For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.

While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,

Nor did he in unbelief stagger at God's promise, but became mighty in faith, giving glory to God,

Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.

You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--

Carry out these injunctions because you know the critical period at which we are living, and that it is now high time, to rouse yourselves from sleep; for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first became believers.