and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man -- every one who is judging -- for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,

And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, 'That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

But, not as the offence so also is the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many;

So, then, as through one offence to all men it is to condemnation, so also through one declaration of 'Righteous' it is to 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.

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,

Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'

but what saith the divine answer to him? 'I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'

if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, 'Vengeance is Mine,

for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.

for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling.

Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,