For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."
"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;
I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?"
It happened at midnight, that the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.
My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.
The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country."
Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country."
It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the LORD of Armies;
Thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of the LORD of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
the LORD of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For the LORD of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "the LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil."
You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
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