Although they know full well God's sentence that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only practice them but even applaud others who do them.

They all have turned aside, all have become corrupt; No one does good, not even one!

And yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the way Adam had, against a positive command. For Adam was a figure of Him who was to come.

that even nature itself might finally be set free from its bondage to decay, so as to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

Not only that but this too, we ourselves who enjoy the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we ourselves, keep up our inner groanings while we wait to enter upon our adoption as God's sons at the redemption of our bodies.

for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

For even before the twin sons were born, and though they had done nothing either good or bad, that God's purpose in accordance with His choice might continue to stand, conditioned not on men's actions but on God's calling them,

even us whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen too?

And again Isaiah says: "The noted Son of Jesse will come, even He who rises to rule the heathen; on Him the heathen will set their hope."