While the chapter can be used to teach the universal sinfulness of humanity, the real point of this section of Paul's letter is to show that the Jewish people are on
equal footing before God with the Gentiles.
Yes, all are on
equal footing before God.
Prayer placed the two of us on level ground,
equal footing before God.
In this section of Romans, Paul is pointing out that all people are on
equal footing before God.
Not exact matches
Paul insists all men and women come
before God on an
equal footing, their race, state of bondage and sex having no effect whatsoever on their right to stand
before God.
The only people who really object to this kind of grace are the religious people who think that their behavior merits them some sort of special privilege or position with God and are offended that the so - called «sinners» are put on
equal footing with them
before God.
It will be a while, too,
before the grandpa - grandma image disappears, if only because the older folks are happy and fully capable of meeting youth on an
equal athletic
footing.
(Indeed, I can't be alone in noticing the last party political broadcast
before the election, «A Nation and A Movement», showed Jim Murphy and Michael
Foot an
equal number of times.)
While I might have the intention of getting up
before the sun rises to head out for a run, if I don't actually do it no amount of thinking will
equal the effect of my
foot on pavement.
Before Super Mario Bros. 3, Wart essentially had
equal villainous
footing with Bowser outside of Japan, as they had one game apiece to their name.
Long
before, Jasper Johns put stenciled words and familiar images on
equal footing.
Possessed of a remarkable clarity of vision, a striking spatial intelligence and a generous stylistic inclusiveness, it places on an
equal footing art objects and time - based art — not just video and performance art but music, dance, theater, film — and does so on a scale and with a degree of aplomb we have not seen
before in this town.
This seems to say that
before the population of one of the proposed states reached 60,000, they would not yet be admitted on an
equal footing, but would nonetheless be states.
Philippines are a state, with a government that continued
before and after the event, ceded by the Spanish empire via the Treaty of Paris in 1898 to the United States and existed as a state, in US territory, not admitted to the Union, not on
equal footing with other states (two nonvoting delegates to the House and no senators) 1898 - 1946.
In Colorado, anyone who has resided with and supported a child for at least six months ending not more than six months
before a parenting responsibilities proceeding has standing, in theory on an
equal footing, with anyone else who has standing pursuant to Section 14-10-123 (1)(c) of the Colorado Revised Statutes.
As there is no public record evidence indicating whether this definitional change was designed to ensure that private, centralized systems are on
equal footing with public blockchains, it is possible that this is an example of legislators who are too eager to act around the hype of the new technology
before developing a reasonable understanding of the technical nuances that outline the industry.
The idea behind the Kindle Fire HDX is something that was tried
before with early Android tablets: If you can't beat the competition on
equal footing, why not flank them by outmuscling the competition for cheaper?