For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth,

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge another; for in whatever point you pass judgment on him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.

Do you think, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do the same yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?

on that day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

He is a Jew who is one inwardly; and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, and not by the written code. His praise is not from men but from God.

Certainly not! Let God be true, though every man a liar. As it is written: "That you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged."

What then? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin.

For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

So also David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:

blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."

Why, one will hardly die for a righteous manthough perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the gift following many trespasses brings justification.

For if, by the one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.)

So then, as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Do you not know, brethrenfor I am speaking to those who know the lawthat the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

So then, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and though she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our father Isaac,

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, and a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."

For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his mouth and so is saved.

But what is God's reply to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean!

For God has bound all men over to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.

Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

As for the man who is weak in faith, accept him, but not for disputes over opinions.

One believes he may eat anything, but the man whose faith is weak eats only vegetables.

One man esteems one day as better than another; another man esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

he who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

And so I have made it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation,

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners; they are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

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