For this cause God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;

But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God,

but to those who are contentious, and disobedient to the truth; but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and indignation.

but for our sakes also, to whom it will be so accounted through our faith in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.

nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Know ye not, that whomever ye choose to obey as a master, his bondmen ye are, whether of sin whose fruit is death, or of obedience whose fruit is righteousness?

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage so as to be again in fear; but ye received the spirit of adopted children, whereby we cry, Abba, Father!

For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time;

He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known in all the earth."

Or, "Who shall descend into the abyss?" that is, to bring up Christ from the dead.

For God delivered up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

For these, "Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet," and every other commandment, are summed up in this precept, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

And again Isaiah saith: "There shall be the shoot from Jesse, and he that riseth up to rule the gentiles; in him shall the gentiles hope."