Trouvé 4918 Résultats pour: Rom
neither the height above us nor the depth beneath us, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which comes to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8, 39)
and how it has ever been my wish that I myself might be doomed to separation from Christ, if that would benefit my brethren, my own kinsmen by race.✻ (Romans 9, 3)
They are Israelites, adopted as God’s sons; the visible presence, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and the Temple worship, and the promises, are their inheritance; (Romans 9, 4)
the patriarchs belong to them, and theirs is the human stock from which Christ came; Christ, who rules as God over all things, blessed for ever, Amen.✻ (Romans 9, 5)
And yet it is not as if God’s promise had failed of its effect. Not all those who are sprung from Israel are truly Israelites; (Romans 9, 6)
That is to say, God’s sonship is not for all those who are Abraham’s children by natural descent; it is only the children given to him as the result of God’s promise that are to be counted as his posterity. (Romans 9, 8)
It was a promise God made, when he said, When this season comes round again, I will visit thee, and Sara shall have a son. (Romans 9, 9)
And not only she, but Rebecca too received a promise, when she bore two sons to the same husband, our father Isaac. (Romans 9, 10)
with no action of theirs to account for it, nothing but his will, from whom the call came, she was told, The elder is to be the servant of the younger.✻ (Romans 9, 12)
the effect comes, then, from God’s mercy, not from man’s will, or man’s alacrity. (Romans 9, 16)
So Isaias had said earlier on, If the Lord of Hosts had not left us a stock to breed from, we should have been like Sodom, we should have gone the way of Gomorrah.✻ (Romans 9, 29)
Why was this? Because they hoped to derive their justification from observance, not from faith. They tripped on the stone which trips men’s feet; (Romans 9, 32)
