10 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your [a]posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the Lord’s Passover.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 9:10 descendants

that the Gentiles (A)should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel, (B)of which I became a minister (C)according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by (D)the effective working of His power.

Purpose of the Mystery

To me, (E)who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles (F)the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the [a]fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who (G)created all things [b]through Jesus Christ;

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 3:9 NU, M stewardship (dispensation)
  2. Ephesians 3:9 NU omits through Jesus Christ

12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Read full chapter

By Grace Through Faith

And (A)you He made alive, (B)who were dead in trespasses and sins, (C)in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to (D)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in (E)the sons of disobedience,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:2 Gr. aion, aeon

28 But (A)let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Read full chapter

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. (A)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]homosexuals, nor [b]sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were (B)some of you. (C)But you were washed, but you were [c]sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 catamites, those submitting to homosexuals
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 male homosexuals
  3. 1 Corinthians 6:11 set apart

Benediction

25 [a]Now (A)to Him who is able to establish you (B)according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (C)according to the revelation of the mystery (D)kept secret since the world began 26 but (E)now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for (F)obedience to the faith—

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Romans 16:25 M puts Rom. 16:25–27 after Rom. 14:23.

Now I say that (A)Jesus Christ has become a [a]servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, (B)to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and (C)that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written:

(D)“For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles,
And sing to Your name.”

10 And again he says:

(E)“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!”

11 And again:

(F)“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!
Laud Him, all you peoples!”

12 And again, Isaiah says:

(G)“There shall be a root of Jesse;
And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles,
In Him the Gentiles shall hope.”

13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all (H)joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

From Jerusalem to Illyricum

14 Now (I)I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, (J)filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish [b]one another. 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, (K)because of the grace given to me by God, 16 that (L)I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the (M)offering [c]of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 17 Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus (N)in the things which pertain to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things (O)which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, (P)to make the Gentiles obedient— 19 (Q)in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Romans 15:8 minister
  2. Romans 15:14 M others
  3. Romans 15:16 Consisting of

24 (A)leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Read full chapter

Now there were certain men who were (A)defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; (B)and they came before Moses and Aaron that day. And those men said to him, “We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends