for I have not shrunk from letting you know God's purpose without reserve.

for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark.

They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

I know of a man fourteen years ago??hether in the body or out of it, I do not know, God knows??eing actually caught up to the third heaven.

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.

They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed."

Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.