that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

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.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.