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Luke 20:16

James Moffatt - New Testament

He will come and kill these vinedressers and give the vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "God forbid!"

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And now for these enemies of mine who objected to me reigning over them — bring them here and slay them in my presence.' "

So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

They replied, "He will utterly destroy the wretches and lease the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give him the fruits in their season."

The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit;

Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and he will give the vineyard to others.

And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

Never! In that case, how could he judge the world?

Then 'by this faith' we 'cancel the Law'? Not for one moment! We uphold the Law.

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never!

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

Then did what was meant for my good prove fatal to me? Never! It was sin; sin resulted in death for me by making use of this good thing. This was how sin was to be revealed in its true nature; it was to use the command to become sinful in the extreme.

Then are we to infer that there is injustice in God? Never!

Then, I ask, has God repudiated his People? Never! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin!

Now I ask, have they stumbled to their ruin? Never! The truth is, that by their lapse salvation has passed to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous.

Do you not know your bodies are members of Christ? Am I to take Christ's members and devote them to a harlot? Never!

If it is discovered that in our quest for justification in Christ we are 'sinners' as well as the Gentiles, does that make Christ an agent of sin? Never!

Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.




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