But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding back the truth in unrighteousness.

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

But people are made right with Him as a free gift by His unearned favor, through being bought back [from Satan] by Christ Jesus.

just as it is written [Gen. 17:5], "I [i.e., God] have made you [i.e., Abraham] forefather of many nations." He received this promise in the presence of God, in whom he believed, and who gives life [back] to dead people and who refers to things [promised] as though they were [already] fulfilled.

But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

And not just the world, but even we [Christians] ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit [i.e., the first installment of our inheritance from God] also groan within us, eagerly waiting to be adopted as [God's] children, and receive back our bodies [i.e., in the resurrection].

He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

For this is what the promise said: "When I come back at this time next year, Sarah will have a son."

On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers [arrogantly] back to God and dares to defy Him? Will the thing which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea-'I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved.

or "Who will go down into the depths?' (that is, to bring the Messiah back from the dead)."

that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

And these Jews also will be grafted [back] in [to the olive tree] if they do not continue in their lack of faith [in Christ], because God is able to graft them back in again.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier will it be to graft these who are the natural branches back into [the original parent stock of] their own olive tree?

For God never goes back upon his gifts and call.

or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship.

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

Do not be revengeful, my dear friends, but give way before anger; for it is written, "'Revenge belongs to Me: I will pay back,' says the Lord."

And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

Howbeit, the more boldly, have I written unto you, - in some measure, as bringing it back to your minds, - by reason of the favour given unto me from God, -

This, then, having completed, and sealed unto them this fruit, I will come back by you unto Spain: -

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,