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 –

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.

To the rest I say – I, not the Lord ¹  – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.

Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they?

And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear ¹  the image of the man of heaven.

in a moment, in the blinking ¹  of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

who made us adequate ¹  to be servants of a new covenant ²  not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including ¹  more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase ²  to the glory of God.

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised. ¹ 

Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain. ¹ 

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem ¹  to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, ²  and then returned to Damascus.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law ¹  or by believing what you heard? ² 

Does God then give ¹  you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law ²  or by your believing what you heard? ³ 

Now before faith ¹  came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners ²  until the coming faith would be revealed.

So also we, when we were minors, ¹  were enslaved under the basic forces ²  of the world.

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey ¹  the whole law.

Now, brothers and sisters, ¹  if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? ²  In that case the offense of the cross ³  has been removed. ⁴ 

For by grace you are saved ¹  through faith, ²  and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one ¹  and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,