For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions; for both their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;

having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

Behold, then, God's kindness and severity; toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise, you also shall be cut off.

So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification.

for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it has been written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on Me."

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound In hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And I myself also have become persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus;

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who, indeed, are of note among the apostles, who have been in Christ longer than I.

Salute Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Timothy my fellow-worker salutes you; and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.