Romans 9:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 1:20 : 20 I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle– I am telling the truth; I am not lying– and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • Rom 1:9 : 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you
  • Rom 8:16 : 16 The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.
  • 2 Cor 11:10 : 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 Before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, I solemnly charge you to carry out these commands without prejudice or favoritism of any kind.
  • 1 John 3:19-21 : 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence, 20 that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things. 21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
  • 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.
  • Rom 2:15 : 15 They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed– God is our witness–
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

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    20I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

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    9For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

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    10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

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    31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

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    7For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle– I am telling the truth; I am not lying– and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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    1Paul looked directly at the council and said,“Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”

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    12Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

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    8Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

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    16The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

    17The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

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    30since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

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    8For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

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    16This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

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    18Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.

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    2If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

    3This is my defense to those who examine me.

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    29I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

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    14For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

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    2But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

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    23except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

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    46Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

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    6For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

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    17So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

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    8For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the sake of the truth.

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    3I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you.

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    10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

    11Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

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    13For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

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    12Worthy Demetrius Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

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    17What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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    10You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

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    1Preparing the Gift For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

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    10I am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

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    2now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that(I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.

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    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.