“If someone does you wrong, don’t try to pay them back by hurting them. Try to do what everyone thinks is right.
Do the best you can to live in peace with everyone.
My friends, don’t try to punish anyone who does wrong to you. Wait for God to punish them with his anger.
In the Scriptures the Lord says, “I am the one who punishes; I will pay people back.”Deuteronomy 32:35”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.17-19.ERV
“Live together in peace with each other. Don’t be proud, but be willing to be friends with people who are not important to others. Don’t think of yourself as smarter than everyone else.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.16.ERV
“Wish only good for those who treat you badly. Ask God to bless them, not curse them.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.14.ERV
“Be happy because of the hope you have. Be patient when you have troubles. Pray all the time.
Share with God’s people who need help. Look for people who need help and welcome them into your homes.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.12-13.ERV
“Your love must be real. Hate what is evil. Do only what is good.
Love each other in a way that makes you feel close like brothers and sisters. And give each other more honor than you give yourself.
As you serve the Lord, work hard and don’t be lazy. Be excited about serving him!”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.9-11.ERV
“Don’t change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to understand and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.2.ERV
“So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him—an offering that is only for God and pleasing to him. Considering what he has done, it is only right that you should worship him in this way.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.1.ERV
“All people have refused to obey God. And he has put them all together as people who don’t obey him so that he can show mercy to everyone.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.11.32.ERV
“God never changes his mind about the people he calls. He never decides to take back the blessings he has given them.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.11.29.ERV
“So you see that God is kind, but he can also be very strict. He punishes those who stop following him. But he is kind to you, if you continue trusting in his kindness. If you don’t continue depending on him, you will be cut off from the tree.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.11.22.ERV
“You might say, “Branches were broken off so that I could be joined to their tree.”
That is true. But those branches were broken off because they did not believe. And you continue to be part of the tree only because you believe.
Don’t be proud, but be afraid. If God did not let the natural branches of that tree stay, he will not let you stay if you stop believing.
And if the Jews will believe in God again, he will accept them back. He is able to put them back where they were.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.11.19-21.ERV
“So this is what has happened: The people of Israel wanted God’s blessing, but they did not all get it. The people he chose did get his blessing, but the others became hard and refused to listen to him.
As the Scriptures say, “God caused the people to fall asleep.” Isaiah 29:10
“God closed their eyes so that they could not see, and he closed their ears so that they could not hear. This continues until now.” Deuteronomy 29:4”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.11.7-8.ERV
““Lord, they have killed your prophets and destroyed your altars. I am the only prophet still living, and they are trying to kill me now.”
But what answer did God give to Elijah? God said, “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have never given worship to Baal.”
It is the same now. God has chosen a few people by his grace.
And if he chose them by grace, then it is not what they have done that made them his people. If they could be made his people by what they did, his gift of grace would not really be a gift.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.11.3-6.ERV
“Then Isaiah is bold enough to say this for God: “The people who were not looking for me— they are the ones who found me. I made myself known to those who did not ask for me.” Isaiah 65:1”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.10.20.ERV
“So faith comes from hearing the Good News. And people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.10.17.ERV
“Yes, “everyone who trusts in the Lord will be saved.””
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.10.13.ERV
“It says this because there is no difference between those who are Jews and those who are not. The same Lord is the Lord of all people. And he richly blesses everyone who looks to him for help.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.10.12.ERV
“If you openly say, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from death, you will be saved.
Yes, we believe in Jesus deep in our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we openly say that we believe in him, and so we are saved.
Yes, the Scriptures say, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed.””
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.10.9-11.ERV
“They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.
Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him is made right with God.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.10.3-4.ERV
“The Scriptures talk about that stone: “Look, I put in Zion a stone that will make people stumble. It is a rock that will make people fall. But anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed.” Isaiah 8:14; 28:16”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.9.33.ERV
“So what does all this mean? It means that people who are not Jews were made right with God because of their faith, even though they were not trying to make themselves right.
And the people of Israel, who tried to make themselves right with God by following the law, did not succeed. They failed because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did.
They did not trust in God to make them right. They fell over the stone that makes people fall.”
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https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.9.30-32.ERV
“So one of you will ask me, “If God controls what we do, why does he blame us for our sins?”
Don’t ask that. You are only human and have no right to question God. A clay jar does not question the one who made it. It does not say, “Why did you make me like this?”
The one who makes the jar can make anything he wants. He uses the same clay to make different things. He might make one thing for special purposes and another for daily use.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.9.19-21.ERV
“So what does this mean? That God is not fair? We cannot say that. God said to Moses, “I will show mercy to anyone I want to show mercy to. I will show pity to anyone I choose.”
So God will choose anyone he decides to show mercy to, and his choice does not depend on what people want or try to do.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.9.14-16.ERV
“And that is not all. Rebecca also had sons, and they had the same father. He is our father Isaac.
But before the two sons were born, God told Rebecca, “The older son will serve the younger.” This was before the boys had done anything good or bad.
God said this before they were born so that the boy he wanted would be chosen because of God’s own plan. He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call, not because of anything the boys did.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.9.10-12.ERV
