For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

May it never be. Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

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

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, truly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?