Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural.

And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.

But by your hardness and your impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey its passions.

Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one to obey as slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I may show my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and any other commandment there may be, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.