\v 12 As the human body is a union of many parts, and all parts of the body together make the whole, so it is with Christ.
Thanks to Bob Johnson for finding a more consistent syntax.
Tom Warren
\v 2 You may recall that time before you were believers in Christ, when you worshiped idols—idols that could not even speak a word, and you may remember how worshiping those idols led you astray.
Tom Warren
\v 15 How can Christ agree in any way with the Devil? What does a person who trusts in God have in common with some other person who does not trust in God?
Help from Bob Johnson and Susan Quigley
\v 11 Our fellow believers defeated him because the Lamb had shed his blood and died for them
\q1 and because they spoke the truth about him to other people.
\q1 They did not seek to remain alive,
\q1 but were willing to let people kill them for speaking the truth about him.
\v 27 All who come to participate in the Lord's supper should come to honor God in the way it is shared. Those who eat the bread and drink from the cup must do so in a manner that honors the Lord. Anyone who dishonors what the bread and the cup represent will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
\v 28 Therefore we should all examine ourselves before we participate in the Lord's supper. We should only eat the bread and drink from the cup after we have examined ourselves.
\v 29 God will judge anyone who eats and drinks this supper and does not consider what the Lord's body is.
\v 14 There is a generation whose teeth are **like** swords,
\q and their jawbones are **like** knives,
\q so they may devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.
From Susan
Tom
\v 11 Instead, I mean that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a fellow believer but is sexually immoral, or is greedy in matters of money, or worships idols, or uses abusive speech, or gets drunk, or cheats people. Do not even eat a meal with anyone like that!
Susan, Tom
\v 25 Now God is able to strengthen you spiritually by my proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ, which God did not reveal in any age before our own time.
\v 26 But now God has made it known by means of what the scriptures said would happen—so that all the people in all the nations of the world may believe in Christ and obey him.
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\v 27 May God, who alone is wise, be praised forever because of what Jesus Christ has done for us. May it be so!
\v 11 We know this because God's words are written in the scriptures:
\q "I myself promise you that everyone will bow down before me,
\q and everyone will praise me."
From Bob and Susan. Tom
from Bob Johnson,
\v 3 What we could not do through the law, God did. We could not stop sinning by following the law because of our sinful human nature. But God sent his own Son, who became human like us except he never sinned. He was punished for our sin like an offering for sin, and in that way he broke the power of sin in our lives.
Thanks,
Tom
\v 15 If someone is joyful, you should rejoice with them. If someone is sad, you should be sad with them.
to keep the antecedent in line per Bob, concur Susan
\v 19 Maybe you will say to me, "God rejected the Jews in the same way that people break bad branches off a tree and throw them away, and he has done this in order that he might accept us Gentiles, in the same way that people put branches of a wild olive tree into the trunk of a good tree."
From Bob, Susan,
Tom
\v 7 So though the people of Israel hoped for the things that God had promised, most of them did not receive those things. Only those whom God had chosen received them. But the rest of the people of Israel became stubborn.
Tom
and 9:27
\v 5 In the same way, at the present time there is a small portion of Jews who are faithful to God. This is because God acts kindly and has chosen them.
"small group" = remnant
\v 12 Therefore, my fellow believers, we have an obligation; but our obligation is not to live according to what our sinful human nature wants us to do.
sinful human nature regularized in the following:
8:9
8:13
13:14
\v 17 Moses recorded that God had told Pharaoh, "This is why I made you king of Egypt: It was so I might fight against you and everyone in the world will know how great I am."
Bob and Susan by Tom
\v 4 They, like me, are Israelites. God chose them to be his children. It is to them that he showed how wonderful he is. It is with them that he made the covenants. It is to them that he gave the law. They are the ones whom he taught to worship him in the right way. They are the ones to whom God promised many things.
v 35 Absolutely no one and nothing can cause Christ to stop loving us—even if someone afflicts us, or even someone harms us, or even if we have nothing to eat, or even if we do not have enough clothes, or even if we live in a dangerous situation, or even if someone will kill us!
Thanks to Bob and Susan
\v 28 And we know that for those who love God, he works out all things that happen to them in a way that does **them** good. He does this for those whom he has chosen, because that was what he planned to do.
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