For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.