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.

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.

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.