Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies.

Not at all. Let God prove true, though every man be false! As the Scripture says, "That you may prove yourself upright in words you speak, and win your case when you go into court."

let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation is just.

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

Since we have been given right standing with God through faith, then let us continue enjoying peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

by whom we have an introduction through faith into this state of God's favor, in which we safely stand; and let us continue exulting in the hope of enjoying the glorious presence of God.

And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,

Do we then conclude thus, let us continue in sin, that the divine favour may be more fully display'd?

let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

Let not sin have power over you. For ye are not under the law, but under grace.

What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

For nature did not of its own accord give up to failure; it was for the sake of Him who let it thus be given up, in the hope

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to His natural descent, came the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), He who is exalted and supreme over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

what does it say "more? the word is nigh thee, let it be in thy mouth and in thy heart:" that is the word of faith which we preach.

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

And David said: "Let their food become a snare and a trap to them, their pitfall and retribution;

Let their eyes be darkened, so they cannot see, and forever bend their backs beneath the load."

I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!"

well, be it so, for their incredulity they were broken off, and you by faith stand firm: be not then elated, but let this be your fear,

For I want to let you know about this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are: Stubbornness has come to part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles comes to faith.

For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

As we have gifts that differ in accordance with the favor God has shown us, if it is that of preaching, let it be done in proportion to our faith;

Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Let not that business which ye have in hand be tedious to you. Be fervent in the spirit. Apply yourselves to the time.

let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

have the same respect for one another. let not your behaviour be haughty, but soften'd to the condition of those below you. be not wise in your own conceits.

Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.

Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital ??the Lord has said it. No,

Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

And this let us observe, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

Let us live becomingly for people who are in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, nor in sexual immorality and licentiousness, nor in quarreling and jealousy.

Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

One man rates one day above another, another rates them all alike. Let every man be fully convinced in his own mind.

Then let us stop criticizing one another; instead, do this, determine to stop putting stumbling blocks or hindrances in your brother's way.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

So let us keep on pursuing the things that make for peace and our mutual upbuilding.

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

And let the gentiles praise God for his mercy. As it is written, "For this cause I will praise thee among the gentiles, and sing in thy name."

And again: "All you heathen peoples, praise the Lord, yea, let all peoples sing His praise."

For this cause I have been oft let to come unto you:

Let me introduce our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchreae;