and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the gift following many trespasses brings justification.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

And as Isaiah said: "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us children, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah."