So they reclined in groups of hundreds and fifties.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. ¹ 

In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent ¹  persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, ²  so it is now.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

When ¹  they received it, they began to complain ²  against the landowner,

that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples: ¹ 

He ¹  will reward ²  each one according to his works: ³ 

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.

For I testify, they gave according to their means and beyond their means. They did so voluntarily, ¹ 

For though we live ¹  as human beings, ²  we do not wage war according to human standards, ³ 

But you, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  are children of the promise like Isaac.

accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee ¹  of a better covenant.

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by ¹  the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

And we have different gifts ¹  according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside ¹  the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,