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since it is written in the Tanakh, “As I live, says Adonai, every knee will bend before me, and every tongue will publicly acknowledge God.”

So then, every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, shalom and joy in the Ruach HaKodesh.

Anyone who serves the Messiah in this fashion both pleases God and wins the approval of other people.

Don’t tear down God’s work for the sake of food. True enough, all things are clean; but it is wrong for anybody by his eating to cause someone to fall away.

The belief you hold about such things, keep between yourself and God. Happy the person who is free of self-condemnation when he approves of something!

And may God, the source of encouragement and patience, give you the same attitude among yourselves as the Messiah Yeshua had,

so that with one accord and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

So welcome each other, just as the Messiah has welcomed you into God’s glory.

For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the Jewish people in order to show God’s truthfulness by making good his promises to the Patriarchs,

and in order to show his mercy by causing the Gentiles to glorify God — as it is written in the Tanakh, “Because of this I will acknowledge you among the Gentiles and sing praise to your name.”

May God, the source of hope, fill you completely with joy and shalom as you continue trusting, so that by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh you may overflow with hope.

But on some points I have written you quite boldly by way of reminding you about them, because of the grace God has given me

to be a servant of the Messiah Yeshua for the Gentiles, with the priestly duty of presenting the Good News of God, so that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, made holy by the Ruach HaKodesh.

In union with the Messiah Yeshua, then, I have reason to be proud of my service to God;

through the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Yerushalayim all the way to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the Good News of the Messiah.

And now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God on my behalf

Then, if it is God’s will, I will come to you with joy and have a time of rest among you.

Now may the God of shalom be with you all. Amen.

And God, the source of shalom, will soon crush the Adversary under your feet. The grace of our Lord Yeshua be with you.

but manifested now through prophetic writings, in keeping with the command of God the Eternal, and communicated to all the Gentiles to promote in them trust-grounded obedience —

to the only wise God, through Yeshua the Messiah, be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

From: Sha’ul, called by God’s will to be an emissary of the Messiah Yeshua; and from brother Sosthenes

To: God’s Messianic community in Corinth, consisting of those who have been set apart by Yeshua the Messiah and called to be God’s holy people — along with everyone everywhere who calls on the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, their Lord as well as ours:

Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.