Richard Francis Weymouth

“ No, indeed!
006:016 Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness) ?
006:017 But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed. ”

“ Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed
cannot do so.
008:008 And those whose hearts are absorbed in earthly things cannot please God.
008:009 You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.
008:010 But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness. ”

“ But where sin increased, grace has overflowed;
005:021 in order that as sin has exercised kingly sway in inflicting death, so grace, too, may exercise kingly sway in bestowing a righteousness which results in the Life of the Ages through Jesus Christ our Lord.
006:001 To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater? ”

“ But stand he will; for the Master can give him power to stand.
014:005 One man esteems one day more highly than another; another esteems all days alike. Let every one be thoroughly convinced in his own mind.
014:006 He who regards the day as sacred, so regards it for the Master's sake; and he who eats certain food eats it for the Master's sake, for he gives thanks to God; and he who refrains from eating it refrains for the Master's sake, and he also gives thanks to God.
014:007 For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself. ”

“ But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons—a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"
008:016 The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God;
008:017 and if children, then heirs too—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings, in order that we may also be sharers in His glory. ”

“ It is God's power
which is at work for the salvation of every one who believes—
the Jew first, and then the Gentile.
001:017 For in the Good News a righteousness which comes from God is
being revealed, depending on faith and tending to produce faith;
as the Scripture has it, "The righteous man shall live by faith."
001:018 For God's anger is being revealed from Heaven against all
impiety and against the iniquity of men who through iniquity
suppress the truth. God is angry:
001:019 because what may be known about Him is plain to their inmost consciousness ”

“ The condemnation of those who would so argue is just.
003:009 What then? Are we Jews more highly estimated than they?
Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews
and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin.
003:010 Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.
003:011 There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.
003:012 All have turned aside from the right path; they have every
one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what
is right—no, not so much as one." ”

“ For seeing that the Gentiles have been admitted in to partnership with the Jews in their spiritual blessings, they in turn are under an obligation to render sacred service to the Jews in temporal things. ”

“ Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;
008:004 in order that in our case the requirements of the Law might be
fully met. For our lives are regulated not by our earthly,
but by our spiritual natures.
008:005 For if men are controlled by their earthly natures, they give
their minds to earthly things. If they are controlled by their
spiritual natures, they give their minds to spiritual things.
008:006 Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death ”

“ Law simply brings a sure
knowledge of sin.
003:021 But now a righteousness coming from God has been brought
to light apart from any Law, both Law and Prophets bearing
witness to it—
003:022 a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith
in Jesus Christ and extends to all who believe.
No distinction is made;
003:023 for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short
of the glory of God,
003:024 gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace
through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus. ”

“ Receive as a friend a man whose faith is weak, but not for the purpose of deciding mere matters of opinion.
014:002 One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while a man of weaker faith eats nothing but vegetables. ”

“ His principle was, "The reproaches which they addressed
to Thee have fallen on me."
015:004 For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction,
so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance
and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford.
015:005 And may God, the giver of power of endurance and of
that encouragement, grant you to be in full sympathy with one
another in accordance with the example of Christ Jesus,
015:006 so that with oneness both of heart and voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ”

“ God declares
them free from guilt.
008:034 Who is there to condemn them? Christ Jesus died, or rather has
risen to life again. He is also at the right hand of God,
and is interceding for us.
008:035 Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction
or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger
or the sword?
008:036 As it stands written in the Scripture, "For Thy sake they are,
all day long, trying to kill us. We have been looked upon
as sheep destined for slaughter." ”

“ No, but on the ground of faith.
003:028 For we maintain that it is as the result of faith that a man is held
to be righteous, apart from actions done in obedience to Law.
003:029 Is God simply the God of the Jews, and not of the Gentiles also?
He is certainly the God of the Gentiles also,
003:030 unless you can deny that it is one and the same God who will pronounce the circumcised to be acquitted on the ground of faith, and the uncircumcised to be acquitted through the same faith. ”

“ So it is written, "For this reason I will praise Thee among the Gentiles, and sing psalms in honour of Thy name."
015:010 And again the Psalmist says, "Be glad, ye Gentiles, in company
with His People."
015:011 And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and let all
the people extol Him."
015:012 And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse and One
who rises up to rule the Gentiles. On Him shall the Gentiles
build their hopes." ”

“ Why, that the Gentiles,
who were not in pursuit of righteousness, have overtaken it—
a righteousness, however, which arises from faith;
009:031 while the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a Law that could give righteousness, have not arrived at one.
009:032 And why? Because they were pursuing a righteousness which should arise not from faith, but from what they regarded as merit. They stuck their foot against the stone which lay in their way ”

“ I rejoice over you, therefore, but I wish you to be wise as to what is good, and simple-minded as to what is evil.
016:020 And before long, God the giver of peace will crush Satan under
your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!
016:021 Timothy, my fellow worker, sends you greetings, and so do my
countrymen Lucius, Jason and Sosipater.
016:022 I, Tertius, who write this letter, send you Christian greetings. ”

“ On those who have fallen His severity has descended, but upon you His kindness has come, provided that you do not cease to respond to that kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off also.
011:023 Moreover, if they turn from their unbelief, they too will be grafted in. ”