from Bob Johnson,
\v 3 What we could not do through the law, God did. We could not stop sinning by following the law because of our sinful human nature. But God sent his own Son, who became human like us except he never sinned. He was punished for our sin like an offering for sin, and in that way he broke the power of sin in our lives.
Thanks,
Tom
\v 15 If someone is joyful, you should rejoice with them. If someone is sad, you should be sad with them.
to keep the antecedent in line per Bob, concur Susan
\v 19 Maybe you will say to me, "God rejected the Jews in the same way that people break bad branches off a tree and throw them away, and he has done this in order that he might accept us Gentiles, in the same way that people put branches of a wild olive tree into the trunk of a good tree."
From Bob, Susan,
Tom
\v 7 So though the people of Israel hoped for the things that God had promised, most of them did not receive those things. Only those whom God had chosen received them. But the rest of the people of Israel became stubborn.
Tom
and 9:27
\v 5 In the same way, at the present time there is a small portion of Jews who are faithful to God. This is because God acts kindly and has chosen them.
"small group" = remnant
\v 12 Therefore, my fellow believers, we have an obligation; but our obligation is not to live according to what our sinful human nature wants us to do.
sinful human nature regularized in the following:
8:9
8:13
13:14
\v 17 Moses recorded that God had told Pharaoh, "This is why I made you king of Egypt: It was so I might fight against you and everyone in the world will know how great I am."
Bob and Susan by Tom
\v 4 They, like me, are Israelites. God chose them to be his children. It is to them that he showed how wonderful he is. It is with them that he made the covenants. It is to them that he gave the law. They are the ones whom he taught to worship him in the right way. They are the ones to whom God promised many things.
v 35 Absolutely no one and nothing can cause Christ to stop loving us—even if someone afflicts us, or even someone harms us, or even if we have nothing to eat, or even if we do not have enough clothes, or even if we live in a dangerous situation, or even if someone will kill us!
Thanks to Bob and Susan
\v 28 And we know that for those who love God, he works out all things that happen to them in a way that does **them** good. He does this for those whom he has chosen, because that was what he planned to do.
\v 22 You who command people not to sleep with someone to whom they are not married, it is disgusting that you commit adultery yourself! You who command others not to worship idols, it is disgusting that you rob the temples where people worship those idols.
\v 28 They shouted, "Men of Israel, help us to stop this man! He is the man who goes around everywhere teaching people to oppose our people, the Law of Moses, and this temple. He has even brought Gentiles here into our temple, making this place unholy!"
\v 27 So now people may see our idol business as dishonorable. Not only that, but they might reject the temple of the great goddess Artemis as a place that has no meaning at all and they might forget her, even though many people in the province of Asia and all over the world worship her.
From Bob and Susan
\v 14 We all fell to the ground. Then I heard the voice of someone speaking to me in the Hebrew language.
\p "He said, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You only hurt yourself when you fight against me."
\v 10 The argument became so great that the Pharisees and Sadducees began to fight with one another. Seeing this, the commander of the Roman soldiers was afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces, so he told the men under his command to go down to the place where Paul was, and to take a number of soldiers who could be able to safely bring him from there and to take him to the place where the soldiers were staying.
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