First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world.

This is so because that which may be known of God is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them.

because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth??ell then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself?

For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

Much in every way. First of all, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

Thus, then, sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death and so death spread to all men, because all had sinned.

What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

But if Christ is in you, though your bodily self is dead because of sin, your spirit is full of life because of righteousness.

And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

they are not all children of Abraham because they are Abraham's descendants. The promise was, In Isaac shall thy posterity be called.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.

For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him;

Wherefore you must needs be in subjection, not only because of fear, but also for conscience sake.

This too, is the reason why you pay taxes; because the authorities are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing.

Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

But he who has misgivings, and yet eats meat, is condemned already, because his action is not based on faith; and whatever is not based on faith is sin.

Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.