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Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,

so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.

Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of that wrath, but also because of conscience.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

For if because of food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me by God

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

But a natural man does not accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined.

each man's work will become evident, for the day will indicate it because it is revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

I think then that this is good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.