They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,

All have turned away. They have become completely worthless. No one shows kindness, not even one person!

Hoping in spite of hopeless circumstances, he believed that he would become "the father of many nations," just as he had been told: "This is how many descendants you will have."

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

And since you have been freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life.

What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty

It is just as Isaiah predicted: "If the Lord of the Heavenly Armies had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have been compared to Gomorrah."

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a punishment for them.

Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his advisor?

For this reason the Messiah died and returned to life, so that he might become the Lord of both the dead and the living.

For your obedience has become known to everyone, and I am full of joy for you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.