Says Paul the Pharisee in Romans 7:15 and 25, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. (25) I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin."
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What Paul says in
* Romans 2:13
"For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified."
* Romans 3:23 & Galatians 2:16
"For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified."
* Romans 4:13
The promise was given to Abraham and his descendants.
* Galatians 3:16
The promises were not given to all Abraham's descendants. * Romans 4:15
"For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression."
* Galatians 3:19
"Why then the law? It was added because of transgression." * Romans 5:12
Sin and death came into the world through Adam the transgressor.
* 1 Timothy 2:14
"Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor." * Romans 5:14
"Adam was a type of [Jesus Christ] the one who was to come."
* 1 Corinthians 15:47
"The first man [Adam] was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man [Jesus Christ] is from heaven." * Romans 14:5
"Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind."
* 1 Corinthians 1:10
"I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Chirst, ....be united in the same mind and the same judgment." What Paul says in
What Paul says in * 1 Corinthians 5:9
It is all right to associate with the immoral of the world since we cannot get out the world.
* Colossians 2:20
"Why do you live as if you still belonged to the world?" * 1 Corinthians 5:12
"Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?"
* Romans 14:13
"Let us no more pass judgment on one another." * 1 Corinthians 7:9
"If you cannot exercise self-control, it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion."
* 1 Thessalonians 4:4-5
"Take wives for yourselves in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God." * 1 Corinthians 7:15
"Keep the commandments of God."
* Ephesians 2:15
"Jesus Christ abolished in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances." * 1 Corinthians 7:20
"Every one should remain in the state in which he was called."
* Ephesians 4:22
"Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life." * 1 Corinthians 9:9
"For it is written in the law of Moses,'You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain."
* Galatians 3:25
"Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian [law]." * 1 Corinthians 9:20
"To those under law I became as one under the law - though not being myself under the law."
* 1 Corinthians 9:21
"To those outside the law I became as one outside the law - not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ." * 1 Corinthians 11:5
"Any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head."
* 1 Corinthians 14:35
"It is shameful for a woman to speak in church."* 1 Corinthians 12:3
"I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus be cursed!"
* Galatians 3:13
"Jesus became a curse for us - for it is written, 'Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree."* 1 Corinthians 13:4
"Love is not jealous or boastful."
* 2 Corinthians 11:1-2, 10-11
"I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! I feel a divine jealousy for you ... As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced ... God knows I love you."What Paul says in
What Paul says in * Galatians 3:20
"Now an intermediary implies more than one; but God is one."
* 1 Timothy 2:5
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."* Ephesians 2:9
We are not saved by works.
* Ephesians 2:10
"We are created in Christ Jesus for good works."* Ephesians 5:28
"Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself."
* 1 Corinthians 7:29
"From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none."* 1 Timothy 2:12
"I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent."
* Galatians 3:28
"There is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Says Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:25: "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand."
Says James in James 1:8: "A double minded man, unstable in his ways will not receive anything from the Lord."