For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

If the first portion ¹  of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches. ² 

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.

If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad ¹  but the one I caused to be sad?

For even if I made you sad ¹  by my letter, ²  I do not regret having written it ³  (even though I did regret it, ⁴  for ⁵  I see that my letter made you sad, ⁶  though only for a short time).

and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” ¹  They replied, ²  “No, we have not even ³  heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

that ¹  the Christ ²  was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people ³  and to the Gentiles.” ⁴ 

For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? ¹  Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation? ² 

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, ¹  what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. ² 

Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless, indeed, you fail the test! ¹ 

For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God. ¹ 

And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, who is to come.

When ¹  they looked up, all they saw was Jesus alone.

If David then calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” ¹ 

They watched ¹  Jesus ²  closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, ³  so that they could accuse him.

Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more except Jesus.

Peter said to him, “Even if they all fall away, I will not!”