\v 25 Now God is able to strengthen you spiritually by my proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ, which God did not reveal in any age before our own time.
\v 26 But now God has made it known by means of what the scriptures said would happen—so that all the people in all the nations of the world may believe in Christ and obey him.
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\v 27 May God, who alone is wise, be praised forever because of what Jesus Christ has done for us. May it be so!
\v 11 We know this because God's words are written in the scriptures:
\q "I myself promise you that everyone will bow down before me,
\q and everyone will praise me."
From Bob and Susan. Tom
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.
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