FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,

and changed the glory of the imperishable God into the likeness of the image of perishable man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.

Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

But do you think this, O man, who judge those doing such things and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

Affliction and distress [shall be] on every soul of man that does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek;

and they show the work of the law written in their minds, their consciences testifying with them, and their judgments mutually acusing or defending one another;??16 in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

But that which is in secret is the Jew, and circumcision of the heart is in the spirit not in the writing, the commendation of which is not of men but of God.

By no means; but let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings and overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak as a man;??6 by no means;??ince [if he was] how shall God judge the world?

We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.

As David describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord accounts righteousness without works,

blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not account sin.

for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many;

for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;

for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification.

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?

But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.

Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

But what says the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

Render evil for evil to no one, provide things honorable in the sight of all men;

if possible, as much as may be in your power, live peaceably with all men,

not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.

Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

for he that in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense;

Salute Rufus the elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.