I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have some harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

Why not say as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

and it was to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

I am speaking in human terms, because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for holiness.

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

Therefore, welcome one another, just as Christ also welcomed you, to the glory of God.