First, I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, on account of you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

Because that which may be known of God, is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them,

because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;

an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;

And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,

and this hope disappoints us not; because the love of God is poured abundantly into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that is given to us.

For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

And the gift is not like the sentence that came through one who sinned: for the sentence to condemnation was because of one offense; but the favor bestowed in order to justification, is because of many offenses.

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no longer;

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.

For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised the Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwells in you.

Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by works of law: for they stumbled against that stone of stumbling,

Wherefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of punishment, but also for conscience sake.

And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed:

But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.