and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

but the free gift shall not be also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

And may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus,