Why do you people ¹  think ²  it is unbelievable ³  that ⁴  God raises the dead?

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? ¹  It is God who justifies.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. ¹ 

I planted, ¹  Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

But it is God who establishes ¹  us together with you in Christ and who anointed us, ² 

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! ¹ 

Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is one. ¹ 

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

For we never appeared ¹  with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed – God is our witness –

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

For there is one God and one intermediary ¹  between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, himself human, ² 

in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began. ¹ 

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.” ¹ 

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then ¹  we also ought to love one another. ²