995 · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 2
Romans 10
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Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.Read from ESV · The Gospel Shaped Mind
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For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.Read from ESV · How to Submit to the Righteousness of God
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Because they were ignorant of God's righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.Read from ESV · How to Submit to the Righteousness of God
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For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.Read from ESV · How to Submit to the Righteousness of God
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or, 'Who will descend into the Abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."Read from ESV · Believe in Your Heart That God Raised Jesus From the Dead
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But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:Read from ESV · A Matter of Life & Death
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that if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.Read from ESV · Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
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for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."Read from ESV · How Shall People Come to Faith in Christ?
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How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?Read from NKJV · How Shall People Come to Faith in Christ?
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Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.Read from NASB1995 · How Shall People Come to Faith in Christ?
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But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."Read from NASB1995 · How Shall People Come to Faith in Christ?
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I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding."Read from NASB1995 · How Shall People Come to Faith in Christ?
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But as for Israel he says: "All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."Read from NASB1995 · How Shall People Come to Faith in Christ?
Romans 11
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"Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well" ?Read from ESV · Let Grace Be Grace - Part 1
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And what was the divine reply to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."Read from ESV · Elijah’s Battle with the Prophets of Baal
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In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.Read from ESV · Rejected His People? - Part 3
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And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.Read from ESV · Let Grace Be Grace - Part 2
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What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,Read from ESV · The Rest Were Hardened - Part 4
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as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day."Read from ESV · The Rest Were Hardened - Part 2
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And David says: "May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.Read from ESV · The Rest Were Hardened - Part 2
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May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."Read from ESV · The Rest Were Hardened - Part 2
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so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.Read from ESV · Rejected His People？ - Part 2
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For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.Read from ESV · Rejected His People？ - Part 2
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O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!Read from NASB1995 · Battling Unbelief
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"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?"Read from NASB1995 · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 1
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For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.Read from NASB1995 · Living by Faith in Future Grace - Lesson 1
Romans 12
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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.Read from ESV · The Renewed Mind and How to Have It
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For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.Read from ESV · Bless Those Who Persecute You
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so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.Read from ESV · Bible Reading Has Been My Life
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We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one's gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;Read from ESV · Bible Reading Has Been My Life
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if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;Read from ESV · Bible Reading Has Been My Life
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if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.Read from ESV · Bible Reading Has Been My Life
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Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part One
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Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.Read from ESV · Live Peaceably With All, if Possible
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Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.Read from ESV · Do Not Avenge Yourselves, but Give Place to Wrath
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If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord."Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
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On the contrary, "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head."Read from ESV · Live Peaceably With All, if Possible
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Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.Read from ESV · Christ Overcame Evil With Good, Do the Same
Romans 13
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Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.Read from ESV · The Limits of Submission to Man
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Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.Read from ESV · Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part Two
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For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.Read from ESV · Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part Three
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For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God's servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.Read from ESV · Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part Two
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Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.Read from ESV · Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part Four
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This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God's servants, who devote themselves to their work.Read from NASB1995 · Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part One
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Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.Read from ESV · Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part Two
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Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part Two
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The commandments "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part Two
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Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part Two
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And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.Read from ESV · Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part One
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Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.Read from ESV · Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part One
Romans 14
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Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.Read from ESV · How to Welcome a Weak Brother
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For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.Read from ESV · Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
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The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.Read from ESV · Is There a 'Lord's Day'?
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Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.Read from ESV · Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
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One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.Read from ESV · Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
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He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.Read from ESV · Is There a 'Lord's Day'?
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For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.Read from ESV · Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
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If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.Read from ESV · Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
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For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.Read from ESV · Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
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I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
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But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.Read from ESV · The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
Romans 15
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For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.Read from ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.Read from ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God's truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) Let All the Peoples Praise Him
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so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: "Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name."Read from ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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Again, it says: "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people."Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) Let All the Peoples Praise Him
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And again: "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples."Read from NASB1995 · (Education for Exultation) Let All the Peoples Praise Him
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And once more, Isaiah says: "The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope."Read from ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.Read from ESV · Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.Read from ESV · A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People
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However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given meRead from ESV · A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People
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to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.Read from ESV · A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People
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Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.Read from ESV · A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People
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I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,Read from ESV · Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task
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In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation.Read from ESV · Holy Ambition to Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
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Rather, as it is written: "Those who were not told about Him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."Read from ESV · Let the Nations Be Glad - Part 1
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That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.Read from ESV · Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task
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But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you,Read from ESV · Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ--together
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I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.Read from ESV · Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5
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Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,Read from ESV · Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ--together
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so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.Read from ESV · Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ--together
Romans 16
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I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea.Read from ESV · Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk Takers for Christ
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Welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her with anything she may need from you. For she has been a great help to many people, including me.Read from ESV · Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk Takers for Christ
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Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,Read from ESV · Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk Takers for Christ
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who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.Read from ESV · Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk Takers for Christ
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Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.Read from ESV · Carry My Love to My Beloved
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Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.Read from ESV · Carry My Love to My Beloved
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Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.Read from ESV · Marriage Is Meant for Making Children Disciples of Jesus, Part 1
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Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them.Read from ESV · Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk Takers for Christ
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Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them.Read from ESV · Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk Takers for Christ
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Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.Read from ESV · Boiling for Christ
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to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.Read from ESV · God Strengthens Us by the Gospel