This means ¹  it is not the children of the flesh ²  who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

“And in the very place ¹  where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” ² 

So the person who resists such authority ¹  resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

But you who eat vegetables only – why do you judge your brother or sister? ¹  And you who eat everything – why do you despise your brother or sister? ²  For we will all stand before the judgment seat ³  of God.

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, ¹  it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

The faith ¹  you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

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

but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith –

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, ¹  who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

When I came ¹  to you, brothers and sisters, ²  I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony ³  of God.

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

The unbeliever ¹  does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, ¹  practicing homosexuals, ² 

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, ¹  whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!