1 Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;
2 for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
4 in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
5 For they who live after the flesh, give their attention to the things of the flesh; But they who live after the spirit, give their attention to spiritual things.
6 To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace.
7 For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;
8 And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.
9 But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 But if Christ is in you, though your bodily self is dead because of sin, your spirit is full of life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.
12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—but not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
13 for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14 For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit.
15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"
16 For his Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;
17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.
18 For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.
19 All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.
20 For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject—
21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that all nature has been groaning and travailing together until this hour.
23 And not only that, we ourselves, although we are grasping the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we are waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
24 For by hope we are saved; but hope which is clearly seen is no longer hope.
25 Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.
26 In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.
28 Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;
30 and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified.
31 What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, But freely delivered him up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall accuse God's elect? God acquits them;
34 Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?
35 What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.
38 For I am fully persuaded that neither death nor life, Neither angels nor principalities, nor powers, Neither the present world nor the world to come, Nor the powers of Nature,
39 Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall be able to separate us from the love of God Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Bible verses about "cliques" | MNT
Romans 8:1-39
Romans 12:16
16 Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits.
2 Timothy 4:3
3 For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.
Matthew 23:1-39
1 Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples.
2 "The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat;
3 "therefore do and observe whatever they bid you; but do not do as they do, for they preach, but do not practise.
4 "For they bind heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to move them.
5 "For they do all their good deeds to be gazed on of men. They widen their phylacteries,
6 "and lengthen the tassels, and are fond of the best places at banquets, and the front seats in the synagogues.
7 "They enjoy salutations in the market-places, and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'
8 "But you are not to be called 'Rabbi'; for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers;
9 "and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven.
10 "And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ.
11 "Whoever is great among you shall be your minister;
12 "whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.
13 "But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you do not enter, yourselves, nor do you permit those who are about to come in, to enter.
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15 "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves.
16 "Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding.
17 "You fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the Sanctuary which hallows the gold?
18 "You say, too, that whoever swears by the offering that is upon it, his oath is binding.
19 "You blind! Which is greater, the offering or the altar which hallows the offering?
20 "He then, who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it;
21 "and he who swears by the Sanctuary swears by it and by Him who dwells therein;
22 "and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits thereon.
23 "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and neglect the weightier matters of the Law—justice and mercy and good faith; these latter you ought to have done, and not to have left the former undone.
24 "You blind guides! who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!
25 "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess.
26 "You blind Pharisees, first clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside of it may be clean also.
27 "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like white-washed sepulchers. They look beautiful without, but within they are filled with dead men's bones and all rottenness.
28 "Just so you also outwardly appear to men, just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You rebuild the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say,
30 "'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their comrades in the murder of the prophets.'
31 "So you bear witness against yourselves, that you are the descendants of those who slew the prophets!
32 "Fill up then the measure of your fathers!
33 "You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?
34 "For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;
35 "that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.
36 "In solemn truth I tell you that all these things will come upon this generation.
37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
38 "Behold, your house is left to you desolate!
39 "For I tell you that never shall you see me again until you say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." "nor did they know until the deluge came and swept them away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.
James 2:1-13
1 My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste.
2 Suppose a man comes into your synagogue with a gold ring and dazzling clothes, and suppose a poor man comes in, also, in shabby clothes,
3 and you look up to him who wears the fine clothing, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place!" and to the poor man you say, "Stand there!" or "Sit on the floor at my feet!"
4 are you not drawing distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?
6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court?
7 Are they not blaspheming that glorious Name by which you are called?
8 If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.
9 If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.
10 For if a man keeps the whole of the Law, and yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he who said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not Kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but if you do kill, you have transgressed the Law.
12 So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For judgment is without mercy to the man who has showed no mercy. but mercy glories in the face of judgment.
1 Corinthians 1:10
10 Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.