But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ¹  ritually unclean!’

And God, who knows the heart, ¹  has testified ²  to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, ³ 

Simeon ¹  has explained ²  how God first concerned himself ³  to select ⁴  from among the Gentiles ⁵  a people for his name.

Therefore, although God has overlooked ¹  such times of ignorance, ²  he now commands all people ³  everywhere to repent, ⁴ 

because what can be known about God is plain to them, ¹  because God has made it plain to them.

Since God is one, ¹  he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, ¹  nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you. ¹ 

Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

for God is not characterized by disorder but by peace. As in all the churches of the saints, ¹ 

But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose ¹  is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. ² 

But God, who encourages ¹  the downhearted, encouraged ²  us by the arrival of Titus.