For this cause God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,

Doth this blessedness belong to the circumcised alone, or to the uncircumcised also? For we are saying that Abrahams faith was accounted as righteousness.

through whom also we have had admission into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory which God will confer.

and not this only, but also having joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin;

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?

For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time;

For the word of promise is this: "At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."

For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known in all the earth."

In the same way then at this present time also there is a remnant, according to the election of grace.

as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes that were not to see, and ears that were not to hear, unto this day."

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.

And this will be my covenant with them, when I shall have taken away their sins."

and be not conformed to the fashion of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that ye may learn by experience what is the will of God, what is good, and wellpleasing, and perfect.

For the same reason pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God, attending continually to this very business.

For these, "Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet," and every other commandment, are summed up in this precept, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

And this, since we know the time, that it is already high time for us to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we became believers.

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

Let us then no longer judge one another; but let this rather be your judgment, not to put a stumblingblock, or an occasion to fall, in a brothers way.

for he who in this matter serveth Christ is wellpleasing to God, and approved by men.

and that the gentiles glorified God for his mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will give praise to thee among the gentiles, and sing to thy name."

but always earnestly desirous to preach it in this manner,not where Christ had been named, that I might not build on anothers foundation,

When therefore I have completed this business, and secured to them this fruit, I shall set out to pass through you to Spain.

I Tertius, who wrote this letter, salute you in the Lord.