For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.

For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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

Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.