As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for when you pass judgment on someone else, you are condemning yourself, for you, who sit in judgment, do the very same things yourself.

And do you suppose, when you sit in judgment upon those who do such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

But in your obstinacy and impenitence you are storing up wrath for yourself on the Day of Wrath, when the justice of God will burst forth.

When heathen who have no Law instinctively obey what the Law demands, even though they have no law they are a law to themselves,

on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

By no means! God must prove true, though every man be false; as the Scripture says, "That you may be shown to be upright in what you say, And win your case when you go into court."

Their feet are swift when it comes to shedding blood,

For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.

But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, it is far more certain that now that we are reconciled we shall be saved through sharing in his life!

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

for when a man is dead he is free from the claims of sin.

For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God.

Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.

For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died;

But when we hope for something that we do not see, we wait persistently for it.

when I say that I am greatly pained and my heart is constantly distressed,

For this is what the promise said: "When I come back at this time next year, Sarah will have a son."

And that is not all, for there was Rebecca too, when she was about to bear twin sons to our forefather Isaac.

And this will be my agreement with them, When I take away their sins."

All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

when I go to Spain I hope to see you on my way there, and to have you see me off on my journey, after I have enjoyed being with you for a while.

So when I have finished this matter, and seen this contribution safely into their possession, I will start for Spain, and come to you on the way,

and I know that when I do come to see you, I will come with Christ's fullest blessing.