Romans 8:39-13:14 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ⁹ ¹ I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit, ² that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart. ³ For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the divine service, and the promises, ⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly. ⁶ But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel, ⁷ nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee. ⁸ That is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God, instead, the children of the promise are reckoned for seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and there will be a son by Sarah. ¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac ¹¹ (for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls), ¹² it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I regarded inferior. ¹⁴ What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen! ¹⁵ For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate. ¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful. ¹⁷ For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same thing I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. ¹⁸ So then he is merciful to whom he will, and whom he will he hardens. ¹⁹ Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose? ²⁰ Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way? ²¹ Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem? ²² And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, ²³ even that he might make known the wealth of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he previously prepared for glory, ²⁴ namely us whom he called, not only from Jews but also from Gentiles. ²⁵ As also he says in Hosea, I will call those not my people, my people, and her who was not beloved, beloved. ²⁶ And it will be in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there they will be called, sons of the living God. ²⁷ And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. ²⁸ Since he is completing and finishing quickly a matter in righteousness, because a matter that has been cut short upon the earth, the Lord will perform. ²⁹ And just as Isaiah has foretold, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah. ³⁰ What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith. ³¹ But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, ³³ just as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. And every man who believes in him will not be shamed. ¹⁰ ¹ Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation. ² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of law for righteousness, to every man who believes. ⁵ For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them. ⁶ But the righteousness from faith says thus: Thou should not say in thy heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷ or, Who will descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸ But what does it say? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach: ⁹ that if thou will confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and will believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou will be saved. ¹⁰ For a man believes in the heart for righteousness, and he confesses with the mouth for salvation. ¹¹ For the scripture says, Every man who believes in him will not be shamed. ¹² For there is no distinction of a Jew and also of a Greek, for the same Lord is of all men, being rich toward all those who call upon him. ¹³ For every man, whoever may call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ How then will they call on whom they have not believed? And how will they believe of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without preaching? ¹⁵ And how will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news of peace, of those who proclaim good news of good things. ¹⁶ But not all were obedient to the good news, for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? ¹⁷ So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God. ¹⁸ But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world. ¹⁹ But I say, did Israel, no, not know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy toward a non-nation. Toward a foolish nation, I will make you angry. ²⁰ And Isaiah is very bold and says, I was found by those not seeking me. I became manifest to those not asking for me. ²¹ But to Israel he says, The whole day I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people. ¹¹ ¹ I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God did not thrust away his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture tells by Elijah? How he encounters God about Israel. ³ Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and they have torn down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life. ⁴ But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal. ⁵ So then also at this present time there has become a remnant according to the selection of grace. ⁶ And if it is by grace, it is no longer from works, otherwise grace becomes no longer grace. But if it is from works it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work. ⁷ What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened, ⁸ just as it is written that God gave them a spirit of slumber: eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, until this very day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and may thou bow down their back always. ¹¹ I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy. ¹² Now if their transgression is wealth of the world, and their failure is wealth of Gentiles, how much more their fullness? ¹³ For I speak to you the Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I enhance my ministry, ¹⁴ if somehow I may provoke my flesh to jealousy and may save some of them. ¹⁵ For if the casting away of them is reconciliation of the world, what is the acceptance except life from the dead? ¹⁶ And if the first fruit is holy, the branch is also. And if the root is holy, the branches are also. ¹⁷ And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree, ¹⁸ do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, thou do not bear the root, but the root thee. ¹⁹ Thou will therefore say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. ²⁰ Correct! They were broken off for their unbelief, and thou stand by thy faith. Be not high-minded but fear, ²¹ for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps neither will he spare thee. ²² Behold therefore the goodness and the severity of God. Indeed toward those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou too will be cut off. ²³ And also those, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if thou were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree. ²⁵ For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written, The man who delivers will come from Zion, and will turn away impiety from Jacob. ²⁷ And this is the covenant from me to them when I will take away their sins. ²⁸ They are indeed enemies toward the good news for your sake, but toward selection, they are beloved for the fathers' sake. ²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. ³⁰ For as ye once were also disobedient to God, but now have received mercy at the disobedience of these, ³¹ so also now these have been disobedient for thy mercy, so that they also may receive mercy. ³² For God has confined all men in disobedience, so that he might be merciful to all. ³³ O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out! ³⁴ For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who became his counselor? ³⁵ Or who first gave to him, and it will be repaid to him? ³⁶ Because from him, and through him, and for him, are all things. To him is the glory into the ages. Truly. ¹² ¹ I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. ³ For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith. ⁴ For just as we have many body-parts in one body, and all the body-parts have not the same function, ⁵ so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one body-parts of each other. ⁶ And having different gifts according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith; ⁷ or service, in the service; or he who teaches, in the teaching; ⁸ or he who exhorts, in the exhortation; he who gives, in simplicity; he who leads, in diligence; he who does mercy, in cheerfulness. ⁹ Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good, ¹⁰ with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition, ¹¹ not lazy in diligence, being fervent in the Spirit serving the Lord, ¹² rejoicing in hope, enduring tribulation, persevering in prayer, ¹³ sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers. ¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you. Bless ye and do not curse. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep, ¹⁶ thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves, ¹⁷ rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible from you, keeping peace with all men, ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head. ²¹ Be thou not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good. ¹³ ¹ Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher. For there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God are those that have been instituted. ² So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves. ³ For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil. ⁵ Therefore there is a need to be subordinate, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience. ⁶ For because of this ye also fulfill taxes, for they are servants of God being devoted to this same thing. ⁷ Render therefore to all, the things due: tax to the man of tax, tribute to the man of tribute, fear to the man of fear, esteem to the man of esteem. ⁸ Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law. ⁹ For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. ¹⁰ Love works no evil to the neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of law. ¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed. ¹² The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light. ¹³ Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy. ¹⁴ But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.