In the same way, their males also abandoned their natural sexual function toward females and burned with lust toward one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received within themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.

But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, initially for Jews but also for Greeks as well,

For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

Likewise, David also speaks of the blessedness of the person whom God regards as righteous apart from actions:

Now does this blessedness come to the circumcised alone, or also to the uncircumcised? For we say, "Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness."

He is also the ancestor of the circumcised those who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Therefore, the promise is based on faith, so that it may be a matter of grace and may be guaranteed for all of Abraham's descendants not only for those who were given the Law, but also for those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

but also for us. Our faith will be regarded in the same way, if we believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.

Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Not only that, but we also continue to boast about God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now been reconciled.

For just as through one man's disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man's obedience many people will be made righteous.

so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then the one who raised the Messiah from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.

Now if we are children, we are heirs heirs of God and co-heirs with the Messiah if, in fact, we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

that the creation itself would also be set free from corrupting bondage in order to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

However, not only the creation, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, since we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words,

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that the Son might be the firstborn among many brothers.

And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Can't he also reveal his glorious riches to the objects of his mercy that he has prepared ahead of time for glory

including us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but from the gentiles as well?

Isaiah also calls out concerning Israel, "Although the descendants of Israel are as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, only a few will be saved.

But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for it is not without reason that they bear the sword. Indeed, they are God's servants to administer punishment to anyone who does wrong. Therefore, it is necessary for you to be acquiescent to the authorities, not only for the sake of God's punishment, but also for the sake of your own conscience.

This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work.

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first convert to the Messiah in Asia.