First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.

For from the creation of the world, his invisible [attributes], both his eternal power and deity, are discerned clearly, being understood in the things created, so that they are without excuse.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God with the likeness of an image of mortal human beings and birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged."

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified about by the law and the prophets--

being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do.

knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.

Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,