But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:

I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down

or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

But all did not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?

Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

The commandments:

Do not commit adultery;
do not murder;
do not steal;
do not covet;

and whatever other commandment—all are summed up by this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

Each one of us must please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.