Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”

and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’”

For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing the praises of your name.”

Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

As it is written: “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.”

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Final Greetings

With the help of Silas, whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, encouraging you and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.

The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.