Bible verses about "cynicism" | Sawyer

¹⁰ but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,

^{1 (8:1)} I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel? ³ Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life. ⁴ But what says the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. ⁵ So then also at the present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace; ⁶ but if by grace, no longer by works; for otherwise grace is no longer grace; but if by works, it is no longer grace; for otherwise a work is no longer a work. ⁷ What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,— ⁸ as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear—to this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table become a trap and a snare and an offense and a stumbling block to them; ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always. ^{11 (8:2)} I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation. ¹² But if their fall is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of nations, how much more will their fullness be. ¹³ For I speak to you, gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry, ¹⁴ if perhaps I may excite my flesh [race] to emulation and save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their falling away is the reconciling of the world, what will their recovery be but life from the dead? ¹⁶ And if the first fruit is holy, the mass is also; and if the root is holy, the branches also are. ^{17 (8:3)} But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive, ¹⁸ boast not against the branches; but if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you. ¹⁹ You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. ²⁰ Well; they were broken off by unbelief, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear; ²¹ for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you. ²² See then the goodness and severity of God; towards those that fell, severity, but towards you, the goodness of God, if you continue in goodness, for otherwise you also will be cut off. ²³ And they, if they continue not in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive. ^{25 (8:4)} For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in, ²⁶ and so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, A deliverer shall come from Zion, he shall turn away impiety from Jacob. ²⁷ And this is the promise to them from me, when I take away their sins. ²⁸ As to the gospel, they are enemies on your account, but as to the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers; ²⁹ for the gifts and calling of God are without a change of mind. ³⁰ For as you once disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, ³¹ so also they now have disobeyed that they may obtain mercy by your mercy. ³² For God has concluded all in disobedience that he may have mercy on all. ³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are his judgments, and his ways can not be explored! ³⁴ For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsellor? ³⁵ or who first gave to him, and it shall be repaid him? ³⁶ For of him and through him, and in him are all things; to him be glory forever; amen.

²⁰ And Jesus said to them, On account of your unbelief. For I tell you truly, if you have a faith like a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Be removed thence to that place, and it shall be removed; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

^{13 (10:3)} Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather, not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother.