amen. for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature:

however by your impenitence, and the insensibility of your heart, you treasure up for yourself wrath against the day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.

by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father.

he that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him likewise freely give us all things?

for 'tis said in scripture to Pharaoh, "even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth."

or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?"

but all do not obey the gospel. for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

as it is written, "God hath given them up to a state of insensibility, so that their eyes could not see, and their ears could not hear."

as you in times past did not obey God, yet have now obtained mercy upon the occasion of their disobedience:

bless them, but curse not. rejoice with those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep.

and by the writings of the prophets (according to the commandment of the eternal God) made known to all the Gentiles, to induce them to obey the faith: